The Comments Section: Not the Best or the Wisest

It’s Friday and it’s comments section day! Here is a collection of some of the “best” comments from the Daily Masonic Progress Youtube channel, and my responses!

Two of my favourites:

• I get called a rascist

• I created my own masonic order

There will be a link to the video about the quote, so feel free to go and add your two cents.

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Video: Truth About God in Freemasonry

• Chris-op7yt

So you're just pre-supposing something that is made up and not necessary, and no evidence points that way.have you considered that you're in a simulation of a brain in a vat that thinks a god created a universe that science describes adequately?

If we are in a simulation, someone had to have programmed it and created the simulation. Someone who exists outside of the simulation and is not bound by the simulation itself.

• projectaletheia8707

Why do you not tell us what degree you are?

One of the misconceptions about Freemasonry is that because a degree has a higher number than another degree, people think it’s superior.

People don’t understand how masonry actually works and they just take things at their face or literal value.

For example: In Freemasonry, I hold a higher rank than many 33rd Degree masons.

There are also 33rd degree masons that outrank me. How is this possible?

If you only think literally and from the outside it doesn’t make sense.

But if you were a Mason you’d understand how it all works and realise this is the case. But when we tell this to outsiders they don’t want to believe it and just take things literally.

My highest degree in the Appendant Orders which Scottish Rite and York Rite are both of, is a Knight of the Rossy Cross in Royal Order of Scotland. This degree isn’t numbered, yet simple minds wouldn’t give it any authority because they refuse to believe their own misconceptions as it doesn’t follow an arbitrary number system they want to give authority to.

what lodge are you in?

Why does it matter and what’s with the questions? How about you give me some reasons as to why I should answer you.

so I know you are legit and I continue to watch your content. One last time before I call bullshit on you: Lodge? Degree?

All in the description of every video. By the way, I don’t care if you call bullshit or not. Your opinion has zero bearing on my credibility.

yeah I don’t see it anywhere.

Look harder. It’s all in the about Darren section in every description of every video.

I hold the 88th Degree of Hierophantēs in The Most Ancient Socratic Order of Daedalus

(Yes, I just made up a fictional masonic order and gave it a number. I even had ChatGPT come up with some of the elements of what this fictional order could be about. Should I publish more about this fictional order?

• micomarinas2753

can a knocker/seeker can join a grand lodge instead of a blue lodge? what is the advantage of joining thru grandlodge compare to blue lodge?

Great Question!

To answer this, we need to understand the what is a Grand Lodge and also what is the role of the Grand Lodge and what is the role of individual lodges.

But first, how did Grand Lodges come into existence when there were first individual lodges who issued charters and practiced freemasonry?

In 1717 England the four lodges at the time met to create a Grand Lodge where they transferred certain powers and responsibilities to Grand Lodge from themselves.

Now, they gave Grand Lodge the responsibility and power to make Lodges but withheld the power to Make Masons for themselves.

This means, the only way to become a Mason is through an Individual Lodge, because the Grand Lodge doesn’t have the power or ability to make masons.

Grand Lodge can only make Lodges, so when you have a group of individual masons (from a lodge) they can ask Grand Lodge to make them a Lodge.

But who is the Grand Lodge?

While Brethren like myself are “Grand Officers” hence my Right Worshipful rank, this might seem like we are members of Grand Lodge, and we are.

So why can’t you join Grand Lodge?

Because the only way to become a Grand Officer is to be a Mason, the only way to become a Mason is through an Individual Lodge.

However, being a Grand Officer is not about being a member, you become a Grand Officer when you take on responsibility for the Governance of Freemasonry.

However, let’s bring this back to Lodges and Grand Lodges.

Because a Grand Lodge can only make individual lodges, what makes up a grand lodge is… lodges.

So the way decisions are made at Grand Lodge is that the lodges vote on them. But don’t individual masons cast those votes?

They do, but they are not casting their votes in their own right as individual masons. Rather, they are voting on behalf of their lodge.

To bring this home. As Individual Masons make up a Lodge and individual Lodges make up Grand Lodge, you effectively become a member of Grand Lodge by virtue of your membership to an Individual Lodge.

Video: Escape the Empty Feeling Of Chasing Money, Cars & Women (Masonic Education)

• Make1984FictionAgain

I agree. Yet- the reason I am listening to you is an attempt to understand the way I've been treated by a freemason I slept with. I am thus seeking to understand his struggles,and why it is permissable in his mind to treat me without any human respect. I've been through true horrors in this life, and find it hard to understand the mindset that allows this man to return kindness with inhumane cruelty.

I am going to give you some personal advice here because there is a mistake you are making that is causing you more pain than what you have already been through.

Here is the mistake:
The mistake is that you are conflating his identity as an individual with his membership to Freemasonry. He could also be a Banker, Football Player, etc or whatever else he participates in.

Just because he is a member of Freemasonry doesn’t mean his actions are done as a Freemason.

If anyone who is a member of Freemasonry and has done what you have described— then he is not a Freemason, he is (what we would call) a Cowan or Intruder.

If anyone who has done what you described says they are a Freemason, they are not in their heart and have acted unmasonically, and should be expelled.

Freemasonry instructs us as Masons to treat every person equally and with the same inherent dignity, respect & value as any other person regardless.

Here is the advice:
Stop trying to understand it from the perspective of Freemasonry (per above, it’s unmasonic).

Stop trying to understand this deplorable behaviour and justify it.

You are worthy of love, dignity, respect, humanity, kindness and everything else that must be afforded to each human being because we are all equal and all return to the same state (death).

It is never, especially within Freemasonry let alone general society, acceptable in any way to treat any other person any less than you would treat yourself.

Do yourself a favour, write this Cowan off from your mind, forget about him, never let the least trace of such a vile wretch remain in your memory in anyway.

Video: 33rd Degree Reveals Truth about Lucifer/Satantic Worship In Freemasonry

• maximumsecurity9411

The white Freemason is Devil worshipper! Otherwise,Your probably not a Freemason at all. You are a prize liar! You certainly are not a devine educated man , so what are You? A typical lying racist Freemason liar!!

Do you know what is the underlying cause of racism and any form of discrimination?

It’s making a prejudicial negative judgement about someone based upon their external appearance (race/gender) or beliefs.

So what’s ironic is that in your very accusation of calling me:
1) a racist
2) a devil worshiper
3) a “not divine educated” man
4) a liar

You have made a prejudicial negative judgement about me based upon my appearance and my beliefs.

You have committed an act of racism by saying that “because I am a white Freemason therefore I am a racist”

So basically, you’ve been racist yourself.

He who is without sin, shall cast the first stone. But you’ve just thrown stones living in a glass house.