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I find all meetings deeply comforting because of the fellowship, even those meetings where we pay the bills then leave and some go for a mug of "evening holy water" together. In neurolinguistic programming that's called "reframing". Start - boring meetings. End - deeply comforting meetings...

I've seen the word "patternicity" used for this. It's called a "cognitive error" which doesn't take into account the fact that major scientific discoveries have often consisted of seeing a pattern where others did not and trying to describe that pattern with mathematics. The idea of...

This is one of those word distinctions that is important - Suspended is a status that is easy to change because it is from causes like NPD. Expelled is a status that is hard to change because it is from causes like trials.

Both California jurisdictions have a pretty long second but I think more states do than don't. If you ever find anyone who does a "Dewdrop lecture" as a supplement that's where to go! Because ritual is fixed in most jurisdictions supplemental lectures would need to go in a free-form part of a...

There are so many conflicting lessons about human nature in these situations it boggles the mind. I was in Los Angeles metro during the King riots. Every side and viewpoint of humanity's animal underbelly and spiritual nobility came out.

Let's everyone gather at the local lock up, make placards and start a chant - They jailed Will! Free Will! Free Will! They'll have no idea what's going on but we might go viral on utube. They jailed Thoth. Free Thoth! Free Thoth! (grumble spelling correction grumble ...) ;^)

So Google is the Borg and Masonry is the Federation, then!

If you attend a Texas second you will sit in astonishment at how fast it goes and how much has been removed. It's the most trimmed I've seen in my travels. Go elsewhere for the longer versions.

The words have specific meaning so it is important to use the correct one.

Chortle.

A couple of months ago Scientific American magazine has an article about how people behave if they think about free will or predestination. Experimental subjects chose less moral options when told about predestination. Experimental subjects chose more moral options when told about free will...

http://www.ugle.org.uk/ Is the web page for the United Grand Lodge of England. There are Comason lodges in the US. At least in LA, Chicago, NYC.

When it was first run there was discussion of the scene. I saw the movie at the cinema and didn't notice. The real life person the movie is based on was a PHA brother.

Yes. Anyone who has visited lodges in both branches will report that the differences between the branches are no larger than the differences state to state within branches. I am one of many brothers who reports that about more than one PHA jurisdiction. Vast numbers of brothers report the...

The expression is not a jingle. It's a literal set of instructions. Thanks for demonstrating just how unclear that is to men who are not already Masons. In general there are no invitations. In most geographies if you wait for an invitation you will find out if legends of reincarnation are...

Welcome again to the family twice adopted brother. I'm another of those whose favorite degree is the second. Especially the part that is the long form in Texas about worlds traveling in space. You'd think GLofTX, the only jurisdiction that spans two planets, would keep that part not making it...

Welcome again, again to the family thrice adopted brother.

The talks given at tiled Table Lodge events are timed. Interesting correlation about the JW, thanks!

In some states the "Stated meeting dinner" system is popular. The officer corps minus the stewards go upstairs to open the lodge then call to refreshment. Everyone meetings downstairs for dinner. Then the members go upstairs and call to labor. There's a ladies' meeting downstairs, a men's...

One thing about Masonry is we do encourage attendance and participation in your religion of choice. It's not necessary to have a religion to become a Mason, just to believe in the existence of a supreme being, but plenty of Masons who start out without a religion end up joining one partially as...