Secret Societies.. Are they real???

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J-T

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Yeah if I get a cam it won't be this month I think at most I will have 40 dollars this month we had to take out 100 dollars for getting a new bed after paying rent and the bills I usually have about 130 -140 a month to use and that doesn't last much. I am hoping to be able to work for my sisters husband he does a lot of manula labor kind of jobs and I love doing manual labor but he also pays really well.
I did a quick search on eBay, and noticed that they range in price from $12.99, averaging about $14.99 and go up from there.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr....TRC2.A0.H0.Xwebcam.TRS0&_nkw=webcam&_sacat=0

I also did another search for blackweb microphones and I see a refurbished one for $7.95, another one for $14.25, and yet another for $19.99 Any one of those should do the job.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=webcam
 
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have ya'll ever watched or read about that 'owl-thing' out in Cal.???
and that people from every walk of life have a 'buy-in-membership'
to attend???
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Jack,
it's called 'Bohemian Grove'...
 

Flannery

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Do you believe that there are secret groups of rich and powerful people who have a plan for the world they are trying to fulfill?

If so, what piece of evidence actually convinced you?
I had a job after school in my local public library and this youth librarian was a serious witch. She used a fake name and pretended to be "Belle Star", she wasn't, but I'm sure she was some kind of spy. She used to talk about being a witch just really openly, and literally said, "a witch is a witch, you know, witches are mentioned in the Bible". Noting she did was actually a "secret" in the movies and TV since, it wasn't like Mission: Impossible or James Bond or anything, but even though that was a County Library and public, I guess she was kind of secretive. I would say less secretive as a person, since she did meet the public all day and was outgoing, but that she did have an overly clubby, locker-room, conspiratorial social attitude.
 
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If your lil town could have a church,your lil town can have a secret society.You know the principalities the Bible talks about?Those are demons that control a certain area and over the peoples in their cult.They hate Chrsitans, and at the same time,hide among them.
 

Pilgrimshope

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Do you believe that there are secret groups of rich and powerful people who have a plan for the world they are trying to fulfill?

If so, what piece of evidence actually convinced you?
If there are they would never admit it because it’s a secret society even if I was a member , I would try to convince you it’s silly or they don’t exist ect

lol ‘ course the rich part eliminates me right off the ole bat so haha I’d be pet of the group that it’s kept secret from …..or I’d be really clever and pretend I am
 

ResidentAlien

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Do you believe that there are secret groups of rich and powerful people who have a plan for the world they are trying to fulfill?

If so, what piece of evidence actually convinced you?
Don't know and don't really care. The truth of the gospel doesn't stand or fall on whatever group or conspiracy might lurk out there.
 
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Secret Societies.. Are they real???

i have Membership to the most inclusive and exclusive Secret Society on planet earth. only 3 members belong.
me, myself, and i :sneaky:
 
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Do you believe that there are secret groups of rich and powerful people who have a plan for the world they are trying to fulfill?

If so, what piece of evidence actually convinced you?
Secret societies do exist. Like Free Masonry, Al Qaeda, etc. The thing about secret societies if any are known, it is not that secret. They have their own agenda and they form communities to fulfill those agendas. Christian communities in early days after Christ's death and resurrection lived in secret in catacombs for fear of being persecuted. Every age has it's own secret societies. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a secret society is it not? What about Neo Nazis? There are always obscure societies with bad reputation for what they do. They are mostly known. Not that secret. Free Masons are a real society that keep their business a secret from the common folk.

Now this should not bother Christian people. Aren't Christians not of this world? Don't we labour for a kingdom not of this earth? That's what Jesus preached to us. So, we needn't worry of Secret societies.
 

Flannery

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Secret societies do exist. Like Free Masonry, Al Qaeda, etc. The thing about secret societies if any are known, it is not that secret. They have their own agenda and they form communities to fulfill those agendas. Christian communities in early days after Christ's death and resurrection lived in secret in catacombs for fear of being persecuted. Every age has it's own secret societies. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a secret society is it not? What about Neo Nazis? There are always obscure societies with bad reputation for what they do. They are mostly known. Not that secret. Free Masons are a real society that keep their business a secret from the common folk.

Now this should not bother Christian people. Aren't Christians not of this world? Don't we labour for a kingdom not of this earth? That's what Jesus preached to us. So, we needn't worry of Secret societies.
The existence of the society, in and of itself, is almost never a secret. You have to use logic, remember how in your logic book the first topic was how to define a word, and then it taught you how to classify the words? A secret is a natural occurrence, oysters secrete pearls, bees secrete honey, and when you go to the gymnasium, your exertions cause your body to sweat. Sweat is a secretion. Secretion is something your body produces, it is the opposite of excretion, which is waste material. The secretion is something useful, or the byproduct of useful work that your body does. One thing you secrete is thought. Thoughts are the secretion of the mind, and your brain does that all day long, one reason why you are here, chatting about Christianity. Literately speaking, this is a secret society, but that is neither here nor there, because every society requires the members to be thinking for them to come together at all, whether formally with paid or free administrative memberships or informally, by way of them all introducing themselves to each other, associating casually and them going their separate ways. What people worry about is that the group is together to plan a criminal activity.
 

mustaphadrink

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Do you believe that there are secret groups of rich and powerful people who have a plan for the world they are trying to fulfill?

If so, what piece of evidence actually convinced you?
Secret Societies. Are the real? Dunno. probably because it is a secret.
 

Aaron56

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Fight Club is real... but I can't talk about it.
 

Flannery

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What are we more interested in here, a society whose existence is a secret, or a society whose association is based on a definite secret? It's pretty much a secret that Romeo and Juliet even know each other, in the play, but they don't have a secret between them, it's just that they know each other.
 

Nehemiah6

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What are we more interested in here, a society whose existence is a secret, or a society whose association is based on a definite secret?
The existence of secret societies is not a secret. Masonic lodges are found all over the continent. Mormonism incorporates many Masonic ideas. However, many of their beliefs and practices are indeed secret and also occultic. For genuine Christians the only "interest" is to totally avoid them.
 

Flannery

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The existence of secret societies is not a secret. Masonic lodges are found all over the continent. Mormonism incorporates many Masonic ideas. However, many of their beliefs and practices are indeed secret and also occultic. For genuine Christians the only "interest" is to totally avoid them.
The existence of secret societies is not a secret. Masonic lodges are found all over the continent. Mormonism incorporates many Masonic ideas. However, many of their beliefs and practices are indeed secret and also occultic. For genuine Christians the only "interest" is to totally avoid them.
People who really know actual secrets normally mean to keep them. If there are a group of people who know a secret and they value it as a secret, they don't incorporate as storefront businesses with printing presses and recruit members, they keep the secret and people don't even find out that they all even know each other, much less discover what the secret is.
 
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Do you believe that there are secret groups of rich and powerful people who have a plan for the world they are trying to fulfill?

If so, what piece of evidence actually convinced you?
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

The Lord Jesus of Nazareth, the only begotten Son of the true and living God, be magnified.
Adonai comes soon.
 

Magenta

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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

The Lord Jesus of Nazareth, the only begotten Son of the true and living God, be magnified.
Adonai comes soon.

2 Corinthians 10:4 plus Matthew 24:6~ The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
 

Nehemiah6

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People who really know actual secrets normally mean to keep them. If there are a group of people who know a secret and they value it as a secret, they don't incorporate as storefront businesses with printing presses and recruit members, they keep the secret and people don't even find out that they all even know each other, much less discover what the secret is.
There is always a public facade as well as the actual secret shenanigans.