re: Any Freemasons on this board?

That liberator clown ignored the question about Shriners earlier for a reason.

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(In what area of hierarchy rank are you?)

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There is never a high enough hierarchy for you ghostbusters. That is the rabbit hole. Whatever anyone says is not enough. Leader of the grand lodge and you would say, not high enough. I guess everyone needs a hobby.

The good news is lots of really good men join the masons and it benefits them and they like it. It also does not interfere with their belief in God. if it did, the members I know would immediately quit.

You seem waaay triggered for someone who's not even a member. This is you, right?:

"I’ve been contemplating pursuing becoming a Freemason and was curious about others experiences with the organization."

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I ran into a group of Masons in a hotel in Phoenix last year. I was in the elevator with a few of them and I said ... you guys Freemasons ? One of them started giving me the 'it's a secret society' routine so I reminded him that it was on his shirt and name tag. LOL. F Idiot.

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That would be a surprise. Since we all know it’s not a secret society, it’s a society with secrets.

experiences with the organization."

This being the important part. I didn’t ask for the opinions of the conspiracy theorists who have decided to take a break from their Hillary Clinton to GITMO LARP.

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...Shriners

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An organization that some have ignorantly painted as devious, reprehensible and anathema to Christianity that gives children born with three strikes against them the best available medical care and a reason to feel safe, secure, accepted, to continue their lives and eventually contribute to the society.

Not the least of which is giving such children at least some insulation and protection from the natural cruelty of kids who were born whole.

My grandfather was a 33rd Degree and a Shriner. Grandmother, an Eastern Star.

Other Masonic family members include my Father.

None of them Beelzebub worshippers - all veterans with an ingenuous, profound love of this country.

Over the years have watched a few who have done their best to discredit them. The one given most pub was Ralph Epperson.

A favorite author, the grizzled Tennessee scholar John J. Robinson, tried the same for nearly his entire adult life.

Near the end, he realized that he had failed miserably, and up and joined the Order.

His journey is chronicled in his book A Pilgrim's Path.

He also wrote the blockbuster bestseller Born in Blood about the evidence he believed he found to suggest that the Templars never did just "go away" or were persecuted into oblivion, and the historical event - the Peasant's Revolt - that he uses as his premise, and who it was that gave the Templars sanctuary during the great persecution.

Favorite novel by him is Dungeon, Fire, and Sword which is the best detailed look into the Templars, have seen to this point.

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There is never a high enough hierarchy for you ghostbusters.

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To think that such an organization at the highest ranks is uncorruptable is ridiculous. Everything gets corrupted at some point. If you believe in Christianity you will understand that it was started because Judaism had become so corrupted. The Catholic Church is obviously highly corrupted now. Pretty well almost any international group is corrupted right now. Any international group should be looked at with high suspicion for any nationalist because there is in an obvious conflict of interest.

No one is saying there aren't good members in the Freemasons. Any group has financial incentive to do charity work regardless of doing it for noble reasons. Biker gangs also raise money for charity while simultaneously selling drugs, pimping girls, and homicide. The tales of Satanism are related to the 33rd degree and you can read the tales if you want, they are freely available. As I said, the lodge in my town has a pentagram in it so it did lend credence to the Satanism.

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So how's all that signed & sealed Masonic overlording turning out for us?

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Well, I can only speak for myself, but their utter brilliance made us the envy of the world. And then we began shitting all over that brilliance for the last 160 years or so, which is why we have what we have now.

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As I said, the lodge in my town has a pentagram in it so it did lend credence to the Satanism.

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So the lodge has a ladies Eastern Star group that meets there and you jump to Satan off that.

The pentagram has been around for thousands of years. What is considered an "upside down star" was never associated with Satan before the 1900s.

In German Christian beliefs the pentagram actually was symbol that would stop Mephistopheles from exiting rooms.

It was also closely associated with Pythagoreanism representing balance and wellness.

There are literally thousands or uses by hundreds of groups and cultures throughout history but you are going with one.