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...Masons aren't allowed to recruit people. Why is that? They don't want you to bring in people against their will. They need to join for their own voluntary reasons...
...Freemasons aren't busy running the world, what exactly is it that they do? The outer mission is to be of service to the greater community, donating to charities and Masonic youth groups, like the Order of DeMolay for boys and Rainbow Girls, which encourage kids to be good citizens and give them social circles that are supervised by adults and are more positive than hanging out on street corners. The organization is also based on a kind of stoic philosophy, to become the master of your own passions - don't fall prey to your emotions, to anger...
...Probably not. But this is the name of the game in the Browniverse: at its most basic level the Brownian fantasy is that coincidences aren't just chance, and things are not just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch of human intellectual inquiry that - it cannot be stated enough times - doesn't exist, at Harvard or anywhere else). Beneath his learned, oddly asexual caress, objects come to life and become symbols. A V isn't just a V, it's a chalice, a symbol of the eternal feminine. Chaos...
Moody's qualified optimism is echoed by Ford chairman William Clay Ford. "In terms of our industry, I don't think I'll feel better until I see people going back to work. Clearly people without jobs aren't buying vehicles. But having said that, there are encouraging signs of a pickup," he told TIME...
...meantime, Penn students have been flocking to religious organizations. Maybe they're looking for someone to explain what they should do now that there aren't any more jobs...