Secret Socities

@ singlespirit to truly be a 'secret society' you must exist behind the shadows. i may not know more than your name, but i bet someone has said 'i belong to Miles Dei and we do this...' [and since i don't know you, you could of made it up to sound cool, or just broke the 'don't talk about Miles Dei' rule of the secret society handbook]

it's neat to speculate about urban legends and myths and whatever, but regarding reality, i know people, and i don't trust most of them. the closest i can believe in any 'secret society' is something like British Traditional Wicca where you take an oath to never speak of coven traditions to non-coven members. to become a BTW you need to prove yourself trustworthy, only then will they open up more to you. if you told me there were groups like that which only give wisdom to trustworthy members, i would believe that. if you told me a group was behind the scenes of reality pulling the strings that no one knows about [like Hydra in Winter Soldier] i don't believe you. the only reason i doubt this is [as mentioned] people are stupid. someone will want to brag, someone will want more power, there is no way you could get a group of like-minded individuals together for centuries to quietly be the puppet-masters of our society.

I know. Some will spread occult knowledge and others will mess up secrets to make others look bad. People just can't keep secrets due to curiosity and fear.