Snargate Street Mafia find 'God'
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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8 February 2017 17:06324239Amazing what a £300,000 donation can buy!
From Canterbury Cathedral WebPage for Sat 18 Feb:-
09:00
Cathedral closed
- Cathedral
The Nave and Quire are closed for visiting until 13.00 hrs for a private service.
(FWIW I'm with the Catholics on this. It's a strange sort of Christianity where members look upon their Christian brother, from a Masonic outlook, as an 'outsider'.
BTW considering how many believers in the Great Architect were involved in DTIZ, how come the design is so crap?
)"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 8 February 2017 17:22324240You would have thought they could have spent the money on something worthwhile!!
http://eastkentfreemasons.org/300-years-of-freemasonry/ - 8 February 2017 20:42324244I'm always surprised that some people deride freemasonry, as the link shows they do amazing charitable work.
- Reginald Barrington
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8 February 2017 21:08324245Agreed, though never forget charity begins at home!
Arte et Marte - Captain Haddock
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8 February 2017 23:50324248D Little wrote:I'm always surprised that some people deride freemasonry, as the link shows they do amazing charitable work.
It's a bit like golf David. I've got nothing per se against it (having been invited to put myself forward for membership a number of times - twice by Special Branch officers!) - merely the sort of person it seems to attract!
I believe however in transparency and meritocracy, and the idea of joining the local group of petit bourgeois worthies pompously acting out ritualised silly-buggery before smugly sitting down to a second class lunch wallowing in their own superciliousness leaves me cold. I get plenty of opportunity to do that at Fort Whitfield!
BTW. How's your handicap?Ross Miller, Paul M and Reginald Barrington like this"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 9 February 2017 08:45324249Captain Haddock wrote:It's a bit like golf David. I've got nothing per se against it (having been invited to put myself forward for membership a number of times - twice by Special Branch officers!) - merely the sort of person it seems to attract!
I believe however in transparency and meritocracy, and the idea of joining the local group of petit bourgeois worthies pompously acting out ritualised silly-buggery before smugly sitting down to a second class lunch wallowing in their own superciliousness leaves me cold. I get plenty of opportunity to do that at Fort Whitfield!
BTW. How's your handicap?
Bob, I'm surprised you've resorted to absurd generalisations, 4 million men and women regularly play golf in the UK, I'm sure they're not all a "sort of person."
Likewise freemasons, I've never been involved and have no wish to but I know dozens who are and they enjoy themselves whilst raising money for good causes.
Its actually the antithesis of local government, they create misery and spend other people's money.
PS, my handicap is 3
Guest 1862 likes this - 9 February 2017 08:47324250What I struggle with is, if there is nothing wrong with Freemasonry, why is it so secret?
- 9 February 2017 08:59324251Lewis Jones wrote:What I struggle with is, if there is nothing wrong with Freemasonry, why is it so secret?
It won't be difficult to find a freemason who will invite you to a meeting Lewis, go along and see for yourself.Guest 1467 likes this - 9 February 2017 09:22324252There is an interesting museum in Canterbury all about Freemasonry..
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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9 February 2017 09:38324253I have never understood why there seems to be so much antagonism towards freemasons they look out for each other, in other words they put their friends first just like any other group of like minded people.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 9 February 2017 10:02324255The Ku Klux Klan has origins of Freemasonry.Jack of Hearts
- Captain Haddock
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9 February 2017 10:10324257Jack Heart wrote:The Ku Klux Klan has origins of Freemasonry.
But that doesn't necessarily make them all bad!"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 9 February 2017 10:22324258Jack Heart wrote:The Ku Klux Klan has origins of Freemasonry.
Dear me, linking freemasonry to the ku klux clan is as ridiculous as it gets.
Anonymous people on internet forums are far more sinister than freemasonry - 9 February 2017 11:34324261D Little wrote:Dear me, linking freemasonry to the ku klux clan is as ridiculous as it gets.
Anonymous people on internet forums are far more sinister than freemasonry
Not quite as sinister as this guy. Fortunately he didn't 'Set fire to their kids?'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2876349/School-bans-UKIP-candidate-posted-map-featuring-Bongo-Bongo-Land.htmlJack of Hearts - 9 February 2017 13:56324266Let's close it there!Guest 1266 likes this
- 9 February 2017 15:23324272Jack Heart wrote:"D Little" wrote:Dear me, linking freemasonry to the ku klux clan is as ridiculous as it gets.
Anonymous people on internet forums are far more sinister than freemasonry
Not quite as sinister as this guy. Fortunately he didn't 'Set fire to their kids?'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2876349/School-bans-UKIP-candidate-posted-map-featuring-Bongo-Bongo-Land.html
Oh dear Heart, you really need to pluck up the courage to leave your bedroom once in a while and engage with real people, using your real name, rather than quoting nonsense from the Daily Mail.
You see, I did speak at the school and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. What's more, the cartoonist Martha Richler sent me the original cartoon as a gift.
You see Heart, we're not all inadequate little twerps that are scared to share their identity. - 9 February 2017 15:52324273You don't have to go to Canterbury,just turn up at a District Council Meeting one half of the Cllrs are nearly all masons.I was a Lion no secret same aim.howard mcsweeney1 likes thisIf you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
- 12 February 2017 17:00324385Quite a debate in the church over the service, I hadn't realised you had to believe in God to be accepted into the freemasons.
http://archbishopcranmer.com/simony-syncretism-canterbury-cathedral-host-freemasons-celebration/ - Captain Haddock
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12 February 2017 17:12324387howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Quite a debate in the church over the service, I hadn't realised you had to believe in God to be accepted into the freemasons.
Need belief in [U]a[/U] god (or gods) rather than membership being restricted to the Christian followers of THE God i.e. The Great Architect (of the Universe). A bit like A.A. with their 'Higher Power'.
Have always used my atheism as given reason not to apply for membership when it's been suggested!"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Captain Haddock
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13 February 2017 15:05324406Here's the order of service for any Poor Widow's Sons who can't make it!
http://archbishopcranmer.com/freemasons-canterbury-cathedral-hidden-masonic-ritual-order-service/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson