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MrRezister
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My wife was having a conversation with one of her uncles this past weekend, and somehow or another the subject of the Freemasons was raised. Her uncle expressed an interest in "recruiting" me into his club or lodge or whatever they are called.
Now, I haven't devoted a lot of thought to the Masons. I know they make a convenient backdrop for stupid conspiracies involving Trilateral Commissions and Illuminatis and such, but beyond that I have always been under the assumption that they are basically a benign social club for boring rich guys. So I thought I wouldn't really fit in, because I am a boring poor guy.
Well, my wife said he mentioned that the only real requirements were that I be "Free, White, and 21". Articles 1 and 3 of said requirements are fair enough, but I had to request more information on the "White" part. Was it true that they only accepted whites? I had no clue about that. Apparently the Masons are segregated, and I had no idea.
I've never been much of a joiner, and I rarely play dress-up outside of Halloween, so I had never considered Masonry to be a viable option hobby-wise, but this "whites only" thing is a deal-clincher. I would be very uncomfortable aligning myself with an organization that has different facilities for individuals based upon the color of their skin.
So, I'm wondering if I'm the only guy who knew this. Is it the same everywhere? It may be a regional thing, and I'm in Arkansas so I wouldn't be surprised if other lodges have different traditions in this regard.
Now, I haven't devoted a lot of thought to the Masons. I know they make a convenient backdrop for stupid conspiracies involving Trilateral Commissions and Illuminatis and such, but beyond that I have always been under the assumption that they are basically a benign social club for boring rich guys. So I thought I wouldn't really fit in, because I am a boring poor guy.
Well, my wife said he mentioned that the only real requirements were that I be "Free, White, and 21". Articles 1 and 3 of said requirements are fair enough, but I had to request more information on the "White" part. Was it true that they only accepted whites? I had no clue about that. Apparently the Masons are segregated, and I had no idea.
I've never been much of a joiner, and I rarely play dress-up outside of Halloween, so I had never considered Masonry to be a viable option hobby-wise, but this "whites only" thing is a deal-clincher. I would be very uncomfortable aligning myself with an organization that has different facilities for individuals based upon the color of their skin.
So, I'm wondering if I'm the only guy who knew this. Is it the same everywhere? It may be a regional thing, and I'm in Arkansas so I wouldn't be surprised if other lodges have different traditions in this regard.
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I don't know if I'm gonna.
I've heard some weird things.
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Also OP guy just join the lodge and tell us about the secret handshakes and the plans to rule the world
Okay lets have a bullet point rundown in 3 slides or less
they construct miniature castles and monuments out of stone blocks
with no planning whatsoever
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So I got him drunk, took him down to my "wine cellar", chained him up and walled him in.
And thus you are better equipped to answer my concerns.
... Begin.
I'm pretty sure a basement with a few empty wine bottles in it does not count as a wine cellar.
your friend saw the evil inside you
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You fool. You've opened us up to all the conspiracies Seph thinks the freemasons are part of
A bunch of boring people going around in a SEKRIT club getting town people of importance to join. They swear allegiance to themselves over the public. Covering up things they do. This can include having policemen and lawyers in the group which depending on the size of your city is terrible. Masons actually do have power in small towns and much less in large cities. Their rites are all based off really old, pointless egyptian style rituals that don't do anything and take up a lot of time. Ultimately you'll never know what you are really doing even if you were to make it to 33rd degree. Very very few people make it to that point. You also have to pay fees and the like.
I would advise against it as you would be having to attend meetings and paying fees and doing rituals. I would advise against it for other reasons too. But your friend knows nothing and the leaders of that particular lodge know nothing and so on and so forth, so asking them isn't going to help.
They're just that secretive
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The handbook is entirely in code. And you must pretty much know it by heart.
And as for the racism aspect, Michael Richards is a 33rd degree freemason.
I've "heard" that if you are in the group you learn the secret handshake and you always shake hands that way. If someone else gives you them same handshake back then you know he's another mason. Then they do favors and stuff for each other.
I remember we had this patient AND HEY COME TO THINK OF IT HE WAS BLACK and he was a Freemason and he kept trying to shake our hands asking if he could be let out of the hospital. But he wouldn't stop yelling so we had to seclude him in a side room and normally we take people's jewelry off but when I tried to slide of his ring he started to YELL like I've never heard. Then someone pointed to the ring and said, "Don't take that off." It was his Freemason ring.
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They weren't very subtle.
Sounds pretty nuts, but probably harmless.
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