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We have switch our focus from "Fund-Raising" to "Fun Raising" and we have found that more people come for the fun and help with the funds then come for the funds and have fun.
I have often wondered what it means to be a Mason. What does this mean? Is it the hours of boring meetings about the same old topics, the building, the lack of money, fund-raisers etc…I know that some Masons believe that this is what it is, and that the myriad of fund-raisers will bring us...
If we as Masons ever allow "Boxes" to join I am leaving. For when we start allowing paper products where does it stop. Oh, unless the Orental French are speaking in the Vernacular about "Boxes" which is just wrong.
This is why I will never allow women into my blue lodge...reading this is like reading the mind of a crazy person. I read it three times and it make absolutely no sense.
I would not have a problem with a mosque, if more Muslims would show the rest of the world that the 1% are going against the faith. So far a handful have spoken up about 9/11, suicide bombers etc... but the uprising if a quiran is "molested". We need to see more up-rising and protests when...
What if they used the GM's home area as the meeting place? You could pretty much at that point put the office anywhere, but the grand comm could be in his home area.
This would also give brothers a chance to visit areas around the state.
My origional post should in no way be considered a blanket statement. There are obviously lodges that this couldn't apply too, but not many. Let me give you an example: A lodge that if you took it and placed it within a circle of a 5 mile radius. It being dead center. Also within that 5 mile...
When you have a system in place that will not allow for flexability you will end up breaking it. What happens to the "per capita" of lodges that go under? Wouldn't it be better for the Grand Lodge to pick some failing lodges to merge with healthy one's selling the buildings or land etc...then...