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My first communication as master came on a day where I set a PR for squats. JW. "Brethren" ... JW. "clears throat" Me. "I'm getting there" Laughter ensues from the brethren.
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Jun 5, 2014 01:57
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We have an exciting year shaping up. Third degree this month, a new first degree chap month after, and another in September.
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Jun 5, 2014 03:55
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Joined the HRA Chapter last night (UGLV). Quite an amazing ceremony. Everything QPZIL said it would be. Going in as JD at our installment next month, and my first job is a 1st degree in August....Any tips??? (Aside from ask someone else to step in for the night...)
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Jun 6, 2014 03:11
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jrgnsn_tjf posted:Joined the HRA Chapter last night (UGLV). Quite an amazing ceremony. Everything QPZIL said it would be. Read the ritual and speak it out loud while you do. Have another brother assist you by prompting, same as when you learned your answers. Attempt to remember it, line by line, correcting yourself. When you've learned one line, continue. It will take time, so start now, not next month. While I've never done the ritual from the other side and won't for some time, the basic principles of memorization remain essentially the same: repetition, repetition, more repetition. You should already have the text of the ritual; if you don't, ask for it. I know here in Australia everyone is given a copy when they reach a degree of the degree work in case they can't remember a part of the ritual, and while certain words are abbreviated or hidden, a regularly initiated mason will know those words.
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Jun 6, 2014 16:44
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Loomer posted:Read the ritual and speak it out loud while you do. Have another brother assist you by prompting, same as when you learned your answers. Attempt to remember it, line by line, correcting yourself. When you've learned one line, continue. It will take time, so start now, not next month. While I've never done the ritual from the other side and won't for some time, the basic principles of memorization remain essentially the same: repetition, repetition, more repetition. You should already have the text of the ritual; if you don't, ask for it. I know here in Australia everyone is given a copy when they reach a degree of the degree work in case they can't remember a part of the ritual, and while certain words are abbreviated or hidden, a regularly initiated mason will know those words. Some sound advice there. If you're a Melbourne mason you should come along some time! I guess the JD job isn't the headiest, but my floor work is poor and I'd hate for the new guy to have a disappointing night...
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Jun 7, 2014 05:34
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jrgnsn_tjf posted:Some sound advice there. If you're a Melbourne mason you should come along some time! I guess the JD job isn't the headiest, but my floor work is poor and I'd hate for the new guy to have a disappointing night... Up in northern NSW, but if I'm ever down that way I'll come say hello.
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Jun 7, 2014 10:14
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I find learning ritual works better when done in small chunks over a long period of time. Don't spend hours studying ritual one night, spend 10-15 minutes every day for a couple of weeks.
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Jun 12, 2014 14:44
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runupon cracker posted:I find learning ritual works better when done in small chunks over a long period of time. Don't spend hours studying ritual one night, spend 10-15 minutes every day for a couple of weeks. For me a an hour of study a night is about perfect. After one hour my brain turns to mush and can no longer process it efficiently.
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Jun 12, 2014 15:44
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I find taking things into the loo helps. You're in there not too long but long enough, and unless you got Problems, you're in there at least once a day. Also, don't worry too much about perfecting each line right away. Get close in chunks and refine down, as that way you'll recall what follows even if your wording needs polish. I've actually just finished my memorization for my Raising on Wednesday, and while its much less to recall than your upcoming job, both techniques have been helpful.
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Jun 12, 2014 19:16
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I'll be honest I probably did my best practices sitting on the john in the restroom at work. I'd carry the training book in my scrubs and whip it out in the restroom and read it. I found it best to just say it like I was doing it live, inflection, everything. Make it into a conversation, because our brains learn conversations better than they learn words after words. For the actual rituals, same thing. Don't learn them like just memorizing a poem or a passage in a book. Learn them by breaking them down into what is happening, then the conversations that follow around that.
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Jun 13, 2014 01:23
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runupon cracker posted:I find learning ritual works better when done in small chunks over a long period of time. Don't spend hours studying ritual one night, spend 10-15 minutes every day for a couple of weeks. Come Monday, I'll have delivered the FC and MM lectures in my first six months, and I agree totally with this. I usually eat a quick lunch and take half an hour to go through a bit more of my lecture. I also practice the full thing on my commute. It usually takes me just about two weeks to learn the whole thing. That said, I give the MM lecture on Monday for the first time. I'm excited but just a little nervous.
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Jun 13, 2014 14:48
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Sorry for the double post, but I'm all excited and want to say that I got the MM lecture down last night. It actually went super smoothly. We had two candidates though, so we were there very late. Just the EA lecture left, and I'll have all 3. We go dark over the summer, so I've got a ton of time to learn it.
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Jun 17, 2014 14:17
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Well, off to my raising.
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So I'm with CPS right? I get an abuse call and I grab a LEO and go out to interview the dad at work. He's clearly either on a bipolar manic episode or coked out of his mind and starts going on a full blown RANT about how "Freemasons are controlling the government and taking our children for their own plot" and blah blah blah I didn't have the heart to go "well I guess in a sense you're right" very surreal experience, that was.
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Jun 18, 2014 23:58
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Angry Birds Suicide posted:So I'm with CPS right? Well, he IS right.
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Jun 19, 2014 01:13
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The raising was quite an experience. I do wish I hadn't known what little I did (thanks to bloody Alan Moore. Years of carefully avoiding reading about masonic rites while studying the esoteric and occult - no mean thing to do! - ruined by a bloody graphic novel, From Hell!) but I don't think being aware of that small element greatly impacted the moral lesson.
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Jun 19, 2014 10:09
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Loomer posted:The raising was quite an experience. I do wish I hadn't known what little I did (thanks to bloody Alan Moore. Years of carefully avoiding reading about masonic rites while studying the esoteric and occult - no mean thing to do! - ruined by a bloody graphic novel, From Hell!) but I don't think being aware of that small element greatly impacted the moral lesson. Congratulations Brother.
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Congrats Loomer! I'd suggest you head out as soon as you can go and see another third. I had the good fortune to see one in Nevada on my travels. That took it to a whole new level!
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jrgnsn_tjf posted:Congrats Loomer! I'd suggest you head out as soon as you can go and see another third. I had the good fortune to see one in Nevada on my travels. That took it to a whole new level! I'm fortunate enough that a nearby lodge will be doing one in about four months, and if that falls through, we'll be doing another one in about a year or so. We're lucky enough to have two new fellas wanting to join and meeting the approval of the membership committee - one's a bit older, in his 40s (still half as old as most of the lodge) and one's about twenty five so we might not have to worry about our lodge literally dying out within the next decade if this keeps up. One chap is next month, the other will be either in september or early next year. I'm hoping they'll let me do one of the charges for the latter fellow so that I can really get cracking - and so that as the lodge ages even more, I can relieve the brethren from their duties. One of our fellows was put in as Senior Warden in our last installation and the unfortunate fellow can't remember anything of his new position - and he used to be one of the finest ritualists in the entire state. I'd be very curious myself, incidentally, to see an American third degree. I'm told the ritual itself is markedly different between our jurisdictions, as is the tracing board for you yankee devils.
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I'm a starpoint for OES now! It's pretty fun. After being a member for two months, I have to say that I'm glad I've met some really interesting, involved people. I do understand why our lodges seem to be struggling to attract younger membership--there's just lots of older people who seem to argue a lot about (what seems like) minutia. I also heard a rumor that OES might someday allow new initiates who don't have a masonic relative, which seems like the easiest way of getting new blood into the order--I just don't know anyone else who has mason relatives that they're aware of. Are there any other Texas masons itt?
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Today marks one of the proudest days of my Masonic journey thus far. I have been rightfully installed as Worshipful Master of my Lodge. Should be a fun year.
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Brimmstone posted:Today marks one of the proudest days of my Masonic journey thus far. Congrats, brother!
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Jun 26, 2014 02:23
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Just to answer the question on everyone's mind: we did it. It was us.
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Paramemetic posted:Just to answer the question on everyone's mind: we did it. It was us. Shhhh.
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Jun 26, 2014 07:28
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Being postsless, what I most desired was more posts.
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Jun 26, 2014 21:34
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Emron posted:Being postsless, what I most desired was more posts. That made my day.
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Jun 26, 2014 21:49
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Lovable Luciferian posted:That made my day. I fully intend to milk all versions of that joke as much as I can. Also: got to be second base the other night. Think the candidate looked up some stuff beforehand, though. When asked to give the FC sign, he have the MM for a split second before correcting himself.
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Jun 27, 2014 03:12
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The latest add-on to 'The Simpsons - Tapped Out' app is pretty fly. Every hour or so my phone lets off a: "We do! We do!"...
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Jun 27, 2014 06:31
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Found this in the bad with money thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3555678&pagenumber=111&perpage=40#post431037693 It leads to some fun imaging what we will ask for. Best part is that they will never know.
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When I was traveling in Maine I visited a lodge on Mount Desert island, it was pretty fun, even though I just got a tour from the secretary. However, on the way there we passed the new soon-to-be museum for the Grand Lodge of Maine. It's literally a bank. Still has bank drive through things, they haven't fixed it up yet. This led to days of "Masons run the banks in Maine" jokes between the wife and I. If only she knew the truth . . . 
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Keetron posted:Found this in the bad with money thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3555678&pagenumber=111&perpage=40#post431037693 Someone should just casually mention what the going rate for a kidney is to him. Something around 20,000...
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I received my fellowcraft last night, what a lecture! I enjoyed this one much more than the first, and looking forward to my raising soon!
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SaNChEzZ posted:I received my fellowcraft last night, what a lecture! I enjoyed this one much more than the first, and looking forward to my raising soon! That's my favorite lecture. Congrats!
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SaNChEzZ posted:I received my fellowcraft last night, what a lecture! I enjoyed this one much more than the first, and looking forward to my raising soon! Sooooo much going on in that lecture, it's a great one.
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I get kind of jealous when I hear about y'all talking about degrees and being raised. It doesn't seem like there's an OES equivalent...
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Emron posted:That's my favorite lecture. Congrats! One day I hope to be able to deliver it myself. QPZIL posted:Sooooo much going on in that lecture, it's a great one. It definitely was, so much info, and all so interesting.
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If you like the second degree lecture, that is to say, the connection with ancient instruction and ideas, and perhaps the ancient ideas of the "mystery schools", where knowledge was passed on via ritual and secrecy and symbolism... let me know after you're raised  I've written papers and can suggest some books to check out!
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http://www.thefreemasonmovie.com/ So, the Freemason Movie with Sean Astin is now available on DVD. I think I'll wait until I can get it digitally, but if someone buys it, I would love to hear some impressions.
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SaNChEzZ posted:One day I hope to be able to deliver it myself. Tell your lodge that and start learning it! It really gets you thinking more about what's in the lecture, and really brings home some points that get glossed over when you're just listening.
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