Free Mason?

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OP you gave me a heart attack with that post title. I thought our dear Mason Reese had been arrested.

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Your title should have been freebasing OP. Because it looks like that's what you've been doing. What a bizarre post.

Somewhat related and also pointless post: I seem to have triggered some Facebook algorithm that insists I should be friends with Moosie Drier.

Lots of guys were joining in college when I was pledging a Greek frat. This was Prince Hall (African American), so they all wore nylon frat jackets that were popular at HBCUs. I thought it looked a little desperate to make your org look like a frat, but they were all cool generally, especially my crab brethren from the marching band. I heard someone say they crawled naked through the temple during one of their rits, but that's all I know. Ironically being naked was also a part of our last frat ritual, though it probably serves a different allegorical purpose.

Freemasons don't advertise their membership. And usually aren't college age. And definitely aren't black.

Free Willy!

He was just asking questions, OP. Like every other kook in America these days.

My father is a Mason who, last time I looked, is Black, r7. Their chapter of Freemasonry is known as "Prince Hall Masonry."

The Freemasons?

I stand by my statement. Freemasons are not a college frat and don't have merch.

My friend is a black mason built like a brick shithouse. I hired him to build a wall around my natural swimming hole. He looked at my hole and said he'd have to lay some thick pipe to get the job done but since he was a free mason he could handle the pipe work as well.

*It's shit brickhouse R13.

It sounds like your friend has a black pipelaying job. Trump loves those and is very concerned and protective of those jobs.

He's a mason so a brick shithouse. I meant what I said. A black free mason who can lay thick pipe because he's not in the union.

I'm starting to think OP might be a troll.

Weird story, but I don't think it's that confusing, OP. There's something about one or more of your photos that reminded him of free masonry or one of its symbols. Conspiracy theorist types are into that symbolism and stuff. He probably thinks they're evil based on his "worship god directly" comment. So yeah, probably not the type of guy you'd want to hang around despite his good looks.

[quote]OP: Just curious, I'm learning how they operate he said. I knew I would look it up later so I asked if he was one. He said no, I believe in God directly.

Sounds like an evangelical who's been handed antimasonic Christian propaganda (stuff's been going around since the early 19th century) and is practicing the fine art of mason-spotting. °–°

[quote]R7: Freemasons don't advertise their membership.

Like hell they don't. They have rings, beltbuckles, lapel pins, and bumper stickers, as well as any number of coded ways of identifying themselves to people in the know for purposes of securing preferential treatment.

[quote]R7: And definitely aren't black.

Prince Hall masons are.

But white masons will often say, if they're being candid, that Prince Hall isn't 'real' masonry. White freemasonry has a profound amount of overlap with Klan membership, dating back to Reconstruction Era and the early 20th century, when the Klan used to have a huge public footprint.

r16 No way, really?

What are the perks and advantages of being a freemason?

r20

[quote] he points to my wall of six photos hanging up with two on the ground to the left. He goes, "are you a free mason?" I said no.

Not sure that I understand OPś description of the photos. In any case I'm trying to Miss Marple the clue of the photos.

Were the six hanging photos arranged in a column, by chance? (Columns are a frequent symbol in freemasony.) Or might the photos have been of men giving awards/diplomas to other men? (some diplomas or certifications might look vaguely like masonic certificates of some sort.)

The Masons are an antiquated and dying cult and yes they had/have connections to the KKK.

Their gimmick is pretty simple, making ordinary working guys feel part of something mystical and mysterious.

The Free Masons , like $cientology and the Catholic church, are withering away.

The Masons are now running recruitment ads on the radio.

My post at R1 I got directly from a Masonic bumper sticker, R7. There are Masonic symbols you can put on your car as well. How do I know? My grandfather was a Mason.

He tried desperately to get his son-in-law (my father) to join, but my dad wasn't having it.

Then he dumped his wife (my grandmother) and moved in with his secretary, which in 1968, was quite the scandal, especially since he never divorced my grandmother. I personally think it was because my grandmother needed his insurance through his job, which his secretary already had.

So they kicked him out of the Masons. He was some high degree, and he wore the ring until then -- but they must have shown up at his funeral in spite of his delinquency; by the time I got there, they had put a Masonic symbol in his coffin.

And it is pretty much like joining a fraternity -- you make connections with other men who can "help" you with things. So it definitely has its perqs.

And Prince Hall guys? No one can tell me [bold]you're[/bold] "faking" being black on DL, because not many white people even know about them.

[quote]R24: And Prince Hall guys? No one can tell me you're "faking" being black on DL, because not many white people even know about them.

Hon, I'm afraid I have to tell you that the believability threshold for being Black on DL is considerably higher than that.