Neato

kinda

Yeah, and you can also be invited to a sect

the guys from my old work go to a lodge fairly far away so didn't go to theirs

Ah k

But you don't officially need to be invited

You need to be sponsored or whatever but I've been told it's bad form to outright invite people unless you really think they should join

I'm probably confused as I have no insight about this culture.

Mafia

Italian mafia?

No lol

Freemasons

Sounds like a sect to me

It's on Wikipedia

I have a lot of religious houses here

Jahova's Witnesses

A surprisingly high amount of the peiple around me are members

I think they are brainwashed

Dunno what it's like elsewhere but round here it's mainly old dudes doing charity work and drinking

You must have heart attack when your doorbell rings @Dietrich

+middle aged dudes of course

Ahh, here that's what can be called youth organizations

Isn't that a fitting name?

There is a religious aspect to it

But you can believe in anything as long as you aren't an atheist

I'm not for or against anything, as I've met and will continue to meet many people who well

are religious

Officially I am a member of the protestant church, on paper, as I was forced in when I was a child.

But I never really showed up to their meetings

Heretic my man

Haha, you know how fun it is---

When you start making out your own personalizty etc

And then you realize, oh, I was baptized and a member of church before I had a will of my own

Might as well stay a member am I right?

but, when it comes to the main idea of religion.

It's impossible this day and age, with a decent amount of education, to picture myself believing in a religion whose whole existence seems to be fake

I'm not really into the whole organised religion thing

And the purpose of masonry isn't really to do that

If you look at history you'll see how much of a sham that shit is

It's just a requirement for membership that you believe in "a higher power"

money, greed, it's a wonder Luther had success