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    Does Grand Lodge Law Help or Hurt Individual Lodges?

    The problem is a taxation issue: if you, as an individual, raffle the gun, the proceeds would be considered earned income and should be reported (whether the IRS would ever actually ever find out about the income is an entirely different matter :D). Even if you reported the income and the...
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    Tilers Oath

    and it is limited to master masons only by default due to the contents of the oath
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    Tilers Oath

    it is in the code book, right before the apron presentation, it is labeled the test oath
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    Certification

    to me it boils down to this:if you have visited different lodges, you have probably visited one where they obviously didn't know the work or they had a localized version that was unlike anything you have ever seen. Sometimes it is so bad that you are embarrassed for the lodge; and even more so...
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    Officer Elections

    we do the same
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    Women Freemasons

    yabba dabba doo
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    Grand Masters conferences

    I may attend one this year; I have never attended one, so I don't know what to expect out of it
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    Greetings!

    welcome brother
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    Greetings!

    welcome brother
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    Alcohol In The Lodge

    some bible belt GL's are dry. our neighbor to the west, New Mexico, is a wet GL
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    Texas Masonic Roots

    not true, he stayed the night at the blackstone hotel in fort worth the night before dallas
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    Moon Lodges

    My lodge is a moon lodge, we meet on the saturday on or before the full moon. There are very few left. It cause some weird things to happen though, this year we have two meetings in october and in november, but not one in September. Also We will probably have to be dark in July because the...
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    Masonic Twitter Group

    well said!
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    Lodge Meals

    at Azle the stewards prepare the meals. The supplies are bought on the lodge's account at the local brookshire's. Donations are given for each meal. It usually pays for the meal. This includes the stated meeting and our weekly floor school.
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    Your User Name

    mine is the name I've used on the web since I started surfing the web in the early '90s
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    Your Avatar

    try this: http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/images/animations/index.html
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    Resolutions

    JEbeling, so what precisely do you think we should be? In previous posts you seem to imply that you think too much emphasis is placed on the ritual. What do you mean by "more to being a mason" and "or are we a lodge of masons"? what is the fraternity to you?
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    Eastern Star

    at a recent awards ceremony at the lodge, me and my fiancee were approached about joining the star. It was a real full court press; but she did seem interested, so we may end up joining after we are maried
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    Visited Lodges

    Eureka #371 Ridglea #1341 (as an EA observing an EA degree) I have relatives in West Virginia and was going to visit lodges when I ever got the chance to go and see my family, but after seeing all the crap going on up there, I'll just not visit any lodges if I am ever up there, until...
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    so now that I can wear the bling...

    My fiancee bought me one and was going to give it to me in a couple of weeks for Christmas. She was keeping it in a little velvet bag in her purse. One night while driving back from stated meeting, her purse fell over in my messy floorboard and spilled everything out. She thought she had...
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