Browncoat
Registered User
Freemasonry isn't fast food. The fact I had to wait a few months to be a "full" member, as it were, didn't deter me. In fact, I see it as a method of putting a fire under someone to get their lectures turned in and get their degrees. Freemasonry is a progressive science, and knowledge is attained by degrees, not thinking you should be entitled to every benefit right out of the gate.
Because nothing keeps those motivational fires burning like being able to one day attend a business meeting to vote "yay" on paying the electric bill?
If a Lodge has nothing more beyond the degree work to offer a new candidate besides the mystique of a business meeting, they have bigger issues to worry about.