Comments on: There’s a hole in our bucket http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=there%25e2%2580%2599s-a-hole-in-our-bucket A Masonic Web Magazine about the Fraternity of Freemasonry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tenosce http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-13596 Tenosce Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:03:37 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-13596 I know what will fix this. Wicca is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. Wicca is based on masonic ritual. Wicca is secretive, dark, and mystical. Masonry needs to emphasize its mystery aspects again. It needs to be a secret fraternity, and a secret brotherhood - not a boring, broken down dinosaur that smells like soap, church and drip coffee. Check out your local esoteric lodges. They have the right idea, and all the younger guys. I know what will fix this. Wicca is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. Wicca is based on masonic ritual. Wicca is secretive, dark, and mystical.

Masonry needs to emphasize its mystery aspects again. It needs to be a secret fraternity, and a secret brotherhood – not a boring, broken down dinosaur that smells like soap, church and drip coffee.

Check out your local esoteric lodges. They have the right idea, and all the younger guys.

]]> By: So What is the question Masonry has asked of its diminishing membership numbers | Veiled in Allegory... http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-6026 So What is the question Masonry has asked of its diminishing membership numbers | Veiled in Allegory... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:26:51 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-6026 [...] the context – but in the meaning of the numbers. His conclusions you can read in the article There’s a Hole in our Bucket, but I recommend that you read it after this one so as to put all the information into [...] [...] the context – but in the meaning of the numbers. His conclusions you can read in the article There’s a Hole in our Bucket, but I recommend that you read it after this one so as to put all the information into [...]

]]> By: Need2Know.WhyNotNews.eu » Blog Archive » Free Masonry in the News Secret Soociety Illuminati Brotherhood Minnions http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-3713 Need2Know.WhyNotNews.eu » Blog Archive » Free Masonry in the News Secret Soociety Illuminati Brotherhood Minnions Tue, 18 May 2010 20:14:52 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-3713 [...] Canada – ‘There’s a hole in our bucket’ – The North American Masonic Membe... [...] [...] Canada – ‘There’s a hole in our bucket’ – The North American Masonic Membe… [...]

]]> By: Membership Statistics - Page 3 - Mason Forums Online: Covering All Things Masonic http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-1492 Membership Statistics - Page 3 - Mason Forums Online: Covering All Things Masonic Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:25:08 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-1492 [...] Re: Membership Statistics Here is an interesting article our membership numbers: There?s a hole in our bucket | freemasoninformation.com [...] [...] Re: Membership Statistics Here is an interesting article our membership numbers: There?s a hole in our bucket | freemasoninformation.com [...]

]]> By: An interesting article about our declining numbers - Freemason Hall Community http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-989 An interesting article about our declining numbers - Freemason Hall Community Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:50:39 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-989 [...] interesting article about our declining numbers See There?s a hole in our bucket | freemasoninformation.com __________________ Charles E. Martin Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan cemab4y@hotmail.com [...] [...] interesting article about our declining numbers See There?s a hole in our bucket | freemasoninformation.com __________________ Charles E. Martin Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan cemab4y@hotmail.com [...]

]]> By: Charles Martin http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-987 Charles Martin Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:35:16 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-987 My lodge meetings consist of: Opening Read the minutes Read the sick list pay the bills close the meeting drink stale coffee, chew on a stale cookie go home Our lodge does not have a website. Our grand lodge forbids the "2B1 ASK1" bumper sticker. We don't have an answering maching on the lodge phone. We have no lodge newspaper. We have no outreach program for our widows. Any new idea or program is shot down with "We never did it that way before". Our lodge is dying. Our Grand Lodge is dying. Why am I not surprised? My lodge meetings consist of:

Opening
Read the minutes
Read the sick list
pay the bills
close the meeting
drink stale coffee, chew on a stale cookie
go home

Our lodge does not have a website. Our grand lodge forbids the “2B1 ASK1″ bumper sticker. We don’t have an answering maching on the lodge phone.

We have no lodge newspaper. We have no outreach program for our widows.

Any new idea or program is shot down with “We never did it that way before”.

Our lodge is dying. Our Grand Lodge is dying.

Why am I not surprised?

]]> By: templeofdafoe http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-978 templeofdafoe Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:28:24 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-978 Good to read your words Tom. I may well be in Ontario for a wedding this fall. Who knows where I might land while wandering about. Good to read your words Tom. I may well be in Ontario for a wedding this fall. Who knows where I might land while wandering about.

]]> By: Tom Hogeboom http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-972 Tom Hogeboom Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:26:06 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-972 Hey Steven: Glad to see you are still at it! Have you heard of our new lodge in Frontenac District - templumfidelis.com Just Consecrated last Saturday! Let me know if you ever know you are going to be back our way for one of our meetings - always looking for interesting speakers to make us think! All the best! twh Hey Steven:

Glad to see you are still at it! Have you heard of our new lodge in Frontenac District – templumfidelis.com Just Consecrated last Saturday!

Let me know if you ever know you are going to be back our way for one of our meetings – always looking for interesting speakers to make us think!

All the best!

twh

]]> By: The Restaurant at the End of the Masonic Universe | freemasoninformation.com http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-932 The Restaurant at the End of the Masonic Universe | freemasoninformation.com Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:43:44 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-932 [...] Note: The following article originally ran in the pages of Masonic Magazine as an editorial. I am posting it for those not familiar with it, as it is referred to in the previous article, There’s a hole in our bucket. [...] [...] Note: The following article originally ran in the pages of Masonic Magazine as an editorial. I am posting it for those not familiar with it, as it is referred to in the previous article, There’s a hole in our bucket. [...]

]]> By: templeofdafoe http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2009/06/there%e2%80%99s-a-hole-in-our-bucket/comment-page-1/#comment-914 templeofdafoe Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:00:30 +0000 http://www.freemasoninformation.com/?p=3082#comment-914 Building the individual is first and foremost and I have been saying that for years and why my talks in lodges are usually geared towards explaining the degrees and how to apply that set of lessons and symbolism to our lives. I too think the Masonic pie has been sliced too thin. York Rite and Scottish Rite beign one slice, AMD, Amaranth, Shrine, Widows[sic] Sons, Masonic geocaching societies and all the others slicing the pie thinner and thinner. A right angled triangle is a fourth part of a circle, not an eigth or sixteenth or even 32th. I'll not comment on the organization itself beign bloated via Grand Lodge as I operate in a jurisdiction that does not have a lot of fluffy positions, where we have open elections (three for GSW and four for GJW this year) and where EVERY Master Mason has a vote in Grand Lodge. Building the individual is first and foremost and I have been saying that for years and why my talks in lodges are usually geared towards explaining the degrees and how to apply that set of lessons and symbolism to our lives.

I too think the Masonic pie has been sliced too thin. York Rite and Scottish Rite beign one slice, AMD, Amaranth, Shrine, Widows[sic] Sons, Masonic geocaching societies and all the others slicing the pie thinner and thinner. A right angled triangle is a fourth part of a circle, not an eigth or sixteenth or even 32th.

I’ll not comment on the organization itself beign bloated via Grand Lodge as I operate in a jurisdiction that does not have a lot of fluffy positions, where we have open elections (three for GSW and four for GJW this year) and where EVERY Master Mason has a vote in Grand Lodge.

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