1) Masons want to take over the world - actually we are too busy getting on with our lives. Being a megalomaniac is a tiring business, and if we took over the world then someone would expect us to run it.
2) We harbour murderers - actually we take an oath to uphold the law of the country above all else.
3) We are taught how to pass our driving licence to policemen so as to be let off the offence - will someone please tell me how to do this one, I would love to know (not that I speed obviously).
4) We give preferential treatment to masons - to be honest there probably are some masons who would do this, but then the same thing happens in golf clubs, between gym buddies etc. Humans empathise with others who like the same things as we do. However, this is not compulsory, just a fact of life, and I have never treated a mason differently to a non-mason.
5) A mason must never contradict a brother - I can't even begin to imagine a world where I have to agree with what other people think.
6) Tony Blair is a freemason - not sure if this is a myth but I hope it is (see 5).
2) We harbour murderers - actually we take an oath to uphold the law of the country above all else.
3) We are taught how to pass our driving licence to policemen so as to be let off the offence - will someone please tell me how to do this one, I would love to know (not that I speed obviously).
4) We give preferential treatment to masons - to be honest there probably are some masons who would do this, but then the same thing happens in golf clubs, between gym buddies etc. Humans empathise with others who like the same things as we do. However, this is not compulsory, just a fact of life, and I have never treated a mason differently to a non-mason.
5) A mason must never contradict a brother - I can't even begin to imagine a world where I have to agree with what other people think.
6) Tony Blair is a freemason - not sure if this is a myth but I hope it is (see 5).
7) We have a goat in the lodge - a frequent wind up of initiates who do not know what to expect during their first ceremony. But nothing more than a joke.
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I hope that these arent really true since I just received my Fellowcraft degree this morning :)
Congratulations. Your raising next, which is a wonderful ceremony. You will hear all kinds of myths about freemasonry, ignore them. If you look on the internet you will find we are accussed of everything possible, and often diametrical opposed things. We are both ultra-right wing and ultra-left. We are in league with Jews and want to destroy them. Just believe what you see and experience for yourself, believe men that you know and trust.
errmmm. you ahve told us what you are not..but not what you are! Why are you? What is the point? Why so exclsuive? and secretive? and no women!!!! just interested....
I will cover all that in another post. But, actually, there are women masons (interesting story, the daughter of a prominent mason hid in a wardrobe so she could overhear a meeting, when she was found out the lodge were faced with a dilemma as she had learnt their "secrets", so they made her a mason as well, and she then founded womens freemasonry.
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