RE: The Moon is Not Real
August 29, 2009 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2009 at 12:17 pm by dry land fish.)
(August 29, 2009 at 6:50 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I don't Giff... seriously. Members share privileged information to give them an advantage. Show a secret sign and you can get jobs, deals, access... over other people more deserving than you.. just because you're in the club. This just disgusts me and I actively oppose/ boycott it if I see it. It's evil.
That is true sometimes. Masons help eachother out in that way. Now with some jobs that just can't happen because in some businesses it's not just one person who does the hiring. Like with where I work all of the managers have to agree to hire someone and not just one of them. Same goes with promotions. You can get good deals as I mentioned earlier if you know someone who provides a service. We could go rent a better house since one of my husbands friends rents. He also did some plumbing work for us free of charge once because he's a licensed plumber. I think one of their rules is that you always help out another mason. One of the cool things I think they do is that they rely on charity. Every now and then my husband gives a couple hundred dollars to one of his lodges as a donation. They donation goes to the masons who are sick and need it for bills. Also they have a place for familes of dead masons where you can actually live in a community that is completely paid for by those charitable donations. Also, the masons run Shriners hospitals and do a lot of good things there. All of this is possible through charitable donations...not taxes.
(August 29, 2009 at 12:13 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(August 29, 2009 at 12:08 pm)dry land fish Wrote: I do know that he got out of getting a speeding ticket because he had a mason symbol on his car and the police officer was also a mason.I don't oppose your husband being a mason, but this is something I do oppose. The law is there to keep people safe, and a police officer should punish anyone who breaks the law, whether it be their mother, sister, or member of a secret society.
Yeah it should be that way but each individual officer can decide whether or not to give a ticket to someone. I have gotten out of tickets because I knew someone before. I think everyone just about has been given a break by a cop once or twice. He was speeding on a limited access highway...it's not like he was stealing anything. The speed limit was 65 and he was doing around 80. No one was in danger of being harmed by anything he was doing. Basically in my state tickets are given to increase revenue. Usually at the beginning of the month you don't see many police officers waiting for speeders. Around the end of the month you see them because they have to meet quota for that month. Speeding tickets is one of the easiest ways of making a lot of money fast. Court costs are usually a couple hundred and your ticket is only around thirty dollars. It's a money making scheme.
