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Swami said:
EVERYBODY who wins the lottery (or similar random windfall) has a "story" after-the-fact. This is universal. "I was driving to work and saw these numbers on a billboard..."
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It is human nature to assign meaning to events even when there is none.

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On the way home today, I stopped and bought my very first lottery ticket in my life - after 34.5 years of "living life"....  $1.00 spent, and the clerk said, "Wouldn't it be funny if you won...?"  I just smiled....  The numbers came from a fortune cookie message that I have had sitting at work for a while now....  The message:  "You have the ability to sense and know higher truth...."
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Is "higher truth" considered to be "intuition"....?
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Wouldn't it be fitting to win the Lottery on April Fools' day...!? 
I thought it was ironic that I come here tonight(after puchasing the ticket) and find this thread.....!?        But then again, I guess the real irony would be if I "won"....
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Which brings me to......
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OldWoodSpecter said:
The question is, is winning a lottery a winning at all?

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It will be for the people most in need of the money to bring food and smiles to the hungry faces of children and families alike....      There was a thread earlier that I replied to from work this afternoon about Angelina Jolie....  I have not watched any real news or any of the shit that is on TV lately, but I remember a while ago as I saw, Angelina was crying because there were so many children in whatever 3rd world poverty strickened country she was in....    It was saddening, as it is always saddening for me to see a woman cry....      To me, what she was doing was beautiful....  She had "won" the lottery of a good job in life, then she (I think) ended up adopting one or more children....  So, who "won"....?  Well, you can say the childeren did, but as I see it, she finally "won" too....  THAT, says a LOT about a person right there in my eyes....  To me, THAT was beautiful.... 
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When(or "if") I win, I will not be keeping much of the money....  I don't think I need the money as much as a lot of other people do....  Funny, each of my new baby steps seems to be a LEAP.....!    Money cannot buy what I seek....    And I seek to be a "whole", as right now I am only a "half"....    No one person can be a "whole" alone....  And patiently I wait for that "wholeness" to complete the perfect circle.... 
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The meek shall inheret the earth....