What's your favorite crazy Knights Templar conspiracy theory?

[arbusto_baboso]

Mine? That the Freemasons are the descendents of the Templars and they have a plot to take over the world.

Do you KNOW any Freemasons? They couldn't sober up long enough to seize a local post office...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. That there is a map on the back of the Declaration of Independence that leads you to....

....where Nicholas Cage took acting lessons.

[arbusto_baboso]

2. I do NOT believe that one.

There is no way in Hell that Nicholas Cage EVER took acting lessons!

[KamaAina]

3. Nic switched that copy and hid the original under his rug.

:P

[SCantiGOP]

4. the back of the Declaration

actually has Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. Rush Limbaugh is working on a plan to rappel into the building (trying to find some rope heavy enough to hold him) and steal it and save America!

[AwakeAtLast]

26. LOL!

And the rope would break. Hi-O!

:rofl:

[rcrush]

5. Why do you got to make fun?

[Call Me Wesley]

6. I can tell you this much:

Templars and Freemasons have nothing in common. That's all I can say here.

..:A:..:A:... O.T.O. XII°

[Taverner]

7. I'm a Freemason

Yeah yeah, we have Jesus' skull and all the treasure of the Templars....yawn...

But seriously I am a Mason - they're kind of like the Lions club but they serve beer.

Oh and the rituals are wicked cool if you're a history buff. That must be why my lodge has so many Jr High and HS History Teachers in it.

And that whole Atheist thing - well when asked my answer was "I don't know and neither do you" and that sufficed.

Granted, its a pretty liberal lodge...

[arbusto_baboso]

8. Does your lodge get a keg for the bus for long road trips?

A friend's dad was a freemason, and they basically used any excuse possible to drink like fish. They had some truly innovative methods and reasons for drinking, too!

[Taverner]

9. Not my lodge - they do serve beer at the crab feasts

But most of my lodge is made up of history geeks

Not to say anyone would turn down a drink

You can tell what kind of a lodge it is by the activities and trips. Ours does trips to Masonic Libraries all over the world. The one in SF is pretty cool, and as far as I know, anyone can visit and read there, but only Masons can check out books.

[regnaD kciN]

12. Well, I dont believe you...!!!

You expect us to believe the Lion's Club doesn't serve beer??? :rofl:

[Taverner]

23. LOL - actually I have no idea if they do or don't

All I know is the Thai Lions Club when I was in Peace Corps - and they didn't serve beer.

But they did a lot of good work for the orphans of Thailand!

[BlueIris]

10. That the Templars survived and still run a secret society outside of Atlanta, GA.

Because...no. Anyone who believes that one has been reading too much Anne Rice.

[Doc_Technical]

11. "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco

http://www.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-Umberto-Eco/dp/015603297X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248819026&sr=1-1

[Heidi]

28. Excellent book, very well written. I bet Dan Brown was glad to have had it for reference

when he wrote "The DaVinci Code." :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Knights Templar, through the Masons, gave the Elks Club the secret of Occam's Razor

[arbusto_baboso]

14. But only Arthur Returned can wield Occam's Razor.

Or am I mixing up my legends again?

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. No, you're thinking of the Barber of Seville, but that's Carl's Razor, not Occam's.

[rug]

15. That they knocked down the World Trade Center.

[Ikonoklast]

17. Colonel Sanders was a Templar.

They gave him the secret recipe of eleven delicious herbs and spices for fried chicken in order to take over the world.


He was also a white slaver and an advocate of free love. A real right bastid.

[arbusto_baboso]

18. How does free love advocacy make him a bastid?

It makes him a bit odd and unsettling, but a bastage?

[Ikonoklast]

19. He wanted to do it with cacti.

Real weirdo.

It is also a little-known fact that Harland Sanders was a wanted man for the crime of capital murder on three continents, and seven countries.

He had a horrific temper and settled every perceived slight with the sword he had concealed in his cane.

[arbusto_baboso]

20. Okay, that IS sick. But.....

Are you sure you aren't talking about Zell Miller?

[Ikonoklast]

21. Ha! Zell Miller is a piker compared to the monster Col. Sanders.

Did you know that Pol Pot had Sanders as a personal chef for six years?

He said that eating the chicken fried by the Colonel's very own hand made him so happy if he had to he would kill millions in order to eat it every day.

Templars at work again, behind the scenes.

Truly evil.

[spinbaby]

22. DH is out at a Masons meeting right this second

Buncha old guys whose big accomplishment every year is having a spaghetti dinner to raise money to patch up some new hole in the lodge.

[HopeHoops]

24. They are still keeping the secret of the Holy Spoon.

It was the spoon that Jesus used to stir his lemonade during the last supper.

[AwakeAtLast]

25. My grandfather was a 50 year member - he never drank

My favorite is that they know where the Holy Grail is kept.

[woo me with science]

27. All that pesky satanic ritual abuse.

There are lots of breathless references to Freemasons on recovered memory/satanic ritual abuse websites.

The first link shows "Survivors" looking for evidence of repressed ritual abuse in DVD cases, doodles, and reactions to sounds. The second poster in the thread suggests Masonic involvement:

http://www.twhj.org/discus/messages/65/20819.html



Here's another one. In this case, the recovered memory therapist has directly suggested Masonic involvement:

http://dissociativeidentitydisordersupportforum.yuku.co...

[Forkboy]

29. Rule #1 of the Knights Templar is, you don't talk about the Knights Templar.

[Blue_Tires]

30. it has to do with a little black bird that is the stuff dreams are made of...

[PVnRT]

31. That they edited Star Wars Episode I so it actually makes sense (n/t)