Congrats on the new pad! Did you have a priest or minister come by and bless your house? I feel it makes me sleep better at night..... I've moved 3 times in the last 10 years and always had a priest, minister or reverend bless my home. Just curious.

Amen bruthah!


Congrats on everything DN.

I hope everythin works out well with you and yours in your new home. Moving can bedifficult alone, but with your family it feels more like home a lot faster!

Look foward to seeing you at a FT in the near future.

God Bless

God Bless and thanks for talking about your faith. It helps more than you know.

Sorry for being too hard on you when the ugly stuff comes out, not that you would ever remember who I am or what I say.

Or how about a Feng Shui specialist?

GL with the house DN...glad your life is starting to come together...always a nice feeling

I sence a cribs style v-blog in the future.

The new place sounds beautiful. Your priorities list was a good read. Congratulations!
My wife and I are planning a move as well this summer. Oh yeah, we'll bring our two kids with us as well.


Enjoy the next stage of life. Time to make babies?

Loved your blog - such great positive energy seems to be moving around you. I suspect more than one person here keeps you in their prayers - and even those pesky atheists send you good energy in their thoughts - (whether they know it or not!) - mazeltov, kiddo.

I would love to see pics of the game room.

Here's my thoughts on getting a putting green: It would be awesome, but after a while it should become easy becuase you will know all of the slopes and you will know how to read every spot. You will soon learn where to hit the ball when you are in every spot onthe green. But when you go to a course, it will be different (especially the speed). It seems to me to get a putting green if you are rich but not looking to really get much better.

This is just from my experience (When I went to put on my country club's green, I became good at it, but it was different when I went to other courses).

Great blog...Your priorities are definitely in order.
Best of luck with the new house.

I do not want to this to turn into a religious debate but you obviously have no knowledge of the Christian faith which is sad. As Christians we are instructed by Christ to be His witnesses. This is why Christians talk openly about their faith.

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20)

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."(Acts 1:8)

Congrats on all the re-balancing of your life and shifting of your priorities. Best of luck Daniel.

I was going to say the same thing.

Then don't.

I dont want this to turn into a religious debate but here is half the bible.
Now dont reply because that would mean we are debating which is what i didnt want to happen.

Great blog Daniel. Priorities are definitely in order.

House sounds awesome.

I love you, is what I was going to say back.

Are you melting or something? Why do you care? To what end? That isn't a very good reason to hate a group of people. Let alone a country. Who are all these people hating America because of a religious population? Besides other Americans? Is that really what you attribute it to? Every time you hear someone thank God for their blessings and the ability and skill to go far in life, do you throw a tantrum and think "and they wonder why there's terror?"



Yes.
Also, saying Jewish people for some reason or another would be thanking Moses for things leads me to believe you're quite the religious scholar that has pondered these thoughts quite deeply.



Like it said earlier in this thread, your Blog has a lot of positive vibes in it DN. I've found moving has the power to do that. A change of scenery always makes people give off a good feeling. We're not a stand still species.
Congrats!

I also moved recently, but my move sucked since I lost a room and moved further away from work

Excellent blog Daniel!

It reminds me of a message a few years back I heard from our Pastor . . .

If you think right (trust in God, put others ahead of yourself, etc.)

You will do right

and only then you will feel right.

Pretty simple but very true.

God bless.

how much time were you spending on line? 2 hours a day over the course of a year is exactly 1 month solid on the computer surfing.

Congrats on the new house, Daniel. Sounds like one heck of a game room! I want one! Except instead of golf stuff in the back, I want to have a bball court.

Keep on praising God, brother.

Daniel,

I don't see how christianity fits in with gambling in anyway shape or form. I come from a religious family and so does my wife, but am not particularly religious myself. I could not however admit to playing poker as it goes against all christian principles and they would give me a hard time about it. I don't understand how you can play poker for a living and claim to lead a christian way of life?

I dont remember ever reading a scripture or passage from the Bible that condemned poker or gambling as a sin. I could be wrong though.

The PGA tour is full of a lot of Christian men. They pony up cash (or their sponsers... for this argument is doesn't matter) and the better you do, the more you receive from this pool of cash. Are they all sinning? It is investing money in your talent. Starting your own business does the same thing. Me, as a busniess owner and Christian man, has ponied up my own cash in an investment in my talent. That is not wrong in any way.

Now you seem to lump gambling and poker into the same pool here. If so, think this way.... Gambling is taking a calculated risk, just some people are better at calculating that risk than others. Starting a business is taking a calculated risk, where depending on your talent is more or less likely to be successful. Poker is the same. Every decision is (should be) a calculated risk based on expected outcome.

This is a fairly tired and not well thought out argument.

There are extensive threads and excellent debates about this already in the Religious forums, fyi.

Shalom in the Home!

1st Generalities verses 4-6

Though shalt not chase the gutshot, for thouest are tempting the Lord with thy impurdence. Thy shalt instead check thy flop, and fold thy turn.

Be not like the heathens wishing for luck, for luck is not thy Lord.

Remember thy pot odds and reflect upon them when thou raise. Implied odds are from the devil and shall to the devil return.







Please do not anyone quote me revelations where it says I am in big trouble for adding anything to the Bible...I appoligize, Lord bless the pygmies in Souh America

Sounds familiar? I think its the Book of Doyle though.

LMAO!

Nice touch.

LOL so you are saying poker is a sport? I'm a poker player and whilst I understand there is an amount of skill involved, it is gambling end of story. Setting up a business is providing a service thats different again. Poker is a fun pastime with some skill involved, but at the end of the day you are ****ing people over for their money and probably predating on donks you know are less likely to win than you. Each sect of christianity has a slightly different take on gambling but most disapprove.

You realize that this same basic principle applies to all of economics and finance right? Are professional investors who "beat" the market immoral? In order to maintain any semblence of equilibrium, people have to lose for other people to win financially in the long run.

There are over 2,300 verses in the Bible that reference money. Jesus spoke more about money than Heaven and Hell combined. Not one of these verses that I'm aware of speaks ill of competition that has a monetary reward.

As you admit to not being overly religious, a quick overview:
The love of money / material posessions? Bad.
Money? *not bad* David? Job? Very wealthy, and yet Godly, men.
Stewardship with what we are given? Very important.


I don't really recall any stories of Daniel preying on a degenerate trying clean them out, especially since he became a Christian. Your comment about "predating on donks" is absurd. He's not forcing anyone to play against him. Game selection is obviously an important strategic part of poker in the same way location is a huge factor in real estate development. Go back and read Daniel's blogs. I think you'll find that he's just as (if not more) interested in challenging himself and having fun playing as he is simply making money. I'd absoultely have something to say if he was blatantly exploiting people, but he's not. If that's how you view poker, it sounds far more like a personal problem and a lack of understanding than anything else.

i would comment but i might start to swear. not fitting for one of GODS true children. God bless you child!!

Evander Holyfield(And many other fighters) is a strict Christian, and he had to beat the living (bleep) out of his opponent for a living.

Poker is a sin, but kicking somebody's *** is fine?

Ok go and ask your local minister/priest what they think, I think you all know what they will say. We all want to defend poker, me included, we just need to be real sometimes.

Also I don't care who you are, every single poker player I know wants to play against fish. I would not beleive anyone who told me otherwise unless they were just playing against their buddies in a home game maybe. Just look at the pros faces when Hellmuth turns up to play and there is your answer, yes DN aswell!

You obviously are not a calvinist.

I prefer Hobbes....


meh?

I didn't

Half the bible? Just trying to answer a question from the previous post.

git er dun!!

I was going to say that also!

I don't care who you are...that's some funny stuff right there.

Fantastic job completely ignoring everything I said. I'm pretty sure I addressed this. Your knowledge of the Bible is lacking, and you don't know near as much about Daniel as you seem to think. He's addressed this topic on numerous occassions himself - feel free to hit up the search feature.

I'll mention it the next time we are playing poker together. I go to a non-denominational Bible church in the western suburbs if Chicago and have played poker with Elders from the church - Men chosen by the congregation to lead the church. It is a game. Money changes hands. Let's say, instead of playing poker where 5 of us lost $30 and 5 of us won $30, we all went out to dinner and 5 people paid? Would that be wrong? Spending the same amount of money. OK, instead let say for fun we all went out and played credit card roullete and the loser bought for eveyone? Is that wrong? Maybe someone tells me they will give me $10 if I can frisbee a piece of bread into a trash can and I make it. Am I wrong to accept the $10?

So I am confused though by your argument. Do you believe this to be true, or do you think Christians should believe it?

worst blog ever

Worst avatar ever..you should be embarrased.

Christ is called the Bread of Life, and you just frisbee Him into the trash for a $10 bet and we are suppose to let that go?????

Not on my watch mister

John 19:23,24


After the soldiers had crucified Jesus; they took his clothes and divided them in to four parts, one part for each soldier. They also took the robe, which was made of one piece of woven cloth without any seams in it.

The soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it; let’s throw dice to see who will get it. “


It's not your watch mister! Christ gave his forgiveness long before they threw those dice. Understanding this is what Christ is all about.