My post #224 was, I thought, quite good! Hey its been a while- little rusty on Americanism. As stated files are elsewhere and go read Hertz.
I just happened to read a thing about Americanism influencing International Style of Architecture early 1960s. What dictionary definition of Americanism should we use? Guess what- I dont want your answer!]
I am not participating in this. I have left this thread. I know better than to communicate with any of you any longer.
225-BelegStrongbow
[well BS]
Do you also have a problem with Marines and Boy Scouts?
After all, like the freemason fraternity, both espouse esprit-de-corps, fraternal duties, and patriotic obligations.
230- MeanWestTexan
[MWT-you dont get it at all- these are secular organizations. The US military is a SECULAR function. The Boy Scouts (which is relatively what you are compared to inner sanctums of far-higher orders of masonry) are basically as well, responsive to a moral code that is nominally Christian. They do not espouse anything near what even your DeMolay does, which espouses simple Deism infinitely.]
OUTSTANDING response.
235-OKIEDOC [to BSs 225]
To: OKIEDOC
Thanks. :)
235 -BelegStrongbow
[BS hey, you got back!]
To: BelegStrongbow
Congrats, just saw your post.
The absurd slanders evil people spew at masons makes me ill.
I strongly suspect they are not Christians, determined to make Christians look stupid and evil.
239 -MeanWestTexan
[Always found it interesting John Quincy Adams as ex-prez joined up w/ the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party ]
A lot of strange thoughts out there about the Craft and those spouting them can be ever stranger.
Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:27:27 PM 60 of 239
Little Bill to Redleg Duke
[May I say to Little Bill he can move back to MA with the rest of the sophisticated rubes wrecking our state. Here is a testimony to your own character you obviously soaked up while in traction in October. Are you a Little McCain?
Could that have been Little Bill in his better days? Is Little Bill a paragon of virtue such I have impugned upon a reputation here? ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101418/posts
He has 5 small fractures and was placed on morphine, which replaced the daily alchoholic intake that kept Little Bill on the straight and narrow.
Thankfully to this opium derivitive, Little Bill is resting comfortably and harassing all liberal nurses who come to call, and flattering all the Conservative ones with such catch phrases as:
“Hey, Baby, wanna come over and listen to my Ronald Reagan Speeches tonight? Hmmm?”
[To all of you-
When I first got onto this stuff I found a Shriners promotion booklet with a pic of the Fez-heads showing a childrens picture book to a very young girl in a burns center bed. The depiction was of some new kind of tinkerbell fairy, full-bosomed with about a 14 inch waist and an outfit worthy of a pole-dancer. Two or three old geezers had those near-bulging eyes under the fezed heads and looked, well, not right.
Why dont your brethren take up study of Missing and Exploited Children, The Frankin Bank / Larry King scandals (involving Boys Town), The Dutroux Scandal of Belgium instead of pushing revealing attire to little girls?
Why do certain lodges embrace Muslim symbols?
And when was the last time you heard of a Shriners Convention going off without little sordid stories galore?]
[Christ is King]
“[MWT-you dont get it at all- these are secular organizations. The US military is a SECULAR function. The Boy Scouts (which is relatively what you are compared to inner sanctums of far-higher orders of masonry) are basically as well, responsive to a moral code that is nominally Christian. They do not espouse anything near what even your DeMolay does, which espouses simple Deism infinitely.”
Wow, where to begin?
DeMolay does not speak for masons. He was a guy in the fraternity with an opinion.
There are no “inner sanctums of far-higher orders of masonry.” Indeed, there are no “higher orders” of masonry.
Freemasonry is a fraternity, and is as “secular” as the Boy Scouts and Marines. (BTW, the Boys Scouts and Marines were founded by Masons.)
You are one scarry dude.............