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I had not heard of this one. We almost always use the lights in our degrees when a brother is brought to light. I have had our district instructor on several of my degree teams and he has never said anything to me about not turning off any of the lights during degrees. We also had a member of...

Congrats and Welcome, Brother.

People will deny and make up things (lies) about subjects that they do not, or do not want to, understand. I have a niece that thinks the Freemasons are trying to take over the country, and no matter what I say to her, she will not capitulate in her belief. She is on of the ones that does not...

I would be proud to put something like that on my property, but for the fact that I live so far off the beaten path that nobody would be able to find the place.

I can understand that point of view, but, there is a small problem for me there. Some of those with that outlook are much younger than I am and will out live me. So, there, my Brother, is my dilema. I do not like "racism" or any kind of bigotry, and those who practice it make me angry and want...

It may be that my sight is slightly tainted by wanting to aspire to that higher level.

I am only a JW and a JD in the Lodges I belong to, but I find that I am trying to think ahead as if it is me sitting in the east, and I find that it is sometimes difficult to get some of the Brothers to budge from their cliques. The "real" old-timers are the ones I have been picking the brains...

I meant it as a compliment. You have some very good information to impart and you make your points very well. I guess I just said it like the country boy I am. Sorry if I offended. It was not intended that way.

My question is; "What does one do about a segregated Lodge?" By "segregated", I mean racially. I have seen a few of them that still look at the external man before seeing the internal qualifications. What do we do about that? A man is a man, is he not? No matter what his skin tone may be, be it...

Brother Hatley, I agree with you, completely. Although, the thought of your Lodge merging with another and becoming something else, might be a sad thought, we should also take into consideration the possibility of sustaining at least one of the Lodges instead of maybe losing two. It would also...

You would like this. I have watched you go back and forth on several of the threads. You ain't half bad at it. LOL.

That may be a valid point, up to a point. There comes a time when bigotry should be put down, even if it costs a job. If there were a boss like that where I worked, I would first, try to find out why he did not like Masons, secondly, if there was no getting through to him about the truth of it...

My question to you is, Why? Are you not proud of our fraternaty? I gladly display my association with Freemasonry, everyday, by wearing my ring and having my emblems on my pick up. If someone has something to say, I do not deny who or what I am!

I would tend to disagree with you on this, Bro. Wingnut, as the WM can expel the troublesome member for the duration of the meeting (if need be). I would deem that to be punishment that a Brother might feel.

Seems to me that I would have to ask him why he hadn't mentioned his affiliation with the KofC anyway. That, to me, would be the same as lying in his petition by not mentioning it.

I started as a spectator. I was Raised in May of '11 and the next month the WM elect appointed me Junior Deacon. I accepted the job, not knowing a thing about what I was doing, but willing to learn everything I could. I asked to be held over for the next year as JD as I had been elected Junior...

Bro. Vick, How does a brother go about becoming a member of the TLR?

I also feel it was a great post. I am a relatively "young" Mason, having been Raised in May of '11, but I look around me in the Lodgeroom and see other Brothers who have been there for 30 or 40 years and just sit on the sidelines, some never having been in a 'chair' and it sort of disturbs me. I...

This has nothing to do with a PM apron, but is concerns aprons. If you are a member of Tranquility Lodge 2000 and have one of the custom aprons made, are they allowed in any other Lodge?

Yes sir, that is my interpretation of the statement. Thanks. And thanks for the other thing, also. A lesson learned.