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There's a conference in San Antonio this weekend. 8AM apron march at the Alamo. 11AM youth order luncheon at the Shrine center. 1PM conference at the Shrine center. I think for this event I'll start at the luncheon.

Re: Can a Jewish Brother Wear a Yamaka in a Lodge We can sit at lodge between a brother who has to save up for his dues and a brother with a net worth in the tens of millions and might not know the financial status of either. The poor brother wears a suit from a thrift shop to meetings. The...

In Illinois you qualify as a PM the day after you're installed in the east. That's not the case in my other jurisdictions and I don't know of any Illinois WM who took advantage of that rule until out of the east. I thought it was a weird rule until we consolidated with another lodge and the WM...

I found my MM ring at a pawn shop, my SR ring on eBay and I purchased my first PM ring at Los Angeles Fraternal Supply. These days I wear a tungsten PM ring that I got at a vendor at Illinois grand lodge. Different jurisdiction, different exact PM symbol so I now have one for each jurisdiction...

Save the degrees - Collect the whole set! Welcome again to the family, thrice adopted brother.

Should and actually-is don't always match. It also makes me uncomfortable. As with the landmark against discussing sectarian religion in opened tiled lodge meetings it gives too much room for personal pique to give the fraternity a reputation for not living by our claimed principles of...

Simply put the question about any religion has the same answer - Masonry does not and will not have any approved or disapproved list of religions. It's not about that. There is no exception so this is no exception. The answer is the same for any religion. Also with any religion there's the...

I have sent him updates and I notice that he no longer includes updates into his site. Sad. As to activity, you'll notice that nearly everyone across the history of Masonry complains that a low percentage of brothers attend. Most continue to pay their dues but stop coming. I won't guess why...

Before initiation, Plato's Republic. Between initiation and delivering your MM proficiency focus on your proficiency work. After raising there are all sorts of books that could be suggested. Why do I recommend The Republic? It's about the type of meanings to be found in Masonry. Read the...

Chortle - Web browser? It's gopher with pictures. It'll never catch on. ihnp4!escher!doug The days of serial line networking weren't all that nostalgic, but at least anyone anywhere on-line could get fired or flunked out for being a troll.

If they were under age their petitions should not have been accepted in the first place so they never should have faced the ballot. The petitions should never have been accepted in the first place. Not signed in the first place, not accepted by the secretary, voted against when read, an...

My mother jurisdiction sends a wallet size certificate when you complete your MM proficiency. The Gr Sec office offers a full size version for framing. I have it in a tube next to my while leather apron. In the tube are my first PM full size and a couple of other presentations. As all US...

Check. The first open racism I ever encountered was anti-white by folks in the military in A-school. By the time I realized what had happened I had finished and was at my first duty station. If you look up the map of states with and without recognition and start asking around you'll discover...

Feel free to read any material you find about Masonic history or philosophy or famous Masons. Avoid anything that claims to tell what will happen in your degrees. The degrees have the most emotional impact when you go in cold. Put your trust in the friend who recommended and step out in faith...

I hadn't checked your profile before to see you list International. Here's the list of regular PHA jurisdictions - http://www.conferenceofgrandmasterspha.org/gjlinks.asp http://thephylaxis.org/bogus/ Ask about "healing". You might need to go through less than the entire sequence of degrees...

The show premiers on "Spring forward" day for DST to begin. Nice extra symbolism. It's on my calendar to have my DVR subscribe to the series. NOVA scienceNOW was wonderful. He'll do great on his next series.

Presented extemporaneously to Victory 1160 GLofTX 11 Feb 2014. This is a best recollection of what I said. Worshipful Master, Wardens, Brethren, The degrees of Masonry start at the story of the building of King Salomon's Temple. Then other Masonic content moves on past the completion of the...

What's this about? I'm used to "Angel" being "Investment Angel" for early stage investors who help people bootstrap new businesses but there could be some many other meanings in our context. Welcome aboard!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia Cool stuff. A plant can live to be 1000 years old and the males and females are separate plants. Nice symbolism for a lodge.

Standard difference between agnostic and atheist or "soft atheist" and "hard atheist" whichever term you prefer. There are many weaknesses to the hard approach, calling belief in the divine irrational is only one of those weaknesses.