Subj : Re: I'm a Freeemason, AMA
To   : Rakoczi
From : Zero Reader
Date : Mon Oct 30 2017 21:59:09

On 10/30/17, Rakoczi said the following...
 
 Ra> When you're asked something you cannot answer, how often do you think to
 Ra> yourself that actually being able to answer would make Freemasonry look
 Ra> less conspiratorial than having to say you cannot answer?
 Ra> 

I typically tell people everything is out there on the Internet. Before I
even finished my initiations, I'd already "spoiled it" for myself by
reading several websites. I remember actually being disappointed that the
initiation didn't really deviate from the stuff on the Internet. 

There are really no secrets. One day my wife gave me a handshake, which was
basically the "true grip" of a Freemason, and she asked me if that was the
"secret handshake" ... I was kind of stunned, and asked her where she picked
that up from. She was in the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity in college
and apparently that was their handshake. At the core, freemasonry is just
another fraternity. The only secrets are the "modes of recognition" such as
these handshakes, and certain words, which aren't particularly secret unto
themselves, but the way in which we utter them, identifies us
as masons to each another.

Speaking of handshakes... it's fine to simply ask someone if they belong to a
lodge, than to go around shaking hands trying to find out who's a mason and
who isn't. The handshakes are mostly symbolic and don't really have much
value outside the lodge itself.

Again, google "Duncan's Ritual", which is a compendium of Masonic ritual, and
it's all in there. You can even download a copy from my BBS.

I could loan anyone my ritual monitor guidebook and they could read it.
They'd probably find it rather tame, if not outright dull.

I think some guys just get off on thinking they are special and know
"secrets".

-ZR

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