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Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by mblahnikluver
For instance. If you are a new member then how do you know what the top ranking ones do?!
Because you can get to the 'top rank' in about 3 months.
Originally posted by Afterthought
reply to post by thelongjourney
I won't knock you for believing what they tell you, but just think about it for a minute.
What year in history did the Masons start paying dues?
Imagine this scenario, the treasurer of a Masonic lodge enters a bank to deposit the dues. His fellow brother is the bank manager and fixes it so the lodge is making, oh say, 13% on the money in that account. Again, how many members in each lodge? Figure in the fact that they aren't paying taxes on this earned interest.
Finally, each lodge usually displays what year it was established. This tells us which lodges are richer and more powerful than others.
I'm also wondering what bank(s) most lodges invest in. If I were a Mason and my money was being depositied into Bank of America, I'd be upset. Are any lodges set up with credit unions?
What year was the lodge you belong to established?
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
That's what a relative of mine thinks.
Originally posted by Afterthought
Are any lodges audited regularly by an oversight committee that has no connections to the lodge they're charged with overseeing?
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
More proof that most freemasons are just low rung lackies.
Those up top don't give 2 craps about old local lodge buildings. The ones up top have their meeting in expensive high rises.
Leaving the low rung lackies in the dark helps to fuel that fear of being made obsolete.
If you fear you are being made obsolete, you will just be more combative toward your new socialist government. It's all just part of the plan so go hug your fire arms and wait for the commies & jihadists to come and continue to keep a nice secret lock down from those in your community who you think can't possibly understand the world.
... because they're woman and according to freemason misogyny, women don't need to know these things... they just need to keep spreading their legs.
Hint-hint.... They're not coming. If they want the dirt under your feet they'll just buy it.
... and you CAN thank the stupid freemasons before you that set up this system that they knew would collapse and drive us all into war.
Here's another hint... We're onto the game.
Originally posted by thelongjourney
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
That's what a relative of mine thinks.
You know what always amazes me? Is people love telling these stories as if it means something. So you happen to know someone you don't like who claims to be a mason. What just floors me is that the statements hes making are 100% incorrect and you'd know that if you did 5 minutes on google. Your last name means nothing in masonry. The vast majority of them are great people. He claims to be a Grand Master, but a Grand Master means being elected the head of a state level lodge, and frankly thats a small enough number of people that I would highly doubt anyone telling me that story, especially if they thought it was something to brag about (most GM's I know see it as a type of community service and its a very bureaucratic task..not much to brag about).
But it doesn't matter. Its someone you don't like, and he claims to be a mason, so lets take everything as true and disparage 3+ million people for it.edit on 7-1-2013 by thelongjourney because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by thelongjourney
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
More proof that most freemasons are just low rung lackies.
Those up top don't give 2 craps about old local lodge buildings. The ones up top have their meeting in expensive high rises.
Leaving the low rung lackies in the dark helps to fuel that fear of being made obsolete.
If you fear you are being made obsolete, you will just be more combative toward your new socialist government. It's all just part of the plan so go hug your fire arms and wait for the commies & jihadists to come and continue to keep a nice secret lock down from those in your community who you think can't possibly understand the world.
... because they're woman and according to freemason misogyny, women don't need to know these things... they just need to keep spreading their legs.
Hint-hint.... They're not coming. If they want the dirt under your feet they'll just buy it.
... and you CAN thank the stupid freemasons before you that set up this system that they knew would collapse and drive us all into war.
Here's another hint... We're onto the game.
Really? Wheres you proof? We get it, you are blinded by hatred by someone who claims to be a mason. Instead of hyper focusing on that claim, especially when the things they've said indicate they are not in fact a mason, why don't you do some actual research?
Oh don't do that, then you'd find out you've been hating 3 million people and putting them into conspiracy fantasies for no reason. Instead you are making completely insane allegations - if your going to do that, provide the evidence. Give me the names and lodge numbers of these all powerful "masons up top" meeting in expensive high rises.
Its funny that people who aren't mason keep hanging on to this "high rung/low lung" mason delusion. It doesn't exist in reality - its a fantasy of your own making that you made up in order to satisfy your hatred. I get it - you need something to blame for keeping you down, but don't make things up as you go along. Freemasonry doesn't have 1% of the power you are ascribing to it.edit on 8-1-2013 by thelongjourney because: (no reason given)
I'm sure a business has to claim this interest on their taxes, but a registered fraternal organization doesn't.
The freemasons probably have a lot of money.
It would be interesting to see a pie chart of their books to see the breakdown of where all the monies are going and what percentage helps honest to goodness charitable causes.
Finally, each lodge usually displays what year it was established. This tells us which lodges are richer and more powerful than others.
I'm also wondering what bank(s) most lodges invest in.
What year was the lodge you belong to established?
1910.
reply to post by Afterthought
Charitable groups and organizations are privately owned and privately funded.
Unless you are donating money to this charity, how can you claim authority to call for oversight?
Are any lodges audited regularly by an oversight committee that has no connections to the lodge they're charged with overseeing?
Why would we? I'm starting to think you're unfamiliar with what "private" means.
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
Guess what... I knew masons in Florida too.
They were bikers and drug addicts and built an underground shelter in their yard but hid it's access from everyone.... most likely a meth lab.
They missioned in prisons and brought in cheap, second hand hotel soap when these things are usually provided.... but it was an excuse to have contact with the inmates.
Here's another hint... some drugs are made through soaponification and can be made to look exactly like a small bar of soap.
where do you think the drugs in prisons come from?
They give them to inmates to help certain ones (usually white ones here in the south) control the hierarchies in the prison system and report back what they have learned with their leverage. Don't tell me what I #ing know.
These people personally pulled a stunt on me with their control freak ways.
They failed though, because I'm not that dumb. I've been locked up by freemasons before with a 25000 dollar bail on a petty drug charge that I was set up for.... all so they could hold me under observation.
High level masons? Try the ones in London city state. You'd never see them in a filthy lodge.
They're untouchable... So they think.
Originally posted by thelongjourney
Yawn...sorry, I read your post but I thought you were going to provide evidence for all your claims. Nope, just more stories. Trust me, for every story you have I can tell a hundred about freemasons fighting for democracy, equality, and freedom of religion. Of men who were masons that died for those causes - both in history and even as recently as today. I can tell you even more stories of men who do wonderful things in secret for the betterment of mankind, donating large portions of their income. I know one brother in my lodge who makes $28k a year as a janitor. He gives $14k - half of it - to the local homeless shelter. Because he has a heart for the homeless. He does this completely anonymously - he volunteers there and learns what there needs are. When they need new blankets, dozens of new blankets show up. When they are low on food, an anonymous order comes in. Hes only told me about it so I can help him with some of the logistics. Why does he do this? Because hes a good man, but further because hes a mason who truly believes that a mason's life should be spent making his community better and doing it in secret so that the mason gets no praise for doing so. He does it because hes right, and his deeds shine a light on the darkness of your hatred that is so bright its laughable.
We get it. You hate someone, and because he says hes a mason you amplify that hate towards all masons. The problem is the things hes told you shows hes not a mason. Now please put up evidence for all the grandeur claims you've made about masonry.
Originally posted by thelongjourney
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
Guess what... I knew masons in Florida too.
They were bikers and drug addicts and built an underground shelter in their yard but hid it's access from everyone.... most likely a meth lab.
They missioned in prisons and brought in cheap, second hand hotel soap when these things are usually provided.... but it was an excuse to have contact with the inmates.
Here's another hint... some drugs are made through soaponification and can be made to look exactly like a small bar of soap.
where do you think the drugs in prisons come from?
They give them to inmates to help certain ones (usually white ones here in the south) control the hierarchies in the prison system and report back what they have learned with their leverage. Don't tell me what I #ing know.
These people personally pulled a stunt on me with their control freak ways.
They failed though, because I'm not that dumb. I've been locked up by freemasons before with a 25000 dollar bail on a petty drug charge that I was set up for.... all so they could hold me under observation.
High level masons? Try the ones in London city state. You'd never see them in a filthy lodge.
They're untouchable... So they think.
I'm sure you did. You are seeking in life for something to blame for your current position other than yourself, and have turned to conspiracies as that security blanket. Its very common. You've decided its those darn masons keeping you down, as conveniently everyone you don't like just happens to be one even when you say they've told you things which proves they aren't masons. But that doesn't matter, because were not talking evidence here, were talking you needing something to hate.
So far you've claimed masons -
1) Are responsible for "socialism"
2) Seek to rape women
3) Are responsible for the drug trade
4) Are hell bent on making your life miserable
The evidence, by the way? Oh...there is none. And Masons in London? Funny you should mention that, BECAUSE LONDON IS WHERE THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND IS THAT HOUSES THE MOTHER LODGE OF THE WORLD. You couldn't have picked a city to be more wrong about.
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
I'll tell you what. I'll stop going for the throat of freemasons just a as soon as they get the hell off my case.
I didn't start this crap. THEY DID.
Them and their little man rumor mills.
Until your organization gets the hell of my back, you might as while learn to adjust to my complaints.
If they mean nothing to you... ignore them.
Those up top don't give 2 craps about old local lodge buildings. The ones up top have their meeting in expensive high rises.
Leaving the low rung lackies in the dark helps to fuel that fear of being made obsolete.
because they're woman and according to freemason misogyny, women don't need to know these things... they just need to keep spreading their legs.
Not guilty of any of these indescretions?
THEN WHY DO YOU NEED A SECRET BROTHERHOOD TO BACK YOU UP AND MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A COMMUNITY FIGURE?
Seriously?
Do I feel I need to be part of an organization to stand my ground?
NO.... UNLIKE SOME I'M SIMPLY A MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RACE!
Ohhh... but you have to be different, right? You need a title and stupid symbols to give you INDIVIDUALITY.
where do you think the drugs in prisons come from?
High level masons? Try the ones in London city state. You'd never see them in a filthy lodge.
No one needs to be a mason to give to charity.
Nobody who is a janitor does crap like that...