The secret of the Illuminati and why they are identifiable yet unstoppable.

[Kayenneh]

Besides, I guess those people don't really hang out there and go through all this secrecy to simply get together and play golf.
Or they don't uphold this grand secrecy for just the kicks of it.
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Even if they do, they do so on a personal scale, and golf and dogs are not really interests that are comperable to the interests that one must have if one joins the freemasons...Like going through a weird ritual of some sort, getting his breast pierced by a knife and swearing loyalty and etc...

Oh dear Mehmet, you've let your fantasies run amok.

First of all, no rituals contain human bloodshed or beheading chickens. And you're not swearing loyalty per se, all you promise to do is to keep certain aspects of the work in the order secret. At least I am free to leave my order any time I like and I can do so without sacrificing my firstborn son as payment or something similar to it.
Secondly, the rituals are kept a secret, because when you reach the maturity to see the next stage, it will be a revelation of sorts to you. It's about the journey you make as human, how you strive to become a better person in order to be of service to those around you. It's about learning something new about yourself in the process. It's about building a good world for ourselves and those around you. It's about hearing ancient kernels of wisdom, meant to be pondered upon. Now, if you would get all the knowledge that one in the higher ranks at once, it would be harder to take in and there would be no journey, no growth. That is why the rituals are secret, not because they are something shady, it's because all can know in the proper time.