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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8714784" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>Would explain why he's standing at the back taking selfies during a sermon/speech/thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>To be one of the "Highest in the World" he'd have to be a master of a Grand Lodge. BUT.</p><p></p><p>The Grand Lodges are not what they once were. And they were never what people imagine them to be. And, as previously noted, they're broken into two separate organizations.</p><p></p><p>Because in 1859 in Louisiana (yeah, you already know this is gonna be wild) the leader of the lodge wanted to allow black people and jewish people to join the lodge without pissing and moaning about race and religion...</p><p></p><p>Wait, what? <em>checks that</em> Yup... in perhaps the wildest reversal of expectations a lodge in Louisiana wanted to accept black lodge members while slavery was legal and the Civil War hadn't yet started. </p><p></p><p>The Anglo-European arm, as well as a BUNCH of the United States lodges (including other lodges in Louisiana) turned against that lodge and kicked them out. They started Continental Freemasonry as a result and it's the more popular of the two, these days. </p><p></p><p>But by that time, even, the Freemasons were just Church 2, Potato Salad Boogaloo. They stopped having trade secrets in the 1600s when the big money for super duper fancy churches ran out and became just a sort of social club clinging to a storied past and trying to make hammer-handed metaphors for personal growth and enlightenment out of hitting rocks with chisels and carving stone.</p><p></p><p>Add Catholicism to that, and you have the Anglo-Euro Freemasonry. Take out the Catholicism and add in politics and you've got Continental Freemasonry.</p><p></p><p>They're not cool. They're not an ancient order of movers and shakers. They're just "Some Guys" who pretend to be more important than they are, or ever have been.</p><p></p><p>Y'know. Like Lanasa.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8714784, member: 6796468"] Would explain why he's standing at the back taking selfies during a sermon/speech/thing. To be one of the "Highest in the World" he'd have to be a master of a Grand Lodge. BUT. The Grand Lodges are not what they once were. And they were never what people imagine them to be. And, as previously noted, they're broken into two separate organizations. Because in 1859 in Louisiana (yeah, you already know this is gonna be wild) the leader of the lodge wanted to allow black people and jewish people to join the lodge without pissing and moaning about race and religion... Wait, what? [I]checks that[/I] Yup... in perhaps the wildest reversal of expectations a lodge in Louisiana wanted to accept black lodge members while slavery was legal and the Civil War hadn't yet started. The Anglo-European arm, as well as a BUNCH of the United States lodges (including other lodges in Louisiana) turned against that lodge and kicked them out. They started Continental Freemasonry as a result and it's the more popular of the two, these days. But by that time, even, the Freemasons were just Church 2, Potato Salad Boogaloo. They stopped having trade secrets in the 1600s when the big money for super duper fancy churches ran out and became just a sort of social club clinging to a storied past and trying to make hammer-handed metaphors for personal growth and enlightenment out of hitting rocks with chisels and carving stone. Add Catholicism to that, and you have the Anglo-Euro Freemasonry. Take out the Catholicism and add in politics and you've got Continental Freemasonry. They're not cool. They're not an ancient order of movers and shakers. They're just "Some Guys" who pretend to be more important than they are, or ever have been. Y'know. Like Lanasa. [/QUOTE]
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