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The Grand West just adopted a Fraternal Relations Committee report recommending that our GL talk to reps at the PHGL about this topic. Am I missing something, or is that not a step in that direction?

MOT meetup sounds great!

As a witness of said coercion Bill, I can attest to the validity of your claim of forced consumption. I nearly fell victim myself, but my timely order of a double water tall (no rocks), I think saved me. Thank you for the report.

I sent you a PM in regards to this.

Your Per Capita increase failed because Masons are willing to routinely pay $100 to take their family of four to dinner and a movie, but complain incessantly that dues of $100 a year will immediately put them in the poorhouse. Apparently, brothers on a fixed income would also be left in the...

My lodge has a Facebook page, and we use it for a lot of our meeting invites and notifications. It is a moderated page, and is only open to known members of the lodge and other known Masons though.

I was at the lodge at the Lee Lockwood Scottish Rite Center on Friday, and they had that style of gavel in the lodge.

Beathard, since you clearly have the experience, put your name in the hat.

I'll be going again this year as SW, and I am looking forward to it. We will be taking our incoming JW & WM as well, and I think it will be a beneficial meeting and great learning experience for all.

Just got my book in. I look forward to reading and completing it.

You need to buy a book called, "Is it True What They Say About Freemasonry." It was written by Bro. S. Brent Morris & Bro. Arturo De Hoyos, both 33 Degree Scottish Rite Masons. It is an excellent book on what is and isn't true about Masonry, and these two men are without question some of the...

Very hard to believe after so many years!

The only person in my family that I am aware of being a Mason is my Grandfather on my dad's side, who adopted my father as a child. I asked him about it a couple years before I joined, and he said that yeah, he'd been a Mason once but they wanted him there so much it interfered with church, so...

I am currently going through the Master Craftsman program, but this thread peaked my interest and I applied to the College of the Consistory this afternoon. Looking forward to hearing if I am accepted.

York Rite Stated Meeting's have convinced me that code/ritual books shouldn't be used in a lodge setting.

I let my custom T "Mason" plate expire so I could get a set of these. The DMV wanted $205 :31:to renew my custom plate, so I said no. That's absurd. That's more expensive than dues in both of the blue lodges I belong to. I took normal plates, and when these are finally available for order at the...

For those touting following the Bible on this subject, here's something for you to ponder. Christian marriage, from a biblical perspective, is pretty clear on the subject of how a man and woman should interact. So if a married man and woman are one in flesh, it is logical to presume they...

Scottish Rite Temple is a must see. And it has two lodges in it, but I don't know if they will be meeting or not.

I have an idea, it's novel, but I think it might work. Let's get a box and fill it full of white balls and black cubes. Every brother gets to vote. If all the balls are white, the candidate is elected; if they're not all white he's not elected. It's radical, but I think it will work...

Must have been 10kt plated. A 10K gold ring should be hundreds of dollars, not $40, due to current gold prices.