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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners “The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Recently, I was informed of a degree in a…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners My girlfriend, Lisa, has been enjoying “#bamaRushTok” on Tik Tok, where she has been given insight into several of the Two Thousand Three Hundred and Forty-Five young women rushing the sororities at the University of Alabama. She was a member of a sorority at the University of…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Like many of you, when I joined Freemasonry, I was told that Freemasonry was a “System of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated with symbols.” I expected to learn life-altering secrets but discovered none. Nobody gave me any information other than what I was told in degrees.…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I had the extreme pleasure of being able to give a presentation at the Grand York Rite sessions for the three York Rite Bodies in Illinois this past week. Not only was I blessed with the opportunity to chair the Grand Royal Arch Chapters education committee for…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners One of my nightly rituals of late has been purposeful meditation upon trying to “listen” to the universe. I try to do this before falling asleep. I relax and attempt to let the distractions of the world, whether they be the noise of the interstate that sits…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners This week I ran across a rather sad and confusing incident which has happened in Massachusetts. Instead of trying to relay what happened, I will copy it from the St. Johns Lodge Facebook page: (https://www.facebook.com/St.JohnsLodgeNewburyport). Here it is below: Dated July 9, 2022, @ 6:35 P.M. – Author…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners The “Heart-Stopping BLT” is a classic from Crown Candy that uses 14 pieces of crispy, kettle-cooked bacon While recently on a trip to visit St. Louis, My girlfriend Lisa, our Friend Martha, and I decided to visit Crown Candy Kitchen. Crown Candy Kitchen is one of the…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Memorial Day is traditionally observed on the last Monday in May to remember those who died in active military service. Our fraternity has a long history of members that have died defending our freedom and many who were much more famous than Capt. Wesley M. Tibbetts. However,…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners May is Mental Health Awareness month. In my mind, one of the major causes of mental health issues is our dependence on technology, especially social media. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone here, I’m as guilty as everyone else when it comes to social media use. However,…