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Mason
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07 Jan 2007 Sun 06:56 pm |
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My friend got a tattoo yesterday, and the tattooist said someone had just been in to get a tattoo saying 'Mason', and the tattooist found it funny because 'Mason' is turkish for 'English Mafia' is this right? I tried looking it up but cant find anything? x
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07 Jan 2007 Sun 07:07 pm |
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we cannot say that Masons are only a Mafia, they are interested in metaphysics and science more than guns...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic
you can find details here... also in the books of Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, he tells very widely about Masons
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07 Jan 2007 Sun 07:08 pm |
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No!!! Where did you get that from? He is pulling your leg. The mason's are a group of "men" who belong to a type of club and you can only join by invitation. They are normally business men and professional men, solicitors, accountants, doctors. directors etc etc. It is a secreto society and they must not tell anyone else about it out side the masons.
Have you heard of masonic lodges? This is where the normally meet, similar to a hall really.
There are always jokes about the "Masons" for instance they have a secret handshake (I dont know if that is true but that is always joked about). If I remember rightly Monty Pithons did a funny sketch about it.
I am sure if you put Mason in google you would come up with the definition in Wikipedia.
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07 Jan 2007 Sun 07:09 pm |
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SuiGeneris beat me too it!
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07 Jan 2007 Sun 07:11 pm |
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Ohh thank you for your help. Yeah I wasnt sure if it was true, especially because its quite a common name now in England. thanks  x
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07 Jan 2007 Sun 07:12 pm |
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Quoting jamie-leigh1988: My friend got a tattoo yesterday, and the tattooist said someone had just been in to get a tattoo saying 'Mason', and the tattooist found it funny because 'Mason' is turkish for 'English Mafia' is this right? I tried looking it up but cant find anything? x |
NO "MASON" has not include a different meaning than its English explanation. IT IS THE SAME WORD AS IN ENGLISH.
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07 Jan 2007 Sun 07:14 pm |
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I'm not sure about the secret hand shake but they do have a secret way for recognizing if another man (yes, just men) is a Mason, they have special clothing which they wear in their meetings and they have a hierarchy of ranks.
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08 Jan 2007 Mon 01:19 am |
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hmmm...if it's a secret society, i wonder why that guy had it tattooed on him...
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08 Jan 2007 Mon 11:25 am |
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Mason is also a common surname in the UK - anyone heard of James Mason the famous actor? I guess it is also used as a christian name........... could be several reasons - unless of course unless he has made a huge mistake!
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08 Jan 2007 Mon 02:28 pm |
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yeh i thought that too. mason is still a first name...not common though.
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