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  1. J

    MWPHGL of Texas Approves Cross Visitation!!!

    Good grief my good brother, it is only the 10th of January, not the 10th of December. If the latter were the case, then I might concede your point. It took us many years of hard work from many good people to get us to this point. As before, allow those parties tasked with the great...
  2. J

    Best Chapeaus

    Shame that this thread got derailed, as I too would have liked to have learned of the various merits of the different chapeaus available. From what I've seen, the ones from New London do look quite nice.
  3. J

    MWPHGL of Texas Approves Cross Visitation!!!

    Remember the admonishment in regards to patience, my brother. As you no doubt have learned from our PHA brethren, there are many cowans and eavesdroppers out there trying to gain admittance into the west gate. The infrastructure and protocols necessary for the identification of the worthy from...
  4. J

    2014 Proposed Resolutions and Recommendations (GLoTX AF&AM)

    Good thing you don't belong to a foreign grand lodge - Most of them have yearly dues in the 3 to 4 figure range (not to mention initiation fees).
  5. J

    2014 Proposed Resolutions and Recommendations (GLoTX AF&AM)

    The "charity above all else" crowd strikes again. Over the years, a number of parties have put forth resolutions that would (temporarily) divert annual gifts from over-funded masonic charities and feed those monies back into GL for infrastructure and programs. It's at that time that the "we have...
  6. J

    Do you agree with the results of Annual Communications

    Having worked in Real Estate, I can say that selling the building and moving to a leased office space is going to be a money loser over time. The cost of searching for and leasing suitable office space, combined with having to move and find permanent storage facilities for the Grand Lodge's...
  7. J

    Now let's do blanket recognition in Dec 2015

    Can't win for losing around here. People complain about lack of visitation, then when they get it, they start complaining about not getting enough. Give Pete Normand and the Fraternal Relations Committee some credit for once.
  8. J

    Thinking I picked the WRONG Lodge!? :(

    I'm not finding an "Edit" button to the right of the Date/Time stamp, just "Report and "Bookmark."
  9. J

    Thinking I picked the WRONG Lodge!? :(

    Is there no longer anyway to edit posts?
  10. J

    Thinking I picked the WRONG Lodge!? :(

    This may be a part of the problem (at least the way that it reads from your description), is that you joined a lodge without knowing any of the brethren beforehand, as one is usually friends with (or at least acquaintances) at least with your top line signer (and most, if not all, of the...
  11. J

    My Lodge Bylaw's

    Interesting that nobody has a problem with the idea of sending $5.00 to the George Washington Masonic Memorial, but ask someone to donate a buck to the building fund in Waco and everybody comes unglued. I think a lot of people have forgotten that charity begins at home.
  12. J

    Visitation between A.F.&A.M and F&A.M

    My understanding is the GLOTX "changed" the subject when the MWPHLGLTX invaded the sovereign masonic territory of the Ivory Coast. There was no way the GLOTX could precede with further extending masonic relations with a Grand Lodge that had invaded the territory of a Grand Lodge that GLOTX was...
  13. J

    Masonic Diploma

    The GLOT has a nice engraved patent you can get from Waco, just that not many people know about it. I don't have an image of it, but it is basically a clone of this UGLE patent (with the appropriate wording and symbols, of course):
  14. J

    Did you wear any EA or FC "bling"?

    I can see in foreign jurisdictions where progressing between degrees can take a statutory year (or more), that the allowing EA's and FC's to wear jewelry with their respective insignias would be acceptable, but here in the United States, with the lunar month gap between degrees (even less...
  15. J

    Georgia Guidestones

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism
  16. J

    Georgia Guidestones

    There does appear to be a possible Rosicrucian connection, as the mysterious figure behind the financing and design of the monument went by the name of "R. C. Christian" (a loaded pseudonym if there ever was one).
  17. J

    Results- 2013 Texas Grand Annual Communication

    Awhile back a rumor went around that the COW frowned on the use of robes, as it supposedly created a disparity between those lodges that had them and those that didn't, and thus created a breach in the uniformity of ritual.
  18. J

    Magic Trick

    Pretty cool.
  19. J

    Traditional observance

    Since it was the TO lodges themselves that got hammered at Grand Lodge this past weekend, that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
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