TweetAOM is. How does one get into that? Is it one of those referral only things? I've only met a few in my life and they never talked about it, as if I was below them or something. Not speaking for all of them, just the few I met.

TweetFrom what I understand it is on a referral basis only. I know a couple in my area but not well enough to just hit em up outa the blue for membership.

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Originally Posted by T-Man007

AOM is. How does one get into that? Is it one of those referral only things? I've only met a few in my life and they never talked about it, as if I was below them or something. Not speaking for all of them, just the few I met.

SAME HERE TMAN....EVERYONE IVE ASKED BLEW ME OFF

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Originally Posted by O2BESOHUGE

SAME HERE TMAN....EVERYONE IVE ASKED BLEW ME OFF

Yeah, and I wasn't even asking to join, just asking about it in general. I guess it's one of those good ol' boy things. Maybe I need to save one of them from a burning car or something to be worthy enough.

TweetI am a Freemason. People think we are a "secret Society" of some sort. The biggest thing I hear is "You guys are worse than the mafia. You'll make me disappear if I talk bad about them."
First off, the masons are a fraternity. If anyone here went to college and was in a fraternity or a sorrority, you know that what you did to get in was a secret. To this day, you are not to tell your fraternity secrets. We are the same. What we do and stand for is NOT a secret. We own the Shriners hospitals. We donate $1,000,000 A DAY to the shriners hospitals. We take care of our brothers (each other). We do a lot of charity work. To become a mason, all you need to do is ask a mason "How do I become a member?" That right there should make a conversation. A mason is NOT allowed to ask you to become a member. You have to ask to be a member. the masonic organization makes a good man, better.
Any other questions?

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Originally Posted by angryoldman

I am a Freemason. People think we are a "secret Society" of some sort. The biggest thing I hear is "You guys are worse than the mafia. You'll make me disappear if I talk bad about them."
First off, the masons are a fraternity. If anyone here went to college and was in a fraternity or a sorrority, you know that what you did to get in was a secret. To this day, you are not to tell your fraternity secrets. We are the same. What we do and stand for is NOT a secret. We own the Shriners hospitals. We donate $1,000,000 A DAY to the shriners hospitals. We take care of our brothers (each other). We do a lot of charity work. To become a mason, all you need to do is ask a mason "How do I become a member?" That right there should make a conversation. A mason is NOT allowed to ask you to become a member. You have to ask to be a member. the masonic organization makes a good man, better.
Any other questions?

Well, that answers it for me because I never asked to be a member I just wanted to know more about the organization. Now I know what to do, if I want to do it. LOL

Tweeti've met a few in fla. when i sold cars down there. older guy's, retiries. they were all pretty cool guy's, but they were a little tight lipped.

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Originally Posted by T-Man007

Well, that answers it for me because I never asked to be a member I just wanted to know more about the organization. Now I know what to do, if I want to do it. LOL

Find a member of the local lodge near you and start asking questions about "What do you guys do?" Etc.... The, ask "How do I become a member?" I'm not passionate about much, but I am passionate about my Masonic brothers and my fraternity. It's an awesome thing. Some famous masons were:
George Washington
Ben Frankin
John Wayne
John Glenn
And many others!

TweetI believe Henry Ford and Mozart were as well weren't they?

Tweetso aom you support the new world orders agendas?..are you aware of everything this group supports financially?im sure it has its benefits and does positive things but from many things i have read the group has funded alot of shady events/organizations

Tweet"FAMOUS MASONS":

The deception of Masonry is proverbial, even to the members... for the outsiders, it is still more deceptive: Often famous names, who never had anything to do with Masonry, are included in the "lists"... and many famous names included were only 33rd degree honorary members who never attended a meeting at the Lodge, but who used the Lodge for their selfish purposes, and the Lodge uses them as a good propaganda...

"Famous Masons": In the following cavalcade most of them were only "honorary members", who never even enter a Lodge:

Politicians:

- USA:
- 14 Presidents: Clinton, Ford, Truman, both Roosevelt, Jackson, Monroe, Washington... Not Masons: Bush, Reagan, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Lincoln... (Johnson: Apprentice)
- 18 Vice-Presidents: Including Gore...
- 18 Senators: Dole, Byrd, Bentsen, Nunn, Helms, Goldwater, Kemp, Thurmond... Wallace...
- 76 members of the House of Representatives: Gingrich, Wright, Lott, Pepper, W. Ford, Rangel...
- 35 U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Out of the 9 members, in 1941: 5 to 4; in 1949: 8 to 1; in 1957: 6 to 3; in 1971: 5 to 4: Warren, Marshall...
- Generals Colin Powell, MacArthur, Doolittle.
- Declaration of Independence: 9 of the 56 signers. Franklin (helped to initiate Voltaire).

- England: Many Kings, Queens, and Prime Ministers, including Churchill, Duke of Windsor, of Kent, Prince Philip...

- Canada: 6 Prime Ministers: Diefenbaker...

- Australia: 10 Prime Ministers: Hawke...

- South Africa: Pik Botha...

- Other International Leaders: King Hussein of Egypt, Rabin of Israel, Arafat, Garibaldi, Bolivar, Marti, Villas, Zapata...

Religious Leaders:

Jesse Jackson, Oral Roberts, Robert Schuller, Louis Farrahkan, Vincent Peale, Geoffrey Fisher (Archbishop of Canterbury)... many Mormons: Smith, Young... many Rosicrucians...

- The Occult and Satanism: Aliester Crowley (magic, to destroy Christianity), Gardner (Wiccan, white witchcraft), Wescott (order of golden dawn), Helena Blavatsky (theosophy), Pike (satanist)...

Business and Economic Leaders:

The Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, H. Ford, W. Chrysler, A. Citroen, C. Hilton, J.C.Penny, C. Woodward, D. Thomas (Wendy's), Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken), M. Sachs (5th Ave.)...

Movie Actors and Directors:

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Louis Armstrong, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Danny Thomas, Al Jonson, Gene Autre, Casanova, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Mayer (of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer), the 7 Ringling Brothers of the Circus, Houdini, Red Skelton, Collodi (Pinocchio), Lincoln (Tarzan), Roy Rogers, Nat King Cole, Oliver Hardy, Roy Clark, Jimmy Rodgers...

Musicians: Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Sibelius, Duke Ellington, Frank Lystz, Puccini...

Writers: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Kipling, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)...

Astronauts: John Gleen, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Cooper, Irwin... Lindbergh the aviator...

Founders: Booth (Salvation Army), Beard (Boy Scouts), Dunant (Red Cross), Sax (saxophone)...

Architects: Bartholdy (Statue of Liberty), Eifell (Paris Tower), Hoban (White House), Borglum (Mt. Rushmore), Smithson (Smithsonian Institute).

Medicine: Fleming (penicillin), Jenner (Small Pox), Mayo (Clinic in the USA)...

Sports: Dempsey, Sugar R. Robinson, Auerbach, Michael Jordan, Cy Yong, Willie Mays, Palmer.

"World Media": Newspapers, Radio, TV... an "enormous influence", Paul A. Fisher, of the military intelligence, lists in "Behind the Lodge Door" several founders, publishers, editors... Many members of the National Press Club of America, half of French periodicals...



"MEMBERSHIP" OF MASONRY:

Masonry exists in 164 countries, with 5 million members, 3 of them in the USA, with 250,000 on the Black "Prince Hall" (still rejected by most white lodges).

There are 33,700 Lodges worldwide:

- U.S.A.: 15,300 Lodges, with members in Ohio (220,000), Pennsylvania (206,000), South Carolina (206,000), California (188,000), Illinois (146,000), Michigan (111,000), Tennessee (96,000), Georgia (90,000), Illinois (88,000), Florida (83,000), South Carolina (75,000).
- England: 8,000 Lodges, 600,000 members.
- Canada: 1,600 Lodges, 180,000 members.
- Australia: 580 Lodges, 30,000 members.
- Italy: 560 Loges, 24,000 members.
- Germany: 400 Lodges, 21,000 members.
- Cuba: 300 Lodges, 20,000 members.
- Philippines: 200 Lodges, 15,000 members

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Originally Posted by solidground

so aom you support the new world orders agendas?..are you aware of everything this group supports financially?im sure it has its benefits and does positive things but from many things i have read the group has funded alot of shady events/organizations

I also read a story about this little guy in mexico the call "Chupakabara" or something like that. I also read about this well somewhere in Pennsylvania that leads straight to the firy pits of hell. I also read that if you say "Bloody Mary" in the mirror 3 times, a vision of a woman named Mary appears.
Yes sir, I read too. A lot of it's horseshit, but it's in writing.
People fear the unknown for some reason. We support no terrorist groups. We support no satanic rituals. We don't support raping and pillaging villages. We don't support cutting chickens heads off and smearing blood on ourselves. All I can say is, I've been a member for 11 years. And in thise 11 years, I've been to the Shriners hospitals at Christmas giving toys to sick kids who won't make it past New Years Day. I've seen the fundraisers and helped collect money for the scholarships that the Masons give. I've been to the Elizabethtown retirement community. I've been to fellow brothers funerals, dressed in my masonic wardrobe, giving a proper masonic burial. Not once have I witnessed any shady events or witnessed funding of shady organizations. But I guess if it's in writing, well..............

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Originally Posted by solidground

"FAMOUS MASONS":

The deception of Masonry is proverbial, even to the members... for the outsiders, it is still more deceptive: Often famous names, who never had anything to do with Masonry, are included in the "lists"... and many famous names included were only 33rd degree honorary members who never attended a meeting at the Lodge, but who used the Lodge for their selfish purposes, and the Lodge uses them as a good propaganda...

"Famous Masons": In the following cavalcade most of them were only "honorary members", who never even enter a Lodge:

Politicians:

- USA:
- 14 Presidents: Clinton, Ford, Truman, both Roosevelt, Jackson, Monroe, Washington... Not Masons: Bush, Reagan, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Lincoln... (Johnson: Apprentice)
- 18 Vice-Presidents: Including Gore...
- 18 Senators: Dole, Byrd, Bentsen, Nunn, Helms, Goldwater, Kemp, Thurmond... Wallace...
- 76 members of the House of Representatives: Gingrich, Wright, Lott, Pepper, W. Ford, Rangel...
- 35 U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Out of the 9 members, in 1941: 5 to 4; in 1949: 8 to 1; in 1957: 6 to 3; in 1971: 5 to 4: Warren, Marshall...
- Generals Colin Powell, MacArthur, Doolittle.
- Declaration of Independence: 9 of the 56 signers. Franklin (helped to initiate Voltaire).

- England: Many Kings, Queens, and Prime Ministers, including Churchill, Duke of Windsor, of Kent, Prince Philip...

- Canada: 6 Prime Ministers: Diefenbaker...

- Australia: 10 Prime Ministers: Hawke...

- South Africa: Pik Botha...

- Other International Leaders: King Hussein of Egypt, Rabin of Israel, Arafat, Garibaldi, Bolivar, Marti, Villas, Zapata...

Religious Leaders:

Jesse Jackson, Oral Roberts, Robert Schuller, Louis Farrahkan, Vincent Peale, Geoffrey Fisher (Archbishop of Canterbury)... many Mormons: Smith, Young... many Rosicrucians...

- The Occult and Satanism: Aliester Crowley (magic, to destroy Christianity), Gardner (Wiccan, white witchcraft), Wescott (order of golden dawn), Helena Blavatsky (theosophy), Pike (satanist)...

Business and Economic Leaders:

The Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, H. Ford, W. Chrysler, A. Citroen, C. Hilton, J.C.Penny, C. Woodward, D. Thomas (Wendy's), Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken), M. Sachs (5th Ave.)...

Movie Actors and Directors:

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Louis Armstrong, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Danny Thomas, Al Jonson, Gene Autre, Casanova, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Mayer (of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer), the 7 Ringling Brothers of the Circus, Houdini, Red Skelton, Collodi (Pinocchio), Lincoln (Tarzan), Roy Rogers, Nat King Cole, Oliver Hardy, Roy Clark, Jimmy Rodgers...

Musicians: Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Sibelius, Duke Ellington, Frank Lystz, Puccini...

Writers: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Kipling, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)...

Astronauts: John Gleen, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Cooper, Irwin... Lindbergh the aviator...

Founders: Booth (Salvation Army), Beard (Boy Scouts), Dunant (Red Cross), Sax (saxophone)...

Architects: Bartholdy (Statue of Liberty), Eifell (Paris Tower), Hoban (White House), Borglum (Mt. Rushmore), Smithson (Smithsonian Institute).

Medicine: Fleming (penicillin), Jenner (Small Pox), Mayo (Clinic in the USA)...

Sports: Dempsey, Sugar R. Robinson, Auerbach, Michael Jordan, Cy Yong, Willie Mays, Palmer.

"World Media": Newspapers, Radio, TV... an "enormous influence", Paul A. Fisher, of the military intelligence, lists in "Behind the Lodge Door" several founders, publishers, editors... Many members of the National Press Club of America, half of French periodicals...



"MEMBERSHIP" OF MASONRY:

Masonry exists in 164 countries, with 5 million members, 3 of them in the USA, with 250,000 on the Black "Prince Hall" (still rejected by most white lodges).

There are 33,700 Lodges worldwide:

- U.S.A.: 15,300 Lodges, with members in Ohio (220,000), Pennsylvania (206,000), South Carolina (206,000), California (188,000), Illinois (146,000), Michigan (111,000), Tennessee (96,000), Georgia (90,000), Illinois (88,000), Florida (83,000), South Carolina (75,000).
- England: 8,000 Lodges, 600,000 members.
- Canada: 1,600 Lodges, 180,000 members.
- Australia: 580 Lodges, 30,000 members.
- Italy: 560 Loges, 24,000 members.
- Germany: 400 Lodges, 21,000 members.
- Cuba: 300 Lodges, 20,000 members.
- Philippines: 200 Lodges, 15,000 members

Again, a lot of this is not true. When you become a Mason, you learn a lot about the fraternity. I've seen the place where George Washington took his degree work to become a Mason. There is a Garibaldi lodge in New York, which is where Garibaldi himself took his degree work. I can sit and disprove a lot of peoples names on the list. The guy who wrote that was probably some pissed off guy who wanted to become a Mason and was turned down. So he probably made a bunch of crap up to slander the fraternity.
And look, I've heard it all. people will slander the Freemasons until the day they die. I have people tell me things of all sorts. From "The Masons are more powerful than the Mafia", all the way to "Don't you guys get naked and smear each other with blood?" I just shrug it off and say "If you want to know what it's really like, join." It's a beautiful symbolic fraternity that is rich in history and knowlege. And a great bunch of brothers anywhere in the world if you need them.