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Mars · 07-12-2008, 11:59 PM

I was considering joining the Masons, just to check it out. Sounds like me like it's all about brotherhood, networking, and opening doors for opportunities.

Are any of you a part of a lodge? Or do you consider them to be a "secret society"?

il Padrino Ute · 07-13-2008, 04:59 AM

Laying bricks is too hard of physical work for me.

Mars · 07-15-2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Adam

I think, in this day and age, joining the Masons as an active Mormon would not be a wrong decision, just a stupid one.

Why?

SeattleUte · 07-15-2008, 03:33 PM

The Masons are totally passe. You're a couple hundred hears late to the party. The Masons are nearly extinct, and everyone now realizes their pretense at ancient entecedents is all phony. I think a lot of their temples have been turned into condo develpments or torn down.

Moreover, I think joining the Masons should be grounds for excomunication from the Mormon Church, because temple rites have preempted the field.

creekster · 07-15-2008, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Moreover, I think joining the Masons should be grounds for excomunication from the Mormon Church, because temple rites have preempted the field.

Your concern is touching.

SeattleUte · 07-15-2008, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Your concern is touching.

I wasn't being sentimental. I just think people should come to me for advice like this.

creekster · 07-15-2008, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I wasn't being sentimental. I just think people should come to me for advice like this.

SU! What shall we do?

Sleeping in EQ · 07-15-2008, 09:30 PM

My Grandfather was a Mason and was very involved.

MikeWaters · 07-15-2008, 10:20 PM

It seems like way too much trouble.

Surfah · 07-15-2008, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Moreover, I think joining the Masons should be grounds for excomunication from the Mormon Church, because temple rites have preempted the field.

You're wrong. The grand master mason in Utah is Glen Cook, a high councilman and active LDS member.

07-12-2008, 11:59 PM	#1
Mars Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cougartown, USA Posts: 336	Any of you a Mason? I was considering joining the Masons, just to check it out. Sounds like me like it's all about brotherhood, networking, and opening doors for opportunities. Are any of you a part of a lodge? Or do you consider them to be a "secret society"? __________________ "Enter to Learn, Go Fourth and Eighteen!" :twisted:

07-13-2008, 04:59 AM	#2
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	Laying bricks is too hard of physical work for me. __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

07-15-2008, 03:33 PM	#4
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	The Masons are totally passe. You're a couple hundred hears late to the party. The Masons are nearly extinct, and everyone now realizes their pretense at ancient entecedents is all phony. I think a lot of their temples have been turned into condo develpments or torn down. Moreover, I think joining the Masons should be grounds for excomunication from the Mormon Church, because temple rites have preempted the field. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

07-15-2008, 09:30 PM	#8
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	My Grandfather was a Mason and was very involved. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

07-15-2008, 10:20 PM	#9
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	It seems like way too much trouble.