Eight Secret Societies (2016)

Post by pyinstallwoes » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 12:43 PM UTC

galaxyLogic wrote: post #117

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Evil exists. You’re rationalizing pure logic. If I stalked you, terrorized you, did the most irrationally consistently irrational things to anything in your world and those near you, you’d be hard pressed to call me anything other than driven by evil. There is meticulous, introspective, malicious, terrible intent that reads its head. Luckily it seems rare but sadly I’ve come across it.

3 kinds of evil: 1. Greed: You desire something that someone else has so you steal it, or cheat to get it etc. and thus cause harm to those who lose what you gain. 2. Jealousy: You love/want somebody but they give their love to someone else, you hate that someone else - because you think it prevents you from getting love. Then you do bad things to those people who you are jealous of to make them look bad etc., or eve…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 5:17 PM UTC

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I would say that the reasons run deeper than a power play. Freemasonry demands active participation in a religious liturgy in which Christ is implicitly excluded. When the Church warns against such worship and the basic attitudes (beliefs) it inevitably expresses, it is not expressing hatred but charity: concern for souls and loyalty to the mission it received from Christ in Mt 28:19-20. My guess is that you will fin…

That's an interesting way of putting it, and not inaccurate, either. When I think about it... Freemasonry has a very different religious focus than most Abrahamic religions, despite its origins in the same. Yeshua ben Yosef is basically ignored in favor of other historical, and explicitly allegorical, figures.

Post by galaxyLogic » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 6:41 PM UTC

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #121

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3 kinds of evil: 1. Greed: You desire something that someone else has so you steal it, or cheat to get it etc. and thus cause harm to those who lose what you gain. 2. Jealousy: You love/want somebody but they give their love to someone else, you hate that someone else - because you think it prevents you from getting love. Then you do bad things to those people who you are jealous of to make them look bad etc., or eve…

Damn I knew someone with traits of all three and I tell you, it was a frightening experience. It really forced me to contemplate nature and behavior.