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My take is that it is an unfortunate twist on how values have been expressed. I don't think there has been any plan by anyone, not even a conspiracy by shop keepers. There are folks who want the traditional reveling but who aren't interested in the religious aspects. There are folks who want...

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso In fact I have done exactly this numerical analysis for Illinois. I'm an engineer and a numbers guy - I want the data and I want to base my actions on the data. I went to the Illinois Lodge of Research library and spent an evening there...

There are leather treatment products like Neatsfoot oil. Rub the oil into the leather then rub out anything that comes to the surface. It both cleans the leather and replaces oils that have evaporated out over the years. Leather gradually becomes brittle over the years as the oils evaporate...

There are Scottish Rite degrees about Rosicrucian influence on Masonry. You may want to join the AASJ. There are also independent Rosicrucian orders like www.amorc.org that teach Rosicrucian lessons.

Re: Visitation Between Prince Hall and Regular Lod I would like to know the exact wording passed by MWPHGLofTX several weeks ago, but it will look somewhat like this - Whereas the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas has been recognized for several years by the Grand Lodge of...

Happy "Masonic birthday". Welcome again to the family thrice adopted.

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso Membership is a trailing indicator. It tells what happened decades ago. The issue is NOW not decades ago. What is needed is a leading indicator not a trailing indicator. There are in fact a leading indicators available. They are...

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso And bottomed out approximately now. Already jurisdiction after jurisdiction have seen increased petition rates and now some jurisdictions are seeing increased memberships. The sky fell on Chicken Little already. "He's dead, Jim". Not an...

Two of my jurisdictions have one-year terms, the other has two one-year terms. I've read the law book for 2 of my 3 jurisdictions so far and there is no mention of term limits. It is local tradition not law. In Illinois with a 2 year tradition it occasionally happens that a MWGM is so...

Here is a forum dedicated to the discussion of remote education. It is by the students so there is plentiful discussion of the good and the bad, the expensive and the less so. http://www.degreeinfo.com/distance-learning-discussions/

It doesn't work that way before graduation, though, so there is a feedback loop that applies. Folks who have degrees from top 10 colleges trend more successful than folks from other colleges. Folks with degrees trend better than folks without, and so on. Grades matter greatly for getting into...

But it's cool when one of them pulls you aside and asks if you have traveled!

Fun jurisdictional variations. In California I was required to read the California Masonic Code to qualify as JW and there was a test, but there is no mention that any officer read from the book in opened lodge. In Illinois there's a line in the WM installation that tells hims to read from the...

In California each lodge has 4 votes. WM, SW, JW (or proxy for any of those) plus all of the PMs in attendance. Plus there are votes for the current grand officers, past elected grand officers and a partridge in a pear tree. I don't recall the exact list of extras. There are no rules for...

What actually happened - A lodge started doing Chamber of Reflection but they ignored the way the ritual works so they screwed it up. If you don't bother understanding ritual, folks, please don't go around changing it. They opened lodge, put the candidate in CofR, admitted the candidate into...

In my other two jurisdictions where I'm a permanent member of grand lodge I often found myself on the minority side on votes. Part of subduing our passions is living with and abding by the decisions of the representatives in their votes. Glossing over discussion of decisions they don't want...