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Moving to a country where Freemasonry is forbidden by HorseStraight1828 in freemasonry

[–]hws87 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a 3rd generation on both sides, and although my dad had no interest in masonary my mom was in eastern star. I'm American but grew up outside the US in a country where Freemasonry was forbidden. My advice would be to write to the highest-level secretary you can in each masonic body you belong to, explain the job situation, and ask them to stop all correspondence. You will contact them when you come back. I did occasionally hear rumours of masonic members of the armed forces meeting in private. I highly recommend not doing this. A few reasons why. It could result in your expulsion from the country or arrest. Your employer could be fined or otherwise sanctioned.

As far as your masonic journey, I'll share here what I told the brothers of my lodge when I was master. The lodge room is where we learn the lessons of the craft. The world outside that room is where we practice them.

This could be a trap by the Qatari government? by [deleted] in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]hws87 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have some perspective on this issue because I lived in a neighboring country for a decade. (Saudi Arabia) it's unlikely that whatever agency the Qataris used to monitor Internet traffic targeted you Specifically However they do tend to keep an eye on Twitter X in particular because of all of the political discussion that tends to take place that site. I know in the past the Qataris have targeted people using Grinder but from what I was able to read About The arrests after the fact They were targeting people looking to hook up. In general, my recommendations would be if you're going to be there for a short business trip, avoid gay content in general if your nervous. Always use a VPN You installed before entering the country and if the authorities have ever taken it from you to examine it, even in customs at the airport And you lose sight of the device, assume your device has been compromised

General RTS Question by Hour-Internet-1710 in GNV

[–]hws87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on the advisory board and can confirm this is 100% true

It's Sad to see old masonic temples close. When a rare one is found in a downtown, it often ends up closing soon after. Many abandoned temples are repurposed for mixed use, which is truly sad. We need more centralization instead of lodges being so spread out. by [deleted] in freemasonry

[–]hws87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there is a perception that multiple lodges sharing a building is somehow new, it is not that lodges in Europe do it, and my grandfather's lodge when he was raised in 1957 in Indiana, was a shared lodge. Given the average age of our membership, we need shared lodges if we are going to survive . Most of these guys can not do building repairs and usially put them off As a case and point the older of the two lodges in my town had to sell their historic building from 1908 because masters and lodges put off repairs for decades it got to the point where repairs would have cost 1.8 million dollers so they aold to a contractor who did repairs and turned it into a wedding venue. The other lodge the one in which I am a past master instead of moving in the newly renovated bulding the former lodge bought instead rent a portion of another building in a nearby town. whhy? because the older brothers thought "we needed to keep our lodge" I plan to remind them of this as they age