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(CBS) When students at our famous English Universities expose their knees and bare their chests it usually means exuberant party time and it is almost certain to end in tears. For centuries, our young scholars - many of whom go on to run the country - have been overindulging themselves, semi-clothed, in the name of classical education.
Undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge still dive half naked and fully drunk into their local rivers. It is regarded as the vital rite of passage - closely followed by the Mother of All Hangovers. But times are changing. Soon the sight of a bare leg and an exposed male left breast may mean something completely different. And chances are these students will be stone cold sober.
It's all because they are being recruited, in large numbers, by that traditionally secretive and totally male-dominated society, the Freemasons. Masonic lodges in the famous cities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Durham, Exeter, Manchester, Bath and Birmingham have been told to get fervent with the local student community and sign them up.
Realizing the string of mysterious deaths surrounding the attempts at taxation were linked directly to the Templars, King Phillip and Pope Clement V soon realized that the sovereignty of church and state was in immediate peril, and they united forces to attack the Templars. When the secret rituals of the Templars were exposed and the nature of the political assassinations surfaced; other charges and confessions followed; including sodomy, trampling the cross underfoot, alterations in the canons of the mass, idolatry-- the worship of Baphomet, abnormal sex acts like kissing of the anus to demonstrate sub ordinance, etc. In addition to this there was the worship of Solomon's gods, those for which he was condemned.
Remember that King Solomon lost favor with the Lord because his wives led him astray, and he followed other gods, including Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, the god of Moab, and others. (Albert Pike once decribed a seance he attended in which the same devil Astoreth was summoned, accompanied by 330 naked spirits.) Solomon also built a temple for Moloch, a god worshipped with the mass incineration of children. * For such rebelliousness the glory of the Lord would depart from Solomon's Temple, never to return.**
But these were the same gods the Templars appealed to, and still do. The freemasonic obsession with secrecy makes disturbing sense when you realize the worship of Moloch, of course, necessitated the sacrifice of children.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
I did some research and I found an article by CNBC here:
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
I know the numbers in their secret society is going down.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
Could freemasons be targeting college students because college students are more into fraternities because they just got out of school and don't see what the problem is-- so-- like these kinds of college students would want to just like join a fraternity right away knowing their past experience was so great?
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
It may seem completely altruistic here. They may just want educated people to be part of their members.
Originally posted by Aeons
This is really simple.
The bunch of old men who didn't keep up with the times couldn't seem to get through their shiny ol'heads that they weren't appealling to the next generations.
Originally posted by Aeons
Some of their stuff is very .... campy. A new generation who is even MORE jaded than they could ever have imagined wasn't really into it.
Originally posted by jimminycricket
My idea of why college students in particular would be targeted, is that they will likely be used to the idea of fraternities and clubs, and also, they are still young and making their minds up about things, whereas someone older may well have already heard people pushing a negative image of masonry and made their mind up that they don't like the idea.
Originally posted by Fitzgibbon
reply to post by Aeons
If it isn't intended as camp, what about it makes you take it as such? Does that speak more of you or of the fraternity?
Originally posted by Aeons
Originally posted by Fitzgibbon
reply to post by Aeons
If it isn't intended as camp, what about it makes you take it as such? Does that speak more of you or of the fraternity?
Is Terminator still a good fun movie, even though the special effects are now a bit laughable?
There's your answer.
Originally posted by Aeons
Does counter-accusation to put people on the defensive work for you regularly? I'm asking because I'm really too honest to use it, and so it is hard for me to find out without personal experience as a teacher to see it in action.