what advantages are there to being a fre mason, and disadvantages. please answer only if you are a freemason?

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der sorry i meant to ask what the advantages and disavantages are. sorry, typing too quickly

Answer 1

Hi Neil, I answered your other question on how to join. Thought I would scribble down some stuff about advantages and disadvantages of being a Freemason.

Disadvantages:
It takes some of your time. In Co-Masonry, each month I have to drive to two Lodges I belong to. That is 800 miles all told each month. We leave at 5:30AM, get to Lodge, set it up, do a rehearsal if needed, do the Lodge, break it down, maybe eat a snack with the Brothers (we call both the men and women in Co-Masonry "Brother"), and then drive home. That is on a Saturday for one Lodge and a Sunday for the other. Different weekends.

It changes you. When you say you want More Light, things happen in your life. You recognize lessons that apply back to the Lodge. Sometimes that can be a tad painful. All growth is.

Advantages:
It is inexpensive regarding dues. It is cheaper than any organization I have joined. And although you are expected to put something in for charity, that something is never traced to you unless you want to write a check for it.

You are changed. OK, as in disadvantages, that can be painful but why else are you in Lodge? We are not a religion in that we make no claim as to what happens in the afterlife. We only know that we are working to making a moral society. That requires that morality start with me. It means that some of the shortcuts you may have been taking no longer seem so sweet and attractive. With becoming better human beings comes a certain peace, though.

You have a group (in our case that runs from Canada down to Chile and Brasil) of likeminded individuals who know you and trust you. Further, if you really need help, you will get it from them. I am Almoner for my Lodge. I help the elected head of the Lodge (the Right Worshipful Master) keep track of how Brothers are doing. Are they ill? Do they need help paying the rent? That sort of thing. If a Brother asks for help, he or she can usually get what they need.

I also like that we do fundraising for charities like homeless shelters and youth programs. We even send help to the masculine only Lodges that were hit by Katrina.

During ritual work is so satisfying. It is like tai-chi or yoga. When you are done with a Lodge, you feel so energized and a tad tired. I am Junior Deacon for one of my Lodges. That involves lots of ceremonial walking around. Army drill and ceremonies stands me in good stead.

If I can be of any further help, please let me know.

A Master Mason
American Co-Masonry (Freemasonry for Women and Men)
Hiram Lodge (Santa Cruz, CA)
Amon Ra Lodge (Los Angeles, CA)
Sapientia Lodge of Research (Larkspur, CO)
Adamant Mark Lodge (Santa Cruz, CA)

Answer 2

While I am a woman (obviously not a mason), I'm from a long line of the Order, including the OES. My father, who is also a Shriner, has been master of the lodge, etc., has told me that some of the new movies coming out seem to have attracted some strange reactions to the Order. However, even when people around me sometimes question my family's religion and moral values because of their ignorance, I can surely say that the Order does good work and should be proud. the Shriners, for example, do such good work for sick children. I am proud of my father and my grandfathers, uncles and male cousins for their work for the lodge.

Answer 3

I am a Freemason. There are no disadvantages i know of. Do you have a specific concern? Or something you you are hoping to gain?

We meet eat a meal together organize charity and learn from ritual and from each other how to be better people

Answer 4

There is no such society as the freemasons. they do not exist!

Remember they do not exist!

there is however, a group of like-minded men, a fellowship, or fraternity if you will. who, like cute cuddly beavers meet in a lodge. they simply exchange ideas on how to raise money for those less fortunate than themselves. they work together, like beavers, in order to improve the world. they do this with absolutely no thought for their own benefit. (like beavers)

Freemasons do not exist (like beavers)

I am a freemason.

Answer 5

i imagine the numerous downside may be the jealousy issue. we are all human and may't help yet to be jealous with such issues as that. And as for the answer above mine, you does no longer get to document taxes all jointly because it truly is legal to in reality have one marriage