Mine might be nothing compared to ya'll (none of which I'm reading
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Last year I visited the local masonic lodge, because they have a small museum in the first hall. I didn't know the countries founders and first patriot men were all masonic. It seems to be a bit of a recurrent in a lot medium class and high class men. It was through a friend (who is a member and was there) of a friend that I went with a group and we asked a lot of questions. They cleared us that The Illuminati doesn't exits anymore and that they don't do anything satanic in there. But the attitude of the museum director was very unwelcoming. She had a slightly disregarding and spiky attitude, probably because I went with a group of my sister's girlfriends who were bombing all of those questions they've probably heard before a thousand times. She was pretty demanding when I asked "What statues do you have in there?" right after she told us we couldn't get in the temple and that it looked like a church, so I spilled that one in and she immediately said "How do you know there are statues there?" and I replied "I don't know if there are statues there, I just derived that from what you just said about it looking like a church, which has statues." Mess.
I read a old motto of them which I can't recall now, but it basically said that men have power over themselves (or at least that's what I interpreted, because it was sort of cryptic). After the visit we walked down the street with the guy we knew and he explained us a few things of the secrecy they have and why he couldn't even show us the temple (because of the museum director) and I asked him about the meaning of that motto I read and he told me that was secret.
But what really still haunts me until this very day from that evening is that right before we turned around the corner and got to the place a man slowed the pace of his driving, got a bit closer to the right and violently looked me in the eyes from his car and then accelerated away.
Edit: Oh my... Did I really write this valedictorian speech-long post?