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How the school system failed Freemasonry

Comenius school
April 27, 2020May 8, 2024
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

The public educational system, in the past several decades, became utilitarian, i.e. more oriented toward practicalities and less towards general humanities because those were and still are considered, by the utilitarian “philosophers”, as non-essential for human progress in the 20th

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Charity – when the language deceives us…

August 18, 2019
Freethinker
Divine, Texts

Most of us will remember the three (Christian) virtues mentioned in the JW lecture during our initiation: Faith, Hope, and Charity. And Masons are eager to refer to the “charity” and the “charitable work” and similar expressions. Even worse, if

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The “bretheren” stubbornly resist Grammar

July 12, 2019
Freethinker
Texts, Tools

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” Dalai Lama XIV There’s a stubbornly surviving shameful error in our lodges: about half of the Masons have no idea what the archaic plural of the noun “brother”

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Do we have another historical chance?

February 20, 2019June 2, 2019
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

According to Yascha Mounk, an author and lecturer on Political Theory at Harvard University, millennials in America are six times more dissatisfied with the democratic system than they were in 1940. […] Mounk explains how in previous generations, many Americans

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Traditional Observant Lodges in Canada

lights
January 17, 2019
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

Are the Traditional Observance (TO) lodges as relevant for the revival of the Canadian Masonry as they are in the USA… or is the situation different here in the Great White North? Why even ask this question? Canadian jurisdictions have

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Getting republished…

December 8, 2018
Freethinker
Texts

My previous post, regarding the Masons’ numbers in Ontario, written as a reaction to a study published on Freemason Information, was reprinted in the same place – with an intro by the editor, Fred Milliken.

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To die or not to die? Freemasonry in Ontario

December 4, 2018December 5, 2018
Freethinker
Texts, History

There is an article written by a Texas Mason that went viral and is discussed, dismissed and “fought” in all the Masonic forums and groups in North America. While the author is very careful to not attach any emotional comment

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Léo Taxil – the father of fake news

June 21, 2018June 21, 2018
Freethinker
Texts, History, Book Reviews

In a closed Masonic discussion group someone asked whether we have read Leo Taxil’s famous exposé of Masonry. Instead of giving a one-liner, I decided to make a longer post. Most people, Masons included, have no idea who this gentleman

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The selective amnesia of the Freemasons

Photo SkyNews
March 29, 2018
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

In all the Masonic forums, secret(?) groups and public forums/fora members pay tribute to and remember the fallen hero of France: the policeman, the lt. colonel who happened to be a French Freemason, too. Rightly, we all admire his brave

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Freemasonry divided – with God or without?

January 24, 2018June 2, 2023
Freethinker
Texts, History, Journey

In mid-2016 the Grand Lodge of Scotland warned that the increasing number of people turning backs on religion could affect the future of Freemasonry1 – since it is requiring belief in a Supreme Being. The reference to “Godless” population brought

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