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Oct 12, 2006, 4:24 pm (22 comments)
The biggest jackpot in the history of Germany's national lottery went to a male nurse.
A 41-year-old male hospital nurse who is the father of three children, organizers said Tuesday, three days after the winning number was drawn. The man had phoned the West Lotto company from the hospital in the western Westphalia region during the morning, but asked that his name not be published.
In the city of Muenster, West Lotto spokesman Elmar Bamfaste said the winner of the 37.7 million euro (US$47.7 million) prize planned to change very little in his life and to keep his win secret.
But at hospitals all over Westphalia, nurses were hoping to spot a male colleague of the stated age with children aged 12, 9 and 2 and a new spring in his step. Lottery organizers say big winners are often a target for fraudsters and fair-weather friends.
The jackpot, accumulated when the top prize went unclaimed for six weeks in the twice-a-week game known as lotto in Germany, may remain an all-time record. German courts have demanded changes in lottery legislation that would reduce the urge to gamble.
dpa German Press Agency
What's wrong with the nurses? Are they blessed or something? For some reason i have a hard time believing a nurse won it, even is in germany or any part of the world...
"Laura Simpson from Great Lakes, Illinois deserves to be rich..." "She is so rare..."
God blesses the Nurse's because he knows how hard we work to maintain lives and how under-paid and under-appreciated some of us are in doing so.
I'm still waiting for my big win,however.
litebets
It's just random. Whoever wins the jackpot is blessed by God.
So if I always have loosing tickets, does that mean I'm cursed by God?
I meant God bless those people with a financial luck.
There are many kind of blessing because we pray God for certain things. If things happened like we always prayed then we can say that we're blessed for those things whether it is money, health, love, or happiness.
No offense anway.
I won't write a long post here, but I don't think God has anything to do with the lottery. God isn't random.
"planned to change very little in his life"
These are the type of idiots that usually win. If you plan on changing very little, why even bother playing? Usually the types that say that are already wealthy enough to begin with. Also the fact that only certain states can remain anonymous is BS. If one can ALL should be able to. Anyone winning that kind of money and not changing anything is a waste of a jackpot. Give it to someone who can put the money to good use then, and make drastic positive changes.
justxploring, you said: "God isn't random"
There are lots of things in the universe that occur randomly and who created the universe?: God..So God has some randomness in him, it wouldnt' surprise me if he had a lot of Randomness in him. And He knows what He is doing..We are talking about God here, Creator of everything...
By the way i am not defending anyone in here....
"Laura Simpson from Great Lakes, Illinois deserves to be rich..." "She is so rare..."
"planned to change very little"
Knowing that you have that jackpot money there when you need it, I think, would give one a sence of security that is just not there when you live from check to check.
Sure, you could win the jackpot, go out the next day, buy a Mansion, hundreds of acres of land, a slew of expensive cars for yourself and everyone you know, end up on a TV show about how Lottery winners are cursed. Those are the kind of winners that I would label as "idiots".
I don't think that this person willnot buy anything. The story seems to imply that he's going to continue working, and doesn't want to draw attention to himself or his family by going crazy with the money that he just won.
He sounds like a sensible family man. Hopefully in afew years that money won't start burning a hole in his pocket or mind.
litebets
Hello!
If there is God, who is the creator and controller of everything, Why he offers lottery winning to millionaire, while still having alot of good poorers ?
Why he let cruel persons continue to be safe and proud meanwhile good groups (on the way of giving charity to the hurrican's victimes) get big accidence?
I just wonder, no offense!
Surely God watches over every little detail. Isn't that why Jack Whittaker cleared over a 100 million bucks and Sister Theresa is dead?
My life would change drastically for the better, but still within certain limits of course. One house and two cars is all I would ever need. But I would definitely live very well because it would be pretty stupid to sit on such a large jackpot and do nothing, especially considering the odds that you have to beat.
I just signed on for a minute and it would take pages and pages for me to explain what I meant by God isn't random. Everyone thanks God when he has good luck and curses Him when he doesn't - sort of like a stockbroker. But if God gave wealth to one person and poverty to another, that would be cruel and discriminating. I am currently in pain and would lose faith and be bitter, but I do believe in a loving, forgiving God. I also believe man has been given free will and runs our physical world the way he chooses. God or whatever you call your Higher Power is watching over us and looking to (Him) for guidance gives us answers and directs us down the right paths. However, when we play the Lottery we call it "gambling."
All I was saying is that you either believe in miracles, God and Heaven or you don't, but when a person starts saying God gave a person the winning lottery ticket, that is also saying He gambles with our lives. If this was true, why not give a $300M jackpot to a person who is trying to build an orphanage for children with AIDS or a homeless shelter? I am not telling someone what to believe. Sometimes I question my own beliefs and faith. I guess I should have answered just the way I did in my earlier post, that is, in one succint sentence which is - I meant "not random" because everything happens for a reason. I don't know that reason and maybe I will when I leave this corporeal world. I am the last person to start a religious rant. I really meant my comment to be simple.
I'd be lying if I said I never pray for a break and that I don't sometimes close my eyes and say "Please, please, please God. Just once!" before I look at the winning numbers online. After all, I'm still one of those weak, silly humans. However, there are too many horrors in this world that man has created all my himself by not listening to the angels, and it would be selfish of me to think that God has anything to do with me winning the Florida Lottery. This is one of my favorite spiritual pieces written by Mary Baker Eddy 1883-1896 because it describes the way I think of angels and miracles...or at least is my goal and desire to believe.
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts. Oh, may you feel this touch,—it is not the clasping of hands, nor a loved person present; it is more than this: it is a spiritual idea that lights your path! The Psalmist saith: "He shall give His angels charge over thee." God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment. What a glorious inheritance is given to us through the understanding of omnipresent Love! More we cannot ask: more we do not want: more we cannot have. This sweet assurance is the "Peace, be still" to all human fears, to suffering of every sort.
Sorry, something like this belongs on a Blog. I didn't anticipate this reaction.
congratulations to the nurse. period.