I think all secret societies are secretly the same society. The Head Secret Guy of all the societies pits them against each other to make it look to the rest of the world like the secret societies are not in league, when really they are.
Actually I think the Illuminati are supposed to be Papal spies; Templars are supposed to be attempting to rule the world and/or bring about its end, and may have a deep-seated hatred of the Pope; and Freemasons just wear fuzzy antlers on their heads and get together on Tuesdays to watch the Andy Griffith Show and play pinochle.
I canna explain the Shriners.
What's the current one that has suspicious hush-hush conferences attended by all the high muckey-mucks of various governments? Bilderberg, or something like that?
Read Foucalt's Pendulum.
I read it, like, 15 years ago, and can no longer remember anything about the plot. (Frankly, I couldn't figure out what the hell I just read even then. It was entertaining though.) Except for the part where someone proclaimed that the Templars were all into Hot Gay Lovin' on account of riding the horses pressed against each other and stuff. That cracked me up.
I canna explain the Shriners.
Fezzes and go-carts - what's to explain? I think they're the last bastion of the surrealists.
Shriners are a branch of Masons. Wouldn't it be Elks wearing the antlers?
Shriners will wear pretty much anything.
What about the Loyal Order of Waterbuffalo? Or the Stonecutter's Union?
Shriners will wear pretty much anything.
Well, sure. But that's unofficial. (I used to be part of a Masonic order.)
Oh yeah - what about the Oddfellows?
