Challenges on the street

[Dontrell Stroman]

Furthermore, the key words are "true brothers". I know y'all have heard the older generation say "long time ago if a man was caught wearing Masonic emblems and he's not a mason, something bad could happen." Heckler I was told this before I was raised. I remember clear as day a brother saying don't wear anything Masonic affiliated, because the wrong brother seeing it may try you and if you can't prove yourself then you could get himed up.whatever that meant.

 

[Dontrell Stroman]

When I use to be apart of the Elks before I became a mason. I remember many freemasons would attend parties there. One night while I was there, I remember members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity were there partying. Well, one of the masons was doing a lot of barking "one of their fraternities chants". I remember seeing a Omega guy fly across the room and start questioning this brother. This brother had been drinking and was just barking trying to impress the ladies. Well the Omegas didn't like it. They asked the brother multiple times to stop barking and he refused. They waited to he went to the restroom and roughed him up a little. The only thing that stoped him from getting hurt real bad was some of his Masonic brothers came to his aid and broke it up. See to me this is how gangs operate. I will not condom nor be apart of such behavior. Senseless. Every time I hear masons talking about taking a brothers belongings it reminds me of street gangs and Greek fraternities.

 

[AndreAshlar]

It boils down to a simple question : are we a gang or a collective of upright men seeking to better ourselves and our communities using sacred law as our guide? It's the latter. Everything about us should speak to that reality.

 

[Dontrell Stroman]

It boils down to a simple question : are we a gang or a collective of upright men seeking to better ourselves and our communities using sacred law as our guide? It's the latter. Everything about us should speak to that reality.

Your right brother

 

[Warrior1256]

and if people really feel they have to take it to that level, they should really evaluate why they are even a "brother" in the first place.

Very true.

 

[mrpierce17]

No question about it to take another's belongings is a crime plan and simple

 

[Warrior1256]

No question about it to take another's belongings is a crime plan and simple

Exactly! That's why I can't understand why a person would think that they have to right to do this. It's completely ridiculous!

 

[acjohnson53]

I wouldn't put myself in a position to call myself a gang member, gang bangers caryy knives and guns and attempt to do bobily harm, Me as a Master Mason Spread Knowledge and Wisdom with the Attempt to spread Brotherly Love. Or as we say, Faith, Hope and Charity....Now in the open Lodge if a young Master Mason ask me a question I would try to answer his question as best I can...

 

[Dontrell Stroman]

I wouldn't put myself in a position to call myself a gang member, gang bangers caryy knives and guns and attempt to do bobily harm, Me as a Master Mason Spread Knowledge and Wisdom with the Attempt to spread Brotherly Love. Or as we say, Faith, Hope and Charity....Now in the open Lodge if a young Master Mason ask me a question I would try to answer his question as best I can...

That's what your suppose to do. Educate and spread brotherly love. Not defraud brothers.

 

[acjohnson53]

Good morning Sir. I up catching up on what I missed the last coupla days...

 

[Dontrell Stroman]

Good morning Sir. I up catching up on what I missed the last coupla days...

Good morning brethren. No problem. I check this app throughout the day daily lol

 

[Warrior1256]

That's what your suppose to do. Educate and spread brotherly love. Not defraud brothers.

Exactly!

 

[acjohnson53]

As I read in this forum it is intriguing how we forget that when we first became Master Masons we studied like the dickens to be proficient in our degrees to go the next level, and when we enter the Lodge we hear the same stuff all the time, so it becomes embedded in our mines on what's next, So I don't worry about it...I just go with flow...

 

[acjohnson53]

3 Letter, 4 Letter, we are all Masters in this Universe, At the end of the day we all answer to the higher Being /G\

 

[Dontrell Stroman]

3 Letter, 4 Letter, we are all Masters in this Universe, At the end of the day we all answer to the higher Being /G\

What GL do you hail from brother ?

 

[Glen Cook]

3 Letter, 4 Letter, we are all Masters in this Universe, At the end of the day we all answer to the higher Being /G\

I'm a member of both, and one of my GLs was four letter (outside of PHA, the number of letters doesn't matter).

 

[MRichard]

I'm a member of both, and one of my GLs was four letter (outside of PHA, the number of letters doesn't matter).

Most clandestine lodges are four letter. They like to use it as a pretense to show that they are somehow legitimate. More of an issue in the Black community. (And no that is not racial).

 

[Bloke]

We're 4 letter and regular. Dont rely on this observation....

 

[Glen Cook]

Most clandestine lodges are four letter. They like to use it as a pretense to show that they are somehow legitimate. More of an issue in the Black community. (And no that is not racial).

As I said, in the black community, Not in SGLs. See my sig line. We've got our own troubles, thanks

 

[MRichard]

As I said, in the black community, Not in SGLs. See my sig line. We've got our own troubles, thanks

I was simply clarifying. I missed the part where you said in the Black community. You mentioned PHA. The point was that the bogus lodges use 4 letters often.