Idk… that sounds exactly like what a secret inner circle at the top who controls the government would say.

You can look online to find out if you have an AFAM (Ancient Free and Accepted Masons) Lodge near you and reach out to their contact.

Social media has given people the ability to do this without geographical limitations. Clubs aren't dead, they just migrated to the digital world.

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do, we do
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do, we do
Who holds back the elctric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do, we do
Who robs gamefish of their site?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!

I believe it was the soldiers returning from WW2 that needed that brotherhood. They were used to their lives being defined by masculine community. When they returned, they filled the ranks of all of those organizations you mention (I am often asked to join the Knights of Pythias). Now those old gentlemen are dying out and decreasing the ranks. They have to figure out how to change with the times.

Yes. The Masonic family branches out quite a bit. Order of the Eastern Star and Order of the Amaranth are two Masonic organizations for both women and men. Girls can join The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, and boys can join the Order of DeMolay.

This is hilarious. Had to give an award. Most of our time at the lodge is spent eating. Our only conspiracy is having the best fried fish I’ve ever had.

Feeling it can be described but not really understood.

To be unrestricted, to not desire, to be present, total, oneness. It feels neutral, not good and definitely not bad (anxious, unsettling...).

So you now got an explanation for the genuinely infinite as only our feelings are what we can fully perceive afterall.

The age problem is a common problem of local social clubs nowadays. I joined when I was 17 and was the youngest by far. It took some explaining the the older members that freemasonry is a hobby and therefore competes with all the manifold hobbies available nowadays. We changed our approach and representation and had great success.

Do you have to be white to be a Freemason? Is there racism in each chapter?

It generally is boring, but if you all talked about it you would know about the Manhattan project going on.

Never heard of them.

Because that is how it has always been for centuries and if there are common requirements then it unites the members.

There are Masonic groups for women that my wife belongs to.

I'm Ghana takeover! Oh, wait...

Yes there is a women's Freemasons.

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Thank you

Google "grand lodge of" your state or country will usually get you pointed in the right direction. Alternatively, if you know where a lodge (or local chapter) near you meets you can go in person and ask. They'll usually be more than happy to talk to you about it.

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Until the regenerative capacity is full and have to rely entirely on friction brakes. You don’t engineer for optimal operating conditions.

As others have said. The higher power can be anything as long as its genuinely important to you. I've heard of people using Darwins Origin of species or their respective Philosophical Book in the initiation. This directly represents your freedom of believing in anything and still be accepted as someone who wants to do good. But it's important to know beforehand that many of the moral texts are based on parts of the old testament. As a non Christian myself I see the stories for the message that is the core and accept the scaffolding surrounding it as such.

This is actually kind of true and most people dont know. If you've ever seen someone wearing a square and compass ring, hat or bumper sticker. Thats a mason. Ever see someone with a multicolored inverted star? Thats eastern star, a maternal side of the organization. They are out there and they do want you to ask.

You’re thinking of The Stonecutters.

There are female Masonic groups my wife belongs to.

In having a safe space for men we can have meaningful personal conversations and grow as men, where members may not feel comfortable having those conversations in mixed company.

If there are shared experiences and commonalities among members, it unites us and creates espirit de corps.

No that's the stonecutter's guild.