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>> No. 665 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 10:12 pm
665 free Masons
Does anyone have any info about these guys? Are any of our users members maybe? Can you tell us the secrets?
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>> No. 683 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 10:21 pm
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>>665

To answer,

Yes.
Yes, craft and mark, though I have taken my clearance and am not currently attached to any Lodge.
No, but if you're interested search for Christopher Lomas & Robert Knight and the Web of Hiram, you'll find enough there to satisfy your curiosity.
>> No. 690 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 1:01 am
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>>683
I've always been interested in the Masons, mostly as a result of their weirdly imposing building in Covent Garden. I would never join, but I am interested in why people do so and what they get out of the experience.
>> No. 693 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 8:46 am
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oooh here is a question that just hit me like a brick in the head.

is britfa.gs our own modern form of the masons?
>> No. 694 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 9:33 am
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>>693

I can sort of agree with that. In a way. Except more poncey and homoerotic.
>> No. 695 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 10:16 am
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>>693

That is a specious comparison at best.
>> No. 696 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 10:36 am
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>>690 That building is fucking huge, it always seems like its out of another age or space, surrounded by covent garden. Strange. Personally, they're just the grown up equivalent of sekrit clubs we all had around the age of 9, 'cept with alcohol and important people.
>> No. 697 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 12:08 pm
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Here we go again with the Masons.

I'll inform you. since you're too lazy to use a search engine or go to the library.

There are differences between lodges. Some have more degrees (ranks) than the other. The further one progresses - and one is given progress only when approved - the more 'knowledge' is imparted unto one.

For instance, in Scottish Rite, there are 33 degrees. Not everyone gets beyond a few.
>> No. 702 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 2:41 pm
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>>696
You can have guided tours of it, or there's a museum inside open all day, both of which are free. I swear I've never seen so many biblical scenes replicated in hidden compartments or skulls and fire in my life.
>> No. 703 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 2:55 pm
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>>696

The building was used for the external shots of "thames house" for spooks
>> No. 714 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 7:45 pm
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>>696
It is a strange and imposing bulding, very impressive. I would love to go inside and have a good walk around.
>> No. 813 Anonymous
7th March 2010
Sunday 1:12 am
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It just seems like weird cultish franchise pyramid scheme with elaborate networking thrown in for good measure.
>> No. 817 Anonymous
7th March 2010
Sunday 1:47 pm
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Via my father I've gathered -

*It's surprisingly expensive to keep up with all the wildly overpriced charity dinners, donations guilt-tripped for brethren in difficulties etc.

*There are a lot of very boring nerdy old guys involved.

*Most master masons remain blissfully unaware of the 30 hidden super-sekrit degrees above them.

*The only profession where the networking aspect was actually useful is law, although even this isn't true nowadays - freemasonry is on its arse and attracting very few new recruits.
>> No. 818 Anonymous
7th March 2010
Sunday 2:09 pm
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>>817

Accurate.
>> No. 822 Anonymous
7th March 2010
Sunday 6:40 pm
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So what, its based around religion?
>> No. 823 Anonymous
7th March 2010
Sunday 6:48 pm
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>>822

It's a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbol, to quote their own definition.

Belief in a Higher Power is the only prerequisite for membership, much like Alcoholics Anonymous, although there is also a strong humanist/enlightenment aspect to the rites.

Freemasonry, which once helped to secretly inspire both the French and Russian revolutions, is now a dusty and dull suburban fetish for tedious old men and it's functionally dead. Sage.
>> No. 825 Anonymous
7th March 2010
Sunday 7:38 pm
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>>822

As well as reading this thread, it'd do you good to perform some of your studies. There are different rites within differing branches of Masonry.

The York Rite differs from the Scottish and the Grand Orient, for example.

>>823

Quite right about the Revolutions. And I concur; masonry has long since lost its purpose.
>> No. 828 Anonymous
8th March 2010
Monday 2:21 pm
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The only things I really remember about them is that the highers up like to think they know the true name of god.
>> No. 839 Anonymous
9th March 2010
Tuesday 1:23 pm
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>>828
derrick?
>> No. 3234 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 1:36 pm
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>>693
Oh. Now I get it.
>> No. 3235 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 2:05 pm
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>>839

I've always thought it was Steve; everybody knows a Steve.
>> No. 3236 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 2:05 pm
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>>3234
That poor post was only four years old, you nonce.
>> No. 3237 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 2:10 pm
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When I was out in the Far East not Hong Kong, don't worry someone I worked with had a flat mate who had just joined the local lodge.

Apparently at his first big event Kevin Spacey was there and asked one of the staff to go out and find him two 18 year old boys.

I guess he wanted someone to run lines with or something...
>> No. 3238 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 2:23 pm
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>>3237
It's a test of loyalty. Anyone who will fetch you 18 year old boys on request without batting an eyelid is someone you can trust. Even ARE JIM'LL knew that.
>> No. 3239 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 3:10 pm
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Can a dolescumlad join one?
>> No. 3240 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 3:41 pm
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It's just an old boy's club, isn't it? "You scratch my back I'll scratch yours" and all that.

I know my granddad was involved at some level, he was a well-regarded chemist (I doubt they have any interest in dolescumlads, >>3239). I remember finding a bunch of weird shit cleaning out my gran's house when she died, some bit of cloth to be worn on the front (?), badges and suchlike, my dad told me at the time it was all masonic stuff. We binned it, I think.
>> No. 3247 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 4:28 pm
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>>3240

>We binned it, I think.
That makes me sad.

I was interested when I was a teenlad in my later years - but I remember going to a lodge, and being interviewed by two chaps at the doorway. Everything was going well, until I said I'm an atheist - then they laughed at me and essentially told me to get out. Cunts.
>> No. 3248 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 4:32 pm
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>> No. 3250 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 4:48 pm
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>>3240
That's the impression I've always got - for a minority it may well involve mysterious and possibly sinister secret networks and all that jazz, but for most members it's basically the Rotary Club with some added dressing up and mysticism.
>> No. 3251 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 5:06 pm
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>>3248

Who insists you get your grammar right?
Who gets into cunt-offs every night?
We do! We do!

Who enjoys that chap called Moat?
Who kills crabs and then likes to gloat?
We do! We do!

Who considers pissing in an arse?
Who thinks the Daily Mail's a complete fucking farce?
We do! We do!
>> No. 3252 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 5:15 pm
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>>3251
Excellent. If this is fleshed out I might do a cover version and upload it somewhere.
>> No. 3253 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 5:36 pm
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>>3252
Not >>3251 but if you're serious you could probably keep the real opening lines:

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!

and >>3251's lyrics might need tweaking to scan properly:

Who demands your gammar's right?
Who has cunt-offs every night?
We do! We do!

Who enjoys that chap called Moat?
Who kills crabs then likes to gloat?
We do! We do!

Who would piss into an arse?
Who knows the Mail's a fucking farce?
We do! We do!

or something...
>> No. 3254 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 5:46 pm
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>>3253
>Who demands your gammar's right?
Is that apostrophe supposed to be there?
>> No. 3256 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 5:49 pm
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>>3253

Who knows that they are better than you?
(hosted in a shed and then a loo)
We do! We do!
>> No. 3257 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 5:50 pm
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>>3254
Yes, but sadly the 'r' had escaped, for which I apologise. It's a contraction of 'grammar is'.
>> No. 3258 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 6:04 pm
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>>3253
> if you're serious
I actually am. I have a lot of free time.
I don't think keeping the opening lines really fit.
>>3256
I'd change this to
"Who knows that they are better than you?
Who tells you to go back to /iq/?"

But mention of the shed should definitely be in there somewhere.
>> No. 3259 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 6:13 pm
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>>3258

>Who tells you to go back to /iq/?"

Brilliant.
>> No. 3260 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 6:16 pm
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>>3258
Yeah, the shed thing felt clumsy, but the only other way that sprung to mind was something like

Who are the voices in your head?
Who was hosted in a shed?

which clearly needs a 'we are' rather than 'we do'. You're also right about the opening lines; I was mostly just amused that they were so British already and liked the idea of are purps somehow controlling the monarchy. It could perhaps be adapted to 'who supports the British crown / who keeps filthy foreigners down' which fits better but still somewhat clumsily...
>> No. 3261 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 6:18 pm
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>>3260
* oh, and 'who tells you to go back to /iq/' is indeed much better.
>> No. 3263 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 6:56 pm
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Learned the chords already lads.
>> No. 3265 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 7:29 pm
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>>828
Yahweh, Jehova?
>> No. 3266 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 8:06 pm
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>>3240

Please don't bin anything you think might be masonic, it might belong to someone else's family or have significance to the history of the lodge. 99% chance it was your grandad's, but it's better in lodge possession than the bin.

Hand stuff in to the lodge, just to be on the safe side. Especially documents and books.
>> No. 3267 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 8:14 pm
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>>3265

Glenn.

>>/v/17058
>> No. 3268 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 8:17 pm
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>>3265

Elohim. Yahweh and Elohim are separate forces, with Yahweh being lower in the hierarchy representing a different branch of the Tree of the Holy Sephiroth.

Elohim is the 1st and highest branch, the creator, the speaker of The Word, The Horizon of Eternity.

Yahweh is a tyrant, a trickster and a vengeful and spiteful "lesser" god and is not to be worshipped. This is why they say you can only come to God through Jesus, because he is The Word made flesh and Elohim's avatar on this plane.

That is pretty much just made up, based on what I know about the bible and the Qabbalists. Sounds good, though.
>> No. 3269 Anonymous
5th August 2014
Tuesday 8:17 pm
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>>3268

That's pretty much gnosticism.
>> No. 3270 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 4:20 am
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>>3268

>>3269

That's pretty much arse. Would it have hurt to have read a bit before blessing us with your insight? I hear wikipedia has some great articles on the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YHWH
>> No. 3271 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 5:01 am
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>>3270
Not the people you're replying to, but would it have hurt you not to be a hypocrite? Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism and tell me >>3268 isn't talking about a variation on mitigated dualism.
>> No. 3272 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 6:42 pm
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>>3270

>That is pretty much just made up

Yeah, I wasn't expecting questions to be honest.
>> No. 3273 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 10:05 pm
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>>3271

3269 here, cheers.
>> No. 3274 Anonymous
6th August 2014
Wednesday 10:10 pm
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>>3273
No worries, >>3270 got right up my nose. >>3268 made it clear he was talking nonsense (and it was good quality nonsense at that), and you were perfectly right.
>> No. 3275 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 1:10 am
3275 Weishaupt
mid-20s lad here.

I got my 3rd degree in february, but haven't been to lodge since due to work commitments and/or laziness.

If you are a freeborn male with a belief in a single god, it's probably something you'd like.

Robert Anton Wilson may or may not offer some insight on the subject.
>> No. 3276 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 1:11 am
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>>665

One post away from NWOconspiritinfoil gloriousness.
>> No. 3278 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 1:16 am
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>>3275

Forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9h2eNHB4vY
>> No. 3279 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 3:16 am
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>>tell me 3268 isn't talking about a variation on mitigated dualism.

No, he's talking nonsense. He said so.

>>3270 got right up my nose

Jolly good.

>>3268 made it clear he was talking nonsense

Yeah I read that bit. If he hadn't said so I'd never have guessed.

>>and it was good quality nonsense at that

No.
>> No. 3280 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 4:18 am
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>>3278
Hugely enjoyable, as R.A.W. always is, but masons seemed a fairly minor flavour in the conspiracy cocktail he was mixing.
>> No. 3281 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 11:25 am
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>>3279

N1 M8 WONT NO WOT EM!
>> No. 3282 Anonymous
7th August 2014
Thursday 11:43 am
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>>3280
I dunno, he talked/wrote about the P2 stuff a fair bit and how it all linked up to the CIA, Vatican, Mafia and major drug smuggling operations.

If anyone is interested it makes for an interesting read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due

And here's Mr Wilson himself giving a great talk on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q54xeCVFg8I

I don't think it's true that he regarded masonry as a "minor flavour" amongst all the conspiracy stuff. He quite openly talked/wrote about it a fair bit and he definitely seemed reasonably well informed on the subject.
I would say though that he tended to take the view of there being no single grand overarching conspiracy to control mankind or whatever but rather "a multitude of conspiracies contend in the night.", which is a stance I'd probably agree with.

RAW is always worth a watch/read though really. He was in my humble opinion one of the most interesting thinkers of the last century.
>> No. 3294 Anonymous
14th August 2014
Thursday 12:30 pm
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I was going to start a new thread about this but may as well post it here as i suspect these cunts are involved somehow.

I'm sure you've all seen the Matteson's Fridge Raiders advert. Now, when the mother hands the child a pack, she says "You must be hankmarving", which is cockney rhyming slang for "starving" (hungry). Now, f you take the g off and add a space, that becomes hank marvin, and just look who the little bastard looks exactly like. In fact, if you go back in the advert, you'll see many of the other kids at his school look the same.
>> No. 3295 Anonymous
14th August 2014
Thursday 12:32 pm
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>>3294
Also, look what a closer inspection of the child's school blazer reveals.

Oh, and guess what song is fucking playing in the background?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNlyXJsSX8c
>> No. 3296 Anonymous
14th August 2014
Thursday 12:36 pm
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>>3294
>>3295
6/10. A decent effort, but a little too obvious.
>> No. 3297 Anonymous
14th August 2014
Thursday 12:38 pm
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>>3296
Obvious what? I'm not in the illuminarty if that's what you're implying.
>> No. 3304 Anonymous
20th August 2014
Wednesday 11:55 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/v/t1bHBthJN9w

forewarned is forearmed ladmate
>> No. 3305 Anonymous
21st August 2014
Thursday 12:02 am
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>>665
>free Masons
Great, where do I claim mine?
>> No. 3307 Anonymous
21st August 2014
Thursday 5:49 pm
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It's only partially related I guess, but I tried to pledge OTO once but was declined sponsorship.

The local Fr. subsequently got back in touch and asked if I wanted to pledge again. I'm not sure whether this was the ol' Buddhist turn them away and see if they stay manoeuvre a la fight club or if they genuinely thought I was a nutbag or not enough of a nutbag.

Anyways, now I'm broke. So I couldn't afford to join the magnificent caped cult even if I wanted to.

>>693
You know who your fellow masons are, so this would be more like the hellfire club (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club) only without the sex no homo

please don't ban me again
>> No. 3308 Anonymous
21st August 2014
Thursday 5:53 pm
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>>3307

shit. They didn't wear masks at the Hellfire club, I probably meant Eyes Wide Shut or summat.

I should really stop trying to be a clever clogs on t'intehnet

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