To: Grand High Pooh-Bah
From: Agent LurkMeister
Re: Conspiracy Uncovered
This is to notify you that the SD’er known as Beeblebrox is dangerously close to uncovering part of our plot to keep America from ever producing drinkable beer. Fortunately, he has mistakenly attributed it to the Freemasons, but it is still suggested that he be put under observation lest he come closer to the truth.
In fact, all participants in this thread should be watched carefully in case their accidental exposure to this small portion of our plot should lead to further discoveries.
Well, Mason-conspiracy theories have been around since at least the late 18th Century. I think it was partly the fault of the American Revolution – several of US’s founding fathers were Freemasons, they were also revolutionaries, and so to the terrified elites of Europe looking for someone to blame, Freemasonry made an excellent scapegoat.
And it’s always possible there was a connection. Freemason Lodges could have offered a chance to discuss radical ideas free from intrusive supervision. And I notice looking over Tykfle’s list that the radical reformers are limited to the 18th-century (Lord Simcoe and Ben Franklin). So maybe Freemasonry once offered an oasis of free thought, but I doubt it does now.
My Wiccan group was once allowed into some parts of Freemason temple to perform a Samhain ritual. My observation is that there probably wasn’t a Mason there under the age of 65, and that all of them had missed the last fifty years of social evolution. It was a little bubble of the 1950’s.
So I doubt they’re running the world – but if they are, we’re all in deep trouble :eek:
I hope they are running the world of architecture, though, because the inside of the Temple was amazing. They had these brass bas-relief elevator doors – a sculpture of a cobra curled around a ship, with a book in the picture. That image has haunted my dreams ever since. It’s a shame they keep that stuff for themselves.
If I emigrate to Canada and become a citizen can I join? Please, please, please, please let me join! I’m already weird and gay. I can learn to do Canadian stuff. Oh, I so wanna join!
Wasn’t there a thread a few months back which featured a Doper who claimed to be constantly, though indirectly, asked to join to Masons? I think that same Doper claimed that since both Bin Laden and Bush were Masons Bush wasn’t trying his hardest to find him. I might be combining two threads…
I’m afraid to post here because I lost my tin foil cap, and I had to buy some Proctor and Gamble products the other day, not to mention that I keep hearing “clicks” on the phone ever since I mentioned the Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergers in the same sentence the other day. It was actually ok, until got my smart card out it got near my cell phone which let them know where I was… then the green light come in through the windows and…
There are people who might wish to become a Mason, but don’t know what steps to take. There are people who would be good candidates for Masonry, but who haven’t thought about joining. It is acceptable and permissable for a Mason to make an oblique approach to such people: “Have you ever thought about joining?” is just such an approach. Interestingly, people who are approached in such a way are usually exemplifying Masonic principles without being aware of doing so. And, usually, such an approach is made only after the matter has been discussed among the Brethren. The Masonic Fraternity DOES need new members and the standards for admission are fairly high—if a person has been approached in an oblique way, he has been accorded an honor, even if he isn’t appreciative of it.
LouisB, it’s funny you should say that. My father’s a Mason and my grandfather was one as well. At my grandfather’s funeral, there were Masons who performed a memorial service. I got to talking to one of them afterwards. The conversation seemed to go fine, until he asked my age, once I told him, he abruptly walked off. I have no idea what it was about my age that caused him to leave, but leave he did.
Freemasons rule the world? I thought it was the eleventh order of the massonic conglomorate bunny hopping snake charming socialist parasidict stalinised mafia corilloni donos-machio marxo groucho fake moustache-wearing mario brothers.
