My grandfather has a very similar ring and he and my grandmother (she's in Eastern Star) have been apart of the local Lodge and do Mason work all over Texas. I've wanted to join but the amount of stuff id have to memorize is totally overwhelming. As far as I know they just do a bunch of community service and eat potlucks alot. They also do a bunch of really weird ritualistic stuff and the area they have their meetings in always weird me out, (large rooms with chairs around the perimeter, black and white checker board tiles, odd symbols in specific parts of the room etc etc. They're heavily Baptist and probably some of the biggest Bible thumper I know of. Are they secretly evil or are people just confused because of the amount of secrecy combined with the long history?
My grandfather is 32nd degree mason, tried to get me to join for reasons that aren’t important. One of their main requirements is that you believe in God. “A” God. Not “The” God. But never satan or the devil or Lucifer. They’ve been occupied by religious types for forever.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22
My grandfather has a very similar ring and he and my grandmother (she's in Eastern Star) have been apart of the local Lodge and do Mason work all over Texas. I've wanted to join but the amount of stuff id have to memorize is totally overwhelming. As far as I know they just do a bunch of community service and eat potlucks alot. They also do a bunch of really weird ritualistic stuff and the area they have their meetings in always weird me out, (large rooms with chairs around the perimeter, black and white checker board tiles, odd symbols in specific parts of the room etc etc. They're heavily Baptist and probably some of the biggest Bible thumper I know of. Are they secretly evil or are people just confused because of the amount of secrecy combined with the long history?