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B Oeuf
38,279 posts
154 months
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ianash said: Whilst everybody say's don't join it for what you get out of it, in my experience many do. You will get a great opportunity to network and you may get a leg up in your business/career. People like doing business with people they know and trust. It's a great upstanding organisation dedicated to charity - nuff said? sounds great.....where do I sign?
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jackal
9,796 posts
152 months
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Mr Sea said: what I'd get from it. evasion from the self an illusory sense of collective identity the softening of one's sense of aloneness
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sleep envy
59,552 posts
119 months
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Mr Sea said: I don't believe in a higher power how good are you at lying?
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Marf
22,907 posts
111 months
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jackal said: Mr Sea said: what I'd get from it. evasion from the self an illusory sense of collective identity the softening of one's sense of aloneness I find a good single malt has the same effect.
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dirty boy
12,841 posts
79 months
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sleep envy said: dirty boy said: Interesting when you're waaaaaaaay up the ladder. how far up are you? Personally, not very, they only wanted me in to be treasurer! So was stuck with that a few years, but studies etc mean i've not done anything for a while, just turn up, get my curry (best bit about my lodge) and enjoy myself without having to worry too much, suits me. I plan on getting involved more when the kids move out and i'm stuck with the wife every evening. I've been in since I was 21, now 29.
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dirty boy
12,841 posts
79 months
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sleep envy said: Mr Sea said: I don't believe in a higher power how good are you at lying?  Just what I was about to type.
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sleep envy
59,552 posts
119 months
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21?? blimey that's young
have you been through the chair yet?
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Mr Sea
Original Poster
2,124 posts
95 months
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sleep envy said: Mr Sea said: I don't believe in a higher power how good are you at lying? Not that good! So it's a no goer?
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Justayellowbadge
29,855 posts
112 months
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An arcane, misunderstood group, where you are approached on the quiet to see if you want to join, and if you do you will be viewed with suspicion by those around you?
Not sure it appeals.
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dirty boy
12,841 posts
79 months
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sleep envy said: 21?? blimey that's young
have you been through the chair yet? Nope, just got my first 3 out of the way, then treasurer, enjoyed doing the wt for newbies (who were 20/30/40/50 years my senior) to keep me ticking over on remembering. ETA Yes, very young, but it's a family history thing, my old man and grandad also consecrated my lodge as a new one in 2000, so nice to be part of it from the beginning, hence I was in as early as allowed.
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B Oeuf
38,279 posts
154 months
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jackal said: Mr Sea said: what I'd get from it. evasion from the self an illusory sense of collective identity the softening of one's sense of aloneness That's not the Freemasons, that's the Borg
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Los Palmas 7
29,908 posts
100 months
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Justayellowbadge said: An arcane, misunderstood group, where you are approached on the quiet to see if you want to join, and if you do you will be viewed with suspicion by those around you?
Not sure it appeals. And yet they made you a mod? Go figure.
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sleep envy
59,552 posts
119 months
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dirty boy said: Nope, just got my first 3 out of the way, then treasurer, enjoyed doing the wt for newbies (who were 20/30/40/50 years my senior) to keep me ticking over on remembering. the wt's - party pieces to make sure you know everyone is watching you wm for me next year...
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Marf
22,907 posts
111 months
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Los Palmas 7 said: Justayellowbadge said: An arcane, misunderstood group, where you are approached on the quiet to see if you want to join, and if you do you will be viewed with suspicion by those around you?
Not sure it appeals. And yet they made you a mod? Go figure. I hear he gave out some ahem, secret handshakes, to obtain the position.
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Halb
18,113 posts
53 months
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Cmurder said: your gonna get bummed Or be asked to kill hookers
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Los Palmas 7
29,908 posts
100 months
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Marf said: Los Palmas 7 said: Justayellowbadge said: An arcane, misunderstood group, where you are approached on the quiet to see if you want to join, and if you do you will be viewed with suspicion by those around you?
Not sure it appeals. And yet they made you a mod? Go figure. I hear he gave out some ahem, secret handshakes, to obtain the position. I've just realised that his post there was deliberate, ironic and witty. See, he's changed already.
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catmartin
889 posts
67 months
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What do the Freemasons do? Apart from scare me when I see them in films.
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Saddle bum
3,632 posts
89 months
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Mr Sea said: I don't believe in a higher power If you cannot acknowledge the existence of a "Supreme Being", then don't go any further.
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Saddle bum
3,632 posts
89 months
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sleep envy said: wm for me next year... We will all expect an invitation.
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Mr Sea
Original Poster
2,124 posts
95 months
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Saddle bum said: Mr Sea said: I don't believe in a higher power If you cannot acknowledge the existence of a "Supreme Being", then don't go any further. That's what I was thinking, I don't want to be lying my way through the process!
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