how do i become a mason

A guy was trying to convince me to be a mason yesterday.

Don't you have to be invited?

I kinda had this distrust thing happening when he started to tell me about all the MONEY that they can't possibly manage and how they need someone to manage it.

Was he from the Grand Lodge of Lagos, Nigeria?

I've always wondered about it. I drive past their monster huge temple every morning. My wife and I were married in the Albert Pike Hotel. One of my grandfathers was a Shriner and the other grandfather "took some classes". It sounds a lot like Scientology, except for the fact that they do control everything.

Still, to be on the other side of a secret society for once and not behind Rowdy Roddy Piper's sunglasses is somewhat appealing to my curiosity. That, and the Masonic temples are usually the only places to get a drink in dry rural counties.

Was he from the Grand Lodge of Lagos, Nigeria?

Russian wholesale jeweler, so I was kinda figuring him for mafia before the masonic stuff came up.

I really, really would like to become a Mason, mostly out of curiosity.

I AM CURIOUS (Mason)

Masons are old and smell weird. Why not join the Rotary Club?

i want to go to the bohemian club and see leaders of the world running around in their underwear drunk

My dad's already in the Rotary Club. No mystery there.

In Schottland sind ja die Freimaurer eher bei den Protestanten zu finden, was bei Fussballspielen sogar zu sprechchören führen kann. Vor allem nämlich wenn der Schiri zu gunsten von den Rangers entscheidet heisst's gleich "WHO'S THE MASON IN THE BLACK?"

The Rotary Club is pretty rad because they had a barbecue in the park across the street from my house. They hired a trombone quartet and asked me if I wanted hamburgers, which I did, because I am secretly Jughead.

They seem like Lion's Club minus eyesight mission to me.

The Shriner grandfather told me that I could never be a Mason since I had been baptized Catholic and therefore could possibly spill some beans in confession. He encouraged me to seek out the Knights of Columbus instead.

Freemasons: the new metrosexuals

Or maybe the new steampunks:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-05/38818442.jpg

I got invited to be a mason. Should I be a mason?

Yes. We need someone on the inside.

I saw national treasure this weekend

YES

Let me live my dreams beyond that glass ceiling through you, Mr. Puzzleworth.

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/images/harry_s_truman_pgm_missouri_1.jpg

^^ 33rd President, y'all.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6872/freemasonsatwork.jpg

the answer is ask one

will it help me become rich?

Puzzleworth has not posted since 2008. I wonder how the initiation went.

i blame the masons for the boring bit in War and Peace.