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One to screw it in, one to read the minutes of the previous light bulb replacement, and one to sit on the sidelines and complain that this wasn’t the way they USED to screw in light bulbs.</p>  </div> <div class="postmetadata"></div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-47"> <div class="date"><h2><a href="http://www.stoningtonlodge.org/blog/archives/47" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Myths about Freemasonry Dispelled: Was Darth Vader a Mason?">Myths about Freemasonry Dispelled: Was Darth Vader a Mason?</a></h2> <a href="http://www.stoningtonlodge.org/blog/archives/author/crhennes" title="Posts by L.E.O." rel="author">L.E.O.</a> on December 16, 2011 in <a href="http://www.stoningtonlodge.org/blog/archives/category/myths_about_freemasonry" title="View all posts in Myths About Freemasonry" rel="category tag">Myths About Freemasonry</a> | <a href="http://www.stoningtonlodge.org/blog/archives/47#respond" title="Comment on Myths about Freemasonry Dispelled: Was Darth Vader a Mason?">No Comments »</a> </div> <div class="entry"> <div class='dd_post_share dd_post_share_left'><div class='dd_buttons'><div class='dd_button'><a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://www.stoningtonlodge.org/blog/archives/47" data-count="vertical" data-text="Myths about Freemasonry Dispelled: Was Darth Vader a Mason?" data-via="" ></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><div class='dd_button'><a name='fb_share' type='box_count' share_url='http://www.stoningtonlodge.org/blog/archives/47' href='http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php'></a><script src='http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share' type='text/javascript'></script></div></div></div><p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.stoningtonlodge.org/images/blog/square-compass-200.gif" alt="square-compass-200" /></p> <p>No.</p> <p>After considerable research, the <em>Future Ancient Historical Research Society into Jedi Knight & Sith Lord Freemasonic Membership Trends,</em> has ascertained that, in fact, Darth Kevin Vader (not many people know his middle name) was not a Freemason.</p> <p>Although he rubbed elbows with many of the movers and shakers on several planets, including Freemason-friendly Tatooine, no extant records from the period of Vader’s lifetime indicate membership.</p> <p>Further, some of Vader’s behaviors are clearly not Masonic.</p> <ol> <li>When Vader enters into the chamber where Princess Leia is waiting, he doesn’t knock. This happens throughout the trilogy, as Vader opens doors constantly<em>—even when a meeting is clearly in session—</em>without knocking.</li> <li>After Vader chokes that guy in the leadership chamber o