ANY TAKERS?
WERE THERE ANY REEMASONS IN YOUR CONGREGAION?
by badboy 13 Replies latest jw friends
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watson
Someone reply, this YELLING has to stop!!
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asilentone
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gopher
No REEMASONS or FREEMASONS either.
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HappyDad
badboy,
I hope you are not just plain old trying to create a controversial post. There has been enough of the Masonic connection written about, ad-nauseum here on JWD by conspiracy theorists.
Please take this with a grain of salt. My intention is not to ridicule or make fun...........but if you ever were a JW for any length of time, you should know that belonging to any other organization was and still is a no-no within the ranks of the JW's. Now, it depends on the local poobahs to approve or denounce anyone being a volunteer fireman or other volunteer type of civic involvement. But NO.........you could not be a Mason and a JW.
I knew a few bro's who WERE Mason's but left it upon becoming a JW. They seemed to have found an easier way to be a "SOMEBODY" by becoming a JW and doing the magic number of hours each month and saying all the right stuff. It was a lot easier than remembering the oral tradition of Masonry.
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rebel8
It wouldn't be a very good secret society if they didn't keep it a secret!
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Hope4Others
I think that would be impossible to know...
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Satans little helper
Firstly, it would be nice if you stopped using the bloody caps key, it is rude.
Secondly, no, you would not find any Freemasons in the JW congregation as they are quite paranoid at any more liberal approaches to religion; Freemasonry develops a very laissee faire attitude to religion and is non denominational, however it is based on Christian/Judaist precepts. -
Gram
None that I know of, however our Circuit Assemblies were held at the Masonic Temple in downtown Cleveland during the 50's. I guess they rented it out for other groups to use.
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Junction-Guy
Well back in Kentucky, a 3rd cousin to my grandma had died, and in his obituary it listed him as both a JW and a FreeMason. I had heard he was irregular at the meetings. I don't know if he became a Mason before or after the JW's. He did have a JW funeral, which makes me think that he was a Mason prior to a JW. I will have to ask grandma about this.