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You followed your conscience and I can't say I disagree with you or would have behaved differently. If the degree can not be put on correctly due to safety concerns, then the prudent course should be to postpone it. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Get an apron with an S-Clasp. Much easier. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Many jurisdictions put on a Rusty Nail Degree for Brothers who need a refresher. https://www.masonicworld.com/education/files/apr02/include/rusty_nail_degree.htm

Please reread my post where I clearly stated that charity and volunteering are laudable activities but are not our actual stated purpose as laid out in our degree work. My statement was challenging your patently false accusation that Masons who know our purpose are few or none. If it is that...

This bothers me because our purpose isn't a secret at all. It's laid out pretty clearly in the degrees. I think the problem lies in that so many Lodge's see the degrees as a hurdle to get over so the new initiate is a dues paying member rather than seeing the rituals for what they are, the...

Those are all laudable endeavors. But none of them are the actual purpose of Freemasonry. It seems like you are portraying the Craft as a charity/volunteer group.

Hillsdale College is offering a free course in Intro to Western Philosophy that looks like it may be of interest to Brothers. Bear in mind, nothing is free. But I have taken a few of Hillsdale's free online courses and they are pretty well done with good information. I recommend their...

What's that lesson? That if you become clandestine you don't have to follow any rules?

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You don't have to wait anymore. Contact the administrator and ask to sign up for the online testing. You get instant scoring and access to the next quiz immediately.

If potential brothers are not coming to you and knocking on the door asking to join, the problem isn't whether you can ask someone to join or not. It is because they do not see anything interesting enough to them that makes them cross the street. Fix that and you will never have to go beat the...

Which is exactly what Data Driven Masonry is doing by making an inference using incomplete data. You're proving my point.

The fact that they use the numbers from the post war peaks as their base line instead of going further back shows evidence that their data is already flawed. When you show all the data, not some, the peaks are shown as outliers. There are too many unique events that have a large impact on...

The peak numbers after WWI and WWII were aberrations. Masons looking at those numbers as the ideal are obviously going to see a grim picture for our future. This Chicken Little effect is further exacerbated by so many grand lodges trying everything they can for decades to get their membership...

By that logic, we should also admit rapists, murderers and pedophiles since they also fall within the boundaries you have listed. Transmitted via R5 astromech using Tapatalk Galactic

Good morning. I have to ask, what information are you trying to disseminate to the Brothers and how has your GL been unhelpful? No need to out your particular GL, I'm just curious since it seems you came here with a particular purpose in mind. Transmitted via R5 astromech using Tapatalk Galactic

I wish you luck but it is difficult to find Masons in predominantly Muslim countries. http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2017/05/jordan-and-endless-resurrection-of.html?m=1 Transmitted via R5 astromech using Tapatalk Galactic

The number one book I recommend Freemasons for Dummies. It is written by a Brother and provides an excellent overview without spoiling anything for the prospective candidate...

I was only giving a short explanation of the origin of the terms as used here in the United States and how they relate to visitation for the OP. Volumes could be written on chartering irregularities as both the Antients and Moderns chartered new Lodges in areas subsequently covered by a single...

Short answer, it only has to do with whether your GL was originally chartered by the Antients or by the Moderns. Today, I have seen it has little bearing on the day to day and in the US has nothing to do with visitation as I believe all GL are in amity. Unless you are visiting between MS and PH...