Freemasons to battle zombies

[Mangrove]

(My father's a mason and has been since 1984. I've never wanted to join, but it is something I'm interested in and have had lots of discussion about with him.)

From what I can gather from US masons that I've talked to, the membership has been in decline for a while and so there's been attempts to attract new interest with more open events. More controversially, there's been 'mass initiations' in order to bump up the numbers of Master Masons to stem the decline. The British masonic contingent viewed this with the utmost horror.

It would seem that the average age of masonic lodges is pretty old, through, from what I've heard, there's been an upsurge in interest from young male occultists.

[LMNO]

If I could find a way to make time for yet another night out of the house, I'd join up.



However, She What Gives Me Sex would be concerned that I'd voluntarily want to hang out with a bunch of old dudes in robes rather than spend time with her.

[the last yatto]

is anybody on the board a mason already?

most of my family is, was  waiting myself until I was 33 to formally enroll
as the first lodge you join kinda stays with you...
its like your home room if view a lodge as say a college

I do know that many Masonic lodges are indeed holding Open Recruitment days, due to declining membership.

doesn't this make them ripe for infiltration?

join the blue lodge tell them about the grey lodge or

if you want to sign up merely for trolling, id recommend knights of Columbus as most of their leadership is catholic

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I get the impression that, even with the ban in place on talking about politics and religion, the infiltration of a lodge with, say, 5% discordians would significantly change the actions of the whole lodge.

[Mangrove]

is anybody on the board a mason already?

most of my family is, was  waiting myself until I was 33 to formally enroll
as the first lodge you join kinda stays with you...
its like your home room if view a lodge as say a college

I do know that many Masonic lodges are indeed holding Open Recruitment days, due to declining membership.

doesn't this make them ripe for infiltration?

join the blue lodge tell them about the grey lodge or

if you want to sign up merely for trolling, id recommend knights of Columbus as most of their leadership is catholic

Most of? I would suggest 'all of'. The Knights of Columbus was founded as an alternative so that Catholics wouldn't become masons.

[Mangrove]

I get the impression that, even with the ban in place on talking about politics and religion, the infiltration of a lodge with, say, 5% discordians would significantly change the actions of the whole lodge.

Extremely unlikely.

[the last yatto]

if you want to sign up merely for trolling, id recommend knights of Columbus as most of their leadership is catholic

Most of? I would suggest 'all of'. The Knights of Columbus was founded as an alternative so that Catholics wouldn't become masons.

yeah but that ban was lifted so Catholics can become masons if they so wish...
thus been mixing for a few years now, so its likely a exceptional protestant, or who ever, could have some standing

theres even a rival pope saying this is masonic stuff is blasphemy, who runs the really real roman catholic church
which reminds me of a really bad moronic offshoot of the Vatican

[Mangrove]

if you want to sign up merely for trolling, id recommend knights of Columbus as most of their leadership is catholic

Most of? I would suggest 'all of'. The Knights of Columbus was founded as an alternative so that Catholics wouldn't become masons.

yeah but that ban was lifted so Catholics can become masons if they so wish...
thus been mixing for a few years now, so its likely a exceptional protestant, or who ever, could have some standing

theres even a rival pope saying this is masonic stuff is blasphemy, who runs the really real roman catholic church
which reminds me of a really bad moronic offshoot of the Vatican

The ban was never lifted AFAIK. Catholics who become masons still can be denied the sacraments. The Vatican repeatedly issue 'reminders' that their anti-Masonry stance still holds on account of it teaching 'religious pluralism'. (Because if men of different religious get together in the spirit of brotherhood, it means they are ignoring Catholicism as the ONE TRUE RELIGION tm!)

I only know this because a friend of mine (Catholic) joined the masons recently, quite innocently in fact. Then when he was doing some online reading, discovered lots of anti-masonic sentiment. From what I can find is that the Vatican are still down on the idea of masonry. How enforceable this is, is another matter.

[Elder Iptuous]

if you want to sign up merely for trolling, id recommend knights of Columbus as most of their leadership is catholic

No, i'd be signing up primarily for the hat and for personal gain through networking...

[Eris' Heiress]

Anyone know if any lodges admit women yet? Fuck the Amaranth & Eastern Star, they're all old ladies in sequins.

[Freeky]

Anyone know if any lodges admit women yet? Fuck the Amaranth & Eastern Star, they're all old ladies in sequins.

I think I heard that some of them do, via History Channel.