The idea for this message came from watching football. I began to notice how many drinking commercials there were. But what caught my attention was another unrelated but related commercial which opened up with a tagline indicating that the man walking down one of the infamous tunnels that the team travels down to enter onto the field, he was a retired football coach. He began drawing on a white board and made three points about gambling. One of the points stood out: he stated something to the affect, “gamble responsibly.” Now this isn’t the first time a commercial has peeked my interest and made me think perhaps I am nothing more than a dumb Elephant as I sat there eating another handful full of my spicy peanuts. I wondered if that is why they said such-and-such in that commercial – because they think that I am a dumb Elephant.
Now because of the way my mind works I began to flash through my mental commercial rolodex and found that other industries also using the same lie to lure you into taking a first or the next step into a very additive and potentially lethal habit forming habit. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my rabbit right! No, but so anyway they throw the dog a bone so that you are not focusing on the “killer product” which could be the bone, but they get you to focus on fruit of the-slight-of-hand, that is that they get you to believe there is meat on that thar bone so get ta nibbling.
Now if you are not a sinner and have never allowed anything to grip your Adams apple then this message is not for you. However, if you know that the devil likes to get you to fish in a pond called potentiality then you should endure the strange beginning to this message with the promise that it will get better.
