Recent content by MarkR

I've done the Guthrie Spring Reunion twice. It's really worth it at least once if you're a Scottish Rite Mason.

Chris, Chris. Four score and five is 85. A score is twenty.

They need to make a couple more moderators.

Yep. As you know, it's rare in American jurisdictions.

Huh? :confused:

I'd actually be relieved that nothing had changed. I hope you didn't think that becoming a Mason would get you favored status at work. I don't know about your jurisdiction, but in mine those kind of expectations are addressed in the interrogatories before the first degree.

First of all, you should ask to meet with him privately. Ask him why you've been passed over. If his answer isn't one that restores your faith in your lodge, perhaps you need to look for another lodge in your area that's a better fit for you.

I dabble in guitar playing (retirement project.) Posters in a guitar group I frequent sometimes drive me nuts with this. The other day there was a thread with the title "DLR" Reading the post, he was apparently referring to some rock performer, but continued to only refer to him as DLR. From...

It's so funny. I've seen people on forums get lectured about using the search function so they don't bring up a topic that there is already a thread on. But others get lectured about resurrecting old threads. What's a brother to do? ;)

Welcome to the group!

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Thanks. VC I know. Companion of the Order of Grenada I've never heard of.

I'm proud to call him my brother. What's "COG?"

Okay, I give up. What's RSM?

There have been lodges that have, in violation of their Grand Lodge rules, engaged in physical hazing. And there are still clandestine (unrecognized) bodies claiming to be Masonic in which physical hazing of candidates is commonplace, including actual beatings, like a gang "jumping in"...