Granny Danger Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 If someone has posted this on the ‘facts you’ve made up’ thread I wouldn’t have looked twice, but it’s actually true. They have written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Seriously. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42986319 Any P&B’r masons ever been discriminated against? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I know lots of freemasons. Now perhaps the ones I know are breaking the rules, but they make no bones about the fact that other freemasons are more important than you or me. It seems to me to be a very discrimimatory organisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 How old is your granny? Granny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I know a lot of Freemasons. Some are good guys and some are utter p***ks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I've only ever knowingly known one Mason, and (to the astonishment of no-one) he was a polis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I think I know five. They are all of the older generation. The handshake thing they do is a bit strange but they are all decent enough sorts. Unlike the Orange bampots they don't appear to be overtly against people of my faith. Hermless enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 One of my best mates joined up recently. He went the whole entry process and initiation pish which took about a year, attended a couple of meetings and never went back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, MONKMAN said: One of my best mates joined up recently. He went the whole entry process and initiation pish which took about a year, attended a couple of meetings and never went back. Did no one get in touch with him and ask when will I see you again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Up there with the Orange Lodge IMO. Anyone that's part of it is a fucking weirdo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Up there with the Orange Lodge IMO. Anyone that's part of it is a fucking weirdo. I'm no expert but I think there's a big difference. Their whole mantra is much more honourable. Charity, and community shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 16 minutes ago, Angusfifer said: I think I know five. They are all of the older generation. The handshake thing they do is a bit strange but they are all decent enough sorts. That's my experience as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 A mate of mine was in the Oddfellows, bit like the Masons but more about getting pished than subverting the Criminal Justice system and getting local and central Government contracts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 4 minutes ago, pandarilla said: Their whole mantra is much more honourable. Charity, and community shit. This. My Papa was a freemason and his lodge raised a lot of money for the Ayrshire Hospice after he passed away there. I don't know a lot about Freemasonry but from what I do know they are definitely not a shady organisation plotting to take over the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 19 minutes ago, Cerberus said: Up there with the Orange Lodge IMO. Anyone that's part of it is a fucking weirdo. Would agree with this. They’re not as bad as the OO but they’re cut from the same cloth. Self aggrandising, self deluding and selfish wee boys club. I’d probably think less of someone if they told me they are a member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 My Dad promised me I would find out the secrets of the brotherhood when I turned 18. A few weeks after it I asked when I could join? I remember his words well..." Aye, that'll be right." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Surely if people want to do good charitable work to hey can do so without joining this bunch of weirdos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 meh, I have some relatives (including my grandad) who are freemasons and they seem to be an inoffensive lot, give to charity and don't brag about being masons or anything. Maybe it's the Canadian politeness but they never seem to make a big deal out of the fact that they are masons and just sort of go about their business and stay out of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, senorsoupe said: meh, I have some relatives (including my grandad) who are freemasons and they seem to be an inoffensive lot, give to charity and don't brag about being masons or anything. Maybe it's the Canadian politeness but they never seem to make a big deal out of the fact that they are masons and just sort of go about their business and stay out of the way. Is that not kinda the point? You don’t tell outsiders you’re a Mason but advance each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 1 minute ago, senorsoupe said: meh, I have some relatives (including my grandad) who are freemasons and they seem to be an inoffensive lot, give to charity and don't brag about being masons or anything. Maybe it's the Canadian politeness but they never seem to make a big deal out of the fact that they are masons and just sort of go about their business and stay out of the way. Do Canadian masons drive around in tiny cars? Or is that just the Americans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 To the surprise of none my auld man was a Mason as were most of his friends. Certainly in Lanarkshire in the 60s and 70s it was very much a Protestant thing. I never had any interest in joining, much to his chagrin, though I knew a fair few who were both Masons and Orangemen. I never saw the connection between the two. When I worked in Covent Garden in the 90's I did hire suites/rooms in Freemasons' Hall for various events. It's an absolutely brilliant building: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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