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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: WAR AND PEACE by Tolstoy
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 21:12:58 -0000 (UTC)
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Cryptoengineer wrote:
> Don wrote:

<snip>

>> As an aside, after being banned, Freemasonry is reportedly making a
>> comeback in Syria.
>
> The PDF that's been floating around is regarded by actual Freemasons
> with a great deal of suspicion. It does not have any information
> establishing the legitimacy of the group that published it.
> It may well be a honeytrap to make Masons in Syria reveal themselves.
>
> There's an existing District Grand Lodge of Syria-Lebanon (in exile)
> in New York, with continuity back to the pre-Ba'athist days. That
> would be the proper body to re-institute Masonry in Syria.

Thank you for the intel.
    Mao Zedong supposedly staged a similar stunt with his Hundred
Flowers Campaign. Or maybe it was merely miscommunication between
Zedong and his handsome, celebrity cover boy, populist Zhou Enlai.
Gluttonously greedy crony Capitalism may meet its match if China
opens the page to a new chapter ON PROTRACTED WAR.
    Regardless, you entered my mind when talking to two Catholic
physicians at a Christmas party: one old and one young. The young
Doc said he joined the Freemasons at early in his career. He was
subsequently trolled as to whether he knew all of the secrets now?
    "Everything's been published and is available to the public."
he answered, with a laugh. It seemed polite for me to simply move
on to another topic instead of playing the pedant who already knew
the material from my reading project last year.
    So, there you have it - a Catholic Freemason in ignorant bliss.

Danke,

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