Foreign Thank you Foreign Thank you Foreign Thank you Foreign Thank you Foreign Foreign Foreign I think we’re good how are you good how about you good good we got storms on the way supposed to hail tonight did you see those pictures I took earlier today I’m just plotting my favorite shirt and my favorite hat with my uh yeah I did see those yep
Yeah but you don’t have your ancestors on your hat oh yeah that’s that’s fair that’s fair hey uh it’s been a while since I’ve read this I got a new copy got a sign yeah this one’s signed yeah if anyone if anyone has not read this yet Chris Williams
Uh wrote this it’s an excellent book yes it is our other author at the summit was Bradley cohenke and he uh he has the book light Reflections which is like a chicken suit for the soul for uh Theology and Freemasonry which is one of my favorite books as well it’s a good
One for reading just a little bit wait which one are you talking about in the morning light Reflections okay and he’s fixing to reveal his second book at uh on the Mysteries the mystery schools which is awesome I can’t wait yeah I look forward to getting that anybody
Worth their salt and Freemasonry knows that’s where Freemasonry gets its ideology from yeah I um not not just the stone masons go ahead I’m sorry unrelated but I I turned in my application for Scottish Rite degrees I should be starting those on Saturday over at Dallas sweet yep very cool very
Cool you’re gonna love it I wish I didn’t have so much going on I’d come up this weekend I need to actually I need to look at my calendar because uh Mike King who lives in Corpus he’s the 21st degree master and uh which is an awesome degree wait
Till you see that one it is it is badass which one um the 21st degree first yes the 18th is is pretty profound and and you really need to pay attention to what’s being said because uh it’s not exactly what you think so how how far
Did he I’m sure every degree it was like York rat like summer short summer long how far do you usually get in the first day you think uh well we usually get through the first 14 in the first day oh wow yeah but we’re but we’re only doing 22
Of the 29 right now oh okay so um some of them are still communicated whereas Dallas they’re they’re gonna play them all out so uh I would still think that you’re probably gonna get through the 12th or the 13th oh cool in Dallas I I would be pretty
Certain about thinking that six a.m this weekend 6 a.m until 5 30 P.M dude that’s gonna be rough six in the morning I had a hard time getting to a lodge 10 minutes away at seven on Saturday you should be you should be one of the guys working here
How am I gonna work a degree I’ve never been into no what I’m saying is you should be that person and then see how tiring it can be oh I see what you’re saying I got you yeah uh I’ll be actually I’ll be at once
Again on Saturday at the AMD the new AMD council meeting that they’re having Chris Williams will be speaking at that meeting as a matter of fact let’s look at the chat let’s get colored for the chat real quick uh Gene do it to it Gene is here from El Paso uh he said
He can make it to the summit because he’s an EA he’s doing his fellow craft hopefully next week but he wants to be there next year dude congratulations favorite degree enjoy yourself that is absolutely my favorite movie yeah I could have not had the master Mason’s degree and I would have been
Very happy with just development yeah I agree Kadeem says corpuswiththebomb.com and uh it would it was the bomb but but you being there made it the.com kidding just having your presence there I I tell you what man it was awesome and you know seeing Kadeem with his Shirley Temple
Hangovers man that was that was worth it all right there that was worth it all anybody that doesn’t know Kadeem does not drink he drinks Shirley Temple which I absolutely admire well not either I know this man he he gets up in the morning and you would think that he tied one
With the Mad Dog 2020 or some kind of nasty kind of drink because he gets up and you he just looks like he’s got a hangover but he drinks Shirley dimples it’s so funny uh Trenton says that’s because he parties like a rock star yeah he stayed
Up late Trent says he’s sorry he missed the summit uh yeah dude it was it was pretty awesome it’s all right he also catch the next one he also said he’s going to be in Dallas going through those degrees with me so that’s going to be cool very cool
Very cool like I said I I won’t be there this weekend but I may see if I can let’s see what’s going on in the next the next weekend um I’d like to go up there during the 21st degree and see it but I mean all of them are awesome
That’s like the 21st I guess Trenton has the whole schedule the 21st wait so um let me pull this up actually so this Saturday is the 30th and then the 7th so not this Saturday but Saturday after it looks like uh the 17th through the 29th is what they’ll be doing
Okay and then the 28th I think there’s a break for I don’t remember why there’s like a break and then it’ll be the 30th through the 22nd ah on the 21st I’m sorry the 30th the 30th through the 32nd yeah those are big degrees that’s why yeah and and they’ll also do the
Terminal degrees I believe on that day so that anybody who’s just doing the terminal degrees will uh we’ll get those um and actually the 14th we will have our reunion in in San Antonio I’ve already got a few brothers from from Corpus coming up for the for uh
The Scottish Rite in San Antonio which is awesome yeah we’ve got we got kind of quite a few brothers that are already committed to coming up they’re they’re excited about it and I’m excited as well but the seventh I do show open I may
Come up on the 7th in Dallas uh but the 14th is is ours and then the uh the next weekend I think Sarah’s got a competition that we’ll be going to so I wouldn’t be able to come up there got you yeah the Sabbath may actually be tricky for me
Because my son’s birthday is on the 11th oh come on yeah I know I know he’s very selfish very selfish eight-year-old but we’ll see well if it’s the 11th it’s been celebrated on the 14th also it’s right in the middle oh it’s gonna be on the 18th or
Something okay it’ll be it’ll be fine that works out cool traveling off topic I’ll pull it up actually I enjoyed your uh Sunday stir on Facebook that was a good one but you know I I like to get people thinking that’s the main thing is getting people to think about the Freemason
Yeah I had to keep my mouth shut a lot of that I guess as I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten more uh gotten wiser so for those of you that don’t that didn’t catch it uh Dennis made a post unless it actually hurts or takes advantage of people to say any
Freemasonry is clandestine as as ignorant as any church saying they are the one true religion both ideologies seem to be against the basis of Enlightenment Freemasonry stands for uh that’s the sun this is some of it so um some people really circle the wagons on this didn’t they
They did man it’s interesting though because all the people that pretty much circle the wagons didn’t really understand the post pool it’s easy it’s easy not to though I wrote it would be difficult to catch on right I didn’t think it was difficult to catch on well people who don’t think like us
Though see it a different way because everybody Associates you know Grand Lodge and all that with Freemasonry and that’s just not the case yeah Freemasonry Freemasonry is is the theological aspect of what we do right yeah and and everybody else is thinking you know Grand lodges and who accepts
What and to be honest man I don’t accept it that some Grand Master decides if something that I like that is Masonic is clandestine or not or irregular or whatever you want to call it and somebody defines the the which go ahead and read that one the one that defines
What clandestine is oh yeah the one the response to my question uh well I’m looking for that I just um this is the original gatekeeping this is this is the original gatekeeping this idea that you have to have a seal of approval for some benevolent entity
To say if this is okay or if it’s not okay and like you said right uh I mean look look at the early not to be too specific get too religion but look at the early church um yeah the Church of England oh my God and oddly enough that I mean the Grand
Lodge of England started doing the same thing hey if you don’t believe these things about Freemasonry then then or if you practice Freemason you’re a little bit different than art basically if you don’t have our seal of approval uh we’re gonna Blacklist you even if you are doing
Actual Freemasonry like by the book or even better Freemasonry than we are if we don’t approve it it sucks to be you especially if you didn’t seek our approval yes especially if you don’t seek their approval if you if you just do your own thing and don’t even care
About what anybody’s is then then that is definitely bad you better be asking permission from somebody pull up with my phone it’s being slow but yeah yeah that’s uh that’s something that that really gets to me it really does because you know there was a time in fact JC uh I got it
Whenever you’re ready by the way talked about it a little bit in that post that there was a time when the Scottish Rite was was not uh recognized and so what Grandmaster decided all of a sudden that oh well we can recognize this especially since they were losing all their membership to
The Scottish Rite degrees what’s up Oscar so they decided to include it I think with Freemasonry it was more focused on the internal and philosophy and and personal growth and esoteric subjects they didn’t really care as much about some kind of Grand approval if that makes sense they
Didn’t care if there was a central governing body because you didn’t need that to have a a place where you can you can meet on the level right and discuss uh certain topics that because that’s really what it was about a place where you knew you could be with enlightened
People and discuss topics that would otherwise get you ostracized from the church or the government right you could go and do it and safely you didn’t need a it’s it’s funny that an organization that was founded as a place where you could discuss topics without some kind of uh governing body overreaching itself
Now relies so heavily on the governing body overreaching itself yes so exactly that’s exactly right and that was exactly the point yeah you know that’s uh that’s ridiculous to me so let me let me read that post you’re talking about here I’ll get it all yeah
So types of Freemason lodges uh what is a regular Masonic Lodge regularity is a process by which individual Grand lodges recognize one another for the purpose of allowing formal interaction at the Grand Lodge level in visitation of members of other jurisdictions the largest even even that never mind the largest
Community of mutually recognized Grand largest arouses regularity from the United Grand Lodge of England based on a set of specific criteria I mean this is what we’re talking about right uh dating back to 1717 great uh ugly is considered not only to be the oldest but the largest group of lodges
Um what is a clandestine Lodge the clandestine Lodge is one that does not hold a proper Charter from any Grand Lodge in a regular Lodge is one that doesn’t that does have a charter from a Grand Lodge but its Grand Lodge is not recognized by other Grand lodges
Yep I mean we’ve had this topic but we’ve had this conversation before about Prince Hall right um I think we’re actually I think we’re incorrectly talking about clandestine lodges because by that definition the Prince Hall is never clandestine I don’t think right it’s still the still the same mentality well it’s not regular
It’s not okay until suddenly it is right right you’re saying there they were practicing by by some because really what you’re saying if you don’t recognize them that that they’re doing something inferior to you and then all of a sudden right they are there without committed as equals just because
We say it’s okay now it’s pretty funny which in my opinion you know we are far from equal they uh they have surpassed us in many ways I agree I agree but yeah so that was uh yeah I uh I surprised there wasn’t more conversation on the topic but I think
People are really uh hesitant to say anything anymore yep for for whatever reason right yep well because we’ve got this you know Oprah attitude in Texas especially you know that if if you say something wrong you get charges you get charges you get charges you get charges and you know
That’s the reality and and you know I hear even some of the most well-meaning Brothers you know saying look if these guys keep on I’m just going to file charges on them and it’s like dude really come on yeah at what point do we stop the decisive the the divisiveness and
Get down to Freemasonry yeah I’m debating I mean I’ll still I’ll still rely heavily on Facebook for a lot of things but I’m depending on shifting a lot of stuff Granite is still pretty Alpha you can tell by looking at it but I think the accepted calls right calls um website
It’s probably a good for what I know we don’t have to worry about um because for those of you that don’t know we we lost our original Facebook page it had like 2500 followers on Facebook which isn’t a huge amount but I mean it hurt when we
Lost it because that was that was our main way of getting information out and now we’re like 200 compared to like the 2500 that took me five or six years to well it took us five or six years to build right and so uh I don’t know well I
Haven’t to be honest with you because of that I hadn’t even been trying to build that this new one up either to be honest with you yeah I agree it’s kind of discouraging really like I don’t really but I don’t really want to put the effort in just to have because it’s
So arbitrary because you’re absolutely you’re absolutely right because Facebook can say okay we’re just gonna pull it again and and it sucks for you I mean something you can really do about it um on Facebook Facebook owns you so if you’re putting all your Marketing in that um shame on you yeah
Um which I and but the other reason is before you say that because I don’t want to get off this topic right away the same reason I wasn’t focused so much on Facebook and and Kyle we were working on the same thing but he got to it first so we’ll we’ll jump
On his and run with it because it’s a good setup I love it I like it and once uh once a lot of The Kinks are worked out and they’re they’re you know pushed through this this last expansion and they’re ready for the next expansion then we’ll really talk about
It and promote it on this on this platform and we still have pretty big things planned for our own website anyway oh yeah yeah but yeah um let’s look here though so I’m not sure who could he’s talking about he says bro says that because one brother two talker in Texas likes to
Call everyone clandy or a regular uh there’s only one big tick tocker in Texas I really know about so unless you’re talking about another one but I haven’t heard if we’re talking about the same person I haven’t heard him say it so that’s interesting to me uh Zach
Smith’s here he says hey fellas uh Zach hey hey the event went fantastic thank you for asking it uh we we set a high bar but I think it far exceeded everybody’s expectations even even my own um that’s just because I had really I had really high expectations and it just it
Just shattered it just blew it out the window I think it was such a great time uh yeah I mean it went it went pretty smoothly I mean it was a few things we kind of rushed to get together at the last minute but even that went pretty smoothly I think
Oh yeah the the the I mean everybody had paper the point so the point yeah right the point where I realized that we got something right was when people came up to me and asked who our speakers were going to be next year yeah that’s when I realization of something else
Right yeah where where is it gonna be and who are going to be the next speakers and you know that really validated all the all the fretting and stressing and and you know fetal position crying that it took to get this thing off of off it off the
Off the ground and and shot into the atmosphere so that you know that was awesome we we spent nine months promoting that last event I am not ready to turn around start doing it again so we’ll we’ll we’ll figure it out closer to the January I
Suspect kind of like we did last year or this year yeah it’ll be something that we’ll announce probably then I’m I’m trying to play catch up now on on a bunch of other stuff like the reunion coming up and getting ready for January and then I’ve got a bunch of
Presentations I’m doing right now so yeah yeah it’s a it’s a it’s an and I’d say it’s Endeavor but Dennis really you know I pointed out numerous times Dennis really did most of the work I mean it was Dennis this is this is this is bread and butter I’m not
An event planner I’m a delegator and I’m very good at finding the right people to delegate things to apparently because Dennis was a rock star and it really he really shined um well so we’ll uh we’ll we’ll figure that out as we get closer again but it’s not even
On yeah it’s not even on my radar if I’m being honest at this point I’m enjoying not having to stress and promote it for a few months at least yeah I’m I’m thinking about it but I’m not I’m not you know putting anything into concrete plans or anything like that yeah
Um but Zach I’ve got something for you um that I made up I’ll be right back okay while you’re uh running errand can you hear me at all yeah I can hear you Devin McLean says what I see in Texas I think there should be more of a
Focus on the concept of the rough the smooth ashler and self Mastery Improvement instead of endless politics oh I agree I agree and I don’t think that can be accomplished unless you slow things down and you’re way more attentional and uh not just because it gives people more time to actually to actually
Develop but um not everybody is really cut out for that kind of thing if that makes sense not everybody is really um a lot of people talk about wanting to better themselves but when the rubber hits the road uh they don’t want to put the work in
And so if you have a more diligent more deliberate process for bringing people into the fraternity you can you can recognize that beforehand and uh if they don’t want to if they say they want to improve themselves but they really don’t want to put the effort in is Freemasonry going to benefit them
Um Justin Harris here what’s up brother hey you look sharp in that suit by the way I really like that suit yes Austin yes good evening good evening Austin if your brothers hadn’t seen it uh Justin went and got him a new suit and uh he looks awesome in it yeah sharp
Those Zach for all that you do I’ve got one of two that you’re going to be able to choose would you like this one or would you like this one come on get get in there uh it turned out pretty well I could see it pretty well
Those are these are some of the gifts that we gave to our attendees one is a is a flat black uh flask or actually it’s a it’s a masonic Improvement coffee flask because we do do not partake in Shenanigans yeah coffee flask I love that but yeah but uh
But the flat black one is kind of cool because I engraved it with uh with our symbol and everything but you can only see it when you add light I like that because if you look at it just in in darkness you don’t really see
The the design in it but when you uh get a reflected light on it you can see it I kind of like that idea yeah but this one I I created um and I was going to uh auction them off but I I forgot to and so um you know
If Zach doesn’t take it then uh then I may just we may just have to go ahead and auction one of these off Zach likes the black one rock and roll man those were the first ones I did yeah there was uh one thing I I was really pleased about the auction
Is I’ve been to festive boards before where there was like a like an auction like that and it didn’t do very well right but uh the auction went really well we had several items that went for over 300 and one of them I I didn’t even expect for
It to it was a belt buckle and the very first person said dude this one’s mine 300 bucks bam and took that belt buckle is that the world where the the Pearl Harbor one yes dude that freaking Scythe was a beast man yes I’ve actually still guided it do what
I actually still have it at the house Robert didn’t have a room in his car with his whole family so I took it in my truck so I’ve got it at the house I’m going to take it over to uh Scottish Rite next week nice yeah that’s pretty awesome I
Would have liked it but I think I think we ought to sell tickets to take pictures with it oh yeah okay because we have the Feast of tissue going on and there’s going to be a big a big showing there um Devin says I think it’s sad just
Because some people don’t want to commit it ruins it for others who truly want to he was talking about um we’re talking I don’t know how much you heard when you’re getting those but we’re talking about slowing down the process and how you have people that that say they want to improve themselves
But they they’re all talk right like once once you actually start trying to help them put the work in all you get is excuses um and if you saw the process out you can identify that before before they get their degrees right and and a lot of that’s on the lodge though
You know the lodge we we hurt ourselves trying to sell this idea of Freemason and it starts to get to be like a cheesy used car sales ad you know once you listen to some of the people talking about the fraternity it’s like they’re so hungry to get new people in the door
That you know they’re their giving away everything except for the secrets yeah and and then you sound desperate and and then when the people come in they think oh well you need me more than I need you right I think that’s one of the biggest travesties and and the question the
Questions asked in the chat uh improve in what ways and I really think that depends on the person right because not everybody comes to the fraternity um on the same level if that makes sense um some people just may need to learn the importance of
Dressing up and how to tie a tie other people may need to learn how to be um more financially responsible right and these are all things I think are are important things that that lodges should teach that should offer yeah yeah particularly because and it some people might think it’s odd
Like why should we teach people how to be financially responsible well because they have a say in the finances of your Lodge right and if they can’t if they don’t understand how to handle finances or how to how the importance how important it is to invest in themselves then they’re
Never going to be able to understand that because sometimes financially you have to make hard decisions for the lodge right that may involve raising dues or degree fees or endowments or or whatever but if you don’t have a basis for for things like that you can’t make education decisions
And the same thing right we’re like but like dressing up I know we say you know we all be in level it’s the genital yada yada yada and that’s true that’s true but someone gave a really good analogy and I think it was at the uh the summit
Maybe it may have been about Russell Ramsey and uh Justin hiroshida could probably relate to this is uh the analogy was like if you’ve ever known anybody that’s been a police officer right they are a different person than they are when they put on that best
Like the uh they have to adopt that Persona and it’s the same thing it’s the same thing with with dressing up I don’t want to start like this whole suit debate or anything but when you when you oh I will when you well we beat that
Horse a lot lately but right when you put on that suit you’re not as drastically different a person is as a as a civilian putting on his police uniform or anything but you still adopt a different mentality right right because you put on your suit knowing
That that you that you’re ready to do something important well you’re suiting up yeah you’re suiting up you know I have uh I have a uniform I I wear it to work I have a uniform I wear to work on my rental properties and I
Have a uniform that I wear to Lodge and I I am not going to let anybody tell me that I have to dress their way to go to lodge because when I suit up I’m preparing myself for that Journey I’m Pursuit I’m preparing myself for the
Business of that Lodge and for the for the journey I plan to take um esoterically if if that pops up in the in the business in the in the lodge yeah yeah which I’m going to tell you go ahead go ahead no I was just gonna say
Like the examples I gave are very they’re very superficial examples but it also like I said it depends on the person some people may really want some esoteric education and that’s that’s fine too but um well yeah you don’t need to tell a Chief Financial Officer how to how to run
Finances right so he’s gonna he’s gonna want something else but when the there’s a the the Hermetic saying right when the student is ready the teacher will appear right I may I may say hey I want to learn how to um uh network with with like-minded people
In the community right but a lot of the way you may realize oh I didn’t realize how important uh being able to tie a bow tie was or or how important it was to uh to manage my to um you know like all the all the lessons that we teach
Um how important it is to to keep my word or how important it is not to talk about people behind their backs or how important it is to um you know all the things that we talk about they can extend into the outside world as well and so there’s so many and
They seem almost like a struggle because they’re almost like basic things like you if you were raised in a very um moral home a lot of things that you learn for Freemasonry seem kind of like no-brainers but then you realize well they’re not that’s why that’s why we’re
Taught that and they were no-brainers to me because I was raised that way because my dad and my granddaughter also Freemasons so it just kind of it just kind of fell in place but not everybody has that well you know something that’s real interesting and and you know going with that example you
Gave it about the the student and the teacher you know showing themselves or whatever um one thing about Freemasonry and being that you we all meet on the level so I wear my suit and I don’t care and I don’t apologize right and I will sit in
Lodge with somebody that doesn’t wear a suit and I’m gonna love them and I’m gonna have conversation with them and I’m going to enjoy their company either way just because I feel that that obligation of meeting on the level my suit doesn’t say that I’m any better
Than anybody else so you know that’s that’s what that says now picture this if if someone is is able to be in a um have a higher stature you know lifestyle let’s say and they come to Lodge and you know they’re just one of the guys they’re
Just one of the brothers and they learn that that lesson on on being a brother even though they do have means that far exceed anybody else is in the lodge they’re still you know upon the level with with the uh with that brother well that goes both ways so if you’re uh
Let’s say that there’s somebody in my Lodge that’s you know more accomplished than I am and because because I have exhibited and and learned how to treat people on the same level as me that weren’t as accomplished as I am I can also do the same with the
People who are more accomplished than I am and I still have a sense of of dignity and respect for myself even though I’m speaking with someone who has a much higher means and I don’t know if I don’t know if that really came out right but in in being able to
Work within those those bounds of of uh operate within those bounds of different um statures in in regular life and being able to all meet on the level it raises my own self-esteem and my own ability to be on the same level as somebody who is let’s say the CEO of a
Company or whatever I still have the respect for myself to meet with them on the level and and Converse with them as equals as opposed to feeling inferior within and not being able to have those discussions with that person right so because I’ve been able to learn it in
One instance I’m able to take that in another instance to help improve Myself by by uh even having the the uh the self-esteem to to feel like I’m I’m just as good as without you know shunning them because they’re better than I am at certain things have sweet dreams
That’s how we do it at the Yates house and it’s done nice make sure and feed your your bunny Devin uh has a few comments he says I think we should always be striving to further gain knowledge and understanding and through its application gaining wisdom which can be utilized to further
Master ourselves creating more Harmony from a couple it makes another comment uh from a kabbalistic perspective we should continuously be on the path of seeking their Divine and recognizing it as with within as well as further expanding our awareness uh and Light uh stagnation is like death yeah yeah I agree I agree
Um got any thoughts on that Dennis well yeah that’s um when when we’re well I think if you’re if you’re not moving forward you’re moving backwards right uh well a good example not that you’re moving backwards is that the world is passing by well I look at it like physical fitness
Granted I’m not like a huge physical fitness helping that or anything but say you wanted to be uh like a bodybuilder if you stop going to the gym you you start moving backwards right right you start losing muscle mass you start losing yeah and so you should always be striving
At least working to maintain if nothing else but you should always be striving in towards whatever’s important to you and if if uh like philosophy is really important esoterics then then you need to constantly be striving because you start forgetting things just like just like with the gym if you where’s where’s uh
Where’s uh Masonic muscle when you need them here but uh when you’re just like the gym if you’re not studying things that are related to what you’re trying to grow in uh your brain is like a muscle in that it starts to forget things right your muscles will forget their training and
Your brain will forget what it’s learned um there’s so many things that I’ve studied like when I was in college that I mean like physics when I was taking my masters for physics um I studied a very wide range of topics and they’re all very interesting but I
Wasn’t teaching them at the high school level and I haven’t really kept up with them because I’ve been focusing on on a certain um a certain Focus and so I don’t have it anymore I just don’t know it so it’s the same mentality in the the cool thing about um Kabbalah is that
If you look at the tree of life and you see all the Spheres and you know you’re going from the Earthly to the spiritual and there’s actually the certain point to where we won’t ever get to until we break that threshold of of spirituality to where to when we become Spirit right
Um but the the cool thing about it is that there’s all these spheres in in and they’re connected by all these different paths and in order to achieve the this this particular sphere you have to understand the path here the path here and the path here to be able
To understand this fear so so you do always you always have to be um your your thoughts almost have to be in a way omnipresent to where um you can’t just think about one thing to get to that to that goal you have to be thinking of of all the different uh
Things that complement that particular virtue to be able to achieve it you know it’s not it’s never just one thing there’s never just one thing that gets you there it’s always multiple paths that get you to this to that same thing and if you if you are a student then you realize
That you have to find the balance in all of those paths to be able to achieve that virtue that’s and and it requires constant effort constant work and and constant visualization in your in your psyche or your your mind’s eye to to be able to do that yeah
You have and and they’re tied in to Freemasonry because you have the three tillers and and and they follow right along with the Tree of Life you’ve got your three pillars and that creates the balance to get to the center and go up it’s it’s kind of it’s kind of
Man that’s an awesome topic to talk about but I think it’s it’s a little bit too deep for our podcast because of all the different okay going on all the different attendees that we have yeah yeah I right right but I but I love the thought that you’ve got there that’s
You’re absolutely right yeah and and brother I I I’m grateful for you bringing it up because you know too often we we don’t uh consider all aspects of the spirit that we should be in our everyday lives so just going back through some of these comments Austin Berry says I guess he’s
Going to uh Justin’s Lodge Justin hiroshida he says he’s getting his EA on Thursday he can’t wait and he has his suit ready I love that man that’s what I like to hear nice yes nice um let’s see I kind of jumped around so I’m
Trying to get caught up here uh Gabe at Gabe who uh asked a question earlier I don’t think he’s been on here before but I guess is there is there a segment of Freemasonry that focuses on the fitness side as self-improvement not like I understand what you’re asking so I and
I’m not really sure I don’t know not really but yeah I don’t know you’ll like the Sonic muscle yeah but but when it’s anything that’s about self-improvement um you’re gonna find people that that will look at the physical side because your body is a temple and
And you should take I don’t like I don’t work out but I diet very strictly very regularly and um the extent people want to take it just like the esoteric side some people don’t like it at all some people do and so there are people in the fraternity that
That do enjoy that that physical side of self-improvement more than others and uh you can certainly run into them in the fraternity if you if you are already a mason or if you’re joining at some point almost certainly well it’s it’s the thing is is that it’s all
Theological so it depends on how you personally feel about you know your body as the temple because it is the temple and we do stress that that your body is the temple however some people you know want to uh to or to ornate their temple in different ways I guess yeah um
But you would probably like Masonic muscle we love that part yeah I suggested Sonic muscle to them in the chat yes yeah so Devin did make a comment earlier also so I didn’t maybe think of like this uh this concept so it said from a kabbalistic perspective we
Should continuously be on the path of no wait wait that’s not it that’s not it everyone is at a different point on their path so we should take that consideration and not be harshly judgmental as well but more so gutting light and that’s true yeah it also it
Also made me think of a concept have you ever hear the short story the egg Dennis I think we talked about before uh yeah I don’t if you start talking about it I’ll remember it but so the NBA concept is basically it’s like from the perspective of uh someone that has recently died
And they find out that not only do you reincarnate when you die but you are everybody like you are you are basically God just trying to experience the lessons that creation has to teach and um it kind of reminds me of that same thing because it’s it’s along the same lines
Of treat others the way you want to be treated in my opinion because yeah you should you shouldn’t be harshly judgmental because that’s that’s you at at a different at a different uh point in your journey if that makes sense I’m not saying I I agree with that
Wholeheartedly I’m not saying I don’t either but uh I I just think that was that that made me think of it when you said that yeah I don’t think we should be a judgmental but we should be aware and challenging to others I challenge other people and and I want others to
Challenge me because I do want to be better and I’m not going to be better if you don’t challenge me if I if I go in my own headspace and stay there um yeah I challenge myself quite a bit but not everybody does so if I if if I but even still
Let’s say I’m in my own headspace and I’m challenging myself but it’s only on one particular thing maybe I need to be challenged on other things my wife challenges me regularly and I need it you know my brothers challenged me regularly there’s times when I get too arrogant there’s times when when
I’m a little flamboyant you know but you know that that happens it happens so we all you know if we if we don’t challenge each other to uh to reach greatness then then we won’t ever reach greatness and the thing is it’s not comfortable being called out even even discreetly is not comfortable
Especially when it’s true especially when it’s true especially when you realize that yeah I shouldn’t have done that yeah especially when you give a damn but so you have to you have to be willing to let yourself be put in those uncultural situations because it’s not comfortable
For someone to point it out either to you but we owe that to ourselves we obligate ourselves to one another to do so and so if if I don’t know like if you’re not willing to to um take constructive criticism on your on your behavior and your actions and in in your conduct
Then reevaluate because I I think if someone’s just if someone’s just giving you crap for the second give you crap of course yeah that’s not that’s not really appreciated but I could you could argue you still learn something from it but if someone’s genuinely trying to pull you aside and
Whisper towards the counsel into your ear if you’re not if you’re not ready or willing to to listen then then you need to take a step back and really consider what you’re doing yeah yeah I’m always very very interested in what people have to say I challenge people all the time on
Facebook and I’ll take a stance specifically the challenge other people to to to take a stance as well so that we can discuss it and become better for it it’s just like that today topics yeah exactly yeah it’s just like that post today yeah Jason ruckerberg says there may be a web
Series coming out focusing on Masonic principles and fitness someone may have lost a significant amount of weight recently I’m not sure that’d be very cool he has he has he got into shape he got ready to do a 5K run and he has lost a lot of weight oh
Brothers if you want to know how to do it talk to Jason he did it yeah he looks like a different person I never knew big Jason oh yeah we didn’t yeah you never have really actually hold on I just lost them I don’t think Jason and I actually met
In person until uh about maybe I think it was actually last month at a uh at a grotto initiation in Temple I think and I just happened to recognize it from our zooms I think that was the first time I actually met him he wasn’t wearing a kilt so that all
Suck out my mouth well that was that was my fault um at the summit and I apologize Jason we had planned on having a color guard and and doing the pledge of allegiance and we didn’t even do the Pledge of Allegiance the whole weekend I felt so
Bad wow because Jason was ready to do the color guard we were going to do the Knights of Saint Andrew uh performing the color guard and then we ended up not having enough there to do it and I didn’t tell Jason until it was too late
And I am so sorry that’s why he was in The Kilt I thought he was just yeah I mean I thought it was cool I didn’t know he he did it for a special reason I thought I mean there’s some guys I thought Dennis I mean Jason was
Just gonna be like yeah I’ll just work yo just Grill those guys that’s our Knights of singing Andrew uh colors are Tartan hmm it’s registered with uh with Scotland and they and we’re the only ones that can have that that those colors in that in that particular Tartan that’s cool
So what you saw was our uh Trenton says uh iron sharpens iron but it takes friction I like that man that’s a good point right it does you have to be a little abrasive right right but you know at the same at the same time we also have devices it’s a
It’s a rough finesse right you know it’s not just you can’t just clang the iron together and it becomes sharpened you actually have to finesse it and work it properly so there’s there’s an art to the Finesse of of truly sharpening and so you know that’s the same way with our relationships we
Can’t just uh be abrasive you know or confrontational to everybody we have to um do it with finesse and and uh respect for ourselves and other people in order to have that that open discussion I like that idea though yeah it’s good of course sometimes you still gotta take it
To the ground Stone foreign with me regular yeah yeah me too cool man well what else is that all the questions are all the all the conversations uh so for you it’s been oh we’re good I like the idea that you were talking about um about the balance
In all things and and the uh and it you can’t judge somebody for the point they are in their Journey because you were actually there at some point yeah right so time is the great equalizer it it is the great equalizer so there was a time when I was a young mason
Like a Jordan 2005 so like 2005 2006 there was a time when when I I show up to Lodge for a meeting with shorts and flip-flops on right I know Dennis it’s it’s it’s hard to hear I know yeah it’s never embarrassed I’m embarrassed well yeah because you’re already like 50 when you
Joined Dennis but I was I was like 23 24. that’s pretty young no my Lodge had left oh they set the example well I don’t you know what though but don’t say anything to me don’t kill me accountable for it right right in fact they grouched about my
Earrings before they grabbed about my flip-flops in my shorts oh my goodness I had to go I have both my ears pierced I just never wear earrings anymore but my point is I was at that point in my journey at one time right so that’s why I I’m not too harsh
On people that show up and and they’re flip-flops or their shoes because I was there once right and what I needed maybe the same thing they needed I needed someone to either pulled me aside and say look we don’t we don’t necessarily dress that way here um and so that’s that’s
The conversation I have right but I don’t judge them for for thinking the same way I did at one point what’s this what’s the point they’re they’re lucky they had you because I remember again that came in with flip-flops and I said nobody wants to see your nasty ass toes
I said it I said it in large and I meant every word well that probably would have worked on me too foreign now I’m in a different place in my journey so I’m a little bit nicer about it these days yeah but I would I would pull that person
Aside and say something how many Masons wouldn’t you know is that is that really are you really your brother’s keeper if you let somebody you made a good point they let you do that so are you really your brother’s keeper if you let somebody continuously make those
Mistakes that offend other people as a new Mason do I know that that’s not acceptable unless someone says something exactly exactly I mean to those those of us have been doing this for forever um not forever but I’m close to 20 years now I’m at 18 years
And like most the guys at the at the summit were suits no judgment events anybody that didn’t that’s not the point uh most people at Grand Lodge wear suits right and so it’s just kind of from my perspective yeah it’s just kind of it kind of makes sense to not necessarily
Pursue but dress respectfully don’t wear flip-flops and shorts but this person that’s just started this journey he didn’t know any better he needs someone to pull him aside and say hey look and what I love about where’s it at what I love about Austin Berry
He says he has a suit ready that means I I may be wrong but it tells me that someone pulled him aside and said okay look this is a really important occasion you need to be sure that you you’re representing yourself properly in some way right or he may have just listened
To me and said you know what I want to be like that Dennis guy I don’t think he’s ever been on here he has been I don’t I don’t remember the name so that’s but I you know congratulations that you’re fixing to have the first degree put on you I’m excited for you
Can’t wait that you that you know for the fact that you’re going to be amazing I mean that’s that’s awesome yeah that’s a that’s an awesome ride of Passage and and come back on and and uh tell us what you think don’t give away Secrets but tell tell us what you think yeah
Yeah but by the same token like when we tell somebody like like a a candidate that’s about to get to Greece say hey look this is really important um the support that you dress as such right uh it’s also important that when he is in his degree and looks around
Those other people are showing respect for the degree also if that makes sense like the existing membership it’s the same thing like when we tell a new guy hey you’re going to have some memory work and it’s really important it’s very important that you get this as as
Close to perfect as you can and then he sits there and the the people that he should be looking up to the original master and the wardens they can’t even close a lodge all right so how important is the work really if these guys that are the leadership of this organization
People that’s supposed to look up to can’t even handle business right well the the problem with with opening and closing The Lodges is so many brothers don’t understand the simple fact that it is ritual that is ritual and the and the purpose of it is to prepare you for
The work you’re taking that you’re entering upon and the work that you are are leaving behind as you go back into the world yeah and there that’s a it’s a specific ritual for that those purposes and and they don’t hold as much value to it because they don’t realize that it’s actually
Ritual it’s not just opening and closing a meeting any kind of meeting it’s it’s actually got ritual involved Justice says like what I said before so someone’s quoting you Dennis it’s scary let that brother know that his degree was important enough for the brothers to take time to dress well
That’s yeah absolute absolutely what I was going to say about the the great equalizer of time is and it and it was reaffirmed in a you know show or a movie that I was watching the other day oh I remember what it was um matchmen have you seen that movie it’s a
Uh it’s like a a Comics type movie that’s more adultish talk about Watchmen more Watchmen that’s it yes yeah so so when the when the bomb is sitting there in she says uh you know with time even the worst things that have happened become almost nice and and that’s the truth because over
Time the the biggest hurts and the and the biggest Joys both go away I don’t know about that because the burning at the Library of Alexandria still really bothers me you’re such a freaking Millennial that that is such a instant gratification answer right there because it’s only
Been what three or four months four or five months six months a year what are you talking about the burning of Alexander of when when that Library just recently didn’t that happen of Alexandria the Great lab yeah Bernie yeah something happened recently with that somebody was talking about it I am uh
I’m a little embarrassed for you right now Dennis you should be oh let me find this because it seems like I heard something that happened to the Library of Alexandria see uh let me find the year oh my gosh it was that long ago I don’t think the Library of Alexandria Dennis
Yeah but it it was remodeled and redone and everything was modernized yes what did it yes there there is still a great library in Alexandria yeah okay but all the all the ancient texts and everything was destroyed what year was this what year was that oh the ancient text okay okay uh
There was something recently that somebody had brought up uh 48 BC yeah no this is something recently especially it’s been a few months yeah oh my God Jacob well said you were trolling me I I really I was about to fight man I was getting really frustrated I had a
Senior moment I had a senior moment um no there was something that I saw recently on the Library of Alexandria it they because they completely redid it it’s it’s totally modernized there’s no way that anything could happen to to the books and documents they have they’re they this library has almost every book
In the world I’m trying to yeah I haven’t heard of that yeah what you’re talking about wow yeah the one that I’m talking about he was he was trolling me he he had to be chilling you’re messing with me you’re you’re yanking my chain I know it
Who me good job yeah yeah you I can’t I can’t I’m not smart enough to do that no there’s another one that that they built to replace it and I thought it was still called The Library of Alexandria but and and it’s a freaking modern ass library that has you know
Especially cool rooms and you know special um fire prevention and all that kind of stuff I mean it’s really a badass library and and they they are they have one of every book in the world that’s cool in that in that library and I’m trying to think of where it is and
Maybe they were just comparing it to the Library of Alexandria or something but maybe so I haven’t heard anything about it but that bird or anything other than that one yeah right well that was yeah but I but the one I was thinking of is This Modern one that and something had happened
That uh had some people concerned a while back I’ve got to find it I’ve got to find it I see maybe they were just comparing it to the the Library of Alexandria and but it’s a it’s named something different it could be that could be anyways anyways I I
Digress yeah I apologize there didn’t we yeah that was really that’s way off oh my gosh but the the great equalizer is time and even your your your best memories and your worst memories Fade with time I’m glad you made what we were talking about because I totally forgot that was
We went down that rabbit hole well I really wasn’t involved I was more involved in what I was talking about thank you Jason I appreciate that what is he saying that he deals with it on a regular basis he said he said uh that was very clever of me
To bring up the library so yeah yeah it was very clever but yeah yeah I I I’m serious thought though I agree thanks I remember there being things that um I thought were just the worst thing ever like I didn’t know how how life would ever resume being normal after that and uh
Here we are right you see catastrophic at the time but right over time uh it was the same time heals all the wounds there’s a um not to go down like a like a morbid tangent or anything but so oh please do someone was talking about
I remember where I heard it but I think it was dealing with like veterans because uh veterans are uh deal with depression a lot and uh right they uh often uh you know take take their own lives and uh someone was saying that the the number one recommendation that he always gives
Was go to sleep before you do anything stupid go to sleep because what happens is you’ll wake up in the next day and uh if you’re not over it you’ll be feeling better right and so that’s that’s the that’s the number one recommendation like if if
If you can’t if you refuse to to go see a professional or any kind of help go to sleep please yeah because you’ll wake up like oh my God I’m so glad I didn’t do anything crazy um right 99.9 of the time that’s because you put time between
Yourself and that incident or time between yourself and those feelings and suddenly even even that small amount of time you look back like oh that went as bad as I thought it was I kind of overreacted did I send you that paper that I wrote for uh
For the lodge the other day that I gave that presentation for I don’t remember follow your light uh biblioteca Alexandria by the way oh wait do I have theoteca alexandrina uh it’s a major this is a comment it’s a major library and Cultural Center on the shore the Mediterranean in Alexandria
Egypt so maybe that’s what you’re talking about yes that’s it that’s it okay yeah um so this was I I thought it was going to be extremely controversial and it was and it made me even more nervous because they didn’t tell me but it was the uh ddgm’s official visit for the lodge
And so my uh the starting of of the of the program was explaining how I think that the Bible presentation that we hear in Texas is uh is one of the largest biggest travesties to Freemasonry that that there is because it I haven’t heard this from you before
It almost presses on the fact that it almost presses uh to one’s intellect that Christianity is the only light in Texas for Mason and I come I completely disagree I think that if any if if anyone only searches the uh only studies the theological aspects of of Christianity
And never looks into any other forms of religion or theology I should say then uh then they really have no understanding of the depth of light that that comes from our creator that’s fair there it’s in it’s impossible to to truly understand the depth of of our Creator’s intention in
Our life well it’s the same reason a lot of people don’t like the commentary right right they say it shouldn’t be a free a masonic body because it I mean today they say well you just swear to defend the Christian faith you don’t necessarily swear that you’re Christian or anything like
That but which is a lie I mean it’s it’s semantics right it’s word it’s a it’s exactly to dance around hey it’s based something that’s Templar which it was a Christian organization right it’s an exclusive membership yeah yeah granted I know I notice about Christians that are members now and if
They enjoy it more power to them I’m not trying to uh keep anybody from enjoying it or anything yeah I uh yeah now if if the Comanche I like then that’s Templar don’t get me wrong I like the I I like the idea that I was Templar I think for
The historian name he likes it I think it’s cool well I I am a member so I can’t say but I’m but I’m not a trinitary and I’m more of a Unitarian but I think it’s separate themselves from that you know what I’m talking about that that strictly right and I think
I don’t think you can do that without changing your your ritual some right if I could just show up in a that really sweet black apron in a black suit and not worried about all this marching and drilling stuff and explore like historical things or something like that
I’ll be down for it man I’ll be down did you notice those commandery aprons I made they they went quick yeah people were all excited about that yeah I don’t know where behind’s at I’ll pull mine out while you’re talking my apron um yeah so in that in that discussion part of
What I was talking about is that if you believe that God is the creator right here yeah it’s hard to do when you’ve got the background on yeah you have to get like right you have to put it in front of you put it in front of your body let’s just disappear
Put it yeah see yeah yeah so if I could just wear that right you’re down so part of the uh part of the discussion was that if you if you truly believe that there’s one Almighty Creator right there’s one source for all creation almighty God which which is what we as
Freemasons believe it that’s that’s the one thing that we have to believe is that there is an ultimate Almighty power right so if you believe that then you have to believe that even the bad things come from that creator you have to understand that and it’s as simple as simple as black
And white with the with the with the black and white and I think that we talked about this before that in Black in in the difference is in in art all colors create black right all the colors Blended together create black in art in science all colors together create White
And in essence the only difference between all colors is light those are facts so you have to understand that if if all things come from this one creator all things are just and balance so once you understand that the good comes with the bad the bad doesn’t hurt so bad
The bad doesn’t affect you as as harshly as it as it might have once done before it’s like that uh that old Bob Ross clip I think it was it was uh it was recorded I think his wife passed away and he was painting so
And uh he’s like you uh if you didn’t know it was just the offhand comment as he was painting right but it was something along the lines of because he was painting some some shadow he’s like you can’t have the you had to have the the brightness the light without the shadow
Right yeah you won’t notice the light if you don’t have if you don’t see the shadow um yeah let me look at these comments real quick thanks the Shadow the Shadows Define them in some ways Jacob Wells says either your brother is Royal Arch he’s continuing petitioning at the top of the year
Um you’re watching too aren’t you yeah yeah we’re both real large uh I thoroughly enjoy it Dennis is a Scottish rat snob but uh I thoroughly enjoy it I enjoyed it I enjoyed it at the time I and I enjoy it still to you know the lessons are cool yeah but I am
I am of a Higher Learning association called the called the Scottish Rite and and that’s where I if you’re not York right you’re Scottish wrong oh my God actually actually in one month in one month all you listeners in one month we’re gonna have a discussion next Sunday and next Sunday before you
Started the Scottish Rite degrees yeah next week I gotta get a minute yeah you won’t you won’t be able to yeah and and after it’s all said and done you’re just gonna be Shell Shocked you won’t even be thinking about the York right for a while shocked you didn’t
Know what the Library of Alexandria was so you know you need to shut up let’s see uh yeah Zach he said he was laughing I said I’ll pull mine out by you you know that annoying kid that she just wanted they get away go away Kid you’re bothered exactly yeah go away Kid
You’re bothering me I’m gonna keep talking as long as you’re talking just so that she’ll shut up okay so it’ll be like a normal conversation then right yeah it’ll be like an interview Gabe says um what separates Templars from other Masons uh so the Christianity yeah for the most
Part but that’s it to be more specific to become a Templar you got to go through uh it’s called a it’s called commandri really in in Freemasonry and they’re based off the nice Templars so we talked Templars real talk commandery and it’s what’s called a dependent body
Which means you have to receive the first 33 degrees in blue launch first and then you can join other organizations that require Masonic affiliation beforehand and they uh they they the lessons add on to the dices of the degrees and then you have the the commander I mean the commander degrees are awesome
They’re really awesome I really enjoy it the order the temple is beautiful yeah the order of the temple is is probably one of the most profound experiences you you’ll have in Freemasonry until you join the Scottish Rite yeah uh your uh Kadeem said York right hands down so I’m gonna I don’t
Believe what ericadeem says here you know Kadeem you’re just not high enough yet [Laughter] like I’m some 33rd degree I’m not just a lowly 30 second porch Basin what are you talking about yep I’m just a 32nd degree Knights of Saint Andrew Case KSA there you go
Man but but you know I I enjoyed the order of the temple I I enjoyed I enjoyed the the York right degrees but it is a lot like to me they they were a lot like the um is more of a like a historical Journey more than an internal Journey To Me yeah
And I I just don’t think I think it falls in the same premise like I was talking about in the thread earlier that I posted um to me Mason Masonry is more of a on the surface institutionalized ideal or theology um like an on the surface kind of uh
Understanding of basic principles and and ideals and any good man can can practice masonry right but Freemason Freemasonry is a deep dive Freemasonry is where the true Enlightenment comes from studying and and putting effort into learning uh different theology and I think there’s a difference there
And I I think when I when I took the York right path I saw it more like masonry and when I took the Scottish Rite path I saw it more like Freemason and I think that’s the difference for me now granted the whole reason I’ve I’ve started to
Become active again in New York right is because I would like to create some Freemasonry in that Mason and start taking some deep Dives and starting to unpack those degrees for people but I’m not there yet and so I still have that impression that I left with me yeah
It’s there it’s just not pushed to be a theological uh opinion body in my opinion so we’re getting up close to about 10 30. be putting us about an hour and a half we’ve been doing this um so let’s start wrapping it up I like to hear your follow-up yeah that’s where
We go oh my God because I know you have a headache and you’re giving me one so I just I think it’s just opened up I just opened up a new can of worms and you’re afraid of it so you run no yeah that’s that’s it run Forrest very intimidated right now
You are I can tell I’m actually going to your nervous do some light reading not light but really on light and then uh I think it’s lighting outside now too so it’d be a good time nice I wish it would down here do we go grass is yellow it’s
Supposed to hail tonight it’s supposed to get to pretty bad storms go go whenever you would get off look on Facebook look at the post I’ve posted before we started because I took some pictures of the clouds outside they remember me those those those mushrooms that grow on trees you know
What I’m talking about like the yep that’s what they look like so kind that look like ribbons uh yeah yeah it’s just the way the the clouds are you got the striations where the I don’t know I don’t know what causes that I’ve never seen a cloud like that in my life
So I thought it was cool anyway final thoughts but then again you are a millennial you haven’t lived much life final thoughts Dennis I’m gonna piss off as many of our listeners as I can before I get off this show turkey tail mushrooms yeah that’s what I was thinking about turkey toe
Yeah yeah yeah those were pretty pretty pretty awesome clouds uh I always enjoyed but Jason was to be sure that you understand that he ran a half marathon not some peasant 5K if I ran around the block I would [ __ ] die oh whoops wow Dennis if I if
I ran around the block I would die so you’ll have to you’ll have to edit that before you it’s live Dennis I’m talking about when you released the live no I hit in stream and it’s posted it does it automatically oh my gosh it’s gonna immediately just Black Flag us it’s gonna
I just ruined our podcast you’re going to take us YouTube’s a little more forgiving than Facebook is we’re okay right we’re okay sorry YouTube so is that your final thought you gotta demonetize us I’m gonna demonetize this speaking of demonetized um a brother asked how to join uh our
Channel today oh yeah and actually he he asked how to join it at the summit and I told him how to do it I guess he didn’t really understand um I mean most the people who are listening here understand I mean you you have to
Log in to to YouTube first you have to have a sign in you have to log in and then you go and you subscribe and then when you go to the subscription page you’ll see right there underneath the main flash screen you’ll see all the members and then on the right hand side
It says join one of the cool things that’s happening though with our website um is that we are creating a membership portal through our website and one of the things I’ve decided to do to uh to pump up the value pump up the value pump up value is uh yeah that that’s
Generation X music um it wasn’t valid but the volume Pump Up the Volume but uh one of the things that I’ve decided to do to create value is I am going to post all of my papers that I’ve written for our members for our Inner Circle members
Um they’ll be in PDF form you’re welcome to read them to your Lodge or whatever all I ask is that you give me credit and the reason why is because it will these papers are going into a book and uh I wouldn’t want anybody to say that I
Wrote my book based off something that someone else said in their lives right so um but I am going to make it available to the Inner Circle members only um but I’m gonna wait until we actually go through our members portal through our website yeah so
Um that way we it’s all that I posted a link just now to the membership for YouTube and uh don’t let that hold you off what Dennis is talking about because we don’t know that’s in a pipeline we don’t have a do we have an ETA yeah we don’t we don’t
Have a launch date yeah we don’t have launched it or anything so don’t let that don’t let that hold you back because you still have access to all the members only videos and stuff that we have out there and we still yeah we had some on a regular basis however YouTube
Doesn’t give us I don’t know when people join when people don’t uh I could see when people join like if I manually check it but I don’t really get notifications on that and if people leave like they leave the membership program I have no way I don’t
Know and so as far as like having a way to create a database to to manage the members and uh I don’t have their emails or anything through YouTube either so I have a real no real way to outreach to our members and keep track of who’s a
Member or not so like a lot of the perks that we want to do uh it’s just kind of difficult right and YouTube takes a cut of the membership program which I don’t I mean it’s small but so the ultimate goal is we’ll have our own we’ll we’ll shift that to our
Website and you’ll have access to everything on that but um yeah and so just to be clear um anybody who joins now we’re automatically going to put them in if you’re if you’re a member at the time of of uh of the big launch then you’ll
Automatically go in as a member and then you’ll just you know re-subscribe the the next month or whatever yeah um just just like if you were doing it in you know through YouTube except you’d do it through us but anybody that’s already uh a a member of our Inner Circle we will
Uh automatically put you into the the website uh Inner Circle for sure yeah but that’s one of the things I just wanted to say that that’s one of the things because I have people ask me all the time about you know my papers and and I’ve had
People ask me well hey can I go ahead and read this to my Lodge and I say go for it if if you feel like you know your Lodge could benefit from from what I’m writing then then I say go for it do it I would rather there be controversial
Education than no education at all you know that’s what it’s made for right that’s why you write it so it can get shared yeah absolutely yeah I well I write I write specific to The Lodges for their benefit I asked the lodge whenever I go on I
Asked the lodge what they they want me to speak on uh what they think the membership needs to hear not necessarily what they want to hear but what they think the membership needs to hear and I write on that so typically it’s going to be something that other lodges would want to hear
Also or need to hear also and and it’s never you know just outright ugly to anybody it’s it’s always trying to create a positive call to action um message yep that’s that’s what I’m trying to do I’m not trying to piss people off or whatever I’m just trying
To give a nice call to action you know think about your Freemasonry kind of thing so yeah it’s absolutely something that could be shared yeah if if you can’t get me there to speak yeah Zach says we should get into Zach Smith he says we should get into a
Group of meetings to discuss these things Dennis I agree I agree as well since we had a meeting we should probably talk about that not tonight but we’ll we should probably use yeah I reached out to you Zach I hadn’t heard back from you I reached out to you the
Other day just to see how you were buddy yeah um Kadeem says he’s gonna be presenting at Waco 92 in November that’s good man I’ll be I’d be very curious what you’re presenting about nice I’ll try to be there I’ll try to be there so am I still invited to your AMD
Council Kadeem we hadn’t talked about it you said uh the first one and I wasn’t I was already booked on the first one am I still invited to the second one or not because I need to make sure I save that Zach says if you reached out to him on
Facebook he doesn’t use it as much I don’t know how you reach out to him yeah so you’re one of those social networks knobs I see uh group chat or text would be better or group chat on text yeah I’ll I’ll text you or iron something out
All right man well I’m ready to stick a fork in it I think it’s done so here’s here’s the great takeaway for for tonight I know you’re ready to go my great takeaway is that we need to come on man we need to as as our as Dave was was stating
Earlier and you were stating um we do need to put more emphasis on the theological um understanding of of what Freemasonry is and and what it can bring to our lives and the balance that it brings to our lives the ability for it to help us to not only learn and accept new
Understanding but to teach and to mentor to those who were in the journey that we we once were like that that’s one of the main reasons why I wanted to be a part of this Masonic Improvement platform is because doing it one Lodge at a time is great and I enjoy giving those
Presentations but when we can get online and have several Brothers talking on the chat through the chat to each other into us and us being able to explain how we feel about different things and and you being able to explain it on the chat man that’s Freemasonry yep that’s
Enlightenment we’re all learning from this process and we’re reaching reaching people around the world doing it so Brothers I I would like to say that y’all are all part of of this movement of helping brothers that feel like they’re on an island in their Freemasonry and their light is very dim because
Their Lodge is telling them what their life should be instead of encouraging them to be more like for the lodge and it’s up to us to educate the masses and and to educate ourselves so that we can be a part of that light just a glimpse because Us by ourselves are not the
Great light Nation but all of us together become that light for the next the next brother down the road what really resonated with me about what you just said is uh the um I’m only breathing this up because I see it like at least once a week but on the
Uh older video Wildlife Freemasonry at least once a week someone will pop in and comment well why didn’t you step up and make these changes and exactly like you just said don’t want no one made that even aware that I was an option to me at that
Now now me being much older now looking back like I don’t mind going to any organization and saying this the way I think it should be done because I have enough experience now right but being young and naive and I I mean I was I’m in a lot of organizations now but some
People are just now getting retired enjoying things right so like we go back to what we’re saying everyone’s at a different point in their path but at that point in my path uh the idea never occurred to me it was just the way the way it’s always been this is how the
Organization ran so I I didn’t really think I really had the the idea of stepping up saying hey let’s do it this way never occurred to me now down the road when I do my own research I realize oh we can’t do that that’s what actually got me back to the
Fraternity but people say that pretty regular why didn’t you step up why didn’t you do that well like Dennis just said right A lot of people though don’t they don’t know that I know you could be the change you want to see until you tell them that
Right well and and there’s a lot of instances just like in in even with my own Lodge um you know I’m not given presentations at my Lodge every month you know not all lodges want to hear it that’s not the focus of that Lodge that’s not that culture of that Lodge
But I travel around giving presentations to The Lodges where that is the culture okay and and a lot of times you’re you’re never the hero of your own town right yeah and I mean that’s That’s the basis of it so there’s Brothers out there that they probably have great insight and
Could give excellent conversation and and intellectual discussion to their Lodge I think it’s written but appreciate that but don’t but don’t have the opportunity because their Lodge is has a certain culture and and they don’t fit into that culture quite so well they love different aspects of
That culture which I love my my Lodge but for the for the things we do well and there’s not many lodges as good as my Lodge I’m telling you either one of my my main lodges my mother Lodge or my home Lodge my mother-in Lodge being
McKinney uh St John’s 51 and my my home Lodge being Goliad 94. they both have different characteristics that not many lodges can touch really I truly mean that but Goliad 94 doesn’t want to hear my rabbit holes they they’re they’re more into the the uh catechism and stuff like that which is
Great they’re good at it really good and they’re good at lodge management oh we’re doing a uh a cool idea for any of The Lodges out there we’re doing for Halloween we’re doing a um a oh my gosh a scavenger hunt we have this thing called scare on the Square in Goliad to
Where the whole downtown is shut down and it’s a big Halloween party right we do the same thing at Christmas we do you know it’s all the major holidays we shut down downtown and block it off and that way it’s a safe place for all the families to just walk around roam around
Hay rides [ __ ] like that stuff like that but but this year Goliad 94 is hosting what’s called a Halloween scavenger hunt for the scare on the square so people go to the lodge and get their their scavenger hunt list and they have to find certain different things around town uh
That are Halloween themed like different booths or uh you know find the guy with with uh with one leg and and one eye or something like that and then you get your next clue and and it takes you around until you finally get to your your prize or whatever but go
The lodge is hosting that I think it’s a pretty awesome thing to uh to get to it’s a fun thing for kids to do and families to do together um during Halloween nobody what that’s like a phone no fish no fish but we will give out free candy free it’s free masonry yeah
Uh one of my but one of my lodges is actually looking at um they have a really big dining room and they’re going to uh set up like a scarehouse for the for like the kids because there’s it’s a spot I know I know a lot
I know a lodge that did a haunted house once but it was actually against the rules uh with Grand Lodge but they did it they raised a lot of money that’s something I would actually get behind like if they raised eighteen thousand dollars oh my gosh it just sounds fun and you’re involved
With the community that way and you’re not you’re not everybody thinks it’s creepy anyways so yeah man pull out the Skull and Bones buddy that’s what I’m saying but no anyways that was just something I wanted to throw out there it’s a cool idea and uh if your Lodge could ever put something
Together like that it’s a cool thing just to have fun with the community I like it yeah but anyways um if you’re on that island reach out to us um keep listening yeah we’re actually you’ll see that’s it that’s it we’re actually gonna do a trunk or treat also
We’re the kids can they come up with their bags and we have a big old pot with a little scoop green beans into their bag hahaha come on don’t eat this all at once your green beans it’s just pour it right on the candy just put on there awesome yeah awesome I
Thought you were being for real for a minute because my church does a does a trunk of treat oh yeah that’s so funny yeah but anyways we love you thank you for joining us thank you for uh making our Sunday so special and uh thank you for all the lights you give me
Even even when you even when you troll me you’re welcome that’s that’s okay I’m a big boy I can handle it okay but uh Brothers non-masons we enjoy it thank you for your support and uh our our Summit was proof positive that that you guys are looking for something different out there
And uh looking for the value in in Freemasonry because you showed up and you made it worthwhile so thank you keep it between the points keep between the points remember Alexandria [Laughter] and if that was milk oh crap
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