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From: Baldoni on 10 Jul 2010 09:32
Darth Simian explained on 09/07/2010 :
> On 9 July, 14:59, ptk1071 <billarn...(a)optonline.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 6:55 pm, Aaron <a...(a)home.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:52:04 -0700 (PDT), Darth Simian
>>> <great_sage_equal_of_heav...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8 July, 21:30, Aaron <a...(a)home.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:38:03 -0700 (PDT), Darth Simian
>>>>> <great_sage_equal_of_heav...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 7 July, 18:04, Larry the Mason from Holbrook
>>>>>> <larry.the.mason.from.holbr...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> The Freemasonry FAQ  
>>
>>>>>>> Version 1.0
>>>>>>> August 2006
>>
>>>>>>> This Frequently Asked Question comes from the weekly USENET MASONRY
>>>>>>> FAQ, posted to alt.freemasonry every Friday at 08:00 Pacific.  Please
>>>>>>> refer to the weekly FAQ for other resource and contact information. 35
>>>>>>> Haven't some said the information given in the lower degrees is
>>>>>>> incomplete or even misleading? It's a matter of Masonic authors writing
>>>>>>> to those they assume have a background of appropriate knowledge.
>>>>>>> Another way we say the same thing is: "Masonry is a progressive
>>>>>>> science, revealed by degrees." There nothing astonishing and certainly
>>>>>>> nothing sinister in that. ALL knowledge is gained bit by bit, and this
>>>>>>> is especially true in ethics and morality. A minister would do very
>>>>>>> little good if he gave a new member of his church complex texts like
>>>>>>> the works of Cyprian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen. Greater good
>>>>>>> would be accomplished by starting with less complex authors. Similarly,
>>>>>>> Masonry introduces the idea of ethics and morality, and gives some
>>>>>>> practical instruction in each. But then it says to the Mason, "We teach
>>>>>>> by symbols because symbols can be constantly explored. Think about
>>>>>>> these things, read what others have written. Only in that way can you
>>>>>>> make the knowledge and insight really your own." Masonry tries very
>>>>>>> hard to raise questions, and to help its members acquire the tools for
>>>>>>> thought -– but we do not try to give answers.
>>>>>> GM Liarry up to his usual tricks.  Let me quote the Masonic Pope
>>>>>> Albert Pike:
>>
>>>>> "Usual tricks"...funny when you make up things like a "Masonic Pope."
>>>>> Pike had no authority over any Grand Lodge.  You have a history of
>>>>> posting fake quotes from Pike; can you give a source, with title and
>>>>> chapter?
>>
>>>> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19447
>>>> No chapters in the text file I downloaded, but the quotes are there.
>>>> I assume from seeing your little multiple rating script in action that
>>>> you can search through a text file.
>>> I found the entire passage.  In it, Pike rejects the basic structure
>>> of Masonry, which only has three degrees.  In Morals and Dogma, Pike
>>> gives his personal interpretations to the three degrees of Masonry, as
>>> well as the twenty nine degrees of the Scottish Rite.  Feeling his
>>> personal opinion to be superior than those taught in Masonry, he uses
>>> this excuse to supersede Masonic teaching.  Pike's opinion has no
>>> authority over Masonry.
>>
>>> The allegorical methodology used in Masonry is intended to teach
>>> through each Mason examining the allegory for himself and discovering
>>> the meaning.
>>
>>> Of course, you keep ignoring the fact that Masonry has only three
>>> degrees.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>>> - Show quoted text -
>>
>> Aaron it does not matter what you say. The kooks will always love Pike
>> as their best straw man. They buy the Taxil hoax hook line and sinker
>> and old Leo is probably still laughing in his grave. it is no use
>> trying to get this dupe to give valid cites and valid arguments with
>> intelligent information/questions because there are some who are just
>> plain morons and cannot change their minds. This is because they have
>> limited intelligence and will just parrot what other kooks have said
>> before them.
>> But it is fun making them look like fools. So carry on...
>
> Another mason believing his own lie that he is somehow better and
> cleverer than everybody else. So only morons dare to question the
> secret society known as Freemasonry? <shakes head>

Reverse psychology on his part. It has oft been said that brains will
overcome bullshit. GM Aaron believes that bullshit will baffle brains.

--
Count Baldoni


From: KIV11 on 10 Jul 2010 10:42
On Jul 10, 9:30 am, Baldoni <Baldoni...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ask him to name his Jewish friends who are Masons.

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