Furthermore, if you were sincerely contemplating joining the SR, you would have already known from the petition and before you posted here that you had to be a Blue Lodge member first.
I mispoke. I toured the Scottish Rite Temple in Dallas. I understand that the degrees involved with SR are extra and one must achieve or complete the first 3 degrees of "standard"? Masonry.
You're trying to involve us in a conversation that is obviously premature.
I'm really just trying to have a conversation - to see where it leads. I've already had a couple of lightbulbs go off. If we were speaking in person, I don't think I'd be pushing it because ya know, we all things to do. But this is a forum for talking about Freemasonry, so I figured it'd be okay.
So, what's your game Derek.
I've been sincere in everything I've said, John.
Moot point. It's neither the argument nor the issue.
But...it is the point... This is the topic of discussion.
Either choose or claim that you have something else choose for you because you are unable to do so for yourself.
It's both. I tried to explain that, but it's difficult to find the words.
See the game being played out here Derek. It is you that can't accept that a requirement exists that doesn't require a reason that fits your world view.
I really don't, John.
I'm not objecting to anything. I'm simply using these discussions as an opportunity to grow. Am I choosing to do so?... I do not know.
Brother hes mentioned in another thread that he petioned an irregular lodge.
I investigated a regular lodge first. After learning of the requirements for entry, I started investigating alternatives. I was accepted - though never went through initiation - into the order of La Droit Humain based out of Colorado Springs.
As in chevalier John Paul jones?
The Triquetra?
In the US any lodge that starts with SR is clandestine.
I thought SR stood for Scottish Rite.
It shouldnt be a hard question, Do you love your Mom,Grandmom,kids's]ect... that is not hard to answer, you know deep down inside you, that just that you are questionong this seriously you may just be waiting to find the Proof, but, you think theirs one and Want their to be one, but, may have had to many hardships to think that nothing is watching over us. only Maybe..
I thought I answered it to be honest. "Do you believe in a supreme being?" "I don't know."
Do yall think all human beings are fundamentally identical?