In the game of chess, the pawns have a purpose too.
It is the higher level people that are more important, and just like in chess a few select pawns who " make it " are promoted.
I think some easy secrets are given out early, but for the real stuff you have to be higher level.
Blackballing bastards…
His Application interview:
You’d think that until some snot-nosed little 10-year-old checkmates you with his pawns … God that’s embarrassing …
So you’re saying, he pwned you?
I’ve got a second hand apron.
I knew the Catholic Church didn’t approve of them, but why? That’s what I never understood. What’s the church making such a big deal about? I mean if these guys do charity work, that’s a good thing, right?
Why do I get the feeling you knew, or thought you knew, more about the Masonic Lo0dges than you first let on?:dubious:
Are you asking questions because you’d like to know about the organization, or are you asking leading questions to get people to suspect things about the organization? What point are you trying to make here?
IIRC, the designation of “free” mason originated when the trade guilds distinguished among different categories of stone masons.
“Free” masons were the highest skilled, working with detailed carving and finishing, as opposed to the lower-skilled masons who worked with the larger foundation stones.
I’m not sure of the connection between the trade guild designation and the fraternal order.
Protestants and Catholics were killing each other during the Wars of Religion … at some times and in some places it was the death penalty to be on the wrong side … we had the legacy of this up until the 1990’s in Northern Ireland …
18th Century was the Age of Enlightenment, when the best minds were looking at a different approach to human interaction, away from State Church … the open-minded on both sides had to gather in secret to discuss these new ideas because the older, closed-minded in Church hierarchy saw this as a threat … not just against them but to GOD Himself …
I’m hoping an actual Free Mason will come along and more correctly put this organization into this context … my third-hand information is that the Mason allowed in folks from both sides to discuss matters Enlightened … thus earning the scorn and hostility from mainstream Catholic authorities …
Many fled to the New World to escape persecution … thus many of the US’s founding fathers were themselves Free Masons espousing a new nation founded on the ideas of the Enlightenment … life, liberty and the pursuit of conspiracy theories …
Freemasons never blackball anyone. Black cubes reject, white balls elect. This is so one can feel his vote while casting it. Lighting in lodges was not always very good, so different shapes are used.
My Lodge is, indeed, a 501(c)8, under the auspices of our Grand Lodge. We are independently a 501(c)3, for certain other function we perform.
In the United States, each state is an independent jurisdiction in amity with all other recognized “regular” jurisdictions. We are, in a sense, one large Lodge with many different meeting places.
In most other countries, their Grand Lodge covers the entire country; that pesky Civil War we had made that an obstacle. Most jurisdictions in the US draw their Charter from the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE), or by adoption from a recognized jurisdiction under that Charter (a subordinate Charter, if you will).
Don’t believe everything you read on the interwebs. Some of what you’ve said is almost true… none of it quite right, though.
Check out the George Washington National Masonic Memorial. Awesome place. Neat pieces of history, and the public tours they give are very good. There are some things, though, that Freemasons are more likely to pick up on than a cowan would.
You know who are a secret society? I mean, I probably shouldn’t tell you but hey, what are they going to do to m
All the words are true. Just not necessarily in the true order.
I’m not a member.
Oh, I’m rather a3ware of that.
Are they “plotting” against you?
I thought they were. Are Are Masonic rites public and openly talked about now?