What Did You Gain?

 

  

One of the things I've learned about myself is that if I have something rattling around in my head for a long time, the only way to make it go away is to let it out.  The following question and the thoughts accompanying it has been rattling around in my head for more than a year now, and it's time to finally let it all out.

This is directed to the members of my former Masonic lodge, Dentsville #398.  I don't know how many of them actually read my blog, if any, but knowing the power of the internet I'm sure this post will find its way to them.  At least I hope so, but we'll see.

So, having said that, here's the question:

WHAT DID YOU GAIN?

What did you gain by expelling me from Masonry?  Is the lodge better off for it?  Has attendance at the meetings improved?  Has attendance at activities improved?  Has the ritual performance improved?  Do you have more Masons asking to sit in the chairs than you need?  Has membership increased?  Is the lodge still operating in the red?

And concerning the person who started all this, how many meetings has he attended?  How many fundraisers has he worked?  How many lodge cleanup days has he attended?  How has he contributed to the lodge?  (The answers to these questions is the reason I fired him as Junior Deacon in '22, by the way.)

So just what did you gain?  What did Masonry in South Carolina gain?

Now let me tell you what you lost.

You lost one of the most dedicated and loyal members of the lodge.  You lost one of the men that you could count on to be at EVERY meeting, EVERY ritual practice, EVERY fundraiser, EVERY lodge cleanup day, EVERY Friends and Family - EVERYTHING that the lodge did.  You lost one of the best Past Masters  for the past ten years (or so I've been told).  You lost one of the best Secretaries the lodge had for the past 20 years (again, or so I've been told).  

So you lost more than you gained.

You also caused the Shrine to lose a dedicated member, and the Directors Staff to lose one of the best Directors they'd had in the previous 5 years.  You caused the Eastern Star to lose a three-time consecutive Worthy Patron with the same dedication for the OES as I had for the Lodge.  You caused the Scottish Rite to lose a dedicated member, and the Knights of St. Andrews to lose a dedicated officer.

In short, you gained NOTHING and lost EVERYTHING.

What did I gain?  I gained the painful knowledge that as much as I thought it was different, Masonry was no different than any other organization in that it's filled with hypocrites, people who will smile to your face one minute and stick a knife in your back in the next.  It's filled with people who will talk about supporting you and how much of a "brother" they are to you, but who will abandon you at the drop of a hat the moment anything negative is said about you.  

I don't need these kinds of people in my life, so I gained a lot.  I gained a smaller circle composed of people who I know I can trust and who won't turn their backs on me when things get tough.  My circle is small - VERY small - and that's just the way I like it.   

In closing, let me say this:  there's more to the story than you know.  MUCH, MUCH more.  I was lied to by the Master of the Lodge when all of that crap was going on, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES.  And you were lied to as well.

If you want to know the rest of the story, just ask me and I'll tell you.  If not, that's fine.  At this point it doesn't matter to me one way or the other because I've moved on.

But don't ever call me "brother" again, because with 4 exceptions (and you know who you are) I'm not your fuckin' brother.  

Deo Vindice

IHC  

 

 

How I Feel About It All

 

I think the meme above pretty much sums it up.  Yeah, the midterm elections were a disaster for both the country in general and the Republicans in particular, and even though it's coming out that a lot of the numbers don't match and that there's been voter fraud on the part of the Demoncrats (imagine that!), I am absolutely positive that nothing will come of it.  As usual, the politicians in the great stinkhole known as Washington DC will protect each other against all comers.  The Demoncrats will circle the wagons and protect themselves because they're guilty of everything that's been said and they know it, and the Rinos will assist by dragging things out and not taking action because they know that if the Demoncrats go down, they're going to name names and a lot of Rinos will be going down with them.  (This is why the Epstein files haven't been totally released yet.)

So what can we, the American people do?  Well, that depends on which side of the political spectrum you're sitting on.  If you're a libtard Demoncrat, you're gonna be busy plotting and planning how you're going to investigate, indict, remove, and imprison all of the Republicans that you've been complaining about doing the same thing to you for the past 2 years.  (Hypocrisy, thy name is Demoncrat.)  

And if you're a piece of shit Muslim politician who got elected by those stupid motherfuckers on the other side of the aisle, you're busy planning on how you can initiate Sharia Law and destroy the United States from within.  (But that's another topic for another time.)

If you're a Republican (spelled P-A-T-R-I-O-T) right now all you can do is sit back and watch the train wreck happen.  I, for one, have ZERO confidence in the Republicans in the Congress right now.  They still have the majority and they could shove the SAVE Act through along with the Executive Orders that need to be codified, but they won't.  Just why they won't is beyond me, but I have a feeling that it's one of two things:  either the Demoncrats have something on them that they don't want released, or they don't want the "campaign contributions" to stop.  

Either way, there's nothing we can do to stop the train wreck that's coming.  All we can do is sit back, drink some bourbon, smoke a cigar, and watch it happen.  Then, when the smoke has cleared and we have control of the Congress and the country, again, we'll go in and pick up the pieces.

And if those asshole Muslims have instituted their murderous ideology in any way, shape, or form, we're gonna pick up our AR15s and take care of business.

Deo Vindice

IHC