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re: Any Freemasons in here?
Posted on 1/6/18 at 2:36 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Posted on 1/6/18 at 2:36 pm to Bestbank Tiger
That isn’t correct. The Shriners are all masons but not all masons are Shriners. The Shriners are a different lodge if you will
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Posted on 1/6/18 at 2:37 pm to TheTideMustRoll
Perfect explanation
Posted on 1/6/18 at 3:08 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
I had a client once who was one and he was certain the judge we were appearing before was one too. The client hooked his thumb in his belt a certain way which he said was a signal between Masons.
We did win the case, but the law and the facts were on our side so I never did know if his signal had any effect.
We did win the case, but the law and the facts were on our side so I never did know if his signal had any effect.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 4:16 pm to Methuselah
Lot of misinformation thus far on this thread, lot of fact.
Freemasonry goes back in my family and my wife's to the immigrants who came here prior to the Revolution.
My dad, his uncles, all were either in the oil field or pipefitters and welders. On the wife's side, railroad engineers.......all Freemasons.
I know several Catholic Masons. Been in it for about 50 years and attended lodges all over the country. Never heard the first anti-Catholic stance.
Many disgruntled people leave Masonry and try to "expose" it, mainly because they were jilted for an office or station and wanted to "take their ball and go home". That said, I've never read or heard one of these folks print fact or truth and the things they spew are ridiculous.
Every Masonic body I've been a part of (York Rite/Scottish Rite) has given millions of dollars to charitable causes without advertisement or request for return gain. Most times the help, aid, or assistance is anonymous.
Do some research on the Shriners, George Washington University, Scottish Rite Speech Clinics (dyslexia), burn clinics, York Rite Eye Foundation and many other recipient groups and you might still talk trash about Masonry and the rituals, etc., but you cannot talk trash about the good works.
Freemasonry goes back in my family and my wife's to the immigrants who came here prior to the Revolution.
My dad, his uncles, all were either in the oil field or pipefitters and welders. On the wife's side, railroad engineers.......all Freemasons.
I know several Catholic Masons. Been in it for about 50 years and attended lodges all over the country. Never heard the first anti-Catholic stance.
Many disgruntled people leave Masonry and try to "expose" it, mainly because they were jilted for an office or station and wanted to "take their ball and go home". That said, I've never read or heard one of these folks print fact or truth and the things they spew are ridiculous.
Every Masonic body I've been a part of (York Rite/Scottish Rite) has given millions of dollars to charitable causes without advertisement or request for return gain. Most times the help, aid, or assistance is anonymous.
Do some research on the Shriners, George Washington University, Scottish Rite Speech Clinics (dyslexia), burn clinics, York Rite Eye Foundation and many other recipient groups and you might still talk trash about Masonry and the rituals, etc., but you cannot talk trash about the good works.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 5:36 pm to Devil_doge
Posted on 1/6/18 at 5:50 pm to FreeState
My father is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemason. Labeled as Inspector or something like that. I have never pressed him to much for info because I know it would put him in a compromising dilemma.
I do know that he told me years ago after I asked him how to join that one needs only to ask a Freemason to join. They don't recruit and extend invitations.
We were at the Masters Tournament about 6 years ago and we struck up a conversation with a man about my dads age while waiting at a tee box. Within a minute of small talk, the man asked my dad if he traveled around for work. And my dad answered yes. I was like WTF....he doesn't travel and he is 90% retired. I asked him about that after we walked off and he told me that it is a common question to identify fellow Freemasons.
As far as what they do, it seems like a bunch of charitable type work. They have a lot of Christmas ham sales and quarterly BBQ plate sales at the lodge to raise money. Stuff like that.
I have been in the lodge once and it was really nice with a full commercial kitchen and small cafeteria area that could seat about 50. The room where they do all their meetings and ceremonial stuff was set up with the chairs in a square around the room. In the front of the room (maybe behind?) were three chairs and he explained to me who sat in those and how they rotated who sat there.
He also explained that after one achieves Master Mason (3rd Degree) the subsequent degrees earned in a particular order do not signify rank but instead it indicates level of instruction.
I am 47 and think I will probably join this year. Been putting it off for a decade.
I do know that he told me years ago after I asked him how to join that one needs only to ask a Freemason to join. They don't recruit and extend invitations.
We were at the Masters Tournament about 6 years ago and we struck up a conversation with a man about my dads age while waiting at a tee box. Within a minute of small talk, the man asked my dad if he traveled around for work. And my dad answered yes. I was like WTF....he doesn't travel and he is 90% retired. I asked him about that after we walked off and he told me that it is a common question to identify fellow Freemasons.
As far as what they do, it seems like a bunch of charitable type work. They have a lot of Christmas ham sales and quarterly BBQ plate sales at the lodge to raise money. Stuff like that.
I have been in the lodge once and it was really nice with a full commercial kitchen and small cafeteria area that could seat about 50. The room where they do all their meetings and ceremonial stuff was set up with the chairs in a square around the room. In the front of the room (maybe behind?) were three chairs and he explained to me who sat in those and how they rotated who sat there.
He also explained that after one achieves Master Mason (3rd Degree) the subsequent degrees earned in a particular order do not signify rank but instead it indicates level of instruction.
I am 47 and think I will probably join this year. Been putting it off for a decade.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 7:56 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
THE MOTHER LODGE
THERE was Rundle, Station Master,
An' Beazeley of the Rail,
An' 'Ackman, Commissariat,
An' Donkin' o' the Jail;
An' Blake, Conductor-Sergeant,
Our Master twice was 'e,
With im that kept the Europe-shop,
Old Framjee Edujee.
Outside - " Sergeant! Sir! Salute! Salaam!
Inside - 'Brother," an' it doesn't do no 'arm.
We met upon the Level an' we parted on the Square,
An' I was junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there!
We'd Bola Nath, Accountant,
An' Saul the Aden Jew,
An' Din Mohammed, draughtsman
Of the Survey Office too;
There was Babu Chuckerbutty,
An' Amir Singh the Sikh,
An' Castro from the fittin'-sheds,
The Roman Catholick!
We 'adn't good regalia,
An' our Lodge was old an' bare,
But we knew the Ancient Landmarks,
An' we kep' 'em to a hair;
An' lookin' on it backwards
It often strikes me thus,
There ain't such things as infidels,
Excep', per'aps, it's us.
For monthly, after Labour,
We'd all sit down and smoke
(We dursn't give no banquets,
Lest a Brother's caste were broke),
An' man on man got talkin'
Religion an' the rest,
An' every man comparin'
Of the God 'e knew the best.
So man on man got talkin',
An' not a Brother stirred
Till mornin' waked the parrots
An' that dam' brain-fever-bird.
We'd say 'twas 'ighly curious,
An' we'd all ride 'ome to bed,
With Mo'ammed, God, an' Shiva
Changin' pickets in our 'ead.
Full oft on Guv'ment service
This rovin' foot 'ath pressed,
An' bore fraternal greetin's
To the Lodges east an' west,
Accordin' as commanded.
From Kohat to Singapore,
But I wish that I might see them
In my Mother-Lodge once more!
I wish that I might see them,
My Brethren black an' brown,
With the trichies smellin' pleasant
An' the hog-darn passin' down;
An' the old khansamah snorin'
On the bottle-khana floor,
Like a Master in good standing
With my Mother-Lodge once more.
Outside - Sergeant! Sir! Salute! Salaam!'
Inside- Brother," an' it doesn't do no 'arm.
We met upon the Level an' we parted on the Square,
An' I was Junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there!
Rudyard Kipling
THERE was Rundle, Station Master,
An' Beazeley of the Rail,
An' 'Ackman, Commissariat,
An' Donkin' o' the Jail;
An' Blake, Conductor-Sergeant,
Our Master twice was 'e,
With im that kept the Europe-shop,
Old Framjee Edujee.
Outside - " Sergeant! Sir! Salute! Salaam!
Inside - 'Brother," an' it doesn't do no 'arm.
We met upon the Level an' we parted on the Square,
An' I was junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there!
We'd Bola Nath, Accountant,
An' Saul the Aden Jew,
An' Din Mohammed, draughtsman
Of the Survey Office too;
There was Babu Chuckerbutty,
An' Amir Singh the Sikh,
An' Castro from the fittin'-sheds,
The Roman Catholick!
We 'adn't good regalia,
An' our Lodge was old an' bare,
But we knew the Ancient Landmarks,
An' we kep' 'em to a hair;
An' lookin' on it backwards
It often strikes me thus,
There ain't such things as infidels,
Excep', per'aps, it's us.
For monthly, after Labour,
We'd all sit down and smoke
(We dursn't give no banquets,
Lest a Brother's caste were broke),
An' man on man got talkin'
Religion an' the rest,
An' every man comparin'
Of the God 'e knew the best.
So man on man got talkin',
An' not a Brother stirred
Till mornin' waked the parrots
An' that dam' brain-fever-bird.
We'd say 'twas 'ighly curious,
An' we'd all ride 'ome to bed,
With Mo'ammed, God, an' Shiva
Changin' pickets in our 'ead.
Full oft on Guv'ment service
This rovin' foot 'ath pressed,
An' bore fraternal greetin's
To the Lodges east an' west,
Accordin' as commanded.
From Kohat to Singapore,
But I wish that I might see them
In my Mother-Lodge once more!
I wish that I might see them,
My Brethren black an' brown,
With the trichies smellin' pleasant
An' the hog-darn passin' down;
An' the old khansamah snorin'
On the bottle-khana floor,
Like a Master in good standing
With my Mother-Lodge once more.
Outside - Sergeant! Sir! Salute! Salaam!'
Inside- Brother," an' it doesn't do no 'arm.
We met upon the Level an' we parted on the Square,
An' I was Junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there!
Rudyard Kipling
Posted on 1/6/18 at 8:06 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
I'm a Stonecutter.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 8:12 pm to Missouri Waltz
I don’t understand that poem. What the frick is that supposed to mean?
Is there anything more contrived and queer than poetry?
Just say what you want to say. Have some courage.
Is there anything more contrived and queer than poetry?
Just say what you want to say. Have some courage.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 8:39 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
I’m DAR on both sides of my family, one of my dad’s lines includes a Revolutionary War surgeon who was also a Mason. My paternal GF was a big Masonic deal, travelled to conventions & meetings because of his affiliation.
My pops came back from the Pacific Theater (Now Showing: Don’t frick With the U.S.) and a couple of years in occupied Japan, went to UK (Go Blue!) and then went to work away from the ancestral home and never became a Mason.
Never even thought of ever joining, always seemed like a bunch of old dudes.
My pops came back from the Pacific Theater (Now Showing: Don’t frick With the U.S.) and a couple of years in occupied Japan, went to UK (Go Blue!) and then went to work away from the ancestral home and never became a Mason.
Never even thought of ever joining, always seemed like a bunch of old dudes.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 10:09 pm to soccerfüt
Did you mean SAR? If you are a man, you are SAR not DAR. I am a SAR member myself. I have documented 9 GFs who served during the Revolution. One of them was a CIC(Commander in Chief) Guard from early 1781 through 1782. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
He was 6th Va Regiment before becoming a CIC guard member. As COC guards their primary purpose was to protect Washington and to create a sense of regality when congressional or foreign dignitaries came to visit with him at camp HQs. They never got to see combat until Hamilton convinced Washington to allow him to lead the assault on Redoubts 9 & 10 of the British defenses. It was then that Hamilton was allowed to use some of the CIC guards for the assault. My Gf was one of the lucky ones who got to join the assault.
He was 6th Va Regiment before becoming a CIC guard member. As COC guards their primary purpose was to protect Washington and to create a sense of regality when congressional or foreign dignitaries came to visit with him at camp HQs. They never got to see combat until Hamilton convinced Washington to allow him to lead the assault on Redoubts 9 & 10 of the British defenses. It was then that Hamilton was allowed to use some of the CIC guards for the assault. My Gf was one of the lucky ones who got to join the assault.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 10:18 pm to Dick Leverage
quote:
If you are a man, you are SAR not DAR.
He’s a soccer player. Don’t judge him.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 10:32 pm to Dick Leverage
Our plantation adjoined Mt. Vernon.
During the long years George was leading the revolution, our family was entrusted to step in and run the place until hostilities ceased.
George never sired childeren with Martha because he stayed pissed with my long deceased GF, Jody.
After things settled down, we relocated the plantation to Northeast MS until the damned carpetbaggers arrived and pulled their crap.
Err’body but me (so far) have been active Free Masons.
During the long years George was leading the revolution, our family was entrusted to step in and run the place until hostilities ceased.
George never sired childeren with Martha because he stayed pissed with my long deceased GF, Jody.
After things settled down, we relocated the plantation to Northeast MS until the damned carpetbaggers arrived and pulled their crap.
Err’body but me (so far) have been active Free Masons.
Posted on 1/6/18 at 10:35 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
My husband is a freemason. They are all great guys and help the community.
Posted on 1/8/18 at 2:16 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
Most lodges have their meeting times posted on the front door, website or facebook. Show up for the meeting night a little early when they are having dinner and let any of them know you are interested in knowing more and joining.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 10:07 pm to Ba Ba Boooey
quote:
That isn’t correct. The Shriners are all masons but not all masons are Shriners. The Shriners are a different lodge if you will
It may not be so now, but recently in Arkansas the Shriners rebelled or something and started accepting non-Freemasons. I was approached at a haunted house in Little Rock.
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