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Freemasons

  • 05-09-2019 09:45PM
    #1
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭


    What is this bunch all about ? What do you gain from becoming a freemason ? Are they all a bunch of Wally's with secret handshakes doing eachother favours ?

    Anyone here considered joining ? I'm not interested myself but supposedly there are people from high walks of life in Ireland participating. Wasn't there some Irish government officials members of them in the 1990s ?


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  • #2
    Dr Strange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Nothing more than a charitable social club with some theatrical work thrown in.


  • #3
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Dr Strange wrote: »
    Nothing more than a charitable social club with some theatrical work thrown in.
    Just for tax purposes.


  • #4
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Old boys' club. A secret network to gain influence and social advantage. A relative was a senior member a long time ago but left because it was too corrupt apparently.


  • #5
    BadTurtle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,534 ✭✭✭BadTurtle


    Oh wee oh
    Wee ohhhh


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A refuge from the wife/girlfriend, apparently. I prefer the local.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ;)


  • #8
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Decent chaps. They do charity without looking for Facebook likes.
    Might help each other out when it comes to business opportunities but mainly social and charitable and classy.
    If you hear of an anonymous donation or act of some kind there’s a good chance it was George Michael or a Freemason.


  • #9
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
    Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do. We do.


  • #10
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,638 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Bilderberg group is where the action is at now. But you have to be a lizard.

    Or is it the Stonecutters. I get confused.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #11
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,664 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    BDI wrote: »
    Decent chaps. They do charity without looking for Facebook likes.
    Might help each other out when it comes to business opportunities but mainly social and charitable and classy.
    If you hear of an anonymous donation or act of some kind there’s a good chance it was George Michael or a Freemason.

    George Michael?

    https://forumofgames.com/



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  • #12
    Aceandstuff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Aceandstuff


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  • #13
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    George Michael?

    He also was charity mad on the sly.


  • #14
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,718 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    George Michael?
    He gave a tonne of money to charity anonymously apparently


  • #15
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,638 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    mondeo wrote: »
    Anyone here considered joining ? I'm not interested myself but supposedly there are people from high walks of life in Ireland participating. Wasn't there some Irish government officials members of them in the 1990s ?

    Actually in 1990s Dublin I thought you needed to be a regular in Dohenys and Nesbitts.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #16
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,337 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Feel free to read the most recent thread on the freemasons.

    The repetition is a bit too....

    Repetitive ;) for my liking
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=110506726


  • #17
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    gmisk wrote: »
    He gave a tonne of money to charity anonymously apparently

    If he gave the money anonymously, how is it known that it was him ?

    Back to the Freemasons, I believe they celebrate Christmas by killing two camels and eating a tub of butter.


  • #18
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,664 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    BDI wrote: »
    He also was charity mad on the sly.

    It just read like he might still be doing it. That's be very impressive indeed.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #19
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    It just read like he might still be doing it. That's be very impressive indeed.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if he set it up that he is. There’s probably a George Michael foundation or something.


  • #20
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    A conservative/republican/fianna fail club but without the politics (or their own politics).

    And orgies.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #21
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    A conservative/republican/fianna fail club but without the politics (or their own politics).

    And orgies.

    With or without the orgies?


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  • #22
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,718 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    corner of hells wrote: »
    If he gave the money anonymously, how is it known that it was him ?

    Back to the Freemasons, I believe they celebrate Christmas by killing two camels and eating a tub of butter.
    I think a lot of the info only came out from friends and family etc after he had died.
    Some more details
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/george-michaels-secret-charity-work-13770168.amp


  • #23
    Leg End Reject
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    BDI wrote: »
    I wouldn’t be surprised if he set it up that he is. There’s probably a George Michael foundation or something.

    I remember details were made public after his death, so he might have included donations of royalties etc. in his will.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #24
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Lizard people!


  • #25
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭take everything


    Dunno much about them but Rain down love is a great tune.


  • #26
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,735 ✭✭✭mondeo


    Wonder what the secret handshake is ? Surely someone spilled the beans on that one.


  • #27
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    mondeo wrote: »
    Wonder what the secret handshake is ? Surely someone spilled the beans on that one.

    In a thread with George Michael being discussed and you bring up spilling beans.


  • #28
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,186 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


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  • #29
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    People have this ridiculously outdated “view” of the Masons. It’s just a social club, like any other.

    They do a lot of charitable work and serve the community. Similar to the “Lions Club”, in a way.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #30
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    corner of hells wrote: »
    In a thread with George Michael being discussed and you bring up spilling beans.

    Because he was a bachelor?


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  • #31
    blindside88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭blindside88


    mondeo wrote: »
    Wonder what the secret handshake is ? Surely someone spilled the beans on that one.

    There are various handshakes known as “grips”, you are shown different grips as you progress through the ranks. This came from when stone masons could not read or write so would not have papers to show their qualifications, they would instead be shown grips so that when they went to a new site they could prove they were an apprentice, master mason etc.


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