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Great show, didn't HBO pass on it?

Freemasonry being active in the community is a good thing, I mean doing something to help beside fish frys, helping a school, community center ect. Actual involvement instead of giving money as a Blue Lodge to a Shriner hosptial or something along those lines. The Blue Lodge IMHO has a duty to...

An individual Council will choose what degrees it practices or confers; there is no order of the degrees unlike most other Masonic organization as the degrees are supplemental to the teachings of Freemasonry and emphasis certain tenets of both the Blue Lodge and RAM. Councils are free to learn...

<i>In regards to a soldier being a Mason, what does he even get out of it?</i> I don't know if your intent was, but I don’t appreciate your tone. I am assuming from what you wrote here that you have never served, but the reason that men who are going through the progression of the degrees...

In most states the invitational bodies reside in the metro areas, mainly because that is where a lot of your most active brothers, white caps, erc live. The reason that San Antonio has so many is because of RW Bro Reese Harrison. Some invitational bodies still only reside in Dallas/Fort Worth...

Re: What's wrong with Freemasonry in Texas? I honestly think complacency, some men seem to feel that their lodge dying is a fact, and won't do anything to try to fix it. Or you have men who think they should sit in the East because they show up to every lodge meeting.

I agree with a lot of points made here, regarding the Ghetto as location for a lot of lodges this is completely accurate. Army is located in what most real estate folks call a transition neighborhood. One of the reasons it's survived is its close proximity to Fort Sam. Others in San Antonio...

Here is the history of the AMD and some more information, I was wrong it's 27 not 32, we currently have 32 but 5 of them are in emertius status: The Allied Masonic Degrees are an invitational organization, and requires membership in the Royal Arch as well as the Symbolic Lodge. Membership is...

Ehhh he has done that before I believe; doesn't stop the crazies. :)

Most places do meals before the meeting to allow participation of wives, etc. D.C. and Virginal are the only two jurisdictions I have been that they serve the meal afterwards.