Time is a strange and wonderful teacher.
As you might have noticed, there have been a number of comments to this blog on a previous posting that were recently published. Sorry I couldn't get them published before this date, but I've been doing a lot of renovations. Enjoy the vitriol and venom spewed by those who claim a national title! Hope it was worth it.
The house on Franklin Circle has a new owner. The historic treasures that belonged to the future, and not to the present or the past, are lost forever, and that's a truly sad thing. The bright spot in all of this is that there is no longer anything worth talking about left in the building. The usurpers of the future have what they wanted - everything - and those who didn't look hard enough and fast enough at the truth have what they deserve as well. Guess the old boy 'dork wrong' group wasn't worth listening to, but you can't tell the purple people eaters that, especially when their noses are browner than day-old coffeehouse kona.
Lets hope that 2011 passes quickly and silently out of memory. Better yet, let's hope it never happens at all.
Showing posts with label Lawsuit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lawsuit. Show all posts
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Voices in the Wilderness
The individual perspectives we’ve been offered in the past have been one-sided in nature and abusive. This is precisely what the antagonists have wanted, and precisely what their newest GL does not. So why are we only hearing select voices and a whole lot of straw men in response? What is the official position of the Grand Orient on this matter? And why haven’t the Grand Master or Grand Orator (an actual one-time member and Past Master of said lodge) of this brand new Orient made an official response? Surely this issue deserves some honest reply, if not for the sake of the newly formed Grand Orient, at least to answer the questions of those in search of entry into the craft who are not aware that there are jurisdictional as well as core belief issues being debated.
One main question that has bothered many of the community has been the lack of an official response by the newly formed Grand Orient of the United States. Anyone who has participated in any of the online forums and e-lists for any length of time knows their newly crowned Grand Master to be a voice of reform and many ideas. Above all, he is known for voicing his opinion. Why haven’t we heard from him on this matter? And more directly, what is his opinion of the detrimental effect this issue is having on his Orient?
To offer some perspective, I have, under the Freedom of Information Act, obtained a copy of the official charges made in the matter, and offer the Masonic community at large the chance to read for themselves the allegations made by the Grand Lodge of Ohio against the former members of Halcyon. The only changes made to the original document as I received it are the names of all involved are reduced to initials.
One main question that has bothered many of the community has been the lack of an official response by the newly formed Grand Orient of the United States. Anyone who has participated in any of the online forums and e-lists for any length of time knows their newly crowned Grand Master to be a voice of reform and many ideas. Above all, he is known for voicing his opinion. Why haven’t we heard from him on this matter? And more directly, what is his opinion of the detrimental effect this issue is having on his Orient?
To offer some perspective, I have, under the Freedom of Information Act, obtained a copy of the official charges made in the matter, and offer the Masonic community at large the chance to read for themselves the allegations made by the Grand Lodge of Ohio against the former members of Halcyon. The only changes made to the original document as I received it are the names of all involved are reduced to initials.
Truth and Consequences
Happy Anniversary?
The one-year anniversary of the Halcyon dispute is approaching, and I’d like to take a minute to review what we’ve learned thus far during this year.
Not a whole lot.
The antagonists have been vocal; offering only abusive, irrational, illogical and incoherent babble in every statement made pertaining to the allegations of their former Grand Lodge, repeatedly obfuscating their own individual roles in the allegations. Furthermore, the antagonists have been accused of conduct unbecoming, due mainly in part to verbal volleys as well as resorting to obvious straw men, once they have been banned from further discussion on many boards and e-lists.
The protagonists, while sincerely attempting to research Light in the matter, have been verbally attacked. Unwarranted abuse has been heaped on some well-known and respected members of the online Masonic community, all for the asking of the simple question, “What really happened to make you choose this action?”
The Fraternity is known for its instruction to every supplicant to seek further light. The blemish this infighting and verbal abuse has caused the Craft has been more than ugly, it has been something that anyone seeking the Craft has seen and found troubling, to say the least.
While there remains no official position from the Grand Lodge of Ohio on the matter, there does exist a document that is available through the auspices of the Freedom of Information Act, and can be located by number online. While the actual document is not available to read online, you can, with a little know-how, obtain a copy from the courts. I am in the process of transcribing the said charges, and will be posting them online in another day or so.
The one-year anniversary of the Halcyon dispute is approaching, and I’d like to take a minute to review what we’ve learned thus far during this year.
Not a whole lot.
The antagonists have been vocal; offering only abusive, irrational, illogical and incoherent babble in every statement made pertaining to the allegations of their former Grand Lodge, repeatedly obfuscating their own individual roles in the allegations. Furthermore, the antagonists have been accused of conduct unbecoming, due mainly in part to verbal volleys as well as resorting to obvious straw men, once they have been banned from further discussion on many boards and e-lists.
The protagonists, while sincerely attempting to research Light in the matter, have been verbally attacked. Unwarranted abuse has been heaped on some well-known and respected members of the online Masonic community, all for the asking of the simple question, “What really happened to make you choose this action?”
The Fraternity is known for its instruction to every supplicant to seek further light. The blemish this infighting and verbal abuse has caused the Craft has been more than ugly, it has been something that anyone seeking the Craft has seen and found troubling, to say the least.
While there remains no official position from the Grand Lodge of Ohio on the matter, there does exist a document that is available through the auspices of the Freedom of Information Act, and can be located by number online. While the actual document is not available to read online, you can, with a little know-how, obtain a copy from the courts. I am in the process of transcribing the said charges, and will be posting them online in another day or so.
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