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Always good to hear from folks who treat certain topics as historical curiosities. When folks talk race I consider Daytona 500. When folks talk color I consider the color of their uniform (so civilians are rainbow? ;^). But it has not been thus for long on a Masonic time scale of centuries...

As this thread started with a discussion of recognition in Texas lacking visitation I'll take this as "do not allow all brothers to visit". On the one hand there's the issue of letter of the law. To what extent should we follow the spirit of the law not the letter of the law? In various...

I can sit with a brother in conversation for a few minutes and know if he is a brother without any proficiency challenge whatsoever, so I don't understand the tradition in your jurisdiction. But it's the tradition in your jurisdiction so it's what you're taught to do. I have little need to...

Affiliation, I don't list that. Accomplishments are a different story. Going through the line is a formal process with mentoring and being mentored, formal class work on both leadership and administration. To get better management training you'd need at least an Associates in Business...

Welcome again to the family twice adopted brother. The second degree is my favorite. The longer the versions of the lectures used in your jurisdiction, the better I would like them.

One of the ones in the Texas Monthly list used to have two locations. One location was bought out and no longer appears in the list. We went a few months ago and it was wonderful. This month we went to the location still on the list and it was wonderful, but not quite as good. Turns out I...

Those are two distinct issues that need to be addressed separately. One of our lessons is to be an obedient citizen of a just government. This suggests that any government that bans Masonry is not to be considered just. Such a government may well be unjust in other ways. Someone needs to...

I am often amazed at how close lipped members of grand lines who pay attention to outside events become. I am often saddened by how insular the wardens and masters who are the majority of voting representatives are. I get why both happen - They need to focus on progressing through their...

Step out in faith that your friends will take good care of you as each of us has when we started. Step out in faith that in due time you will take good care of your friends as they start their process. Use the nerves as a lens to focus better on the story you will experience. It helps...

Isn't flapjack the required name there? ;^)

There are fair weather friends and there are boon companions. It takes years to move from one level to the other. When the weather is fair, fair weather friends are a blessing. When the weather is rough, learning who has moved towards boon companion is a blessing. See the grain and the...

http://www.ionaudio.com/products/details/profile-lp Ion makes record players that scan to MP3. No idea if that interests you. I have one of their cassette decks that scans cassette tapes to MP3 because I have a ton of audiobooks that are old enough to be on cassette tape before I switched to...

Welcome again, and again, to the family thrice adopted brother.

I am torn on the subject. I didn't petition for mercenary purposes so I don't want to use my membership for my own benefit. Going through the line and attending grand lodge sessions for wardens is a management education program with formal management training. So I keep an optional skills...

Thanks W Bro Bill! Dripping Springs is closer to both work and home than the downtown Austin lodges. Eventually I'll visit all of the above.

Definitely. When we lived in Chicago metro NMJ territory one of the reunions I attended features degrees from all three jurisdictions all attending each others degrees.

It's easy to think that the word "Northern" in the jurisdiction's name means more than it does. It mostly covers the states that were on the blue side in the Civil War and nowhere else. Sort of "We wanted to say North-Eastern US but the printer charged per letter so we abbreved". It's also...

I'll be in the Oak Hill through Bee Caves area west-in/west-of Austin going forward. I'm not sure where Travis county ends and Hayes county begins but I'll well west of the downtown district. The GL lodge locator shows me the district 50 lodges in Travis county but currently hangs when I try...

The low number SR degrees are very different between the two jurisdictions. When I took my SJ degrees that's when I learned that the SJ scripts for degrees 1-3 that are not performed in most of the US are very different and that the degrees most of us in the US take are more closely related to...

In many lodges it is more common to skip chairs to fill holes than it is to sit the same chair more than one year to give the brothers behind you time to catch up. I think of the line like a conveyor belt that produces one PM per year. Not all officers who enter the line complete the entire...