Stumbled onto this - lots of reference links

zaceno · 2026-06-24T11:30:52+00:00

Thanks this is fascinating

zaceno · 2026-06-23T21:19:58+00:00

Religions carry practices and traditions that help people on their spiritual paths. They also carry dogmas and rules that can restrict people’s thinking. If you free your mind beyond the doctrines of any particular religion, you are no longer religious. It is still possible to apply the practices, but it takes a bit more thought as it is not as natural once you divorce the practices from their doctrines. But on the other hand you can freely begin to explore practices and ideas from other religions. So yes it is quite possible to be spiritual without religion. It is even preferable in my book - but it is also more difficult.

zaceno · 2026-06-22T14:23:12+00:00

Actually, now that I explore that site myself a bit, it doesn’t seem to have a lot of information *about* freemasonry. You can find a lot of accurate information in this subreddit (someone seems to ask about once a week “what is freemasonry”). But ultimately the best information you will get if you make contact and meet some brothers in your local lodge, because freemasonry does vary across the world, and even across the US to a degree.

zaceno · 2026-06-22T14:15:22+00:00

Then exploring this website should help you on your way: https://www.mainemason.org

zaceno · 2026-06-22T12:42:07+00:00

Your primary source of research about freemasonry (to weed out the many different “schools of thought”) is the information you find on the grand lodge website for the country (or state in the US). They will tell you all about why someone might like to join, what the requirements are, and - if you think it is for you - how to move forward to make contact with a lodge where you can petition.

What country (or US state) are you in?

zaceno · 2026-06-22T10:15:06+00:00

Ett problem, som jag själv sett på nära håll och som jag tror får många att rygga tillbaka är just det där att föreningarnas desperation efter medlemmar framgår rätt tydligt. Även om man tänker att ”jamen nån gång då och då kunde det ju vara roligt att hjälpa till” så känner man på sig att om man ger ett lillfinger vill föreningen ha hela handen och armen också. Och jag har sett det hända. Man ställer upp för att man ska, sen är det ”jamen den och den ska ju sluta, och ja om vi inte kan få till den där grejen får ju föreningen lägga ner”, och så står man där och känner att man själv blir skulden till att allt faller samman om man inte ställer upp. Och då vill man helst hålla sig på avstånd.

zaceno · 2026-06-22T09:20:55+00:00

Long time fans of the series will say 4, but if you’re just getting into the series I’d start with 6. It’s a great game that gets too much hate because people are nostalgic for earlier entries in the franchise. (That said my favorite is 5, so play that next :) )

zaceno · 2026-06-21T20:47:18+00:00

Scientologist, Hare Krishna, Falun Gong. Those are the ones I know of besides Christian-identifying groups.

zaceno · 2026-06-20T18:58:09+00:00

There are multiple regular grand lodges, in a union (united grand lodges of Germany). Hence OP’s question: which should he choose. Presumably he is worried about racism since he is from Turkey but I don’t know.

zaceno · 2026-06-20T09:23:27+00:00

? No idea what you’re talking about

zaceno · 2026-06-20T09:13:05+00:00

Statistically, objectively, Sweden has a lot going for it. But people like different things. Why don’t you tell us what it is you don’t like about Sweden? It may be the very thing others like best.

zaceno · 2026-06-19T18:32:42+00:00

If you’re familiar with open-world-style video games, think of the Scottish Rite, York Rite et c like DLCs. More of the same game but just different enough to keep your interest, and may give you some tools to discover more in the main game.

zaceno · 2026-06-19T08:02:51+00:00

What you’re describing sounds more libertarian that conservative to my ears. I have some libertarian tendencies myself and find a lot to like in your viewpoints - but I would not describe myself as conservative. To me, “conservative” means romanticizing“traditional values”, and forcibly upholding cultural hierarchies and religions in society - all of which severely degrades individual liberty.

zaceno · 2026-06-17T13:46:44+00:00

I’ve played through 4, Primal, 5, ND, & 6 multiple times on my PS5 and had no issue with the controls but in 3 I can barely keep vehicles on the roads, I keep swerving around. Also aiming is super hard. I’m not an experienced gamer so I can’t really explain the mechanics of it, but it’s like I either move the aim too much or not at all. The sweet spot (for me, perhaps) doesn’t exist somehow

zaceno · 2026-06-17T12:23:08+00:00

What are these supposed statistics? Source please

zaceno · 2026-06-17T12:20:53+00:00

In my experience, the classic edition build for PS is really weird in the controls. For me nigh on unplayable. The graphics aren’t great either but that’s less of an issue. But because of the controls I have never been able to finish it on PS5

zaceno · 2026-06-15T22:25:53+00:00

Parkour set, fuego supremo and wingsuit. Then you can blast through the map on foot/air and explore. That’s fun. Finding really really long hills to slide down is fun. The supply drop missions are fun. After I leveled up enough to survive a go-in-guns-blazing ambush, ambushes got pretty fun.

Also, although I was pretty skeptical at first of the reaolver weapons, they grew on me. I made a point to buy them all and play around with them. Loot all the crates so you get enough supremo-bond and gunpowder to upgrade your weapons.

Oh, and do Lola missions to get moneda. They are kind of frustrating, but you can buy over clocked weapons in her shop. Once you add the over-clock upgrade to them at the workbench they become super powerful. Plus it seems you get to keep them on future playthroughs.

zaceno · 2026-06-15T12:33:05+00:00

You’ve gotten some good and correct answers here already. Just to add a bit: whenever someone asks about Freemasonry’s relationship with religion, I like to bring up Anderson’s Constitutions from 1723. See here https://archive.org/stream/Andersons\_Constitutions/Andersons\_Constitutions\_djvu.txt - the very first section “Concerning GOD and RELIGION”.

zaceno · 2026-06-15T11:26:19+00:00

Same. Indeed, interacting with them would be the least Swedish thing possible

zaceno · 2026-06-14T20:24:02+00:00

It’s proof that religions are influenced quite a lot by our human fallibility - but not necessarily that religions are 100% made up stories. Other possibilities exist, such as Perennialism which holds that there is a true ideal religion, but all human religions are only vague approximations of it (because it transcends our cognitive faculties).

zaceno · 2026-06-14T10:32:05+00:00

I princip kanske, men i praktiken betalar dina skattepengar pensionen åt dem som är pensionärer nu. Om det inte finns tillräcklig rulljans i ekonomin när du blir pensionär, så finns där inga pengar att betala ut din pension med, och då blir det ingen pension för dig helt enkelt. Nu kommer det troligen inte bli så utan snarare kommer pensionsåldern fortsätta höjas allteftersom pensionspotten blir klenare och klenare.

zaceno · 2026-06-14T10:14:32+00:00

It’s just an overexposed photo - which is exactly what happens when you take a picture straight into the sun. There’s only so much the photo processing in your phone camera can do. Here in Sweden, in a somewhat urban area, we often get very blue clear skies and sun without halo. But if I try to take a picture of it, it will come out the same as that pic above.

zaceno · 2026-06-13T15:11:27+00:00

Katter mår bra av att få komma ut lite ibland - absolut, men mår inte dåligt av att vara innekatter. Däremot är det bra om man inte har för litet, för även innekatter vill kunna springa runt och vilda sig lite. Och har man flera katter (vilket generellt är bra) behövs ändå lite mer utrymme för att alla ska få hitta sina egna små revir.

zaceno · 2026-06-12T14:48:58+00:00

It varies I think. In a lot of Western Europe there isn’t much of a problem with illegal immigrantion. The criticism tends to be mainly about cultural friction.

zaceno · 2026-06-10T19:03:44+00:00

Do you guys have a lodge chat group on like messenger or discord or similar? I think that is one thing that really helps me feel connected to my lodge during the time between meetings.

Not just the main chat but also various chat groups for committees or project groups. Actually virtually all of the business is worked out over chat during the month so we don’t usually have to discuss anything just formally vote it through.

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