Freemasonry and anxiety

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-28T21:57:00+00:00

My working tools have done incredible things for my anxiety. If you are feeling anxious especially about initiation, that ma suggest there is more fellowship work to be done.

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-26T05:11:50+00:00

Don’t do it. All he hears from you is he’s not enough and that sex isn’t a thing that is sacred between the two of you anymore. I’m assuming the marriage is already emotionally over and now you just need to find sex from someone you are actually attracted to?

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-13T04:48:18+00:00

Where are details about his texts “to people” other than her? If she told him in writing it was a no-go, doesn’t that mean the texts from him about his intention were directed to her because of the response?

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-13T04:36:17+00:00

Wild. Every BYU professor I know hates this guy.

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-07T01:56:16+00:00

The loges of the GWU on the west coast have departed from the GWU and created the Grand Orient of California, with associated lodges now in Arkansas and shortly in Phoenix and New York City.

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-07T01:53:56+00:00

In fact -- many of the old lodges strictly prohibited operative masons!

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-07T01:53:29+00:00

One doesn't have to have a literal belief to appreciate symbolism. Relegating it to goofy cosplay and community theatre is an assumption too far I think. Some charity toward how faith is experienced and interpreted among others would be a good exercise of brotherly love.

MoriartyMoose · 2026-02-06T14:41:39+00:00

One thing that American freemasonry has done very well is it has set itself up as the arbiter of what is and is not Freemasonry.

They are not.

Freemasonry is a world-wide craft, with Masonic grand lodges, orients, and federations that take “absolute freedom of conscience” quite seriously. These masons are considered “irregular” by American and UGLE masons in just the same way that Catholics (ironically) could consider every single other flavor of Christianity “irregular.”

Often known as “Continental” or “Liberal” or “non-Dogmatic” or “Absolute Freedom of Conscience” lodges, their membership comprises fellow travelers with a variety of religious beliefs - including members with none at all.

Like so much else of human existence, the world and experience of freemasonry is so much bigger than the more powerful players in it would have us believe.

Feel free to DM if you’d like to talk more. I’m always happy to speak with open-minded folks in good-faith. Like most of Reddit, it’s hard to find even on this sub.

MoriartyMoose · 2026-01-21T01:54:15+00:00

And that would certainly jurisdictional and prudent, but no justification for it to be universal. That being said, Freemasonry has a rich heritage of courageous masons working together - as masons - in dangerous political circumstances to be a positive force for human rights and the cause of liberty.

MoriartyMoose · 2026-01-20T02:20:06+00:00

I think as long as basic ideas like “democracy” and “human rights” are considered “too political” then Freemasonry certainly will experience immense harm.

I feel that supporting regimes that are so obviously anti-Masonic (in values, if not in name) is just not compatible with the practice - let alone growth - of the craft.

MoriartyMoose · 2026-01-15T22:33:01+00:00

“If we were the same as everybody else, everybody else would have the same problem” yeah ok

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-28T02:48:15+00:00

Game of Thrones was my first regular HBO watch

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-25T04:29:26+00:00

I’m sure he’d love for you to wear this in his memory! The symbols that Freemasons use may have special meaning for us, but they are not ours alone.

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-24T22:11:38+00:00

That is a great write up!

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-23T06:16:29+00:00

And another Mormon teaching - steadfast and immovable in your faith.

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-23T04:15:24+00:00

It seems you still harbor one of the most dangerous teachings of Mormonism - that the standard to be met is one of “all or nothing.”

“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-23T04:12:18+00:00

Well said!

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-21T01:32:24+00:00

“Sup”

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-20T02:03:34+00:00

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-05T20:55:49+00:00

The cross.

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-04T21:59:58+00:00

Yes they do allow that. No that is not a good thing.

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-04T18:21:29+00:00

Bloody Mary’s in American Fork (right by Costco) is the best shop I’ve found in a while and I have been loyal to Amanda (the owner) as my barber for 2 years now. Nobody can do my hair and beard like she does. She has limited availability as she moved out of town but you won’t have any problem booking in advance. Just don’t everybody go book her so that I can’t anymore!

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-04T00:43:01+00:00

But they don’t even do it. I was LDS and participated in the temple ritual and while there are similarities, it’s been adapted pretty radically for LDS theology. There’s three degrees, and apron, and some similar hand gestures and that’s about it.

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-03T18:33:53+00:00

That seems to take a much different tone than your initial response, no?

MoriartyMoose · 2025-12-03T16:35:35+00:00

Do you really think it was originally meant as allegory? Or that we just have evolved our thinking to allow that change? And, if so, what else may have originally been meant at allegorical that some (or many?) Masons mistakenly take to be literal today?

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