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Note that "we" as you wrote above is Masonry. We're a global fraternity. Also note that during the robber baron era Masons participated in the creation of the public school system that put the slow leveraged process in place. Public schools are a service to all people paid for by taxes...

Some people become teachers because they want to change the world by changing the next generation. Some teachers become involved in teachers' unions. Those who become involved in unions tend to be slightly in the collectivist side of the majority. These two effects get leveraged together by...

Some GLs have web forums on their pages with topic boards for posting resumes and job openings - http://www.ilmason.org/MemberResources/JobPostingsResumes.aspx You'll notice it's in the members' resource area but it is openly visible to anyone. Not a bad idea.

If it is managed as a permanent endowment the metric is the 10 year average rate of return not the most recent 1 year rate of return. Return rates blow recently. Comparing a half percent against a quarter percent doesn't matter much. A different issue is if the fund can invest in other items...

And vice versa. Exactly. The two jurisdictions recognize each other. Thus if you want to affiliate across you petition and get balloted on. No healing. The only technicalities involved is that one of the jurisdictions is single-affiliation so affiliating either direction mandates demitting...

Technical nit - Texas is the only one that recognizes but does not allow visitation. When outside of Texas you'd need to look up the Texas list to see if you are allowed to present yourself for a visit. The brothers in the lodge you're trying to visit need to look up Texas in their list to see...

North Carolina recognizes. Excellent. One step at a time. Has anyone seen a list of US jurisdiction telling if they have returned to the worldwide standard of Stated meetings in the first degree? I think nearly all have at this point. It's a far less urgent issue than PHA recognition but...

The idea of an endowment life membership fund is a good one but if it's a trust fund it needs to be treated like one. There are standards that a trust fund should distribute between 1 part in 20 through 1 part in 25 per year independent of current market rates. Those standards take into...

my wife and I love volunteering at CHIP events. Worst name ever for a service program though.

According to the United Grand Lodge of England, the Grand Lodge of Austria does not have a web page - http://www.ugle.org.uk/about-ugle/recognised-foreign-grand-lodges/grand-lodges-in-europe/ According the the Grand Lodge of Brazil, the street address is "1010 Wien, Bauhensteingasse 3" -...

Going through the chairs includes symbolic leadership training. More literal leadership training is a part of the process as well - Be sure to attend all of the leadership seminars offered by GL as you progress. As to symbolism - Go to an open installation and listen to the duties of each...

One of the advantages of being a California and Illinois Mason living in Texas and not yet a Texas Mason is I get to visit at recognized lodges and both of the Texas jurisdictions are recognized. So I've gone to visit lodges in both Texas jurisdictions. I'm in no hurry to affiliate at the...

I have no idea if there is an authoritative answer to the question so I'll give my non-authoritative one. There is little direct evidence that Masonry emerged from the Knights Templar. Many would like it to be true but the link is speculative. Maybe we can call ourselves the spiritual...

When asked if Masonry is a charity or service organization I respond - The goal of Masonry is to make good men better. One feature of better men is they give to charity. One feature of better men is they do acts of community service. But neither is the only feature of better men. Lists of...

On the one hand, showing up in person is exactly the best way to go about it. There are no invitations so asking a Mason to become a Mason is the only way it can happen. On the other hand, demanding is exactly the worst way to go about it. I suggest you do show up and introduce yourself. Ask...

It is a landmark that each lodge that every lodge is responsible for its own administration. Yet if you ever have to have a trial in your own lodge who wants to have it run by brothers with zero experience at it? So rules about trials appear in codes and brothers with experience are called in...

Re: Do a The third eye The Bronze age in Egypt was roughly a millennium old when the oldest known step pyramid was built. Let's call them the epitome of the Bronze Age. If you try to build tall structures without extensive knowledge of geometry a pyramid is the highest stable structure...

He also invented the matching funds donation system while he was founding the University of Pennsylvania.

Commuting to work on a mastodon. Because horses weren't domesticated yet. It's probably that ethyl gas (leaded) that finally did in the mastodon. ;^) Captain Kangaroo but not Howdy Doody. President Kennedy but only former President Eisenhower. Project Gemini but not Project Mercury. A few...

If you want to join a PHA lodge in California I'm biased in favor of my old friends at Hiram #12 in Pasadena. They are a tenant in the building owned by my mother lodge Pasadena #272. Corner of Los Robles and Euclid across the street from the Convention Center where they do the Emmy awards...