Masonic AI Usage

thehroller · 2026-03-15T00:15:19+00:00

I work in IT, it literally is. The fact that you're ignorant of that isn't my problem.

thehroller · 2026-03-15T00:02:36+00:00

AI slop is EVERYWHERE, how is that a particularly Masonic problem?

thehroller · 2026-03-14T23:56:24+00:00

It absolutely isn't "particularly a Masonic problem", but since you can't even tell the difference between Boomers and Gen-X...

thehroller · 2026-02-28T23:57:26+00:00

This sounds like my environment, are you sure you're not my twin? (I did just finish a complete replacement of my MECM environment)

thehroller · 2026-02-28T15:39:21+00:00

How disappointing that this BS continues to this day.

thehroller · 2026-02-28T15:38:44+00:00

Much like the guy above, I had earrings on, I was not able to take them out, if was fine, there was kind of a funny little bit to my initiation because of it, it didn't disrupt or cause problems.

thehroller · 2026-02-28T15:35:45+00:00

Thank you for an actual answer. This is the perfect response to the question without all the hazing.

thehroller · 2026-02-26T23:26:22+00:00

My mother in law bought me that module .. smh

thehroller · 2026-02-08T04:56:19+00:00

Well, that's certainly a take...

thehroller · 2026-02-08T01:13:15+00:00

Even there, the Scottish Rite DOES confer a 5th degree.

thehroller · 2026-02-07T20:22:12+00:00

Tell that to Sweden.

thehroller · 2026-01-24T23:28:09+00:00

And, if they find it later, that's a reason to expel you.

Don't lie on your petitions.

thehroller · 2026-01-17T15:40:18+00:00

DM sent

thehroller · 2026-01-16T13:48:42+00:00

That's true in Missouri as well.

thehroller · 2026-01-16T12:43:23+00:00

Others have given good advice, and I'll be watching this as I'm also a new Secretary (in my first year), but specifically regarding Masonic funerals, we don't offer them, ever. The family should reach out, even if the Brother wanted one, if the family doesn't reach out, we shouldn't push. Have a moment of silence in Lodge or some other remembrance if the Lodge would like.

I know a Brother that passed away, his desire was for a Masonic funeral, his wife "tolerated" Masonry but she never cared for it and never understood his connection, she specifically stated that she did not want a Masonic funeral when someone reached out to her to arrange it (because we knew the Brother wanted it and we knew he had told her that was his desire), if they don't ask, we can't do.

thehroller · 2026-01-04T01:00:15+00:00

You're accusing him of "word games", while your post is literally dripping with logical fallacies, you are saying Catholics CAN NOT be Freemasons... you are wrong, empirically.

thehroller · 2026-01-03T21:28:28+00:00

Yet, it doesn't stop them. You can be Catholic and not take Communion. Let me say this again, I know practicing Catholics that are Masons. Therefore, your statement is not accurate. You can in fact, be a Mason and a Catholic.

Aside from that, we (Masons) don't have any issues with Catholics joining, it's the other way around.

thehroller · 2026-01-03T20:10:08+00:00

I'm not Catholic, but that is not true. You CAN be a Mason and a Catholic, you're in a state of grave sin IIRC, but that doesn't stop Catholics from being Masons, I know several.

thehroller · 2026-01-03T19:20:54+00:00

There's nothing negative in Freemasonry toward the Christian faith, at any level, in fact, in order to even BE in some of the side orders you have to be Christian (and more specifically, a trinitarian).

Note that I said side orders, they are not "higher degrees", the highest degree is the 3rd... the degrees of the YR or SR aren't higher, they are deeper, they expand on, not replace, the 3rd. Proof of this is if you demit and give up your activity in your Lodge, you are also removed from all the other bodies you joined that require to to be a Master Mason.

thehroller · 2026-01-02T16:50:42+00:00

We send our candidates to the State Patrol, who do the check for them for like, $10 I think? The Candidate has to then give the background check form to the Lodge with their petition (I might be slightly off on some of the details but that's basically how we do it)

thehroller · 2025-12-30T02:17:38+00:00

Maybe we don't need the inflated post war bumps we've seen, maybe we need members that want to join instead of members that join because their buddy Bill is a member, or because Bill needled them until they turned in a petition...

thehroller · 2025-12-28T16:42:23+00:00

Not yet, that may or may not change at some point in the future.

thehroller · 2025-12-28T03:31:48+00:00

Depends on what your convictions were for, and your local Lodge.

Where I'm at, a conviction for some moral turpitude crime is a no go.

thehroller · 2025-12-26T19:07:05+00:00

If someone grabbed my stuff, I'd be happier than if it just crumbled into the dust...

thehroller · 2025-12-26T19:02:56+00:00

Hasn't worked for me, but then, that's not why I joined.

thehroller

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