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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Preface: in the past I was very interested in aquariums, especially planted aquaria. I have been to fish auctions now and then, including killifish, which is a highly specialized community of fish freaks.
So I am on this email distribution, and find out that this years Texas killifish auction is not in Houston as it usually, but in Dallas. Ok. On further examination, I find out that it will be in a Masonic lodge.
Have Masons fallen so far that they are renting out their temples to people who auction seasonal fish?
(many killifish live in pools of rain water, grow quickly, breed, lay eggs, which dry out when the pools dry. And hatch during the next rainy season).
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The Masons were literally a worldwide fad among the nobility from about 1750 to sometime after 1830. Mozart, many of the American Republic's founders, Tolstoy, Joseph Smith, and many other titans were enthralled by the movement. The movement began as a secret combination among tradecrafts in Europe in the Seventeenth Century, I beleve. What fuelded the interest was the awakening, brought on by the Enlightenment, to antiquity and its values. Free masonry made great hay out of the myth that its rituals were handed down form the Solomonic temples. There's no evidence that this is what happened. The fad has played itself out, the fate of all fads.