Does your religion have any board games?

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Board games, dice, card games, anything like that? Especially those that have alternative meanings to being a game, like divination, cosmology, or magic?

 

[Twilight Hue]

They were playing board games in Little Buddha. Does that count?

I like chess and checkers personally.

 

[Viker]

According to some, Ouija boards are a work of the Devil. I dunno. They're kinda boring, pointless. I have better ways to contact and converse with the other side.

Monopoly! That's better.

I'm going to agree with @Twilight Hue (this one time ) about chess in particular. Love that one.

 

[Heyo]

At one time, I played GO religiously. Does that count?

 

[The Hammer]

Religion? Not particularly, but northern Europe had Hnefetafl aka Tafl.

Tafl games - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

"Tafl games (pronounced [tavl]), also known as hnefatafl games, are a family of ancient Northern European strategy board games played on a checkered or latticed gameboard with two armies of uneven numbers. Most probably they are based upon the Roman game Ludus latrunculorum.[citation needed] Names of different variants of Tafl include Hnefatafl, Tablut, Tawlbwrdd, Brandubh, Ard Rí, and Alea Evangelii. Games in the tafl family were played in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Britain, Ireland, and Sápmi.[1] Tafl gaming was eventually supplanted by chess in the 12th century."

 

[mangalavara]

They were playing board games in Little Buddha. Does that count?

The film with Keanu Reeves? I like watching it from time to time.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The film with Keanu Reeves? I like watching it from time to time.

Yep.

 

[mangalavara]

Yep.

That’s a great film. I love the scene where Siddhartha goes to explore his city in his royal carriage, everybody cheers him, he’s smiling, and then he notices the two decrepit men, who spark great curiosity in him. From there, he goes where his father did not want him to go, and he sees what his father did not want him to see: old age, illness, death, and asceticism. Consequently, Siddhartha feels compassion for all and wants to find a way to overcome dukkha. Best of all, when he is about to begin his life as an ascetic, he tells his companion that he is doing it for everyone. It’s such a great film!

 

[amorphous_constellation]

Board games, dice, card games, anything like that? Especially those that have alternative meanings to being a game, like divination, cosmology, or magic?

So for me, I decided to look at the Tarot as maybe being more like a TOE, whereas most people seem to look at it as a divination / magic tool. I'm not saying it can't be those things, but my use of it not like that.. I'm not looking to predict someone's love life with it, or something like that.. or really even predict particular events. To me, its more just about how things works together in the larger sense, via past, present, or future.. And I don't really know if there are that many people who look at it like that. I will try to explicate what more of it I can, probably in video format eventually

I guess a main thing I've found, or am finding, is that if I want to see this as a TOE, then I have to allow a very inclusive account of all human / physical activity to kind of synergize. So it's about god and all the gods.. this or that religion, and also all religions, that individual's experience as compared to another's, which is the opposite, but in the context of everyone's experience..

It doesn't even have to involve shuffling and drawing cards at random.. things pop out to me, if even I put cards that I pick side by side.. synergies.. things to explain.. It's odd.

 

[Quagmire]

Board games, dice, card games, anything like that? Especially those that have alternative meanings to being a game, like divination, cosmology, or magic?

Would that be like Mono-theism-poly?

 

[Quagmire]

Would that be like Mono-theism-poly?

Or maybe Monopolytheism?