Posted on 05/28/2016 7:39:32 AM PDT by rey
I have a contractor who works on a property I manage. Super guy. He is in to the local Shriners organization in a big way. I forwarded a picture of him in a parade to the owner of the property. The owner's response was, "He's into all that stuff."
Am I missing something? Yes, I have heard about the Masons' connection to the Shriners but all they do to help sick, particularly burned children is pretty ok in my book.
Not much different from a snobish country club, as all clubs are. They are pro gun is all I care about. They host gunshows in my town and I have shot with some of them at a friend’s farm. They are not all that ideological, they just like to own bikes, guns and their woman... material stuff, not much different from the Mardi Gras societies parading every year, basically clubs that party together and get awkward single men a chance to date.
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His religious beliefs can’t be described as sketchy, however, whether or not you take issue with his being a Mason.
I never do it without the Fez on.
“You’re going to find on this thread lots of fear and ignorance about the masons and the Shriners.”
Yeah, no joke. All of my family (father, mother, sisters, grandfather, grandmother, etc.) were either Masons, Shriners, Eastern Star or Rainbow Girls. Several were pretty high up in the state organization hierarchy at different times. I had no to desire to join, but I went to all the public functions, and saw firsthand what they do as charitable work, etc. Nothing evil there, no huge conspiracies, no blood sacrifices, etc. Pretty benign group of interrelated organizations, really. What I saw was mostly like a sorority/fraternity with a focus on charitable works and serving the local community.
This might be the “gold standard” for fraternal service organizations- E Clampus Vitus
I was in a bar in Mammoth Lakes, CA., demonstrating my lone super power- unbridled drinking, and was approached by a person that I had struck up a casual conversation with, who asked me if I wanted to join the Clampers. Not knowing what that was, I passed on the invite.
Later, I did some research into this organization. Apparently, if asked to join and you do not accept, you won’t be offered the opportunity again.
I could’a been a contend’a ;O(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Clampus_Vitus
Any Clampers out there in freeper land?
The dumbing down of American continues with no one having experience at anything but they sure do think they know everything
The Clampers Creed
As I pass through life, may I always be humble;
may I never take myself seriously;
may I always appreciate a little of the ridiculous;
may I always be a two-fisted Clamper
when the bottle passes my way and if I imbibe,
and can’t hold it like a man,
then may I always be able to pass it to the next brother;
may I never forget the stout-hearted
men who settled a great western wilderness and the heritage we have today.
May I never fail to appreciate a bit of western lore.
-Anonymous-
“Like most American presidents, Washington’s religious beliefs were pretty sketchy”
That must explain why he was vestryman and churchwarden of the Anglican church that he belonged to.
Your boss may be ignorant or he may be Roman Catholic.
No, I am not equating the two. RC's at least have a valid reason by their lights whether I agree with it or not.
Full disclosure, I am not a Mason, Shriner or member of Eastern Star. I do have family who are.
I approve of the donations and of the Shriners. Anyone who has a problem with their support for kids in need of specific medical treatment needs to get better informed.
Shriners. Masons.
A force for evil, appearing to be “good”.
The position of vestryman or church warden had much to do with civic leadership and distributing charity. Thomas Jefferson had been a vestryman and he was anything but orthodox in his beliefs.
But it's complicated because the religious culture was so very different in Washington's younger days from what it became after his death. The kind of religious fervor that came in with the Great Awakenings was frowned upon in 18th century elite circles, so by later standards believers and deists in Washington's day would both sound and behave differently from believers in the later 19th century.
I was in a children's hospital in the early fifty's for a time so long no one believes me if I tell them. My only good memories of that time are the two Christmases the Shriners brought us candy fruit and toys.
I love the work they do and I took it as a joke.
And they generally weren’t from the southern USSR, they were Islamic Bosniaks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_%281st_Croatian%29
[Any Clampers out there in freeper land?]
Here’s one. 1972 into Chapter
#8 Las Plumas Del Oro, Quincy, CA.
Cool beans!
For sh!ts and giggles I was checking out the Chapters closest to Mammoth Lakes- that’s where I got an invite.
Bishop, Bridgeport, and Fresno... not sure where the Clamper was from?
I think my fellow skydiving buddies might have ancestry that mutated off of the Clamper mother ship. lol
We’re not sure if we are a drinking skydiving society or a skydiving drinking society?
LMAO!!
to be a Shriner you must first be a high degree Mason 32 or 33rd degree I think
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