Skull and Crossbones?

Illuminati?

NAMBLA?!

Oh yea... I want one.

ohh. this should be interesting. i wonder which secret society they came from? and since they are old men, i wonder if rigor mortis is the closest thing to a hard on they'd had in years!
/someone mentioned amazon women on the moon, and its haunting me...

Illuminati,

How many people believe that this is plausible / exists?

(off topic, but interested)

Masons?

The Misfits unavailable for comment.

Oh, Hell yeah!

Our Halloween party is our social event of the season!

We've only got two anatomically correct skeletons at the moment, and they're both casts. Actual bones?

Yes, indeed. Lancaster ain't far and I got kin up there.

I smell road trip.

well its a title in the O.T.O (ordo templi orentis) http://www.oto-usa.org/init.html
and is also a degree title in scottish rite masonry. it really did exist a la as a society within grand lodge masonry, and it really is threaded thru the various masonic bodies but as supreme over lords a la stonecutters from simpsons, i doubt it.

2006-03-10 01:54:09 PM phoxxy

Masons?

Sorry phoxxy. But maybe my lodge is different from others

/Secretary for Aubrey Berry #501 in Enid, OK
//AFAM for life
///Ancient Free and Accepted Mason

2006-03-10 01:54:09 PM phoxxy

Masons?

Well, I could tell you...but then we'd have to kill you.

/Master of Clinton #140 in Waterford, NY
//And, no, I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with Masons.
///Besides, we don't kill people anymore...
////...or any less....MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
/////No, really, we don't...
//Maybe...
//...and so on...

FloydA

Indeed. Something MUST be done! Pure evil...

If these are real wouldn't the police be interested? Stupid question?

/member of secret Mardi Gras society.

I'll pay someone in Pennslyvania a lot of money to get one of these for me...

I'll pay someone in Pennslyvania to get one of these for me... seriously. I'm in Georgia, and am busy this weekend. Use the contact info in my profile.

Also, Airrik99 - Yes.

Masonic Farkers?

/wow
//St Andrews #35, Renton WA

The actual auction notice can be found here:

http://www.luv2bid.com/state/default.asp?id=14034

About 4 hours each way from my house.

Maybe not. I saw WGAL and thought Lancaster, about a hour away.

Anndr0id, what kind of premium are you offering? Contact me (see profile) if you can make it worth the trip.

Airrik99
Illuminati,

How many people believe that this is plausible / exists?

Well, there are a lot of tin foil hat wearing morans in the world.
The actual organization was not a big deal and is long gone.

The 33rd Degree Masonic ritual involves drinking wine from a human skull, but I have never heard of any skeletons used in any other Masonic rituals.

For the Skull and Bones Society at Yale, they sit naked in a coffin and talk about their sex life while everyone listens. Big fun; both Bush and Kerry were members.

patrick767 -

It has nothing to do with wearing tin foil hats. Many of the things practiced in ancient groups such as these are fitting more into a scientific frame as we have advanced, and some of which is being defined in quantum mechanics. Given, our ancestors were not as "bright" as we are today, and used strange methods to go about their findings, like using skeletons in strange rituals, but the subconsious is much more powerful than many realize, and as Jung points out, the most valuable communication is through symbols.

How do you get invited to become Freemason?

Fnord?

/ Malkovich!

Most likely, it's from an Odd Fellows lodge.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/30/M N184584.DTL

Lawrence of a Labia: How do you get invited to become Freemason?



/one bloke wanted me to join the OES
//I declined 'cause I'm with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

am I the only one who knows?

it's the "Independent Order of Odd Fellows."

/Can't tell you how I know.
/Not an Odd Fellow, but certainly an odd fellow. hehe
/ L.M.

The bones probably belonged to the Odd Fellows.

How do I know?

So... true story:

The house of my grandfather (an antique dealer) was haunted. No kidding. Often, you could hear a kids voice singing upstairs in unoccupied roooms, see shadow people walking around, hear sounds of heavy breathing when no one else was there, mysterious voices (a girls voice, I might add) and so on. This went on for as long as I can remember in that house, and anyone who spent time in the house had similar experiences.

So anyways, just a few years ago, my grandfather told me that in the basement of that house, he had been hanging on to a huge lot from the defunct Odd Fellows lodge in a nearby town. Among the stuff: the skeleton of very young person in a ceremonial casket.

/ now where did I put my tin foil...

hehe, locochupa,.. I beatcha!

/Ask Mr. owl how many licks it takes to get to the Center of Nature's Perfect Container.

/ ah,.. Three!

/ jubela, jubelo, jubelum

/ Jebel Ali????

/ allergic to tinfoil.

Silversouth: Masonic Farkers?

/wow
//St Andrews #35, Renton WA

I was a Job's Daughter. West Bend, Wisconsin, PHQ, MM Bethel #25.

MadTheologian FOR TEH WINXX0rZ!

I'll bet you big money it was an Odd Fellows Chapter.


That being said, if I had the cash lying around and the ability to get down there, I might be tempted to pick one up; legit bones are hard to come by.

/don't ask me how I know
//because I don't

Lawrence, Mad Theologian is correct. It is a very big no-no for a Mason to ask you to join. It MUST be of your own free will and accord that you make this request, and any Mason that asks you can be expelled for un-Masonic conduct.

/PM Capital Lodge #54
/dual member with Laramie Lodge #3

It was The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

You betcha.

Who's up for a fark party after the auction? I'm only about an hour away, and just got paid. Road trip!

I've always read you can't be invited to be a mason, you have to ask to join...

What is this Odd Fellows group? Where can I sign up?

Ahh, nevermind, found their website... sounds like a good group with admiral goals, but they insist on a belief in a supreme being. Unless the natural laws of complexity and chaos count, I'm out.

I believe Odd Fellows is largely defunct, at least I know of no operating chapters around here.

As for secret societies... family connection to the Lodge going back 170 years, to when my four-great-grandfather's headstone doesn't have the G on the Square and Compasses. I'm petitioning this Spring. :-)

olddinosaur: For the Skull and Bones Society at Yale, they sit naked in a coffin and talk about their sex life while everyone listens. Big fun; both Bush and Kerry were members.

Meh...people on the Internet sit naked in their basement whilst typing how one would (or not) hit it.

/insert sharp knees guy

I'm still bitter about this: I dropped in at a party once and there was a skeleton there. An apartment had changed hands that day and the departing med students left the skeleton behind. The new renters brought the skeleton to the party. After we left the party I thought, I can scrape up $100, I must buy that skeleton. So we went back and the skeleton was all over the floor, smashed to bits. And this wasn't some plaster skeleton. This was was a short Indian woman. I hate skeleton smashers.

Frank S Land #758 Indianapolis, IN

/Sr. DeMolay also

The ill-built tower trembles mightily at the butterfly's passage.

The caged whale knows nothing of the mighty deeps.

/Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night

F and AM # 120 Charlotte, Michigan
Horace Maynard #82 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons
Soon to be Charlotte Commandery #37.

Ask one to be one.