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Just realized that dodgeball auto corrected to volleyball in my post. Last gym teachers had us play dodgeball when they couldn't be bothered. Lazy social studies teachers had a rotation of filmstrips, and for science, it would be a National Geographic wildlife film.

That makes sense in the film. Savik and her fellow crewmen (and women) were cadets. Further exposing myself as a geek, on the first few episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, some crewmembers had some confusion as to whether to address Captain Janeway as sir or ma'am. She accepted both. To be...

In many languages, mixed gender plural defaults to the masculine. For example, in Hebrew the word for boys is yeladim, and the word for girls is yeladot. The word for children (both boys and girls) is yeladim. We see it elsewhere in English. Womankind would not include men, but mankind includes...

That would explain it. If I have further sarcastic comments, I will tag them with a winking smiley face. And I am not being the least sarcastic when I say that. Tone is difficult to get across in a discussion forum under the best of circumstances.

I think it is odd, but it doesn't bother me. Perhaps they feel that the term "Brother" in a masonic context carries with it meaning that Sister does not. Of course, they wouldn't care what I think, nor should they. I am certain it has meaning for them. It makes me think of Star Trek II: the...

So not a Christian then?;)

I agree with much of what you say here, with a couple of exceptions. The first is that of the things you list, only two really have anything to do with regulation, and those are lead paint and bicycle helmets. Lead is a neurotoxin, and babies and toddlers chew on things. Lead poisoning in...

I would never have imagined that the same guy who could sweep away all the errant Christian denomination and schools of thought but the one true one would so easily reveal the key to the errors of the Jewish people in 5 simple verses from the book of Daniel, sweeping away 2000 years of Rabbinic...

Please tell be you are kidding, Brother Bryan. Please, please tell me you didn't think I was being serious, that I believe that after centuries of thinkers.........this one guy has found the answer. Read my first sentence again. The statement is ridiculous on its face. In your defense, you...

I impressed that after centuries of thinkers, writers, theologians, students, teachers,madmen and fools pondering, arguing, researching, and debating what it is to be a true Christian, you have definitively solved the puzzle. My Christian Bretheren are very fortunate indeed that you have found...

I truly think that we have someone who is helping us see the foolishness of the antimason's argument. Instead of argument, he presents credentials and citations meant to establish that Protestantism is solely defined however he chooses to define it, pushes the argument until he provokes a...

I don't remember that part.

The purpose would be that it is an oath. You are swearing that you are a Freemason. "But anyone could swear to that and lie" you may argue. That's true, but I would assume that anyone who would take the trouble to lie their way into a lodge might take the few minutes to look it up on the...

That's pretty much what he said. It's a punctuation problem.

Five lodges meet in our building, though they didn't always. My understanding is that here in Massachusetts, all lodges in the state have concurrent jurisdiction (I think that is the term), so that any eligible resident of MA May petition any lodge in the state. I don't know if the same...

There was also a genocide in Europe as recently as the 90's targeting members of one religion. I have no idea what the perpetrators thought about Freemasonry. Sent From My Freemasonry Pro App

Not that long ago. First aired in December 2013, reran last Sunday. Sent From My Freemasonry Pro App

Just a couple of notes: A:Hasidim are a very small percentage of Observant Jews who wear yarmulkes all the time. They are a tiny minority sect among the larger orthodox community. B: Neither Hasidim, other orthodox, or any Jewish man who wears his all the time wears it as he would wear shorts...

Very interesting. I had not thought of the fact that it would be an issue in court. It is such an ordinary part of my experience that it hadn't occurred to me. The phrasing is interesting though - it is permitted because it is a religious symbol (which, while perhaps true, is incidental to its...

So mote it be. Sent From My Freemasonry Pro App