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Comment on Is Mainstream Masonry Primed For Another Morgan Affair? by Mark Amarato Victor

Mark Amarato Victor — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:07:12 +0000

One thing i have to say on this issue as nigerian where is USA law heading, another thing is what religoin does that judge belong to. I think as a people we have freedom of worship. In my own understanding all is not going well religoin in the USA i think in all this happening i see doom coming up in the USA. Their are wolf in any religoin all part of the world. This wolf i mean are the bad one’s in thesame house of fellowship to cause division of unity among it’s people, That is all i have to say.

Comment on Is Change A Dirty Masonic Word? by Tom Accuosti

Tom Accuosti — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:19:04 +0000

If Freemasonry desires to connect with the present generation will they be willing to use the tools that this generation uses?

Who is this “Freemasonry” guy that you’re talking about? He doesn’t sound like the Freemasonry guy up in my area. Our GL has a Facebook page, plus a very informative website, with links to all of the lodges in the state, plus a state-wide calendar. We have used Skype and other web resources to have meetings, and most of the committees already have a handle on online collaboration. Most lodges offer the choice of paper or emailed trestle boards, and our state publication is available in PDF.

Still doing degrees the old-fashioned way, though.

Comment on What is a Freemason? by Brady Miceli

Brady Miceli — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:28:48 +0000

Not everyone can be a Mason. The craft has nothing to do with the devil. I am not a mason but would be honored to one day join.

It takes an enlightened mind. Thinkers – values, moral character.

Comment on Paranormal Activity 3 and the Masonic nexus by Braelyn.

Braelyn. — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:54:20 +0000

Okay, I understood most of the movie but in the last part of it I don’t see why they killed Denis or why the grandmother took the girls upstairs. I can kinda see what they were doing when Christy told “Toby” she didn’t want to talk to him anymore, then later on she said, “Okay, I’ll do it.” Like it was a plan for them to kill Denis. But the first part when the girls were older then it went straight to them being little, it was a little confusing and I honestly think it was pointless to do so. I also don’t see why the had the movies in the sequence they had them.
I also looked up the signs on Google and found out the meanings and everything. I’m going to put up the signs through out my house and try to have some paranormal activity because it is real, but not to the extension of what the movies have. We have had some strange things happen but not anything close to in the movies. Maybe a cracked picture frame, something getting moved, or the door getting slammed, but nothing serious.
Anyway, the movie was good over all and hope there will be a fourth one (that makes sense). Thanks(:

Comment on Bro. N.A. Mcaulay by ernie potts

ernie potts — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:03:54 +0000

i have been searching for poem that begins ” there was a young man that had just
begun, he was a willing worker and a widows son……….” i do not know the
rest, if you can help me, i thank you. fraternally,W. BRO. Ernest Potts from
Lancaster Masonic Lodge # 57 in Ohio.

Comment on Is Change A Dirty Masonic Word? by W.Bro. Chris Hansen

W.Bro. Chris Hansen — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:05:39 +0000

I think that the proper question is not whether all those innovations you mention COULD be done, but whether they all SHOULD be done.

I am all for communicating summonses electronically, with hard copies provided at the meeting. There are no Tweets or Facebook pages for Grand Lodge. They do have a website, as does Metropolitan Grand Lodge, and many Lodges (including my own) also have websites.

I would find meeting online a bit tedious, as I would not be able to sit down with my Brethren for our Festive Board. And performing a degree online would be quite difficult: how could I raise a new MM on the FP of F online? That doesn’t work. And as for performing all degrees at Grand Lodge three times a year, in England and Wales this would be most difficult; even doing them at Metropolitan and Provincial Grand Lodges would be a serious undertaking, with huge logistical difficulties. The personal touch of having your own Lodge Brethren performing the ceremony would be lost.

As with all tools, online and Internet tools are just that: means to an end. When contemplating their use, we must carefully weigh what these tools do well, and what methods might be better used for other tasks.

Comment on Curious Masonic Words by Phil Pearce

Phil Pearce — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:11:07 +0000

Excellent website, and very interesting.
I would like to see a paper on the several examples in Masonic writings, be they Constitutions, Charges, Catechisms, or even Obligations, in which rhyming words, or alliterative words, are used, apparently to ensure clarity and as noted in your notes on “HELE”, to give similar meanings in Norman-French and Anglo Saxon, or perhaps inserted by wise Brethern of yore as mnemonic devices (viz., “Arts, Parts, and Points”; “always hail, forever keep and conceal, and never reveal”; “without equivocation or mental reservation”; etc).

Comment on Is Change A Dirty Masonic Word? by Zerubbabel's Tailor

Zerubbabel's Tailor — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:54:40 +0000

Change aversion is a function of old age. The philosophy of Freemasonry, on the other hand, teaches us that change is actually good and necessary. The transition from rough to perfect ashlar cannot occur in immobility and stagnation.

Also, we’re so wrapped up in the positive laws that we’ve created to govern this bloated bureaucracy that we’re completely ignoring the natural laws that constitute the sole purpose of this organization. Natural law is the light we’re supposed to seek, but we waste our energy creating trivial rules like how to introduce grand lodge aristocracy.

Comment on Mumbai Indian Freemason Visits Prince Hall Boston Lodge by Henry Williams

Henry Williams — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:18:54 +0000

Such visits strentghs the Mystic Tie
that binds us. It also shows the Universality of the Craft.

Comment on The Catholic Church and Freemasonry by roger

roger — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:10:34 +0000

A very in need article.-
To all those looking for sins in the Church, as an excuse to join the masons, the time comes, sooner or later, proving how right is the Church about Masonry.-
In Church History, certainly mistakes abound, because men weaknesses but not because Doctrinary mistakes; on the opposite, masons sorround with secrecy and obedience their teachings because, based on relativism, anything, even the human life
can be disposed of, something that can not stand as true discerning between right or wrong.-
As Jesus said: “By their fruits you shall know them”, just see mason H. Truman ordering the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or see the current state of unemployment, misery, foreclosure leaving millions of american and europeans in total distress under governments where those not “initiated” in any lodge are not allowed to become decision makers.-
To those following History Channel or the like to have an opinion about the Inquisition, should check a serious source of facts, before arriving to the wrong conclusions, as the Inquisition was created at King´s request, in search for heresy, at times when the royal authority was questioned, and that the Inquisition NEVER executed anyone, being its only mission to determine whatever Faith deviance existed
among those investigated.-
As far as Galileo is concerned, as he was trying to prove one of Ptolomeous XIII Thesis, the accepted scientific paradigm of the time, to be wrong, and failed at that,
the Church gave him more time to study and placed all of the Church resources at his disposal to come again and have a second chance.-
Indeed, a scientific argument has been changed, by masons, into a tale of neverending accusations of darkness, torture and tiranny, seting aside the fact that the World´s first universities were founded by the Church.-