Some advice

[CLewey44]

Us puritans....

 

[Glen Cook]

I ask myself the same. Perhaps it is with good reason this GL is considered irregular. Several here think the experiences described were proper and a good thing, to me it sounds more like hazing.

To each their own!

No, that’s not the reason. I haven’t greeted another mason in that manner since, oh, last week. As indicated by our young correspondent, it’s a traditional greeting on the Continent.

 

[jermy Bell]

5 years 3 balloting and writing assays ? What kind of lodge is this ? And they must not need members that bad.

 

[Glen Cook]

5 years 3 balloting and writing assays ? What kind of lodge is this ? And they must not need members that bad.

Actually, this is not unknown in European Masonry, particularly continental, or liberal Masonry. They are serious about their craft, even though we do not recognize them. Further, the liberal obediences are sometimes larger than their regular counterparts.

 

[Bloke]

It was a traditional European greeting cheek to cheek as a warm welcome... no idea what you had in mind

You've put a funny image in my head !

 

[Ripcord22A]

It was a traditional European greeting cheek to cheek as a warm welcome... no idea what you had in mind

I had some hazing stuff in mind. Not sure why you felt it necessary to say you kissed 80men. That just doesn’t sound right. Saying you were greeted and welcomed in to the craft by 80 brothers would have sounded better

 

[Warrior1256]

Saying you were greeted and welcomed in to the craft by 80 brothers would have sounded better

Absolutely!

 

[Elexir]

I had some hazing stuff in mind. Not sure why you felt it necessary to say you kissed 80men. That just doesn’t sound right. Saying you were greeted and welcomed in to the craft by 80 brothers would have sounded better

Could simply be that he didnt make the assumptions you did becuse of the cultural diffrences. Sometimes we forget that cultures and customs differ greatly between countries.

 

[jermy Bell]

Some lodges seem foreign here in the states I'll tell ya what.

 

[Warrior1256]

Some lodges seem foreign here in the states I'll tell ya what.

.....and here things differ some what from lodge to lodge in the same city!

 

[CLewey44]

.....and here things differ some what from lodge to lodge in the same city!

Very true.

 

[GGG]

Ha, yes, pls forgive my enthusiasm the welcome was indeed a very warm welcome, saying I was greeted and welcomed in to the craft by 80 brothers would indeed have sounded better and maybe more respectful, but the fact I was kissed on the cheek by 80 man was, for me at least, a fraternal gesture I'm not used to and surprising. And please, take into account my native tongue is not English and as such not that elaborate...

 

[CLewey44]

Ha, yes, pls forgive my enthusiasm the welcome was indeed a very warm welcome, saying I was greeted and welcomed in to the craft by 80 brothers would indeed have sounded better and maybe more respectful, but the fact I was kissed on the cheek by 80 man was, for me at least, a fraternal gesture I'm not used to and surprising. And please, take into account my native tongue is not English and as such not that elaborate...

I knew what you meant and it's all good. Different cultures(within reason)=different perspectives=good.

 

[Warrior1256]

Different cultures(within reason)=different perspectives=good.

True!