Cognitive Thrift 60 – Freemasons
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/03/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: In a lot of these things, we find a community, in the Freemasons, for instance.
Rick Rosner: They just remodeled the masonic lodge next to one of the gyms that I go to, and it looks like a really good time. It is very tempting to go check out being a mason. There are guys at the lodge all the time.
My dad was a Shriner, a mason. He went to the Elks club. He had a weekly poker group. He got a lot of satisfaction out of masculine community.
Jacobsen: You can find this in religious communities as well, even in fraternities. Things get morphed according to the time. For instance, the current masonic traditions in addition to the Rosicrucian tradition seems to come out of a man burned in 1600 named Giordano Bruno.
Rosner: People who belong to the masons don’t give a crap about Giordano Bruno. Jacobsen: No, they don’t, nor Galileo Galilei.
Rosner: It goes back to Hermes, whatever his name was –
Jacobsen: Trismegistus.
Rosner: Yea, that guy. And all of these arcane mystical traditions – I mean that if the masons. I mean some people distrust the masons, but stuff that is alternative to Christianity, say.
Jacobsen: Or Islam.
Rosner: Yea, but because that stuff is just kind of part of a ritual at this point for most masons. You learn and you go through to join. It doesn’t. I would guess that the groups of Christians are higher in the masons than in the non-masons.
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