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emeraldi42| Mind Your Business!

Posted at: 11:00 am

If there is one thing in this world I can’t stand is when some yokel sees a 25 second bit on CNN and hears a soundbite from someone afterwords and forms a very strong, vocal opinion regarding said 25 second story without knowing any of the facts.  We ‘eMasons’ have that same probelm and I’ve seen it now for a few years.

The happenings in Ohio, West Virginia, Georgia or anywhere else concerns nobody but those brothers in that jurisdiction.  I have seen much commentary from men outside of these jurisdictions giving opinions that they know absolutely nothing about.  I dealt with this last year when Arizona got famous when the GM signed an edict not allowing the AZ Masons to enter the Shrine Temple in Phoenix.  All of a sudden everybody on the net thinks they know whats going on in AZ.  Hell, there were brothers from CANADA denouncing this and that as if they knew the whole story when in fact the AZ Masons didn’t even know all the facts at the time.  Same thing goes for the GL of California banning CA Masons from joining the Creeping Serpents.  I am a Creeping Serpent from AZ and I have heard rumors about what the CA guys have been doing with it over there, but in no way does that give me a green light to start throwing insults this way or that.  There were comments left by Masons that don’t even work and have never heard of the Creeping Serpents talking about “you guys make Masonry look bad!” and yadda yadda yadda.  C’mon guys, if you don’t know the facts, ask questions or please be quiet until the issue becomes clear.

Same thing with the shooting a few years ago in New York, the news agencies didn’t recognize that it wasn’t at a lodge funtion and just because guys use the same building as a Masonic lodge doesn’t mean they are meeting Masonically.  Masons everywhere were snickering in knowing this fact muttering “stupid local news, they don’t know anything”.  Well, brethren the same narrow mindedness bleeds into our circles as well and I think being in a fraternity so engrained with the search for truth we must remember that the truth isn’t always known right off the bat.  So please, let Ohio, Georgia, West Virginia, Arizona and all other jurisdictions handle their own business, they are soveriegn after all.  If certain issues have sparked your curiosity, do some research and contact a brother from that jurisdiction but don’t go onto Masonic messageboards and blogsites and start ranting about things that you do not fully comprehend yet.

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