History of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows

The Odd Fellows, also known as The Three Link Fraternity, is one of the oldest and largest non-political and non-sectarian fraternal and service-oriented organization in the world. It was established because the world was very different back then. The things we take for granted now were almost non-existent like healthcare, orphanages, educational systems, care for the elderly and for the impoverished. Even though we have come a long way now, more needs to be done to see that everyone everywhere is treated with care, kindness, and dignity. Working together to achieve these goals and help our fellow men creates a bond that cannot be described. A brotherhood and sisterhood of benevolence that can only be felt as an active participant. Working together, we really can make a difference!
There are many theories about how it first started and got its name but the generally accepted belief is that it emerged in England when a group of working class men who fell outside the established system of trade guilds banded together to form their own labor association. At the time of industrialization in England, 'Fellows' from various 'Odd' trades gathered together and formed a fraternity to protect and care for their members and communities at a time when there was no welfare state, trade unions and National Health Insurance. They would work together to help each other and the unfortunate families back on their feet, whether it was rebuilding a barn that had burned, or putting in a new crop after a devastating season. Such helpers came to be known as "odd fellows," so named by the general population who thought they were "an odd bunch of fellows" who would behave in such a selfless and seemingly impractical fashion. This group then adopted the name.
By year 1700's, there were a number of Odd Fellows organization in England. In 1810, various Odd Fellows lodges of the London Union Order in Manchester organized an "Independent Order of Oddfellows" with the title "Manchester Unity". With their improved system they were able to persuade other Odd Fellow Lodges to join their unity. They also chartered the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in America years after.
While several Odd Fellow lodges had existed in New York City before, because of the charter relationship, American Odd Fellowship (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) is regarded as being founded in Baltimore, Maryland at the Seven Stars Tavern on April 26, 1819, by Thomas Wildey and some associates who were members of the fraternity in England.
On September 20, 1851, I.O.O.F became the first fraternity to accept both men and women when it formed the Daughters of Rebekah. Brother Schuyler Colfax, (Vice President of the US from 1869-1873), was the force behind the movement.
During the 'Golden Age of fraternalism', the Odd Fellows was the largest fraternal and service organization in the world. The world Almanac showed that it had over 3.4 Million active members in 1915. Although non-political and non-sectarian, it also claimed many notable members which included six U.S. Presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt and Warren Harding, as well as many Senators, Governors and community leaders. Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the first female American Dentist, was also identified as member.
It continues to exist up until today with about 10, 000 lodges in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Internationally, it is involved in various charitable causes such as their Educational Foundation which gives scholarships annually, Arthritis Foundation, Visual Eye Research Foundation at Wilmer Eye Institute, Living Legacy program which planted more than 8 Million trees already, the United Nations Pilgrimage of the Youth which sponsors High School students on a one-week trip to the United Nations, the S.O.S. Children's Village which houses orphans and aids victims in Cambodia, etc.
Find a lodge and Join! If you can't find a lodge close to you contact me and we'll help you START a lodge! The benefits outweigh the work, and the work is rewarded by helping your fellowmen!
International website: www.ioof.org
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Editor & Producer: Brother Louie Blake Sarmiento of Odd Fellows Philippines
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[@nativetexan170]

My daddy, granddaddy were OddFellows. My grandmother was a Rebecca. Love the OddFellows!

[@poincianab12]

I was lucky enough to meet an amazing mentor who was a member as was most of his family. I also lived in a building that once belonged to the organization. Amazing history!

[@hongkongphooey78]

I'm here because off an inscription on a grave in my local cemetery mentioning Manchester odd fellows.

[@stevee.asherhouseofasherpo8367]

Sounds like a good bunch of folks. My late father was an Odd Fellow.

[@IOOF1819]

Yes. I have visited over 100 lodges and majority of the members are a bunch of good folks. Just sad to see that not many people knows about this organization and not many of the younger generations have joined.

[@WizardsPath-if5oq]

@@IOOF1819 Can I become a Oddfellow if I'm heavily tatted from head to toe, including face tattoos? What's the difference between Oddfellows and Masons?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Friendship, Love and Truth...

[@nativetexan170]

I was a hs student who went on the UN I visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Love ❤️ the OddFellows

[@IOOF1819]

Congratulations! We are worldwide! We hope you will be an active member and will contribute to the its betterment and preservation. In Friendship, Love and Truth!

[@vi47gi]

Odd Fellows International My father, 93, is an oddfellow

[@hilldoggydogg635]

Can you explain me your link, if any with Freemasonry?

[@IOOF1819]

@@hilldoggydogg635 no link

[@ryanstover6688]

My Great Great Grandmother was a Rebekah and my Great Grandfather and Grandfather were Odd Fellows.

[@jdailey19811]

Hello all, I am a Master Mason in the state of Tennessee, and very pleased with the wonderful things I hear about the IOOF. We have an Odd Fellows lodge here in my town. It is very small, and thinking of joining one day soon. I am originally from Indiana, and I know the IOOF are as popular up there as the masonic fraternity, because many of the older buildings that are either businesses now or libraries, are still, or once were Odd Fellows halls, as many have either the IOOF letters or the three linked chain on them. Great work you all do!

[@trkr75]

Where in TN are you located? I am in Clarksville, TN and we have a Odd Fellow Lodge and I am a member. If you are close we would love to have you down. If not I can supply contacts to other lodges if you are still interested.

[@kayjay9383]

There is also the cross with Odd Fellows and Masons in the IOOF Division known as Amos.

[@WizardsPath-if5oq]

Can I become a Oddfellow if I'm heavily tatted from head to toe, including face tattoos? What's the difference between Oddfellows and Masons?

[@colefrick1]

Burn and stay away from sulfur springs bc we just bout it and the rest is our. We know

[@colefrick1]

Stay away from white Supfer Springs Arkansas we know who you are

[@agapelove4992]

I came across the Odd Fellows, because of a marker posted on a relatives grave. I naturally became curious.

[@kayjay9383]

@Filip Martin The common crossover lodge of Masons and Odd Fellows is called AMOS.

[@oasis9615]

Well I joined the odd fellows and I must say, they steam a good ham

[@hoder6654]

WildWoomy Gay

[@UltraHylia]

I'm glad I'm not the only one here from Steamed Hams.

[@oasis9615]

Faithful Nationalist imagine using “gay” as a euphemism for “bad” in 2020

[@jerryglenn7323]

Wyandotte Michigan has a great building the ODD FELLOWS BUILT long gone but the name never dies.

[@rockandroll4evermore]

Thanks for posting. I want everyone here to know that I have reposted the film footage of "Odd Fellows Halls" from 1929. It is now in HD. You can see it by searching HD Independent Order of Odd Fellows Halls IOOF 1929 film footage. IOOF members would probably find it very cool.

[@kayjay9383]

In Pennsylvania we have a lodge in Johnstown that reposts this video on our website. We have just today started to work with You Tube. We have a Facebook page also. Come visit our website at www.almalodge523.org Or come in person. COVID provided masks and a lodge hall that holds 100 people at a time.

[@WizardsPath-if5oq]

@@kayjay9383 Can I become a Oddfellow if I'm heavily tatted from head to toe, including face tattoos? What's the difference between Oddfellows and Masons?

[@webbie021984]

Amazing i just recently cleaned out a building alot of old odd fellow stuff was left over since 1800s

[@jeanwhite1659]

What ever did you do with that [ important historical information/ artifacts] highly interesting.

[@frankn.5439]

@@jeanwhite1659 I'd look for it on eBay.

[@randydelaney7053]

I grew up in a house now sold right across the street from an Odd Fellows old age home for the elderly. Never knew who they were or what it meant. My parents now live behind that building and would love to have it turned into a heritage building. my grandfather lived there when it was an assisted living place.. He has passed away now though. So many characters living there when we were kids. I used to love talking to many of them and playing around there with my friends and playing football on the field in front with my brother and his friends..

[@MrMkirk23]

Joined up and starting tonight!

[@jeremiahibbs7430]

How is it?

[@geeeye6791]

I would love to be an odd fellow. Love the history. God bless.

[@kayjay9383]

Welcome, Welcome Brother . In F.L. and T.

[@kayjay9383]

@@geeeye6791 go to www.almalodge523.org You can find a link to the Soverign Grand Lodge there. The Soverign Grand Lodge lists all the lodges in each Jurisdiction. Just pick a lodge close to your home and ask them to give you an application.

[@VeteranHedonist]

Good for you! Well done! Congratulations! All said in the most sarcastic tone.

[@bhammercutad5097]

Thank you sir Atty for sharing this vedio.. ❤❤❤

[@princessdianasexplosivepet1524]

I apologize, but i feel you left out one very important fact. the great cowboy, gunslinger and lawman Wyatt Earp was a member of the odd fellows. Don't forget him!

[@IOOF1819]

This is just a short clip. There are over 20,000 famous Odd Fellows in history. Too many to mention everyone. hehe.

[@jillianshreves5569]

I found out my husband great grandfather was an Oddfellow. How sweet!

[@michaelwalters7333]

They Rock

[@Zero-uw7kb]

i knew one of the odd fellows, he was a good man and well liked,

[@IOOF1819]

Thanks for the nice words. We are not a perfect organization but we do try our best to elevate our character for the greater good. In FL&T

[@JUMALATION1]

I am very conflicted about potentially joining. My mom, dad and grandpa have all been part of Odd Fellows, with my dad being a patriarch for a couple of years now. They are so secretive about what is actually going on during the ceremonies, and it both terrifies me and makes me curious. I have once been in the local Odd Fellows building here and even though I was like 6 or 7 now over 20 years ago, I can remember some details that nowadays makes me think of the Dan Brown novels haha. A "starry night sky" (an impressive pattern of stars in the big ceremony hall) for example.

[@5thhorseman982]

They are the same as most secret societies. Do not join if you want your soul saved. Trust in Jesus Christ.

[@Leese1961]

Do a deep dive into their beginnings and history. See what other group they're connected to and believed to have helped start. I'd be concerned, jmo.

[@unseenseer]

Read Lynn Brunet before you decide

[@NewEdgeDesigns]

Never join anything or constrain yourself under any label or secular beLIEf.. Be yourself, do right, practice morality and universal law will smile upon you..

[@RebelJones-wg7vz]

Stay away from

[@FuturesPast1]

Great video! This helped me with information about these men. I made a video showing an antique IOOF sword and knew very little about this order. I had no idea women were allowed to join too. Cool!

[@kayjay9383]

Depending upon the size of the sword it would be a rapier for the Canton. A thick, short dull sword for use in the degree work.

[@FuturesPast1]

@@kayjay9383 Thanks so much for that information! I appreciate you!

[@princessdianasexplosivepet1524]

Great Choice of Mozart's Requiem!

[@geeeye6791]

Just good people doing the damn thing. Keep it up and godspeed.

[@fukyu4131]

I use to live in a church that use to belong to them, looked just like those buildings in the beginning

[@nativetexan170]

Yep!!!

[@mrnobodyjohnlyon4525]

Hellos. Grandpa and Grandma were Oddfellows. Good luck.

[@genemelcher5098]

I live in Greensburg,Indiana and we use to have a Oddfellow home here. I think there was a lodge down town several yrs ago. My grandmother use to work at the home. I don't have much information about it.

[@jdailey19811]

Gene Melcher I am from Indiana originally. I know the IOOF is about as common up there anymore as masonic lodges. I am a mason myself, and have considered joining the IOOF. Just about every town, big or small, in Indiana has, or had an old building that is IOOF somewhere on it, indicating the Odd Fellows once were there or still are.

[@tommynorthwood]

Gene Melcher My great grandfather was In the Oddfellows and I'm a Master Mason from Jacksonville Fl. F&AM

[@ramonamom1]

Hello! My grandfather was an Order of Odd Fellow member. I was a Rainbow Girl in my teen years. Looking to reconnect.

[@LanaDelReySimmer]

My great grandfather is in the odd fellows! He is dead now, I never got to meet him :'(

[@peterose4192]

just opened a new lodge today!!! were are now ike's odds fellows of richmond, Indiana lodge #41...........so cool can't wait for first meeting!!

[@jdailey19811]

love2hatedrugs Awesome to hear this! I am originally from Berne (Adams County) And I know the Odd Fellows lodges are just as common there as masonic lodges. I am a mason, and would like to one day become an Odd Fellows, as I believe both fraternities offer wonderful lessons, and are a great group of people who help others.

[@WizardsPath-if5oq]

Can I become a Oddfellow if I'm heavily tatted from head to toe, including face tattoos? What's the difference between Oddfellows and Masons?

[@TheEndlessNote]

hi, what do you need to join ?

[@billhyde0057]

I have 10 people in my city that wish to join, how can we get books. pins, ect and form a lodge here in Kansas? they are very excited about it, and my great uncle was a oddfellow as well as many of my family in the past, I still have his black book from the ioof

[@randomdiamond5238]

Lived in an old odd fellows building years ago, they left the building in the 60s,not sure if they are even around in the area anymore?? I was very much enlightened there, many spirits were definitely there, I got into angels, mantras, and meditating...things are not the same since living there

[@josephrice7917]

Yeah my mom bought this old sash that had this patch on it cause I’m a Boy Scout and she thought it would be nice and I wondered what it meant

[@HE_HATE_ME]

Just visited a historic sight in Vermont where I climbed a very large obelisk monument marking a battle that is known to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The structure is the tallest in VT. At the top inside, and on opposite walls are large stones with one honoring Freemasons and the opposing honoring the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. I asked a guide about the Odd fellows on the elevator down and he mentioned that they were considered "odd" because wealthy folk being forwardly charitable was pretty odd.

[@matthewg9638]

+HE HATE ME From reading various well-researched books and plenty of online articles written by people knowledgeable about the Odd Fellows, I feel confident in saying that your guide was wrong. They were never known for their wealth, it's not that kind of group and it never was. The "Odd" part of the group's name goes back centuries, I've read about a charter for an Odd Fellows lodge in London, circa 1730. There are several theories about how the moniker got started. The one that I most find convincing is that in pre-Industrial Revolution England craftsmen who weren't guildsmen pooled their resources to compete economically and to generally help each other out. It's easy to imagine this motley collection of guys with different trade skills, living far enough away from economic centers, needing to band together. Etymologically the word "odd" stems from an Old Norse word. Like the "odd man out" is the extra guy that can't find a team, I think so were the original Odd Fellows. An even better question for the tour guide would have been to ask why fraternal orders like the Odd Fellows and Freemasons were so into cornerstones and monuments.

[@HE_HATE_ME]

Matthew G huh? thanks a lot man!

[@IOOF1819]

+Matthew G That's one theory. The most acceptable is that the Odd Fellows evolved from the "craft guilds" in England as there were so many groups like Foresters, Masons, FreeGardeners, etc. All seem to have evolved from the craft guilds. The Odd Fellows seems to be that group composed of people from odd trades or those journeymen associations.

[@sitizenkanemusic]

There's an abandoned Odd Fellow's cemetery kinda close where I'm at. It's off highway 92 in Half Moon Bay, CA. It actually gets creepy when the fog sets in. Local legend has it that a ghost of a hitchhiking woman is seen sometimes off the road and can sit in the backseat of your car.

[@DogEatNow]

I guess i can't join Because I'm not wealthy

[@coreybell6297]

Soon your lodges wont be safe what a beautiful time to be alive ✨️

[@pepewinsome]

my grandfather was a member :)

[@kayjay9383]

It is never too late to join.

[@NugGibblet]

The one eye is unsettling. As well as the fact that presidents were part.

[@OTBey]

Hello. I am Hobbs. Seeking Truth regarding my ancestry I found you. Please reply with how I am able to find a lodge in my state?

[@oasis9615]

O.T. Bey well is your state upstate New York?

[@bjorndebies8482]

I just joint this group in the netherlands thats where i am from obviously.

[@miketruby5983]

What were the "Odd Trades" or smaller trades that original members did that they formed this organization? Curious does anyone know?

[@miketruby5983]

from what I could find, those trades would basically be ones that were not represented by either the merchant guild or craft guilds. Bailiffs, Reeve's, Hayward or HedgeWarder's, Chamberlains, Chaplains, clerks, cottagers or general laborers, ditch diggers, Cottars, herbalists, Minstrels, Harkers or messengers, and the guys who picked up and buried the dead. Not saying Oddfellows were all that but that is what I could see as being odd or of lesser trades during the middle ages. If any Oddfellow historians would like to interject on those findings feel free to correct me it would be greatly appreciated.

[@frankn.5439]

in Los Angeles from the 1890's to the 1920's there was a lot of grocery store owners and fruit peddlers from Italy and Sicily that were Odd Fellows members and two of these families actually went to war with each other over territory in 1906 with three murders taking place. the fruit peddlers war ended by 1907 and erupted again in 1915 and ran to 1919 with six deaths. The first murder in 1906 had that funeral at the Boyle Heights Odd Fellows cemetery.

[@WizardsPath-if5oq]

@@frankn.5439 What's difference between Oddfellows and Masons?

[@michaele.3270]

Sounds like a great organization. I'll have to look into it, now that the Jaycees are pretty much kaput. Sounds like they do some of the same things as the Loyal Order of the Moose.

[@SanitysVoid]

LOL My Brother in law is the Grand master in WA State. Here to see what he's all into.

[@kayjay9383]

He is into a LOT of work at the Grand Lodge level. I have risen to an Officer in the Pennsylvania Grand Encampment I.O.O.F

[@SanitysVoid]

@@kayjay9383 I have a sword from the knights of Pythius, my dad owned it for years so it must be from a family member.

[@oldgysgt]

During the California Gold rush the Odd Fellows were very popular among the Prospectors. Because most of the Gold seekers had left their families in other States to seek their fortunes in the California Gold fields, they joined the Odd Fellows to gain allies if the going got tough, and to get a descent Christian burial if they were to die. Almost all of the old mining towns in the American West had an Odd Fellows Lodge at one time or another. At one time I was a member of Odd Fellows Lodge number 440. And yes, it was a "secret organization", but no, we were not trying to take over the world.

[@IOOF1819]

Yes, I wrote a chapter in my book about, Odd Fellows Rediscovering More than 200 years of history, traditions and community service (2019), about the Gold Rush and Odd Fellowship. They protected and helped each other in times of need. The first hospitals in California were built by Odd Fellows.

[@frankn.5439]

@@IOOF1819 California history and the Odd Fellows in the same book ? that sounds interesting to me. Where can I find your book for sale and what is the title ??

[@IOOF1819]

@@frankn.5439 My books are all on amazon. Just search my name "Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento". I wrote 4 books about the Odd Fellows.

[@IOOF1819]

@@frankn.5439 1. Odd Fellows Rediscovering More than 200 Years of History, Traditions and Community Service (Odd Fellows history and its relationship with world history) Full color: www.amazon.com/dp/1733851208 Black and White: www.amazon.com/dp/1733851224 E-book: www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q8DKFJZ 2. Odd Fellows Manual: Modern Guide to the Origin, History, Rituals, Symbols and Organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (brief history, organizational structure, and generally-accepted internal rules and principles) Full color: www.amazon.com/dp/1733851259 Black and white: www.amazon.com/dp/1733851283 E-book: www.amazon.com/dp/B08X3FK2NX 3. Ancient Rites of Odd Fellowship: Revisiting the Revised Rituals of the Order of Patriotic Odd Fellows, 1797 Black and white: www.amazon.com/dp/1733851232 E-book: www.amazon.com/dp/B08KHDG17S 4. Odd Fellows Encampment: A Brief History and Introduction to Patriarchal Odd Fellowship Full color: www.amazon.com/dp/1733851275 E-book: www.amazon.com/dp/B08LZQQDWM

[@frankn.5439]

@@IOOF1819 thank you ! I will purchase one tonight. by any chance did you ever hear about the odd fellows members in Los Angeles at war with each other ? it started in the plaza area of downtown L.A and in Lincoln Heights. several of them in the grocery store and fruit peddlers business fighting over territory, three men were shot to death on the streets. that war ended in a couple months after the police chased one suspected killer out of town only to have him reappear seven years later with new members in his gang and their war started up again and it lasted several years this time with thirteen men murdered. when it was all over the man who was chased out of town by police and his enemies had become the most powerful gang leader in Los Angeles. one of those killed is buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery in Boyle Heights and the rest are mostly buried in ELA at the Calvery cemetery there. I believe they were members of the Redondo Beach lodge, the other clan involved had a large power base in Sacramento and their original lodge was up north.

[@pss6747]

I want to be an odd fellow

[@IOOF1819]

Where are you located?

[@pss6747]

@@IOOF1819 New Jersey

[@IOOF1819]

@@pss6747 Try getting in touch with the Grand Lodge of New Jersey Email:[e-mail] Website: www.ioofnj.org

[@IOOF1819]

@ceknight01105 Mozarts reguime. In Friendship, Love and Truth!

[@bertshapiro9559]

I have a quilt with Oddfellow symbols dating to 1849. It has a block with a red tent with sun above, two angels hovering, and a white flower. Can anyone tell me about these symbols?

[@IOOF1819]

can you send us a photo? and are you an Odd Fellow?

[@BLaymon060]

sounds like encampment to me or the amos

[@thelongslowgoodbye]

Can anybody help me get some information on how to find a lodge in Australia and join?

[@lorraineharris7107]

it closed down in '93

[@Mollari42]

I always did think the Aussies were level headed, good on em!

[@kingbucky6]

How do I become a member

[@ifyoudontsubtheniwilltakeu968]

you have to be recommended by someone who is an odd fellow.

[@nickmemphis4812]

Where are they now tents at fresno

[@PamelaAlley222]

I want to join!!!

[@trkr75]

www.ioof.org/IOOF/GetInvolved/IOOF/GEtInvolved/GetInvolved.aspx?hkey=ede6dfd1-2d0e-43d3-95e9-8612313cc9a4

[@LouieBlakeSarmiento]

@dave2806 Hello Dave, where are you located? In friendship, love and truth!

[@gozienwa5325]

How do I become a member, I'm from Nigeria

[@kayjay9383]

Nigeria has a Jurisdiction under the Soverign Grand Lodge IOOF. Try to contact them. Otherwise go to the Soverign Grand Lodge IOOF website . I only found one email from the Nigerian Jurisdiction and as you know once you start to write here you can’t stop or they throw your comment out.

[@kayjay9383]

[e-mail]

[@micomarinas2753]

what is the difference order of odd to freemason? I'm a Filipino from the Philippines.

[@nassimmihoubi7340]

Taga saan po kayo?

[@micomarinas2753]

@@nassimmihoubi7340 makati po. why po?

[@cpach601]

I just got invited to a meeting I’m going to go

[@WizardsPath-if5oq]

Can I become a Oddfellow if I'm heavily tatted from head to toe, including face tattoos? What's the difference between Oddfellows and Masons?

[@ShamanPer]

Is this the same as illuminati?

[@SuperSayTruth]

Click on the this two documentary’s I have published. Inside the brotherhood (6 parts) and SVT documentary about the Italian Masonic lodge Propaganda due. The two of the best documentary about Freemasonry that stick to objective facts.

[@lawstopower]

I want to become an odd fellow

[@kayjay9383]

Go to www.almalodge523.org There you will find a link to the Soverign Grand Lodge. They list all the lodges by Jurisdictions. Contact the closest lodge to your house and ask to join. I am certain that they will be happy to welcome you into our order.

[@glendawest9871]

Im not a fellow nor do I wish to join the fellows michael david west nephew

[@MoorishMonitor]

✌🏾🇲🇦🤚🏾

[@nickmemphis4812]

This society does alot an I don't even have one friend

[@Shanebert95]

Is this the same as Skull and Bones?

[@lost_potential22]

Mind Games no.

[@waltmanwyo206]

Odd Fellows and Skull & Bone both come from Freemasonry. Like how Catholics & Protestants both practice christianity. Salvation thru works is a concept masonary is big on.

[@paulkearns100]

Ive got a bridge for sell 😂

[@mafaufaumulipola1915]

Is it the same as freemasons?

[@IOOF1819]

No. We are also a fraternal order but not a part or related to the freemasons.

[@Harlemworldboy]

As a Freemason the IOOF is a fraternity but it is different than Freemasonry.

[@Mollari42]

Not really too bothered whether they say they are or not, if it looks like a *duck*, walks like a *duck* and quacks like a *duck*, then it's a *duck*. And freemasonry is wicked. Sure anyone bellow the 33rd degree aren't _knowledgeable_ enough to know the wickedness from the inside because they only know of the _good_ that it does. But the pure wickedness that it does and has done makes any positive effect pale in comparison, and of course those masons will defend it with utter sincerity, because they are ignorant of it's evil. I wouldn't say those specific masons (below the 33rd degree) are necessarily evil, just mislead (the 33rd degree certainly are evil). But anyone willing to do the research ought to know that. it's basically the illuminati.

[@Harlemworldboy]

Carl Andrew so the 33° of the Scottish Rite is the highest degree in Freemasonry? If you believe that then it's apparent your misguided concerning Freemasonry. Also if you equate the so called "illuminati" with Freemasonry your also misguided. Please give proof of your outlandish claims. I would love to be entertained.

[@Mollari42]

I can appreciate you wanting me to 'back up my claims' and if I had aimed them at you, you would have a right to. But since I wasn't really aiming my comment at you (and I mean that sincerely, I wasn't trying to trigger you, I aimed it at Mafau Mulipola), I don't feel particularly obliged to. Sufficed to say I have my own proof. Besides which I thought I made it clear that anyone who isn't a 33rd degree wouldn't know the truth and would sincerely think they would have to (as well as think they could) debunk me at every turn. And so, since it is pretty much certain a 33rd degree mason wouldn't be wasting his time in here, why would I want to have a discussion with a mason here? So I'm not really into having any discussion, and if you want to take that as a victory, fine. Actually I've moved on from that sort of discussion. You might question why, if I've moved on, am I here - fair question. I saw an OddFellow _lodge_ in Leicester and had never heard of it, so was curious as it sounded pretty masonic to me, I then felt so vindicated about my assumption by the video, I was moved to make a couple of posts for the benefit of any uninformed. Anyone who is swayed by my, clearly opinionated and un-referenced post, is clearly an idiot who will listen to anything. But if a person were to research it on their own, they will undoubtedly have used it as a first step into the murky world of freemasonry, and my job will have been done. Also, if you're worried by the post of one individual like me spouting off some opinionated claptrap (as you might say) about your lofty organization, then you clearly don't give yourself or it very much credit! So, my advise is, leave it there. I've said my piece, you're on the record as a mason who believes freemasonry is without blemish, and we sir have nothing else to say to each other :-)

[@damkayaker]

El Nuevo Rodeo & Lodge 118 Minneapolis. George Floyd ...

[@NwoDispatcher]

Drug free for 2 years

[@Klaudiapettus]

So what are these foos doing in 2022 to help

[@EnochDark]

Ever heard of a pop filter? Invest a couple bucks in one...

[@pdwilliamson5]

Ron Swanson narrating?

[@IOOF1819]

Oh, no. He is not Ron Swanson.

[@Rackatiakka]

Lol they're an underdog organization with presidents in their order. Ok. That's cool tho.

[@osirismessiahbey1666]

I have some questions the first question is America continent the second question are those people who have been falsely missed classified as negro black colored Indian native American African African-American are they really moors and are Moors Aboriginal an indigenous to the America's the other question does black mean pale skin one more question are those people who have been falsely misclassified as white people are they really hybrid Albion Europeans and are hybrid Albion Europeans foreigners and immigrants to America and why did Moors like Martin Luther King help the hybrids sell out their own people

[@quransul.muhammad7293]

Their evil.

[@Harlemworldboy]

Quran Sul. Muhammad your syntax is undesirable it's they're not their.

[@quransul.muhammad7293]

Harlemworldboy your homosexual

[@Harlemworldboy]

Quran Sul. Muhammad that was the most intelligent response I've seen all day.

[@mikeschumacher9715]

Chill out and have a ham sandwich. Sorry, was that evil? Well have a hamburger instead.

[@darcarkon4409]

You should have covered the Asylums / orphanages, this is a glorified snapshot .also 118,000 views and 823 likes at time of commenting this. We cannot see the dislike amount anymore but know there is +1 with me!

[@zatoichi4449]

My grandfather was one. I believe this is why I am attracted to mysticism. don't forget, these guys would lay on top of a corpse or skeleton, to renounce their fear of mortality. These guys are obsessed with King Solomon, the reason being, that he could control Demons.

[@Yeolde777]

You read too much gossip. I am one, and that is not true. It is a benevolent order and will teach you alot about life and how to treat your fellow human beings.

[@Graymenn]

Lol you know he is right, stop lying.

[@zatoichi4449]

@@Yeolde777 Yeah, but that's only what they tell YOU.😀

[@WizardsPath-if5oq]

@@Yeolde777 Can I become a Oddfellow if I'm heavily tatted from head to toe, including face tattoos? What's the difference between Oddfellows and Masons?

[@nickmemphis4812]

Fuck The Police.

[@oldgysgt]

You need to start taking your medication on a regular bases.

[@HomeMoviesdotCa]

your clip talks all about it being begun and founded in the UK but all your freakin' pics/slideshow are amurican - poor show very rude very bad taste

[@IOOF1819]

HomeMoviesdotCa The Odd Fellows first started in the UK in the 1700's but our branch, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was organized in the United States on April 26, 1819. We used photos based in the UK during the statements that it began in the UK but after that are pretty much international - photos of Odd Fellows in the U.S.A., Canada, Sweden, Finland, Norwa, Cuba, and Philippines.

[@floomper]

HomeMoviesdotCa How nice of the Odd Fellows International to reply to you, even though you can't even spell correctly, mocked their clip, and called them, "rude."