Why do people hate freemasons? They seem to have had a lot of respectable people that joined them.What does /r9k/ think of freemasons?
>>84611722>write an essay about freemasonry because im retarded yap yappost written by a freemason or a fed
>>84611722People get obsessed with the idea that secret societies rule the world. Any secret society with a vaguely religious or esoteric component becomes the subject of a branch of endless conspiracy theories. They are right that there are secret societies of an occult nature that rule the world. The Freemasons aren't one of those secret societies. Bringing up Freemasons when talking about 18th and 19th century figures is pointless because everyone was a Freemason then. The Freemasons was where people would go to drink, play chess, and shoot the shit with each other. The actual esoteric theories which the Freemasons originally stood for were of no interest to them.
>>84611972Secret societies do rule the world and always have going back to Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, bare minimum. The priesthood in those places was a secret society that chose who would be king and what he would do. It's just that there are countless numbers of them and the ones with actual power aren't visible.
