Mike Oxsaw
3:13 Wed Feb 3
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Steve P 3:01 Wed Feb 3
I'll ask my brother to sign your book the next time I see him.
He's in an Essex lodge. He says it's a load of old bollocks but as a result has made a pretty penny over the years by "accidentally" finding out what non-masonic competitors have bid for contracts then just undercutting them.
Helps that the people charged with letting said contracts are also in the same lodge, but, so far as the organisation buying the services are concerned, they're getting the best value contract and so no further checks are ever done.
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Toe Rag
3:09 Wed Feb 3
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Just a Guild left over from the middle ages aren't they?
Like the City Livery companies
Another bunch of odd self congratulating Bufton Tuftons and braying Hooray Henrys.
Do a fair bit for charidee mind.
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Steve P
3:01 Wed Feb 3
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Anyone belonging to a secret organisation purely for self enrichment is a cunt in my book.
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Davenport
2:58 Wed Feb 3
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Willtell 2:46 Wed Feb 3
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I've been to a few of their do's by invitation and whatever they might once have been, they are definitely as big a bunch of weird classless cunts I've ever seen...
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Russ of the BML
2:53 Wed Feb 3
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I know a few Mason's and apart from them sort of acting like they are in on some big secret, they are ok. They have said they get the majority of their work through Mason contacts so it's purely economical. They are a bit weird though.
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Takashi Miike
2:53 Wed Feb 3
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have a look at that scientology film and you'll get an idea of what they do
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mashed in maryland
2:52 Wed Feb 3
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Just googled to see whether the Rothschilds were all freemasons and found out that Wyatt Earp was one. FMOB.
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mashed in maryland
2:48 Wed Feb 3
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Sounds sinister.
"and then it's hard to get out."
How so?
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steveiron64
2:46 Wed Feb 3
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I have had family who were masons and friends of friends etc. You don't discover until the 33rd degree what you're really into and then it's hard to get out. It's an occultic web and, make no mistake, despite the public veneer of charity work, nasty business.
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Willtell
2:46 Wed Feb 3
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I've been to a few of their do's by invitation and whatever they might once have been, they are definitely as big a bunch of weird classless cunts I've ever seen...
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mashed in maryland
2:44 Wed Feb 3
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I suppose if you're a self employed builder or something it'd make a lot of sense to be part of a "club" so you get to know all the faces in the scene or whatever but just seems a bit unnecessary nowadays when we have Linkedin and checkatrade.
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ohgodno
2:43 Wed Feb 3
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Like scouts innit?
On the one hand your lodge brothers help and shit.
On the other every murderous lunatic on the planet wants you dead and when the shit hits the fan anywhere Freemasons get murdered.
And for some strange reason Hamas and ISIL want the Rotary Club dead
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mashed in maryland
2:42 Wed Feb 3
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Just seems a really poncey way of networking tbf. Surprised people can be arsed with all that ceremony etc these days. Still that's probably what a lot of them enjoy.
Pretty sure my old boss was one, and most of them seem to do very well. So fair play to them. Personally couldn't think of anything more shit and boring than being in a room full of coppers and middle aged small business owners talking about whatever the fuck they do.
There are people out there who genuinely reckon they rule the world and stuff though.
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riosleftsock
2:40 Wed Feb 3
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united, I'd forget about most of the stuff you read about masons being full of police and judges etc.
Certain professions actually have their own lodges, which are more like clubs.
I was told that there is also a "celebrity" lodge.
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united we stand
2:38 Wed Feb 3
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Right weird bunch of people, a lot of old bill are Freemasons
Apparently they do lots of things for charities and help local causes.
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riosleftsock
2:38 Wed Feb 3
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Boris the Beard 2:28 Wed Feb 3
That's right.
To be honest, if you are capable of using Google, you can find most of the Masonic rituals.
Some of the lodges in canada or US even film their lodge meetings.
I will warn you, before you search youtube, they are dead fucking boring.
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Boris the Beard
2:28 Wed Feb 3
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mashed in maryland 2:11 Wed Feb 3
Apparently its not a secret society, its a society of secrets
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Eddie B
2:15 Wed Feb 3
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NS, actually it's :
Thank you sir, MAY I have another.
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Gavros
2:12 Wed Feb 3
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jack the ripper was a freemason.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/03/they-all-love-jack-busting-ripper-bruce-robinson-review-withnail-i
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