? Rumour has it that there are?
Are there any Masons on this forum?
by Brummie 42 Replies latest jw friends
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kaykay_mp
I heard that Masons get all the sweet hookups. My sister's husband is one, and he gets all kinds of cool s**t--concert tickets, etc. I wonder why she doesn't become an Eastern Star, which is the female version of the Masons. I mean, she's working on her masters and works for a Fortune 500 accounting firm, why the hell not?
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kaykay_mp
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LittleToe
My Great-Grandfather despised them.
Ironically he had six daughters, and his seventh child was a boy - his only son - who later became a Mason (I think he's a Past Master, but I've never had the opportunity to discuss the subject with him - he lives a long way away).I'm not aware of any other member of our family that are Masons (as they are almost all JWs) and neither am I.
I was once encouraged to look into it, by a Masonic friend, but I was a JW at the time and couldn't pass the requirement for believing in an immortal soul.. I did go so far as asking talking to my wife about it (another requirement), and subsequently talked to my Father-in-law about them (his Father-in-law, my ex's Grandad, was one apparently). He'd looked into it, at the behest of his Father-in-law and found the Encyclopaedia Brittanica definition mentioned that they were ostensibly a religious organisation. At that point he stopped looking, but was ready to point me in that direction at the time.
After leaving the JWs, three years ago, I had no such inclination to join my old buddies at their games. I now believe in an immortal soul, and have no wife (or at least soon won't) needing to be agreeable to membership. I would also likely have more to lose than gain from it, however, as many of my friends are church-going Christians and are openly anti-Masonic.
I could likely hold down an extensive esoteric discussion with one, though, as I've done a reasonable amount of research on them.
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LittleToe
Why?
Most Masons I know are quite open about it.
The only thing they won't discuss are the passwords and handshakes, but you can find them on the Net using Google (masonic handshake): -
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