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It is worth noting that appendant bodies are more than just a smorgasbord of charities. I'm sure there are some that have a charity as its main purpose, but ones like the Scottish Rite, Chapter, Council, Commandery, Allied Degrees, etc are all quite old and pre-date our modern concept of...

Speaking strictly to the "non-fun" bodies here... Well, its a bit like saying what is the point of graduate school when they could just assimilate it all into a bachelor's degree, but that's really boiling it down. Appendant bodies take masonic study and philosophy *further* rather than higher...

a basic search pulled this one: http://www.myfreemasonry.com/showthread.php/19594-Putting-Affiliation-on-your-Résumé?highlight=resume I seem to recall there was another, longer one, but can't find it real quick. a more thorough search by someone might locate it.

Re: Anti-Masonic Illuminati conspiracy believers a Don't get too downhearted brother. Lot of ignorance in the world. I would've just halted the conversation and not attempted to educate them. Most folks that have gone that far off the deep end will not even hear you out. My Freemasonry

I read up on it some time back. My prediction: would've been better off straight to DVD. Also this image is misleading. We all know a secret can be pretty well kept if only one is dead. ;) My Freemasonry

Way down the road, I do plan on doing a series on FreeNAS so there's that. As all my lab machines are already running on an L2 hypervisor, I hadn't thought of doing a VMware ESXi series, but it is certainly doable! I'll look into that. Along with that, vCenter and vCops and maybe even vFoglight...

Re: reference to freemasonary in recent t.v serial yeah, there's a thread about it here on the forum somewhere. it was willem dafoe playing the devil. the commercial still runs, but it has been altered. it looked pretty darn similar to a S&C (without G), but oddly enough, he was apparently an...

If they buy into that, I have a Nigerian uncle they should meet. Some serious idiocy spam right there though. My Freemasonry

Hello Brethren, I'm currently producing several Youtube video series aimed at teaching IT infrastructure topics (mostly Microsoft server technologies, but other technologies as well). I'm nearly finished w/ my first launch series, "Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 -...

Re: reference to freemasonary in recent t.v serial I agree. Freemasonry is a bit of a media darling right now. Books, commercials, movies, TV cameos, etc. I see it this way, to the media (and world) at large, Freemasonry is less zany than alien abductions and more relatable than nameless...

Yeah, I've heard that "U of Flaming Chicken" isn't half bad for MBAs.

excellent analogy. I've used the same one, but slightly modified wording.

I hear ya. It's a fine line between "is the long form good for them to hear or lost on them completely?" I think it's somewhere in the middle and depends on many factors. Honestly, I feel like quite a bit of my ritual zeal has been deflated recently by a lot of poo-pooing at the thought of a...

Gotcha. I think I've decided not to give the long form lecture after all for our upcoming EAs and rather just be content that I know it and will continue to learn the long form FC and MM. It is true, the candidate likely wouldn't remember it (only hopefully be inspired by it). My main fear is...

Astronomical and astrological breakdown of the Symbolic Lodge form (specifically as it relates to the patron Saints).

So basically do it, but not so often that the sideline gets tired of it. -_- My Freemasonry

Right now, the norm is just the ritual parts without the monitorial sections. Most members never hear the monitorial parts given in the lecture. My plan is to give the full ritual + monitorial lecture for our upcoming EA hopefuls this month. I personally have never heard it given.

So my understanding is that F&AM were chartered by the Moderns and AF&AM were chartered by the Ancients and their ritual derived respectively. Granted the Moderns and Ancients had pretty similar ritual to begin with given that they were one body prior to the split. This would be the cause of a...

Basically in TX there are the parts of the lecture that are ritual and parts that are monitorial. Read in a linear fashion, the ritual and monitorial sections are interspersed in with each other. The "long form" would be the combination of both. The ritual parts are required and there is no...

Well, if you intend someday to petition to become a Freemason, what you just related might be a good way to explain it to the brethren. Everyone has their misconceptions and their missteps in life.