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If you have to work and only have time to pick up your family, come as you dress for work and no apology. We're a dress up club who value work. The work part has priority over the dress up part. If you do have time for a button down shirt and non-jean pants please do. Maybe even add a bolo...

If the ballot is negative the check is returned. It means you passed the ballot. Keep showing up at the building an hour before the monthly meeting. They should inform you sooner than the next meeting but some lodges are good about the paperwork some aren't.

Find a lodge near you. On the door will be when they meet. Show up about an hour before the meeting. Introduce yourself and ask how to become a Mason. Start showing up then every month. It should take a few times to get to know you before you get a signed petition. Then keep going every...

Agreed. I remember it meaning Fresh Off Boat meaning recent immigrant.

The most successful lodges have a social/charity/service event every month. Lodges building towards that goal tend to become more successful. Lodges not building towards that goal tend to supply members for appendant bodies that do have such events.

It's always easy for a brother to recommend his own lodge so I'll do that. Pasadena 272 is on Cordova and Euclid a block south of the Mall in Pasadena. We have a family dinner on the second Tuesday that's an open event. Take your family and ask to be introduced around. Tell them you asked...

I like the version of Ozymandias Revisited that has the ruins turned into a tourist trap offering postcards of your visit. Even more ignominious. The lesson of the second degree lecture definitely applies. Too bad the part about this has been moved to the long form in the monitor that is...

American jurisdictions are less formal for visitation. Show up in person and show them your credentials. We use a document issued by the GL that shows our membership is current. In the US it's called a dues card. I take it other countries use a document issued by the GL that shows your...

For the word "code" I'm used to it meaning what Texans call the law book. I have copies of the "California Masonic Code" and the "Illinois Masonic Code" and they are both the constitution and by-laws of my jurisdictions. The California one has been on-line for a while with a login needed to...

It's said that you can't learn everything by who a person's friends and enemies are but you can earn a lot and you can learn more from his who his enemies are than from who his friends are. My friends range from Moon walker Buzz Aldrin and aviation pioneer Charles Lindberg through President...

Bro John, Does your Shrine have a parade unit with the go carts that look like shrunken 18-wheeler trucks? It would make a great gag photo for the Shrine newsletter to show one of those parade "trucks" in line at the Peace Bridge among the full size 19-wheelers waiting to cross the border...

Using the word Modern in the name of a fake grand lodge is creative. It draws on history. African 459 got its charter from the Moderns before the unification so on the surface it sounds more official. Why anyone would found a clandestine grand lodge is beyond me but I'm not going to deny they...

The California GL building is at least rented out as a conference center. It turned a profit for a lot of years. Note to any lodge planning on buying a building - It may cost more to get a property that turns a profit but that property will be a blessing for a very long time. A lodge in one...

That is how life membership funds work in California. They are maintained by each lodge. In Illinois the fund is maintained by GL. So the way it works appears in the GL law book and what it says is the way it needs to be done in that jurisdiction. If no life/endowed membership appears in the...

There are a lot of dual Mason KofC members in at least one of my lodges.

I just got an email that several districts around one of my lodges has scheduled a third degree that will be conferred by a degree team made of the sitting WMs of many lodges in the suburbs in the San Gabriel valley north of downtown Los Angeles. Must have been quite a challenge to get onto the...

Asking if the US is a democracy or a republic is like asking if today is a weekday or a Friday. The answer is yes to both. Democracy is the broader set. Republic is the narrower set. Republic is the next level of description down - an indirect democracy. The levels after that are what type...

Re: How does one go about becoming a freemason? What are the necessary steps one must Give your geography. Look up your country/state starting with the United Grand Lodge of England to find the recognized grand lodge in your country/state. Go to that grand lodge's web site and find the lodge...

Allowed, sure. Problem is few do. The advantage of "correctness by construction" approaches is they work in the face is predictable issues. Setting the endowment amount as a multiplier on current dues is thus a "correctness by construction" approach while setting the endowment amount using a...

I remember that name from the Usenet days. Good for him.