secret societies

[Tom Earp]

WHOOOOO Pooky Pooky or is it Spooky Spooky?

This is to kewel, neato and fantastic!

I am for one amazed daily by the facts of Hoo Doo and Voo Doo from the Livereied Hallow Ground of the Secret Organizations who rule the world.

How do they do this. It is easy the small few with the $$$$$$$ who will rule what the mindless drones will bear!

Oh, please let me be one even though I have No $$$$$ but Pure Of Heart!

Harry S. Truman was a member of Two Organizations of Prominence, Masons and LXA!

Basically My Home Boy would not put up with the other Crappola!

[ADPiViolet]

There is a secret societ at Brenau University called HGH Senior Honor Society and only 7 women are chosen from the junior class a year. After they are chosen they cannot leave campus for 7 weeks and then proceed to Panama City for "initiation" or bonding time. It is pretty crazy.

[SiKeS]

Did a little searching... Found this on Yale's Skull and Bones secret society..

http://skullandcrossbones.org/articl...llandbones.htm

Some interesting stuff...

[HollisterDXiChi]

I guess they're not so secret if everyone knows about them. Speaking of the Skulls , has anyone seen the second part? Was it any good???

[Lil' Hannah]

Everyone knows about them, but their membership is (somewhat) secretive, and you have to take all of these webpages with a grain of salt. But here's another one for you! This was what first piqued my interest in the Skull and Bones, and secret societies in general.

http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm

[sairose]

Wow this stuff is really interesting! I had heard of Skull and Bones but not the other groups. Cool stuff!

[DigitalAngel126]

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Question about the letters being on the houses at UGA. If membership is seceretive, how do they know when to put "IMP" or "Z" on a house (i.e. any sorority house)? If they don't know who's in it, how do they know it's one of their own girls??

[xyz333]

Originally posted by MoxieGrrl
Why have secret societies if there are fraternities/sororities? I don't know enough about ss to answer this question, so maybe someone can help me out on this one....

I mean, what do they do? Is it like "The Skulls" where you get a new car, $$$ in your account, and a tux party with hot babes?

The difference is, you don't choose which secret society you can and can't belong to. You don't ask to join a secret society like you ask to join a frat/soror during rush, etc. They ask you. The other difference is, secret societies keep their membership very low and very exclusive, and only ask people that have proved themselves to be exemplary in a particular way.

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally posted by DigitalAngel126
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Question about the letters being on the houses at UGA. If membership is seceretive, how do they know when to put "IMP" or "Z" on a house (i.e. any sorority house)? If they don't know who's in it, how do they know it's one of their own girls??

Membership to the Seven Society is the one that's most secretive there (it's at UVA, not UGA). I don't know if IMP and Z members are known on campus, but if they're not chances are there are 40 or so guys living in a house it would be hard to pinpoint exactly who the members of IMP and Z are, but it would be sort of a status thing to have it on your house, kind of like saying "hey, we've got members of our fraternity that are good enough to be in these secret societies."

[33girl]

Originally posted by DigitalAngel126
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Question about the letters being on the houses at UGA. If membership is seceretive, how do they know when to put "IMP" or "Z" on a house (i.e. any sorority house)? If they don't know who's in it, how do they know it's one of their own girls??

The IMPs or Zs put the writing on the houses, not the sorority members. Kind of like someone TPing your trees and it's a status symbol.

[DigitalAngel126]

Originally posted by 33girl
The IMPs or Zs put the writing on the houses, not the sorority members. Kind of like someone TPing your trees and it's a status symbol.

Ahhh I see. Duh

[Boodleboy322]

Mad Max,

Thank you for creating this post. Skull and Bones Society is one of 5 Secret Societies at Yale. Others include Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, Book and Snake etc. Former president's that were tapped into the order include Roosevelt, Taft, and the Bush line.
The order used to consist of only white males who had to meet the following criteria in order to be tapped:

#1 Must come from a family of wealth.
#2 Must have attended a New England Prep. School before going to Yale.
#3 Must be athletic, have good leadership skills, and believe in the ideals of War (military men are highly favored)

Skull and Bones Society does not go out and recruit like the typical fraternity does. They would source candidates that met the above criteria and were juniors at Yale. The group is a Senior Level Society that is designed to make leaders of the future.

Around the 1960's/70's minorities were finally being tapped. Carlos Panela was among one of these pioneers. He is currently the head of the Athletics Dept. at Yale.

In 1992, Skull and Bones Society began to tap women for the first time.

Although they originated in Yale, the society had transcened from a group in Germany. They shared similiar ideals from Masonic principles and ancient beliefs that originated in Ancient Egypt and Eulisis.

Some people confuse the true Skull and Bones Society with the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Although the Phi Kaps are indeed skulls as well their roots stem from a man named Dr. Samuel Brown Wiley Mitchell. Two different groups.

I studied fraternities and secret societies for a year and 1/2 which led to my bid in the blue lodge of Freemasonry as well as a concentration in Political Science. PM me if you'd like to talk some more ~Boodleboy322

[exlurker]

Originally posted by Boodleboy322
. . . Former president's that were tapped into the order [Skull and Bones] include Roosevelt, Taft, and the Bush line. . . .

Fascinating! What Roosevelt would that be? President Theodore Roosevelt was graduated from Harvard, where he was a member of the Porcellian Club. His cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who became President later, also was a Harvard graduate, although, since his branch of the family was less socially illustrious than Theodore's, he was NOT chosen for the Porcellian Club -- a fact which disappointed him greatly.

The Porcellian Club, of course, is not connected with Skull and Bones, nor are the other final clubs at Harvard (A.D., Fly, Spee, Owl, and so on).

Did either of the Roosevelts also go to Yale? I would think that one undergraduate experience would have been enough for either of them, even if it was just Harvard. (Their families could certainly have afforded a second undergrad career, of course.)

It is my understanding, from newspaper stories that touch on politicians' biographies, that Senator Kerry was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale. If memory serves, Senator Lieberman was tapped for Skull and Bones, but did not accept membership. As always, I could be wrong.

[Boodleboy322]

Yes!! Teddy Roosevelt was tapped. Someone asked me what the name of the 5th secret society was as I only mentioned four previously. The 5th is The Order of File and Claw. This group has some interesting history:

One old Yale tradition is "that 'Bones’ is a branch of a university corps of Germany, in which country, General Russell spent some time before graduation." During an infamous break-in by the "Order of File and Claw", on September 29, 1876 into the "Tomb"—the windowless "Bones"-owned and -built meeting house—the walls were seen to be "adorned with pictures of the founders of Bones at Yale, and of the members of the society in Germany, when the Chapter was established in 1832."

In the cellar, the "File and Claw" raiders found a small room, with an "always-burning lamp" and "a dilapidated human skull." Upstairs three rooms were found, a lodge room with its walls covered in black velvet, a table with skull and crossbones, and the "sanctum sanctorum,", "furnished in red velvet" and on the wall a star with a finger pointing to it.

The "Order of File and Claw" also reported "an old engraving representing an open burial vault, in which on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped around a fool's-cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar's scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters, 'We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, We Bettler Oder Kaiser?' and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; 'Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich,''.

[deuika]

I'm surprised people still call them "secret". Doesn't everyone know at least one Skull/Bone?
Those societies are just a bunch of people with a lot of money helping other people with a lot of money keep their money...basically they're Republicans... lol Kidding