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captpackrat posted...

The other ring she passed up had a two-headed eagle, a triangle with a yod, the number 32, and a Rose Croix.

Oddly enough I think they were all Free Mason rings; going to go out on a limb and say your grandfather was a 32nd degree grandmaster.

MrMelodramatic posted...

what do masons even do these days

Depends on the Lodge they belong to, most are just social clubs, some still adhere to the ancient traditions of anonymous charity and good deeds to the community; there is an unfortunate subset of lodges that seek only power, or worse. If you ever meet a Shriner or a 33rd degree master mason, ask if they have been to the Book of the Play recently and watch their face turn white as a sheet.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Is there a conspiracy theory about why there are so many conspiracy theories?

Criminalt posted...

I think The X-Files touched upon this. There was a plot strand that put forward the theory that basically, the belief in a government conspiracy to cover up the truth about alien abductions had in fact been manufactured by the government, in an attempt to cover up the fact that it was carrying out the abductions itself. In other words, a strategy of diverting the spotlight away from the mundane truth by focusing it on a fantastical lie instead.

Basically this. The CIA coined the term Conspiracy Theory as a way to discredit individuals who were telling stories out of school (so to speak) and found that the public was eager to make their own up; the CIA then covertly (and sometimes overtly) encourages and propagates them to better classify individuals and their ideologies. A good portion of DoD black budget goes to programs that investigate phenomenon that in actuality is just another secret DoD program, Project Blue Book for example.