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"What we are studying and trying to figure out is something hidden. It will not be published in some reputable source material that can be cited for scholarly points."
"O.k, do you have evidence that i'm wrong?"
"Skull and Bones" Founders
* William Huntington Russell (12 August 1809 – 19 May 1885)
Not a Freemason
* Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891)
Freemason of Kilwinning Lodge No. 356
* Frederick Ellsworth Mather (May 23, 1809 – November 9, 1900)
Not a Freemason
* Phineas Timothy Miller (May 3, 1810 – February 21, 1850)
Not a Freemason
* George Ingersoll Wood (20 May 1814 – 9 January 1899)
Not a Freemason
Non-founder Members
* William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930)
Made a Freemason at Sight
* Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972)
Not a Freemason
* George Herbert Walker, Jr. (November 24, 1905 – November 29, 1977)
Not a Freemason
* George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924)
Not a Freemason
* John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943)
Not a Freemason
* George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946)
Not a Freemason
originally posted by: KSigMason
a reply to: EA006
It was. I'm working on my Master's Thesis.
a reply to: EA006
Our lives don't revolve around responding to theories on this site.
a reply to: JuJuBee
You sound like a bitter person.
a reply to: IamAbeliever
That's what I was thinking too.
a reply to: JuJuBee
Actually common sense would dictate that it's not a Muslim name, but an Arabic name. Arabs are not just Muslims.
Barack is from the Arabic word "bārak" meaning “he who is blessed”.
Hussein is an Arabic word meaning "good", "handsome" or "beautiful"
Obama stems from Kenya and is used the ethnic group Luo and means “to lean or bend.”
Skull and Bones, as suggested by the op, is not a, "Freemasonic elite group."
I'm guessing, you missed all that information in your history class, on your way to your degree of higher learning?
Obama is an African Muslim, not Arabic Muslim, and he does consider his Muslim heritage and his Islamic faith very much alive. He has relatives in Kenya that are Muslims and his ancestors have been for centuries, after being converted to Islam and the Muslim faith by Arabic explorers centuries ago. It is historical fact.
According to genealogists, Obama is from a tribe of people in Kenya that was converted to the Muslim faith centuries ago. His tribe also sold his countrymen into slavery. In fact, The muslim oriented Ottoman Empire lasted from not long after the 1200s, when the great Khanate Empires, born from the short lived yet massive Mongolian Empire, began to fade, all the way to World War I, when the last remnants of the Ottoman Empire disappeared from existence, when the Ottomans along with their ally, the Germans lost WW I.
"[The aim of public education is not] to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim . . . is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States. . . . " - Henry Mencken, The American Mercury, April 1924.
"If the right-wing billionaires and apostles of corporate power have their way, public schools will become 'dead zones of the imagination,' reduced to anti-public spaces that wage an assault on critical thinking, civic literacy and historical memory." - Henry Giroux, 2013.
Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content within education, literature, cinema, news, video games and culture in order to relate to those unable to assimilate more sophisticated information. The term "dumbing down" originated in 1933 as movie-business slang, used by motion picture screenplay writers, meaning: "[to] revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence".[1] Dumbing-down varies according to subject matter along with the reasons for lowering the intellect of the subject or topic. It often involves diminishment of critical thought involving the undermining of intellectual standards within language and learning; thus trivializing meaningful information, culture, and academic standards, as is the case of popular culture.
The Masonic educational concept now became two-fold: (1) each lodge became a school for the teaching of Masonic philosophy to those who gained admission; and (2) each Mason., through his life, became a teacher of Masonic philosophy to the community. In other words Freemasonry became the missionary of the new order---a liberal, democratic order in which Masons sought to lead mankind through education into a more equitable and just society. The implementation of this educational concept aided if it did not inspire the establishment of the public free schools, financed by the state, for the combined purpose of technological and sociological education of the mass of humanity, beginning in childhood. The public free schools were considered free, in that no sect could prescribe the teachings of it's dogmas: and free, in that they were open to all citizens without charge except as to his proportion of the taxes used for their Support. A German printer, Christopher Sowrs, of Germantown, wrote to Conrad Weise, in complaint of the activities of Benjamin Franklin and the Freemasons generally on behalf of the free schools as follows; "The people who are the promoters of the free schools are Grand Masters and Wardens among Freemasons, their very pillers."
The Masons of the revolutionary generation did not live to see the consummation of their dream of a state supported public school system but they made a start toward its realization, Accepting the fact that adoption of the idea would take time, they did the next best thing----they endowed schools where they could not induce state or local political units to establish them. The following are a few examples of their efforts:
George Washington founded a free school in Virginia at Alexandria, urged the founding of a national university, supported the establishment of the Military Academy at West Point, and left a bequest for a national university that was ultimately bestowed on Washington and Lee University. (34) Benjamin Franklin was the moving spirit in the organization of the Library Association of Philadelphia in 1731, the founder of the first free school in the city, and one of the founders of the Academy which grew into the University of Virginia.(36) Abraham Baldwin sponsored and was largely responsible for the founding of the free school system and the University of Georgia. The majority of the founding first Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia were Masons.(37) John Macon and David Ker were founding members of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina.(38) Gamaliel Painter gave his entire estate to Middlebury College.(39) John Dickinson was president and benefactor of Dickinson College.(40) Michael Myers founded Oneida Academy.(41) Samuel Kirkland founded Hamilton Colledge.(42) Stephan Girard founded Girard Colledge.(43) Henry Knox proposed and Henry Burbeck founded West Point Military Academy.(44) John Kendrick erected a school at Wareham, Massachusetts.(45) DeWitt Clinton, the son of general James Clinton, founded the public school system of New York.(46)
"Stop with the propaganda!"
"Who says that both groups aren't working in one accord to achieve their goals?"
i"'m sure you KNOW that ISIS is an Egyptian god, right???"
"Maybe not but maybe they like keeping a representative or liaison from among the Mason's within their own group...?"
originally posted by: JuJuBee