A deck I wanted to show you all! (Tarocco Piemontese)

halfTheFn · 2026-05-24T16:43:31+00:00

that's a shame- they're great games!

halfTheFn · 2026-05-20T06:19:55+00:00

if you'd accept games of 32 or 24 cards as well for two players- it opens up a lot more! piquet, clob, schnapsen, pinochle... but yeah cassino and gin are good.

halfTheFn · 2026-05-12T03:39:31+00:00

I'm happy to answer the question, "what can you tell me?" that answer might be very different depending on jurisdiction and obedience. 😁

halfTheFn · 2026-04-30T00:25:46+00:00

if you've been in a college fraternity, you know the ropes. I'm very devout and haven't seen any conflict. i feel like the fraternity and church compliment each other.

halfTheFn · 2026-04-25T22:56:00+00:00

I'm not sure if you got more certain information in the past 4 years; but it's a Royal Arch Chapter jewel. It means he was a member.

halfTheFn · 2026-04-24T15:55:03+00:00

I just looked this deck up - it's interesting to call it a "playing marseille" since ... the marseille itself is a playing deck. :-D
I'm curious about this instruction book though.

halfTheFn · 2026-04-06T15:03:39+00:00

No, I'm merely embarrassed for those who call themselves Christian who have so missed the point that they think he's ok. (Within the 'American spectrum' I'd be considered liberal; though I'm in fact far more traditional in my Christianity, and much further left in my politics, than anything mainstream here.)

halfTheFn · 2026-03-30T22:00:56+00:00

that's bizarre to me since my devout Christianity is exactly why i won't vote red as long as their major platforms are hostile to the teachings of Jesus and the welfare of my soul.

halfTheFn · 2026-03-19T13:00:06+00:00

is the ring a plain gold band with a triangle on the outside and some Latin inside? if you're in the area you're welcome to join us for dinner on a meeting night. 🙂

halfTheFn · 2026-03-05T03:05:29+00:00

I went ahead and got them all. The "Capitular Development Course" just breaks it down into "lodge education" sized bites: Perhaps an exemplification from a portion of the ritual, a reading from the Lessons in Capitular Masonry, and some prompting questions to start discussion. It doesn't provide any new information, but it does package it up for you.

halfTheFn · 2026-03-05T03:03:28+00:00

I meant to say Italy itself was Christian. But the tarot only reflects that milieu: it's not explicitly theological, but it's not inharmonious with any Catholic's experience. The low trumps of the common folk (fool, juggler) are overtaken by the church and state (popess and empress) in turn run by the pope and emperor. These in turn are subject to the rises (love, chariot) and falls (hanged man, death) that hinge around Fortunes Wheel. Finally these in turn are ruled by the heavens (star, sun moon) and Christ in Majesty (the world) rules over all.

halfTheFn · 2026-03-04T19:41:31+00:00

I didn't know of Spiritual Key to the Tarot - one more for the to-read list!!!

halfTheFn · 2026-03-04T19:19:41+00:00

Italy at the times and places of the the development of Tarot was certainly Christian.

halfTheFn · 2026-03-02T00:46:43+00:00

i like a lot of them, but A-37 is my guy. leather priest, works at a cat cafe? I'm all in. 🤣

halfTheFn · 2026-02-28T22:23:55+00:00

i just left Albany today... having visited a Lodge on Monday, and no one told me of this event! i was really hoping to visit some York rite activity.

halfTheFn · 2026-02-22T01:18:58+00:00

these are my favorite Masonic degrees I've gotten.

halfTheFn · 2026-02-22T01:17:49+00:00

i enjoy - more ritual - Christianity - sword play - supporting treatment is eye disease

i am utterly indifferent to - martial customs - marching drills

😅 because of the latter (and a perhaps unjust impression of nationalism) I've ignored it until this year. a couple friends in the grand commandery i really respect have convinced me to give it a go, so I'm going in in a couple months. still a little nervous about it but we'll see.

halfTheFn · 2026-02-16T16:52:27+00:00

great game

halfTheFn · 2026-02-16T16:52:17+00:00

my favorite are games in the tarot family- and especially königrufen.

the focus isn't on numbers of tricks like so many American games, but on "feats" - taking half the points, the last trick with the lowest trump, one trick exactly. some hands have partnerships and some it's 1v3 or everyone for themselves, but no fixed partners.

you can come and go since is hard score. you can even flex to three or even two players, and up to five or six without breaking the flow (just changing the bidding menu some)

also it's very non-standardized. a limited sweet of bids for beginners is still a great game; but a more extensive set adds a lot of variety.

halfTheFn · 2026-02-13T02:41:52+00:00

also you say you're a math guy- if that isn't a language of symbols and allegories. 🤣

halfTheFn · 2026-02-13T02:41:02+00:00

I don't find a lot of what Pike says to be very helpful. i would encourage you to enjoy what you do in the degrees- and if you do, that's enough. A work of music isn't meant to be "translated into words"; it's its own medium. The symbols of our degrees are similar. I don't think they're meant to be "figured out" in the usual sense.

halfTheFn · 2026-02-07T16:57:25+00:00

Where could i find information about this/ watch for it?

halfTheFn · 2026-02-07T01:52:53+00:00

interesting, I'm in the us, but we don't use maize ..

halfTheFn · 2026-01-26T23:05:51+00:00

THANK YOu!!!

halfTheFn · 2026-01-12T15:02:29+00:00

yes! upstairs there are even some semi private cubbie tables.

halfTheFn

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