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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.

http://www.mwphgl-va.org/contactus.html I did not see a lodge locator page for their grand lodge. If you know of a lodge check the listing on their door then show up about an hour before the listed meeting, knock and ask how to become a Mason. Asking in person is always the best way. As they...

San Antonio? Depends on how big the party is. The Shrine Center works great for big parties. If you're in Dallas the same answer probably works. Any interest in going out into the country? My daughter is getting married soon. She's using one of the old forts near one of the old missions...

I think a man can become better by following tenants of any religion, within limits. Religion is good for the soul so practicing it feels good. Since it feels good it's tempting to practice more but it's also easy to overdose on religion and become a fundie. Masonry is one school that teaches...

It's been a year since you were raised - Happy Masonic birthday.

On the one hand I do prefer a wet lodge. One of my lodges has a bucket of beers at refreshment after meetings and at social events. Certain details need to be handled to adhere to the rules of that particular jurisdiction to do so - No charge, not owned by the lodge, etc. Some brothers have...

I figure the *idea* is good bu the *implementation* is not. The minimum size of the endowment needed to be changed to track the increases in dues but it was not changed. Endowed trust funds use a ratio of balance to disbursement. I figure the original implementation error was to express the...

A history buff not being up on current events? That's cliche' enough to be in a parody. It's a mixture of hilarious and pitiful.

Getting a list of subordinate lodges is a different thing from getting a list of members. When discussing whether Masonry is a "secret society" answers always come up on both sides of the answer. Our buildings have a visible signs and our GLs have lodge locators on their web sites. Our...

I was investigated by a Steward, a Warden and a long tenured member. This taught me a good lesson that I remembered when I went through the line - Get the new members to stay involved by asking them to investigate candidates. Get old members back involved by asking them to investigate...

Welcome to the family! You now have kin world wide.

Bryan, Please submit this as a paper at Texas Lodge of Research!

crono782, I love your avatar. I like to say "On the one hand a mind is like a parachute. It only works when open. On the other hand please not so open you brain falls out onto the sidewalk in front of you".

Wonderful analysis Bryan! Before I petitioned I looked for demographic data going back as far as I could find. What I found was well over two centuries of data New Hampshire. When I dived the population of Masons by the total population I saw a trend of rising and falling popularity that...

http://www.grandlodge-nc.org/LodgeLocator/Districts District 02 or 04 depending on where you will be. My guess http://www.grandlodge-nc.org/LodgeLocator/Lodge/cape-hatteras And since NC now has recognition - http://www.mwphglnc.com/mwphglnc_maps.html The map gives addresses and contacts. Be...

My Illinois lodge sponsored a drive. They brought the donations in person and stayed the weekend on the clean up effort. Masonry in action!

Bro Chris, I was there. The lecture was top ten percent. When I presented you with a memento I said I work them to stay awake during the lectures. Not this time. That's a part of my spiel when I present those mementos so I included it out of habit. Lectures that good are wonderful. By...

A lot of SR valleys confer the mandatory degrees at a reunion, plus one or more optional ones. The rest are "communicated" which means a summary is read to the candidates. I've seen one SR valley that doesn't even communicate the skipped one. Valleys in a state or region tend to cooperate on...