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Originally Posted by Estreeter
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Step #1 is to ask someone whom you know is a freemason about the organization and how to become one. One of the basic rules is that they aren't allowed to go out and try to "recruit" someone off the streets. The potential new member has to make the first move and seek out information from them first.
Another fundamental rule is that you have to acknowledge the existence of a "supreme being." Don't necessarily gotta call him God or follow a particular religion, but ya gotta believe that there's a supreme being out there somewhere.
My father, his father, and at least one of my uncles were masons. But I never asked about joining because I knew about the supreme being prerequisite, and that was a problem for me on account of I'm an atheist (although I have flirted with agnosticism in the past).
As to "weird things with goats"?!? C'mon, man. Fer chrissakes, they aren't the Knights of Columbus!
