Bloke
Premium Member
As long as the emotional temperature in the thread does not get too hot, I recommend debating Coach, if you are into that sort of thing, but realise he is not having a loose discussion, he is vigorously applying logic and rhetoric from a position.Wow "coach". You seem to very quickly dismiss any rational discussion here, cutting it short with technicalities. I've been a Mason for 15 years now with Past Grand Rank "yadda yadda", as well as several of the side degrees. Rarely do I remembering encountering such intellectual "superiority". Nevertheless it's your thread (as well as much of this bulletin board it would appear) so I will withdraw and leave you to it. My insights are clearly not needed here. Just do me a favour: List a similar organisation to Freemasonry in 1717, outside of a University, that had female members please. Or is that simply conjecture on your part? To my knowledge, women were allowed to attend Royal Society meetings in the late 1600's, but not join as members.
However, I would also comment I have an email on my desk, and it reads something like "I was really interested in becoming a Freemason until I exprerienced the hostility on social media that Masons show each other". We always need to keep that in mind. The world watches.