Freemasonry has been around for a long, long time involving A LOT of famous people. It's really hard for me to believe that someone has not heard of freemasonry.
Yes , but there has been a lot of things that have been around for a long , long time that I have never heard of . This may seem stupid , more so from a war veteran , but not until a month ago I had no idea there was any such thing as AmVets . And I have lived 4 blocks from there Post most of my adult life , passed by it most everyday and never gave it a second glance because it was never on my radar . A lot of the Ladies in my OES Chapter are " Red Hat" ladies and "Home Makers of America" , I have never heard of these groups before and they have been around for years . As a matter of fact , I didn't know what the OES was until I was a Fellowcraft . I didn't study up on Freemasonry before I petitioned so it was not an interest of mine .
I also lived down the road from a Masonic Lodge , which is clearly marked , and never knew it was a lodge until , on a whim , I filled out a petition . I had know idea what Freemasonry was or what it stood for . And it is now my home lodge . Freemasonry was not on my radar .
And I do know people who know the word Freemason and that is where their knowledge of begins and ends . They know absolutely nothing of what it is about , who can join , how we do it or why we do it .
The thing is , they may have heard about it before throughout their life , but it did not register in their minds because they have no interest in it and have just forgotten about it . I know that happens to me all the time , if I don't not have an interest in something , it goes in one ear and out the other and I do not save it in my memory . Just ask my wife . As a matter of fact , I bet a shiny penny I have heard of the Red Hat ladies , OES and AmVets before in the past and never put it to memory because at the time they did not matter to me .
