Why not?
It’s not like Cartooniverse is no longer an idiot.
I honestly don’t know how we functioned, like an existence without Google.
It’s good to see my posts haven’t aged, being as stupid now as they were in 2005. But I didn’t confess my bad experience with the Masons, and I need to come clean if I’m to sleep tonight:
I find them boring.
There, I said it! I feel so much better.
A member of our anti-defamation league will be calling on you in the near future.
How about some answers from a DeMolay, me?
Sucked into? Hmm…last I heard, the teens needed a parent’s permission to join.
Complete and utter bullshit. There are secrets, but those are the ones regarding the ritual. The ritual is basically a boy’s club’s secret password dressed up with candles, robes, and long toy swords. Trips always required a signed permission and insurance form from the member’s parent or legal guardian.
Maybe he was having you. Anyway, all activities are required to have an adult present. Well, of course, going to the loo doesn’t require that; I’m talking about club activities. My chapter had all kinds of activities: bowling, billiards, swimming (not naked), camping, debating, and a few others.
Well, my experience with DeMolay and the experience of my DeMolay friends I’ve met over the years is opposite your rant. If the chapter in question is being that secretive about their activities, they’re violating the group’s rules right off the bat.
Just for fun, you wouldn’t happen to have anything approaching actual evidence that any crimes occurred, would you?
Well, I’m a DeMolay and I’m fully aware that one can resign from the club, one is required to have an adult present at club activities, and that members are not to hoodwink their parents.
What about total assholes who cast aspersions without evidence? Where do they fit in this matrix?
Well, Houston, your description of DeMolay is inaccurate. Sounds like DeMolay’s not the problem.
It’s incredibly fucking easy to get out of DeMolay. Resign or simply stop going.
What’s insulting is your inaccurate tarring of the DeMolay for what appears to be something that’s just speculation on your part. Hell, you can get some answers to your questions right off the bat here. You can get answers here. And if you’re not thrilled with the answers you got (or didn’t get) from the local or state level, you can call the national level.
So, what did I miss? Weekend events were always camps just like any other boys’ club or “conclave” which is a state-wide meeting of DeMolays. There were various activities there, none of which involved hopping into bed with the adult male chaperones or with any of the other boys.
Drat! It’s a zombie thread!
I’ll bet some guy now all grown up is still chuckling about how he freaked out his Uncle Cartooniverse. The old guy will believe anything!
Yeah, those kids are totally legal by now.
Yeah, that’s about my take on it. If I had an uncle prone to these kind of rants, I probably wouldn’t be very forthcoming either.
Just so long as you watch what you say, and do not incur the fearful penalty of having your eyeball pierced to the center with a three-edged blade.
In all fairness, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be concerned about an organization that sends children on secret camping trips (or whatever) and refuses to disclose how those trips are supervised, and so on (notwithstanding their apparent policy.)
To the crackpot uncles of their members? After a signed insurance form from the parent?
I have never been a member of Demolay, but if I were the attorney general of my state and some nutcase called me up worried that his nephew was going to be attacked by perverted Shriners on a camping trip, I might not necessarily wet myself in terror. IYSWIM.
Regards,
Shodan
If you find such an organization please let us know.
It’s all super double plus secret because they are training all your chldren to help them take over the world. And steal our precious bodily fluids.
Yeah. that’s the ticket.
Once again-eight years ago, people.
It’s SO secret, I just found out? 
And why the hell did you put your daughter into Rainbow and not Job’s Daughters? Clearly she had the required Masonic relative. For shame! JDs over Rainbow any day!.. Though that floaty walk IS awesome…
Well, the whole “rainbow” thing…could get kinda confusing.
Holy DeMolay! A zombie thread!
Heh. This is funny. I don’t remember writing my post in this thread at all. Everything I said is right though. Monty’s is spot on as well. AngelSoft’s is slightly wrong - Rainbow Girls were better - ummm, let’s just say partiers - than JDs, so, for a teenage boy, better.
When I was active in DeMolay, our area had both Job’s Daughters and Rainbow Girls. We also had Knighthood, which was kind of fun, but more businesslike than “standard” DeMolay.