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BROTHER PAUL - tell Jack he's been super slack ! (I was at your 3rd degree Paul :) )

I'm actually going to be in Sydney for a wedding on Saturday 20 Jan... arriving on the Friday, but even if you were meeting, I am sure my partner would shoot me for suggesting I bugger off to lodge LOL... she's very patient and supportive... but has her limits. We had a brother with us for...

Very cool - Victoria is looking to start a University Lodge, others having handed in their warrant long ago. How old is 544 ? ... but then looked it up http://www.lodgeunisyd.org/historyoflodgeuniversityofsydney and i see it was consecrated in 1924. Lodge of France looks particularly...

I love the camera in the Samsung.... but get where Glen is coming from, IPhone is more straightforward but like the Android flexibility...

We have the same copy (edition) of the VSL here in Victoria Australia as pictured.

I do like a bit of thread drift, it often happens in conversation... While some lodge have money, many do not... and those that do, many are great at spending money on orphans and schools, but when it comes to painting their own building or establishing a web site, they are often...

Same reason we support the distressed, because they need it. The problem is a cable tow only stretches so far and there's only so many hours in the day. The whole thread got focused on the first response rather than the original post. The response was support them to bring new blood into the...

Thanks.. but if 90% of Demolay join and 2% of scouts, scouts would still win on a number of candidates basis, but Demolay the more likely to get candidates.

Demolay is not big here, nothing like in the States, but I've only met 1 Demolay MM, but multiple rooms full of scouts. Last lodge trip away while at a zoo, the little buggers picked up our bucket of animal feed (a mistake made in excitement) and I started making jokes about scouts, our WM, SD...

I believe you, but are there any numbers around that ?

Thanks

Congratulations!!!

(not me, but I am from an Island called Australia... ;) )

Good advice. Take the office. Support your lodge. Grow as a Freemason. Make a contribution. (although I dont know what a sentinel is, I assume its a tyler or inner guard, if non speaking, tyler (but they often do have some words))

A "country" or other discounted membership perhaps ?

Another problem would be the big states would swamp the small, unless you allot votes per Grand Lodge, but then a state of 1K masons has a the same vote as 100K. Really, the only way to talk about this is what would be the advantages and a lot of people would see strengths as weaknesses..

Two questions here in your post. 1 One GL per state? Not a fan. Someone has to give up traditions and sign over assets. I like diversity in the Craft.. 2 National GL? Creates systemic risk and consolidating or regulating all GLs would be trick. You realize Sovereignty is important when someone...

"Screw it" sounds like a good approach with a one day class in your future...

Agreed on analytics... my bounce rate is high (about 60%) but then again so is the time on site and page views of 2.something, tells me I get entries via google, people read what they are interested in, maybe look at another page, then move on... what is interesting is when you get a visitor...

6.3 million That's how many pageviews are showing on Chris Hodapp's blog page.. http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com.au/ That's pretty astounding, it's from 2010 - averaging more than 1 million hits a years. I get excited because I've got 24K LOL, but there is going to be a generation (or...