🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@admitsWrongIfProven Well as I understand it the freemasons do have special charity and programs exclusive to members and their family. But charity is a central tenant of the organization and a great deal of charity is open to everyone.

@Baley I am not a member yet... but they do yea.

As I understand it saying you are a member and talking about it (outside of its secrets) is perfectly fine... they are a rather open fraternity in that sense.

@TruthSandwich since we have been talking have you seen any more replies pop up? I do sometimes see them load later once i start viewing.

@admitsWrongIfProven As I understand it family familiarity (birth) plays no role in it. Anyone can enter..

did you mean the term family more figuratively, as in what do they do for non-freemasons?

I think I have decided I am going to join the Freemasons...

Any #Freemasons out there want to have a chat with me please reach out.

#Freemason #Freemasonry

@TruthSandwich Did you follow this person from before they made the post? Sometimes they dont all load right away if no one follows a user when a post is made. Though they should load as you click through them.

I dont see 45 total posts either, just some portion of the thread then.

@TruthSandwich

Perhaps I am misunderstanding you... when i click on any of the toots int he thread here I do see the whole thread.

@feld

You'd have to look at a chart over a few decades to really get a sense of the trend. Despite the overall upward trend its not common to have fluctuation year to year.

The following chart (while not going up to 2022 sadly) kinda shows that behavior a bit.

@satan

@feld

you are probably looking at species diversity not total colony count. Total colony count is increasing, but species diversity is slowly decreasing. Hell we just lost 4 species over the last 5 years I know of off hand..

@satan

@satan It is, and I do agree a wild lawn is better not just for the bees but nature as a whole.

@satan No no, you were right, when you cound all bees found outside (both domesticated and wild) you see an incline.

If you eliminate domesticated bees and look at only wild bees the picture isnt quite dire, but it isnt as good an outlook. Species diversity has been declining for example.

@satan Yes we are counting all bees found in the wild (which includes domesticated).

@satan The bees arent dying out, since 2008 their population has been on the rise... old news.

@twotwenty

To give you an idea my silver rings (not shown) have an engraving on the inside of the band that say "Graa" which is Enochian for "Moon". The gold one I have is inscribed with "Ror" which is the Enochian word for "Sun". Sadly they use english script but true Enochian would use the Enochian script.

@feld

@twotwenty

The colored ones have no meaning to me other than color matching.

Many of my other rings have some symbolism to them, some are for fun. The ones that have meaning are the plain metal ones mostly. I do have some engraved with sacred symbols (like my PELE ring), but I dont usually wear those day to day as I beleive it is important to not advertise ones spirtual views, and in fact go out of your way to keep it to yourself in most cases.

@feld

@admitsWrongIfProven Well if you want to consider that sort of time span then just send it in a rocket to the nearest blackhole... will spend most of its time in space and cant hurt you and eventually goes away forever.

Now the real question is how does the physics work out if you send an indestructible snail into the heart of the one thing that can destroy anything at a quantum level :)

@admitsWrongIfProven If the snail is clearly identified or has a way to identify it then it becomes rather easy... encase it in a solid metal container, sent it off in a rocket to the sun. Sure it may not die in the core of the sun, but it will be trapped there forever, so good enough.

@admitsWrongIfProven ahh the old snail story.

The problem is how do you know if the snail you put in the sphere is the one that can kill you? He wasnt indestructible when i heard about it so you cant test it by trying to kill it. You can capture a million snails and it still might not be the one :)