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Old 06-27-2006, 01:05 PM   #1
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Preface: in the past I was very interested in aquariums, especially planted aquaria. I have been to fish auctions now and then, including killifish, which is a highly specialized community of fish freaks.

So I am on this email distribution, and find out that this years Texas killifish auction is not in Houston as it usually, but in Dallas. Ok. On further examination, I find out that it will be in a Masonic lodge.

Have Masons fallen so far that they are renting out their temples to people who auction seasonal fish?

(many killifish live in pools of rain water, grow quickly, breed, lay eggs, which dry out when the pools dry. And hatch during the next rainy season).

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Old 06-27-2006, 01:32 PM   #2
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Preface: in the past I was very interested in aquariums, especially planted aquaria. I have been to fish auctions now and then, including killifish, which is a highly specialized community of fish freaks.

So I am on this email distribution, and find out that this years Texas killifish auction is not in Houston as it usually, but in Dallas. Ok. On further examination, I find out that it will be in a Masonic lodge.

Have Masons fallen so far that they are renting out their temples to people who auction seasonal fish?

(many killifish live in pools of rain water, grow quickly, breed, lay eggs, which dry out when the pools dry. And hatch during the next rainy season).

the masonic temple in Detroit is more know for its theatre than anything else
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Hilarious!
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Old 06-27-2006, 04:06 PM   #4
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Preface: in the past I was very interested in aquariums, especially planted aquaria. I have been to fish auctions now and then, including killifish, which is a highly specialized community of fish freaks.

So I am on this email distribution, and find out that this years Texas killifish auction is not in Houston as it usually, but in Dallas. Ok. On further examination, I find out that it will be in a Masonic lodge.

Have Masons fallen so far that they are renting out their temples to people who auction seasonal fish?

(many killifish live in pools of rain water, grow quickly, breed, lay eggs, which dry out when the pools dry. And hatch during the next rainy season).

The Masons were literally a worldwide fad among the nobility from about 1750 to sometime after 1830. Mozart, many of the American Republic's founders, Tolstoy, Joseph Smith, and many other titans were enthralled by the movement. The movement began as a secret combination among tradecrafts in Europe in the Seventeenth Century, I beleve. What fuelded the interest was the awakening, brought on by the Enlightenment, to antiquity and its values. Free masonry made great hay out of the myth that its rituals were handed down form the Solomonic temples. There's no evidence that this is what happened. The fad has played itself out, the fate of all fads.
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Free masonry made great hay out of the myth that its rituals were handed down form the Solomonic temples. There's no evidence that this is what happened.
Again you fall for the oldest trick in the book. The myth created to obscure the real myth (which contains the truth).

You are always in need of taking your analysis one step further.
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Again you fall for the oldest trick in the book. The myth created to obscure the real myth (which contains the truth).

You are always in need of taking your analysis one step further.
LOL! God is such a trickster, this house of mirrors he has constructed for us.
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