Freemasons

Hey there,

I'm doing some research on cults and the masons are next on my list, particularly since I live in Britain, where they started.

However, the masons as a movement, is huge in America, and so I thought i'd ask if any of you know anything about them, maybe even some of you are masons, you might like to share your views...of course if you are a mason, you won't most likely, but as they say in scotland "shy bairns [kids] get nae sweeties"

I'm basically looking for stories, as I know already their history and rules etc...all I need is stories.

Anything would be good, thanks.

Kevin.

There's a Masonic Lodge in our town, and (according to him anyway) my Dad was recommended. But he never bothered because he knew a couple of them and described them as "insufferable self-serving wankers", concluding that if the organization made them what they were in his company then he'd rather join Abba.

Mind you, this was some time ago.

Don't know alot, but you could look up the shrivers. I heard they are an off shoot sect of the freemasons who gfundraise for children's charities.

Here is a little conspiracy theory for you that people talk about. I don't know if it is true, nor do I care. Search for what the freemasons have to do with U.S. presidents. From what I heard every U.S. President has in the 1900s has been a member of the freemasons with the exception of one person: John F. Kennedy, and we all know what happened to him. To go even deeper I have heard that every president in U.S. history has been a freemason except two: Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln, and we all know what happened to Lincoln as well. Hope you have fun with that stuff.

All but one mason I knew in England were indeed insufferable wankers, and the good guy was Scottish leading me to believe that masons should be scottish (as he was a thoroughly nice chap).

The mason system here in Florida is neither secretive or special. It's an old boys club at best and just a place go for a drink or two and get some business contacts. Most of them display their membership via tags and stickers on their cars.

I live in Oklahoma, and I took care of an elderly couple in Arkansas. The man was a Mason, and his wife belonged to the Wives club. They were really high up in the lodge, and they didn't talk alot about it except when we were playing cards. It seemed that is what the wives club members did mostly. They also belonged to the same Travel Club. Vacationed together, in fact they were like a pact. They kept company with only other members from what the woman told me. The woman did tell me once that they had Card parties every weekend, and huge Holiday parties that included extravagant ballroom dances.
As for the Shriners. They are a group of men who help children who are cancer victims and other terminal ill children. They have a circus that travels around the United States to raise money. The Shriners also appear in parades that are fundraisers for their causes.

Did you guys know that as well as every president, barring the aforementioned two above, being masons, almost every high ranking police officer in Britain is a mason,as if most every judge, lawyer, Doctor, civil servant etc etc.

And this in of itself is not so much of a concern, powerful friends isn't inherantly a bad thing, however, every mason swears on pain of death to never betray a brother mason, even to the law of the land.

This basically means that if a mason steals from you, and a mason policeman investigates it, chances are nothing will be done about it, or at the very least, as little as possible.

I'm finding hundreds of cases like this, but, guess what, Masons own most of the newspapers so you'll very rarely see articles on this subject.

Scary to think most of the most powerful men in the western world belong to a cult type group.

I love conspiracy theories ;o)

woooooo-hoooooo

"Scary to think most of the most powerful men in the western world belong to a cult type group."

Yeah, but they were basically a modernization of AC/DC themselves. And Billy Duffy was always the creative force so... y'know... even when Ian Astbury wasn't nailing tabs in the name of creative influence he was not THAT powerful.

;-)

I love a conspiracy, too haha.

Yeah, but they were basically a modernization of AC/DC themselves.

^^
Could you explain this more Ed. If it is suppose to be funny I am not catching the connection.

Google "The Cult" and find out.

Nice one Ed.

Aw you rebounds have bammed my thread.

Damn it.

Wait a minute....[does secret handshake...which basically means a normal one but I push my thumb a little harder on the first knuckle of the other person]

Are ye all "onthe square? subversion of the truth through humour...nice.