We all like sheep
who’ve gone astray.
Exactly. I learned it from Messiah, where everyone says they like sheep, leave it at that and stop, and then let others say it.
Meh. I’m lazy. If I want a nice bit o’mutton, I’ll pick the sheep in the pen over chasing a free range sheep any day.
Course, it does get a bit boring after awhile. Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don’t look like mutton again tomorrer…
Which I can attest from personal experience, my membership gives me no influence on anyone. 
That’s what we want you to think, anyway… Mwahahahaha!
I saw your reply on another post in which I replied to the other day which obviously sparked your posting of this question. The other post was discussing the Knights of Columbus. I want to reiterate that the KOC is a Catholic male fraternity that’s basis is deducted to family, charity, unity and helping others. Anyone believing KOC is a secretive group or quasi cult is just outright prejudice against Catholics.
Uh… who are you talking to?
In the other thread (a zombie about the KoC )he or she was talking to Moriah.
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
They are secret because they have power and they are powerful because they are secret.
Proof of that is their hold over the SDMB … what else would explain why this thread is ongoing. Prove me wrong!!
great - now you know what I want? a nice MLT: a mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky, I love that.
You would also be given a secret code word that can be used to ask for ketchup on your burgers at Louis’ Lunch.
In many ways the OP has things backwards. In the US, you can get a lot done because contracts between businesses are readily enforceable. Not so much in middle and lower income countries. As a result, outside of the West you often need to trust the person you work with and personal contacts become that much more important. This means that the routes to wealth and power are more restricted and tend to involve having good relations with a smaller number of people. So you get oligarchies or references to the “Forty families” that allegedly rule the country. The US in contrast is a large pond with a lot of scope for arms length exchanges.
Also, if the secret societies are so powerful, what’s the point of being secret? IME, people like to show off their influence: that’s one of the perks of power. Secrecy implies vulnerability.
By golly gee, your right about other countries depending on who you know, but this meeting even takes place in north America sometimes. It’s called the Bilderberg meeting.
This was just in the news today: http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/world/20130607_ap_clubofrichpowerfulmeetinsecretnearlondon.html
Saturday, June 8, 2013
LONDON - It’s a busy weekend at the luxury Grove Hotel, favored haunt of British soccer players and their glitz-loving spouses.
It’s funny you should mention the Bilderberg Group, as we were discussing you at the meeting today. You’ll hear further from us later.
Heh. While I see that Google’s Steve Schmidt and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos are both attending that London gabfest, I sort of doubt they needed the group’s permission before they launched their respective companies. And I really doubt that Henry Kissinger does much for their bottom line today, positively or negatively. And he’s an old member at the Bohemian Grove as well!
That’s a typo. The media got it wrong. They are actually at Build-A-Bear Workshop.
Nm
Whoops.
You’re in your element, sir. From the article-