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originally posted by: verschickter
I wonder what your real intention here is, since you obviously circumvent many questions we are asking, while receiving honest answers from us. I don´t think you want real answers, though. That´s why I said be honest to your self. What are you doing, if not feeding your own bias again and again.
originally posted by: verschickter
@MamaJ
can you make something clear for me, maybe others, too. When you say "my lodge" what do you mean with this.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: verschickter
I wonder what your real intention here is, since you obviously circumvent many questions we are asking, while receiving honest answers from us. I don´t think you want real answers, though. That´s why I said be honest to your self. What are you doing, if not feeding your own bias again and again.
And not even keeping all of us straight in the replies. Still waiting on who is the claimed Atheist when no one said they were
originally posted by: MamaJ
As I said before your posts are deleted because they are off topic and still continue to be.
You said you were an atheist. Are you not?
I do not care if you are and do not care...
originally posted by: Willtell
a reply to: MamaJ
I’m not going to argue the point about Buddha, but Masons as far as I know are merely required to believe in a supreme being that doesn’t have necessarily anything to do with religion.
Religion is don’t do this, don’t do that…believe in this, believe in that.
Of course, Masonry resembles religion in a limited regard but I wouldn’t call it a religion.
The NFL resembles a religion but it isn’t a religion.
originally posted by: MamaJ
I thought I read you saying that and also read you stating you despise Christianity AND religion.
I'ts neither here nor there for me as I could care less.
Discuss the OP with you reply or don't reply back to me.
This is the unedited video record of that afternoon, and our Fraternal OTO Brotherhood and Friendship. It is NOT a "How To" video, or an example of how it aught to be done, or TRUE Freemasonry or anything like that. It is merely several OTO Initiates studying all aspects of Freemasonry.. this being the only one video recorded with the facilities and stuff we had at the time.
An additional criticism of the historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon concerns linguistics. According to the text, the Nephites and the Lamanites initially spoke Hebrew (600 B.C.) and might have spoken a modified Semitic language until at least 400 A.D., when the Book of Mormon ends.[citation needed] The non-canonized introductory paragraph to the LDS Church 1981 edition of the Book of Mormon stated that the Lamanites were the "principal ancestors of the American Indians". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_authenticity_of_the_Book_of_Mormon
The earliest masonic texts each contain some sort of a history of the craft, or mystery, of masonry. The oldest known work of this type, The Halliwell Manuscript, or Regius Poem, dating from between 1390 and 1425, has a brief history in its introduction, stating that the "craft of masonry" began with Euclid in Egypt, and came to England in the reign of King Athelstan. Shortly afterwards, the Cooke Manuscript traces masonry to Jabal son of Lamech (Genesis 4: 20–22), and tells how this knowledge came to Euclid, from him to the Children of Israel (while they were in Egypt), and so on through an elaborate path to Athelstan. This myth formed the basis for subsequent manuscript constitutions, all tracing masonry back to biblical times en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Freemasonry
originally posted by: eisegesis
originally posted by: verschickter
Easy woven people fear what they don´t understand. This thread is the best example.
originally posted by: Tempter
What is there to understand? Masonry is just another form of control, much like religion.
Do you really believe that Masons seek to better others with rituals of esoteric knowledge?
The secrecy exists only draw initiates to their club.
Every Mason might as well be a Scientologist as far as I'm concerned.