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if so why?

You know, I never thought to ask them why. Stupid, stupid, stupid, dumb, stupid me.

I know a  locked-up mason.

I've heard of the masons, but I don't even really know what the hell they're supposed to be.  My best clue so far has been the Monty Python episode that inspired our current subtitle.  Somehow, I doubt that that really covers it.

Around here it's the age old reason, they like to go out with the boys and have a beer.
Most only go just high enough to join the Shrine. They like raising money for the children's hospital too.

Around here I'm pretty sure that one only joins the Masons only to legitamitley place the emblem on various peices of your own property.

Those are some nice Mason trucks, guys...

My grandfather was a mason, and my grandmother was a member of the sister organization, morning star (I think thats what its called). I had seen plaques they had going over to their houses (I never knew them as a couple, they had divorced before I was born) with symbols. My grandmother's funeral creeped me out. I was 11, and although raised going to Jehovah's Witness meetings, those meetings are very secular affairs, with the exception of singing song and praying, there are no rituals or anything, and I had never gone to see how a typical church operates or whatever before. The funeral was jam-packed with ritual, where they had women come out in various colored robes, each one for a different color in the morning star symbol, saying chants and stuff, and this was on top of the religious stuff (I think my grandmother was baptist?). I didnt understand a lot of it then and it really confused me at the time.

I've heard that most of the old-skool secret societies have been experiencing declining membership for quite some time. The Masons, the Rosicrucians, the Catholic Church, you name it.

I think that people joined back in the old days because of the way society was at that time -- for example, conformist and classist -- and those conditions have changed.

It tends to get passed down in families. I'm a DeMolay, which is the pre-adolest. version of the Masons. It's a life-time designation given to me because I attended a few meetings and a ceremony when I was 15.

I was pressured into it by my Mason dad for my brother's sake (so he said) - thought it would be a good example for him.

I'll show y'all the secret handshake sometime....

Cheers had a classic episode where Norm was inducted into Cliff's lodge; you grab a sword out of a cardboard box, and you're in.

Speaking of which, did you guys get your codebooks for the Secret Society of MiniThink? The new break dancing initiation rights are a bitch. Sucks for the noobs.

If you want some real fun, google Mormons & Freemasonry.

Hours of reading entertainment here with Captain Morgan.

Last edited by Troutski (2005-04-06 4:30 pm)

Parallels?  You mean assimilation. 

More fun with masonry:

The Antimasonic Party

By Michael F. Holt, Ph.D.


One reason Clay could not rally all of Jackson's opponents in 1832 was that in much of the Northeast a different anti-Democratic party, the Antimasonic party, also existed. Started in 1826 to protest the official cover-up of the suspected murder of a defecting Mason in western New York, Antimasonry developed into the nation's first powerful populistic third party. Protesting that Freemasonry was a dangerous, unrepublican, and all-powerful secret society that privileged its members legally, politically, and economically over all non-members by controlling state and local governments, Antimasons called on voters to restore true self-government by driving Masons from elected office and having new governments pass state laws declaring the fraternity to be illegal. The movement spread like wild-fire, for Antimasons seemed to provide a plausible explanation why government seemed unresponsive to popular demands