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Originally posted by JoshNorton
Says the guy with the Dr. Strangelove avatar...
Originally posted by McGinty
Whatever you say, Jack, you're the master race...
Originally posted by lacrimaererum
reply to post by VelvetSplash
it kinda confirms the canada location. and the product kinda makes me decide i dont think there will be anymore to this story or video.
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
reply to post by boncho
I'm fairly certain Masons would have some restrictions regarding who can be positioned in those seats, especially the middle seat.
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
reply to post by KSigMason
I am so sick of this argument "I'm a Mason I know how it really works.". Get over yourself, you're part of a club that revolves around secrecy and stupid rankings. Why would I believe anything you have to say? You've obviously been brainwashed to think exactly what they want you to think, and defend them in exactly the way they want you to defend them. All Masonic lodges are intricately interconnected, and all the leaders are closely coordinated. If you fail to even understand that much your opinion is worthless.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
Then you would be fairly wrong. Our lodge rents the lodge room itself to other fraternal and sororital groups for their ceremonies and there are no restrictions as to who may sit in any chair. The main caveat is do not leave a mess in the lodge.
And as a JW, I can attest that even that main caveat isn't adhered to.
Such a pain
Fitz
Originally posted by tpaine1809
Low level masons don't know anything. Your "religion" is based on Occult science. Real science. However you morons put man above god which is why you are wrong. It's why everyone is skeptical.
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by SubAce
No it's not true as every private, fraternal order is different in structure and operating procedures. In Masonry it is not so compartmentalized that we "lower levels" are unaware of some secret group of puppet masters. We are far to decentralized and democratic in nature for that to happen.
Too many non-Masons (to include anti-Masons) think that degree equals rank, and this isn't so. You might see something similar to a degree given for certain ranks like in the SRICF or RCC (not the Catholic Church), but those systems are little more complex and are a part of system of invitation-only groups in Masonry.
Secrecy isn't a bad thing.
I had a grandfather that was a high ranking Freemason
This isn't the first time I've heard this.
Why would he have to go to Scotland to receive his 33rd? Is he from there? I've known some have go to Scotland to be initiated into the Royal Order of Scotland, but you can still receive this in the States.
Oh, and for the record, they do practice sorcery. I know that for a fact.
Did you witness this in a tyled Lodge?
Skull & bones isn't occult in some sinister meaning. They are just emblems of mortality. Do you fear death?
Originally posted by thegagefather
This happens at 90% of lodges.
Originally posted by thegagefather
And the rituals that happen at the others are ancient, outdated philosophy perpetuated in the form of symbolic screen-plays.
Originally posted by thegagefather
The Masons are nothing but a shallow, secretive religion - It's symbolism, while shocking to outsiders, is actually quite tame when compared to other religions.
Originally posted by thegagefather
For example, a symbolic ritual in Christianity is the entire church devouring the flesh of their own god and washing it down with his blood.
Originally posted by thegagefather
The mysticism is masonry lies in the eyes of the beholder - And the fearful, feeble human mind is quick to attack that which it does not know.
Originally posted by thegagefather
The fear in masonry's rituals is the same as non-muslims fearing the fact that muslims pray several times a day, always due east.
Originally posted by thegagefather
It isn't the fact that anyone is doing something wrong that upsets people - it's the fact that they themselves cannot relate.
Originally posted by thegagefather
Accept it or not - The Modern Freemasons are a relatively powerless group of men, mostly old lechers, who often participate in events such as the one the OP has found a video of.
Originally posted by thegagefather
The power of the Masons is only the power of their individual members - Such as a governor who happens to be a mason offering other Masons money or vowing to change a law in exchange for votes.
Originally posted by thegagefather
Shallow in nature, the fraudulant practices of the modern mason are caveman-like behaviors in the guise of a suit and bowtie.
I agree 100%.
Originally posted by ImaFungi
When the most powerful individuals on a planet of billions of individuals believe in serving themselves to no end..... there is no way that can be good...
Originally posted by SubAce
What I saw though was something very striking in the front of one of the Bibles. It was a KJV with a Freemason introduction and it had a chart with the rankings etc. Then there was a note to the initiate. One of the things it said that he had to believe in was that "the soul is immortal." After I read that stipulation for becoming a Freemason I opened the very same Bible to Ezekiel 18:4 that states that the soul that sins will die. I realized that the fundamental teachings of Freemasonry were based on lies as old as the mystery religions of Babylon and incompatible with the very Bible they were printed on.
Why he went to Scotland I can't answer you, I don't know. I'm not a Mason myself, mind you, and it sounds like you are one and don't know either. So it's probably part of something you're not aware of either. We do have Scotish and Irish decent, although I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Actually this part of Masonry is also used in Voodoo.
A very nice suit and bowtie I'll have you know.
these elites at the top who throughout history have been working together and conspiring for world domination.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by SubAce
A very nice suit and bowtie I'll have you know.
Really bro .. a bowtie? Pictures or it didn't happen.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by Fitzgibbon
OMG are you saying that Freemasonry is ruled by the House of Windsor?? Why else would you tie your tie in such a fashion???
Originally posted by JoshNorton
I agree 100%.
Originally posted by ImaFungi
When the most powerful individuals on a planet of billions of individuals believe in serving themselves to no end..... there is no way that can be good...
That said,
- Masons are not the most powerful individuals on the planet. The number of Masons in positions of power is far eclipsed by the number of non-Masons in positions of power.
- Masons do not believe in serving themselves to no end. Charity is one of the first lessons of Masonry.