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    Am I an arse?

    Tbh I am tightly wound on it, I just can’t fathom why one would opt to take an officer role or deliver a charge with no intention of learning it, it boggles my mind. It seems to me the thing to do is just dedicate yourself for the things you volunteer for and do your best or excuse yourself from...
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    Am I an arse?

    I’m not suggesting we stop at memorising the work.
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    Am I an arse?

    Well aware of this fact, my jurisdiction mandates the ritual to be memorised, with the exclusion of the chaplain who may may read portions of scripture.
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    Am I an arse?

    To clarify I don’t react to, comment on or correct bad delivery in the lodge as it isn’t my offical role to correct these brethren. While I agree that the candidate won’t know if you miss a line, they know something isn’t right when the DC needs to read the work and the presenter repeats after...
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    Am I an arse?

    Because of the reason quoted above? I can’t do everything. And officers have been in roles for years, I can stop it happening again but I can’t remove them.
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    Am I an arse?

    Honestly I couldn’t bear that for a year, I think there are plans to circumvent this happening but it’s not the right thing to do for a particular brother either.
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    Am I an arse?

    some parts are for designated officers so I wasn’t ever an option to fill a role for another officer, plus with the role I was in, that would have been quite odd indeed.
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    So, what's the pandemic done to your lodge ?

    I’m making good progress. Apparently the version we do is longer than most, I’m up to the last couple of paragraphs and practice obsessively
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    Tonight I’m admitted to the AASR

    Personally I take no issue with the Christian themes as it works for me but I don’t like the idea of excluding a mason from membership based on faith.
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    Am I an arse?

    Yes,I am.
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    Am I an arse?

    Gents, Forgive the crude title and following rambling post. At a recent meeting I found myself particularly frustrated with the lacklustre delivery of work, after one year of not meeting no one had learnt any new charges fluently, delivery was disjointed and at times unintelligible and still...
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    So, what's the pandemic done to your lodge ?

    It was exactly one year between meetings for my lodge, TBH the master was looking to step away at the end of last year but as there is no suitable successor that cannot happen. During the year off I had little communication other than that which I initiated,with any of my brethren- left me quite...
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    Tonight I’m admitted to the AASR

    My limited understanding is that we got our ritual from the UK which holds the trinitarian requirement but they got their ritual from the NMJ which doesn’t. *shrug* I’m now entitled to visit both regardless, and to be honest the universal ritual feels very Christian anyway, I personally would...
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    Tonight I’m admitted to the AASR

    Many jurisdictions around the world are this way, we (australia) inherited from the UK.. additionally we are initiated on the 18th and have the 4-17 communicated.
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    Tonight I’m admitted to the AASR

    After 4 years of waiting I am tonight a candidate for the 18th degree, To top it off to make this happen there had to be a change in one chapters bylaws (both in my area where trinitarian only) and to be the very first candidate in what will no doubt be a massive boon for the local Masonic...
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    Masonic Symbols On Mothballed Planes Bring Out the Crazies

    "Australia, far away from the chief centres of masonic life and learning" - C.W.L. 1926
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    Featured Podcasts

    Hey Paul, loved the last episode about conspiracies. Great to have you guys back. -D
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    Featured Podcasts

    Big fan of these guys. Whence came you is fantastic aswell, I’m loving the Masonic Curators stuff too.
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