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aedifico42| Chain emails…

Posted at: 6:08 pm

We’ve all gotten them.  Flags, eagles, crosses.  Patriotic goo with a flair.  Sometimes it’s a story that inspires hope in America, sometimes it’s just a simple story about a boy and his dog.

Whatever it is, it’s not Masonic.  Especially when one person keeps sending you the same crap all the time.  Freemasons ought to know better than to send each other the junk that your Mother sends.  It’s unbecoming and ought to be punishable by fine or some other minor inconvenience.

The only qualification to my total ban on junk email should be the ones with the lewd content, or something really hillarious.  Funny but not inspiring is great.  Funny…cat falling off of a chair, unwelcome.

To be sure,  there is always room for the witty play on words or something that has some interesting historical significance.  For example, I recently heard a story that had to do with beany-weenies and the Battle of the Bulge.  The story-teller was a Mason, and he was telling the story about another Mason’s experience in WWII.  I got a kick out of it, and off he went.  No problem.

But please stop with the flags and the eagles and the purple mountain majesty. 

I know how much I love my country.  Stop trying to sell it to me.

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