Some of you will be surprised (and others unsurprised) to learn that there is a masonic lodge associated with Imperial College (for staff, students and alumni). Back in January Richard Walker (one of my Deputy Presidents) and I were invited to join the lodge.
Regular readers of my column in Felix will have noticed a casual mention, noting that we had politely declined.
The real Freemasonry Website
1) IANAFM (I am not a Freemason)
2) Freemasons give a shitload of money to other charities through their two official charities
3) Freemasons are pretty harmless
4) FreemasonryWatch is the crapest most wrong site i have ever seen.
5) The real site to learn about Freemasonry is the somehow comical sounding http://www.ugle.org.uk/
“Outing”
Oh and Freemasonry is a society with secrets, not a secret society, so while you can “out” a Freemason, it’s not a huge secret.
Photographs or videos of their rituals would be a much bigger “outing”
This Website
Incidentally this CMS software is rather good – i can’t imagine where you got the idea from.
Another freemasonry website
More on freemasonry. Sam, you’re too brainwashed by your masonic relations.
Better link…
That link’s a lot more accurate, but my “relations” are smart enough to understand the origin of the rituals…
All the crap on the web about freemasonry seems to be written by conspiracy theorists and people who are bitter about never being invited to join.
Yeah, one of the Orders is named after the Knights Templar, who weren’t a very nice bunch of people by all accounts – but it’s just a name… I think old men (and they are generally old and definitely men) need to find a hobby, and if the outlet they choose to use to raise money for charity involves a load of stupid ceremonies, a bit of socialising and passing round of the collection plate, I don’t see how that differs from so called more “wholesome” activities like going to Church every sunday.
Sure the fact that half of the police, most of the male Judiciary and Barristers are all in it doesn’t bode well for a fair trial, but what the heck – if you’re in court you’re probably guilty anyway ;o)