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| IAMIAM (OP) User ID: 18016289 02/12/2013 04:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A question IAMIAM: Quoting: Dead Man 34110420 You've said, I think, basically, to enjoy life and serve one another. I find it hard to enjoy life when there is so much pain around me. I can't get it out of my head that others are suffering. I think empathy is hard-wired into me. Any suggestions? You can do nothing more than what you are given to do. Help those you can and pray the Lord helps those you can't. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 34283596 02/12/2013 09:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Freemasonry bars women for different reasons than does those organizations. Quoting: IAMIAM The bar to women has always been because the Landmarks upon which it is built state that to be a candidate one must be a Man, free born, and well recommended. Now seeing as how the Bible is the Great Light in Masonry, it should be obvious to any reader of the Genesis account that God created Man, male and female created he them. Therefore women have just as much right to enter. And, there are Lodges which would agree and do allow women. It is up to the "Mainstream" to get up to times if they wish to be counted as an existing body in the near future. NO ONE disputes that, but the original comment was about women not being able to join. I merely pointed out the "some" of the reasons. Seems you have a problem with "mainstream".......eh? I'm quite happy with "mainstream" as it is at present......and I am well aware that women have their own Lodges and should they wish to "bar" men.....then .that is their right, but a Fraternity is entitled to stay as it is, also. |
| IAMIAM (OP) User ID: 18016289 02/12/2013 09:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Freemasonry bars women for different reasons than does those organizations. Quoting: IAMIAM The bar to women has always been because the Landmarks upon which it is built state that to be a candidate one must be a Man, free born, and well recommended. Now seeing as how the Bible is the Great Light in Masonry, it should be obvious to any reader of the Genesis account that God created Man, male and female created he them. Therefore women have just as much right to enter. And, there are Lodges which would agree and do allow women. It is up to the "Mainstream" to get up to times if they wish to be counted as an existing body in the near future. NO ONE disputes that, but the original comment was about women not being able to join. I merely pointed out the "some" of the reasons. Seems you have a problem with "mainstream".......eh? I'm quite happy with "mainstream" as it is at present......and I am well aware that women have their own Lodges and should they wish to "bar" men.....then .that is their right, but a Fraternity is entitled to stay as it is, also. I don't care for any of it myself. Been there, done that. I was just giving advice should the fraternity wish to see another century. |
| RampagingBear User ID: 4220556 03/02/2013 10:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "I was just giving advice should the fraternity wish to see another century." Do you believe there is much chance of that IAM? Anyone who has studied statistics will tell them they can wish in one hand . . . . The downward spiral in membership has been unabated for what, 50 years? How do you spell RELEVANCE? |
| IAMIAM (OP) User ID: 13843864 03/03/2013 12:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "I was just giving advice should the fraternity wish to see another century." Quoting: RampagingBear Do you believe there is much chance of that IAM? Anyone who has studied statistics will tell them they can wish in one hand . . . . The downward spiral in membership has been unabated for what, 50 years? How do you spell RELEVANCE? Does one cease to dispense medical advice, just because the patient is terminal? |
| Newheart G. Yishai User ID: 25567776 03/03/2013 12:34 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP, is there a Moses about to be put in the basket? Waters of Yesod. Gnostic Order, Adept, Christian chiming in. =) Heavens no. Under Water Basket Weaving is specially designed for catching BIG FISH. Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. |
| Newheart G. Yishai User ID: 25567776 03/03/2013 01:00 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() stones? The dead body parts blocking and making the river not run. I have been drudging the river of stones for a long time. The sacred stones(risen dead) are gathered in heaps all along side the river's edges for miles and miles. They are also likened to the fish. We are fishers of men who search and look for the true hearts who forgot where they belonged, as part of the Body of Christ. Daniel 12 Last Edited by Faithful & Truth on 03/03/2013 01:04 PM Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. |
| IAMIAM (OP) User ID: 13843864 03/03/2013 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() stones? The dead body parts blocking and making the river not run. I have been drudging the river of stones for a long time. The sacred stones(risen dead) are gathered in heaps all along side the river's edges for miles and miles. They are also likened to the fish. We are fishers of men who search and look for the true hearts who forgot where they belonged, as part of the Body of Christ. Daniel 12 as part of the Body of Christ To be clear, I am the asshole! Thanks for the wonderful additions my friend. |