Re: [sof] FreeMasons and Civil Disobedience

On 12/21/2009 10:09 PM, Torence wrote:
On Dec 21, 2:59 pm, Janet Wintermute<jwinterm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/21/2009 10:16 AM, Torence wrote:
Fascinating, Torence. This is such a contrarian view of "history" that
I'm moved to ask your sources.
Hello Janet- Gosh it has been ages since we conversed. Do you
remember meeting with us at the Masonic Forum on America Online?
I got active on the ancient newsgroup alt.freemasonry in August 1995. By fall 1996, it had turned into a snakepit of Bible-thumpers. I left after one of the enlightened ones opined that he hoped I "would cook in hell."

During the same period, I became active on the big Freemasonry List (solely e-mail; no Web involvement). During the early years (mid- to late 90s), there was a CompuServe masonic forum, and I ventured onto that only to needle the then-president of the Philalethes Society because he was attacking a female mason from New York City whom I felt I had to help under the circumstances.

When Scotty Fitzgerald and others started soc.org.fm around 2000, I happily joined up. In the early years, there were lots of interesting threads. But lately, not so much. That's why I haven't been writing to the group much recently. Scotty arranged for me to get sof by e-mail instead of having to fire up the old Usenet freeware and download all the messages. Good system--wish I could explain to others how to get sof that way....

Thanks for the references to John McKee's work and the various TV shows. This *is* an interesting thread.

--Janet

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