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Some Arkansas brothers are crossing the borders and affiliating with lodges in other states. There's also the option of joining a clandestine lodge. That's not normally reasonable advice but going in knowingly is different from being duped and if you no longer see your own jurisdiction as...

WHen I first moved to San Antonio I visited Cibilo Lodge. When I read their charter I said "Wow you brothers have been in business for a very long time. Very cool". One of the brothers told me the story of how they had recycled the number. Nice variation in rules.

I do remember that lesson at boot camp. When approached report to the security officer. You might be assigned to feed them specially designed data. That case would make him a hero not a traitor. I had mostly meant that a government that does bad stuff internally needs to be held accountable...

Thing is I've seen bible presentations and "knife and fork degrees" that were done with no conflict. It was because they were conducted at a point between the end of the degree and the beginning of the closing in the case of the bible presentation or after the closing in the case of knife and...

Re: Whose Volume of Sacred Law "counts"? Right. There's a very important reason we call it the VSL. No matter what the physical book happens to be we are very explicit that it represents the book of the candidate's faith whatever faith that might be. As a result it can and does...

A variation on the rule is numbers never get recycled. When I moved to Illinois I affiliated with lodge number 1162 which eventually consolidated with number 522. A few years ago Illinois chartered lodge number 5. It turns out in the early years of the grand lodge that number had been...

It's too late for that for the next few years. Some lodge failed to understand what is and isn't a part of the ritual so they mixed it in the middle of the ritual. From this what people will remember is "chamber of reflection bad" not "mixing random stuff into the middle of ritual bad". It's...

Why shouldn't he be a bit both? If what he's revealing is true that would be the natural conclusion. And a very hard conclusion at that.

Project Gutenburg is the original public domain archive site on the web. The audio branch is vibrivox.org They have a lot of Project Gutenburg books read by volunteers. I'm currently listening to one on Buddhism on my commute plus several others as I cycle disc to disc to have several in parallel.

I read W Bro Porter's book and I agreed with a lot of his points. This one I disagreed with. The progressive line demonstrates that leaders are made not born and it fits perfectly with Masonry's stated goal of "We make good men better". The progressive line has larger and larger commitments...

When a lodge's charter is pulled its members become "members at large" who need to affiliate with some other lodge. Depending on the rules of a jurisdiction they might or might not be assigned a number. Temporary status.

I'm not aware of any jurisdiction that does that. Good standing means you are current on your dues - How to confirm that without saying where they are current ... Why would a brother even want to do that? We carry dues cards or other documentation that tells what lodge we are a member of...

It's easy to have a knee jerk reaction that engineered is bad, but that's like saying bridges are bad because they are engineered so we should all swim across rivers. I have already posted about allergies from foreign proteins - Genetic engineering in its current form inserts DNA into the plant...

That's the conundrum to me at well. I remember when PHA recognition happened. At least one state pulled recognition from the recognizing state. Siege mentality. The pulled recognition didn't last but to this day the state that pulled recognition over PHA still does not recognize PHA. Should...

I consider both serious concerns. Which one is the larger problem is secondary to me. Being informed about both sides of the problem is primary to me. Two long standing trends collided here and it's not the first time. One is abuse of power by grand line officers in the form of expelling...

Bro Byron, Thanks for addressing my "If that's their only point of departure from regularity". Sounds like they have departed greatly from regularity at this point. Some clandestine group riding the tails of a now defunct almost-regular group.

If a lodge asks to move its charter to another jurisdiction it may well be accepted. But their is no requirement for it and the accepting jurisdiction can require the members to go through their degrees again with the new jurisdiction's ritual.

There are people I wish weren't members of my religion. If wishes were horses all the world would ride. My wishing it does not make it so. So while I agree with you neither of us gets to make that call.

In general there are never any invitations to become a Mason. In many states invitations are forbidden. Find a local lodge. See the schedule on the door or online. Every month start showing up an hour before the monthly meeting. get to know the brothers and ask for a petition. Expect it to...

The idea that there are no bad foods is incorrect and very harmful to the growing population of obese people. There are types of food that are only eaten by humans for economic or historical reasons that are not beneficial to us. Dairy is harmful to many humans. Lactose tolerance has only...