Any Masons here on the board?  Or wait. Is that to be kept a secret ?- i don't know how that works.

So, maybe nevermind.

Okay, the ignorant Dane speaks again. What is a Mason?

First I though it was like a Rockefeller, then it sounded like just a name for someone upper class, but then 12rainbow mentions a tattoo. Is it some sort of cult??

OR is it what we in DK call Mensa? -A club for people who has an IQ above a million.

Ditte 

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

No, but I learned their secret handshakes from Monty Python's Flying Circus. 

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

"Lost on the freeway again, lookin' for means to an end."

Someone asked what Freemasonry is, so I pasted the wiki introduction below. Freemasons are associated with religion, philosophy, enlightenment, charity, secrecy, politics, rituals, controversy, conspiracy and even Jack the Ripper. They organize their local groups into "Lodges" (there's plenty of them in Washington state), and they welcome people of various religious backgrounds. They believe that intellectual, intuitive and spiritual evolution of the individual is possible and happens, and (before Twin Peaks originally aired) I had read that their higher degree members believe in a White Lodge where "enlightened" beings dwell.

Describing the Masons in detail would add several pages to this forum. I won't bore you with the lengthy list of Freemasons who were America's Founding Fathers & Presidents, but I just realized their square & compass symbol reminds me of the symbol on Teresa Banks' ring. Maybe the "G" inside it stands for Georgia Coffee...

Freemasonry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins (theorised to be anywhere from the time of the building of King Solomon's Temple to the mid-1600s). Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around 5 million, with around 480,000 in England, Scotland and Ireland alone, and over 2,000,000 in the United States. The various forms all share moral and metaphysical ideals, which include, in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being.

The fraternity is administratively organised into Grand Lodges (or sometimes Orients), each of which governs its own jurisdiction, which consists of subordinate (or constituent) Lodges. Grand Lodges recognise each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There are also appendant bodies, which are organisations related to the main branch of Freemasonry, but with their own independent administration.

Freemasonry uses the metaphors of operative stonemasons' tools and implements, against the allegorical backdrop of the building of King Solomon's Temple, to convey what has been described as "a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols."

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Freemason betyder frimurer på dansk :)

(Sorry, everybody for the Danish. I just translated the word...)

 EDIT: Ah, damnit... I didn't see that others had already explained the word... heh...

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It's would be cool to have a keyboard with umlot, accent grave , circumflex ( ^) and other accents over the letters-vowels -to write in different languages. Mine just has English keys.

I did a little research on the Freemasons-they include all races, the different religions and are literally all over the world as per chainsaw's post. I'm busy consulting to the real estate/mortgage industry this month and will look into this when I have the time. 

"watch out for my cousin.."

What gang is that fellow ......

Oh wait he looks like a past president of the C.V.de Wortelpin Heijen. Right Booth?

The info is all out there for anyone to read.

http://www.grandlodgescotland.com/

Hello, in the name of C.V. de Wortelpin Heijen.

What's going on. The Wortelpin on the world wide web!!!

In the short period of carnaval the prince rules our village Heijen. But that is merely a big dream. In reality it is a fake ruler and it's all just for fun. So do not think these princes really are powerful. They are just glad to be the chosen ones for a couple of days. After carnaval it is all over again and a normal life is all that is left.

Theo,

webmaster www.wortelpinheijen.nl

Thank you Senna and hiepke !!

hiepke, welcome to the board ! Looks like a good time for the village of Heijin at carnaval time.

All the best and thanks for the links Senna and Theo,

Raymond

 Raymond, no problem. The site is very good and runs through the history of Freemasonary in Scotland. The HQ of the GL of Scotland is based in Edinburgh and is open to public visits. Very good I think. There are various othe sites for other countries too.

A word of warning though, don't get too hooked into what other people think they know about the subject. That is the reason I sent you the link as all the information anyone who is not already a member would require is there. Hope it helps.