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Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by patternfinder
Actually it's not and if it were, how do you know? How is it you know how our internal operations are managed and us "low level" Masons don't? I mean I've worked with the General Grand Recorder, Cryptic Masons International. I work at the Grand level of various Masonic bodies (usually as a coordinator or organizer). MasonicLight if I remember right has worked as a committee member at the General Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons International. Appak, may he Rest in Peace, was a 33° Scottish Rite Mason.
I am curious if you can describe to us the hierarchy/organizational structure of Freemasonry. Also describe the role of the jurisprudence committee, the restraints on the hierarchy via the Code & Digest, our legislative process, our judicial system, and our voting eligibility/electoral process. How do the Lodges work with Grand Lodge? How do the various Grand Lodges cooperate with each other?
None of you know what the founders of the masons and their predecessors know and knew......therefore you are not a reliable source, sorry.
And you do?????
Originally posted by network dude
Originally posted by Serizawa
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
and yet you defend it like you're paid to......You can't change my mind, Any secret organization is a dangerous one. All you have to do is read Morals and Dogmas by Albert Pike. Now would I take your word over Pikes? Not a chance.
I would be willing to bet you have read about 4 paragraphs of that book. And they were all on anti masonry sites. If you are cool going through life blissfully ignorant, that's great, but do the world a favor and keep the comments to a minimum on subjects you have no clue about. That way you don't pollute the verbal environment. If you ever want to know true answers about masonry, ask a mason. Or join and expose the evil from the inside.
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. - Albert Pike
I am not inclined to meddle in the matter. I took my obligations to white men, not to negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave Masonry, I shall leave it. - Albert Pike
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by Americanist
Pike was a man, capable of error. Being a Mason doesn't make you infallible.
The good ol' days? You mean Nazi Germany when Hitler rounded us up and put us in concentration camps? Or Iraq when Sadaam Hussein had us beheaded?
Originally posted by Americanist
Do you recall the reason why Mansons were almost completely driven out of dodge back in the good ol' days
Originally posted by Americanist
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by Americanist
Pike was a man, capable of error. Being a Mason doesn't make you infallible.
And what is a man, if not part of the whole? It's natural to expect someone who holds such a high ranking within a society (one he represented in fact) to deny the trappings of bigotry. Unfortunately, he and others set a trap for you.
Do you recall the reason why Mansons were almost completely driven out of dodge back in the good ol' days?
Originally posted by JoshNorton
The good ol' days? You mean Nazi Germany when Hitler rounded us up and put us in concentration camps? Or Iraq when Sadaam Hussein had us beheaded?
Originally posted by Americanist
Do you recall the reason why Mansons were almost completely driven out of dodge back in the good ol' days
Originally posted by Americanist
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by Americanist
Pike was a man, capable of error. Being a Mason doesn't make you infallible.
And what is a man, if not part of the whole? It's natural to expect someone who holds such a high ranking within a society (one he represented in fact) to deny the trappings of bigotry. Unfortunately, he and others set a trap for you.
Do you recall the reason why Mansons were almost completely driven out of dodge back in the good ol' days?
Originally posted by Americanist
Originally posted by JoshNorton
The good ol' days? You mean Nazi Germany when Hitler rounded us up and put us in concentration camps? Or Iraq when Sadaam Hussein had us beheaded?
Originally posted by Americanist
Do you recall the reason why Mansons were almost completely driven out of dodge back in the good ol' days
Early Americana...
Originally posted by W3RLIED2
Originally posted by Americanist
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by Americanist
Pike was a man, capable of error. Being a Mason doesn't make you infallible.
And what is a man, if not part of the whole? It's natural to expect someone who holds such a high ranking within a society (one he represented in fact) to deny the trappings of bigotry. Unfortunately, he and others set a trap for you.
Do you recall the reason why Mansons were almost completely driven out of dodge back in the good ol' days?
Or maybe you're referring to the modern good ol days? In Iran it is a crime to be a Freemason. So much so that the only recognized official lodge is chartered out of the California GL. Freemasons in Iran are forced into hiding because they will persecuted to the fullest extent under Iranian laws... Masons are still being driven out of 'dodge', it just depends on what country you reside.
Originally posted by King Seesar
I think through careful deduction i came up with a very plausible way that a conspiracy could exist in the context of Masonry and why the so called lower level Masons are unaware of it and more then one Mason on here even said with the way i logically presented the case it could very well be, however if there not privy to the conspirators and until they get conclusive evidence of said conspiracy then they can only be guided by there perception and what that leads them to conclude, which is fine, but make no mistake about it if such a conspiracy comes to light i will be the first to say "i told you so"...lol.
Besides you can't trust network dude anyway he already lied to me when he said the Village People weren't Masons when it's clear they belonged to the Blue Oyster chapter of Masonry....if you didn't get the joke i'm sorry but remember "You can't stop the music nobody can stop the music"....
Also for the record network dude is well a good dude.
Originally posted by King Seesar
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Um WHAT????, I think it's pretty obvious that i wasen't impying that me myself's perception was guiding any Masons observation/perception of a possible conspiracy but it would be up to there own perception if they were to conclude this, i'm not claming to be Professor X i don't control other peoples minds..lol
Also for the record i take it your stating that your perception is not flawed huh so you must be perfect, oh ok i get it???
Newb's............
edit on 5-10-2011 by King Seesar because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by King Seesar
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
This coming from a poster who signs each and every post by saying Ribbit and you talk about me, i think the guys with the white coats already came and got you and knew it was a lost cause so they just let you go.
Besides your theology makes no sense of course you have perceptions every human has perceptions oh wait your a toad i forgot, but if people didn't have perceptions then they would act either out of A: there respective God's commands all the time which would mean they would never make mistakes in a sense meaning there flawless which unless your Jesus or Allah would be impossible or B: they would just be a walking robot with no sense of anything.....
So i'm sorry if i misunderstood your first post but i don't understand your theology.
Originally posted by King Seesar
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Trust me bro i'v been wide awake for a longer time then you probably, it's just your basic theology on the concept of perception is not one i subscribe too, peoples thoughts are projections of perceptions unless there being guided by God but even then there not guided by God all the time or they would be Jesus and there's only one.
But look we agree on something, i believe what humanity should strive for and the ultimate concept by God is Unconditional agape love and that should be what we try to obtain through out our life time, i think that's where you were going with your question if not i stand corrected.
As far as conspiracies go history shows that they do exist and just ignoring them wont make them go away, if something as such as a external plot does occure then it should be pointed out even if we don't like the answer, for example what if in 1941 i and the rest of the world just decided that Hitler trying to take over the world and killing hundreds of thousands of Jew's wasen't real and it was just within us then he would of taken over the world and everybody who didn't have blond hair and blue eyes would be dead now.
Some times you must act, when Neo found out he was living in the Matrix he didn't just sit back and think this is all within me and do nothing, no he tried to wake everyone up and let them know what the plot was.
edit on 5-10-2011 by King Seesar because: (no reason given)