Posted: 1/10/2023 10:01:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: medicmandan][Edited]
Saw this on one of the FB groups today. AI generated response to that question.
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I don't often venture into this forum, despite having the flare, because I am a resigned Freemason. But being a Freemason was one of the best times of my life. However, I'm an atheist (I wasn't at the time of my raising) and I believed the honorable thing to do was resign. My point is, 21st century Freemasonry might consider opening up to non "supreme being" believers that are otherwise good and upstanding men to be members. I would give anything to be in the Lodge again, but I cannot lie to them or myself. I also understand that a core and founding tenet is the belief in a higher power, but in spite of my atheism, I still learn and take a lot of meaning from the degrees and such. Ultimately, I don't believe, based on my own experience, that belief in a supreme being is necessary based on everything I've learned (through Scottish Rite 32). Just some thoughts. |
"I don't need you to understand me. I just need you to believe that I'm having a human experience." Daphne Dorman to Dave Chappelle
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Originally Posted By 57plymouth: Hang around after the meeting with a cooler of beer and a few decks of cards. It will turn your lackluster old man "supper club" into a brotherhood of close friends. Chatting with the EA I am coaching. Told him I go to meetings for dinner before and BS after. |
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As a Past Master (2015) of my Masonic Lodge, I have seen all sorts of things within my own Lodge. Even though I am almost 62 years old, a gray haired grandpa, etc... I am still a loud, boisterous rock 'n roller at heart! Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc...  I remember last summer we held an outdoor BBQ, social gathering, well before the Stated Communication. I was asked to provide "musical entertainment" since all the Brothers know I am a multi-instrumentalist and play a little of everything. Well, I was also asked by a younger Mason who recently joined about him also playing electric guitar. The two of us got together, and we jammed. Let's just say that we decided to "surprise" all the guests in the outdoor pavilion with 50watt & 100watt guitar amps, PA systems, drum machine, etc... and honest, on my mother's soul... we cranked it up and we rocked the "F" out!!  Gimme Three Steps -- Lynyrd Skynyrd War Pigs -- Black Sabbath ...and then the, um, uh, "crusty old timers" shut us down.  To all my Masonic Brothers out there... Please let me say this: If Freemasonry is to survive, it has to stop being such an "old pasty white man's dinner club" and loosen up a little! Take a look at Mick Jagger & Keith Richards... Paul McCartney... Those guys are darn near 80 and still out there rocking out!! |
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Originally Posted By Backnblack: Not here, All lodge properties here in TX are Dry... ALL Masonic Lodges are "dry". But then, if you take a look an affiliated Shriners Temple nearby, you will get your mind blown. The old "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine" can party.. And you know what I mean... P--A--R--T--Y. 
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Originally Posted By Backnblack: Not here, All lodge properties here in TX are Dry... They are in SC as well. Castle Greyskull is killing the Lodges and I literally do not give one itty bitty F@#$ about anything they say any longer. My Lodge is awesome. |
Living vicariously through myself.