RyanC
Registered User
Without dispute membership has declined each year since 1959, after the post WW2 membership boom, but based on my personal experience and research the decline is a result of major societal, cultural, and demographic shifts. What evidence do you have to support your statement?
In my opinion TO and EC Lodges appeal to a very small segment of men, that is not to say there is anything wrong with them, but I can tell you that if all Lodges adopted their requirements Masonic membership in Louisiana would plummet.
Do you have any data on the number of members that currently belong to these types of Lodges and the number of members they have initiated, passed, and raised over the last 5 years.
Please tell me why most TO have a 100% attends rate, please tell me why TO lodges in Colorado have not failed but broken off into new lodges and that they them selfs have also succeeded in a 100% attends rate. TO lodges focus on education, if your lodge is not doing (as most don't) you might be doing it wrong. And the small % who want to join this lodges because of what they give is what people joining Masonry today are looking for. Because t you are right TO lodges are not for everyone that is why people who want or like TO are not trying to change every lodge, but again I find it funny that those who do not like TO lodges are trying to change them. Reminds me of the those old PM that are against any kind of change.
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