SunChariot
Wow, sorry for letting the thread drop. I went on vacation and didn't realize there were new posts, so here we go:
SunChariot, my dad is not a reader at all. I was just browsing in a used bookstore hoping to find something I thought he'd enjoy, and since I know he enjoys Gorey's work, that was a definite yes, just for entertainment value. (Aside note, he liked ut skot but ut turned out he already had it, as someone else had the same thought at some other time).
But then it made me ponder the question of why I personally would see thar deck as just like a meaningless, amusing entertainment despite all it's apparently sinister "meanings", when of course I personally do take Tarot reading as a perfectly serious means of divination, and of acquiring helpful information and advice.
Like you, I also don't feel the need to try and convince anyone who doesn't agree. It's just an interesting difference that I was curious of people thoughts on.
Oh, LOL
Well for me anyway, for what it's worth. I don't tend to see any method of divination as any better than any other. Or any deck as better than any other. What works for one is different for what works for another. The cards or whatever other tools we use are just the tools that the powers that be that answer us use to communicate. Whatever they are willing to answer us with will work.
That is my opinion on it anyway.
Babs