Queer.....
Spector: Who are these that dare intrude within this portal?
A.S: Patrons of Husbandry who have labored diligently in the Subordinate Grange and who now desire to gain admission to the Court of Pomona.
Spector: Have they brought offerings to lay before her?
A.S.: They have not.
Spector: How, then, do they expect to gain admittance? Have they authority from the Worthy Master?
A.S.: They have failed to secure that.
Spector: Why did they fail?
A.S.: Because they brought no offerings.
Spector: Then they cannot pass.
A.S.: Are all their hopes, then, blasted? Is there no way in which they can gain your faovr?
Spector: There is-one way.
A.S.: What is it?
Spector: Hope and Perserve
A.S.: In what respect?
Spector: All through life! Let it be a lesson, never to be forgetton, that success in a good cause is gained only by perseverance. Never be discouraged. Hope and Perserve!
All.: Hope and Persevere!
(Spector disappears)
A.S.: (to all) Now we have a clue! With it you may gain your end. Come this way.
Does this not seem slightly strange to you? This is an excerpt from the Grange secret book. I'll explain in a second. Oh OH! Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the book.
Master: Brothers and Sister, we have assembled for work in the Degree of Pomona. Please assist in the opening of Grange. Worthy Overser, please ascertain if all present are entitled to remain with us in the Fifth Degree.
Worthy Overseer: Worthy Steward, will you direct your Assistants to satisfy themselves that all present have received the Fifth Degree?
Steward: My Assistants will make examination and report.
(The Assistan Stewards open the Bible, receive the words form the Overseer, and make the examination and report.)
Overseer: Oh, Worthy Master, I am satisfied that all present have been instructed in the Fifth Degree.
Master: Worthy Steward, is the Gatekeeper on guard.
(The Steward will ascertain if the Gatekeeper is at his post and report)
Steward: He is, Worthy Master.
Think this is just a teency bit weird? I do. Since Wednesday (this is Friday) I have been attending the Grange Convention. You see, I joined Grange in June as an organization that I could show my aniamls through. It's a bit like 4H or FFA. Well, Grange holds this convention every year for delegates from every Grange group in California to get together and vote on changes in the Grange organization itself, or in resolutions that Grange works to get the United States to make into laws. There are resolutions on serious things such as abortion and there are resolutions for stupid things like 'it should be required that ever highschool in California teach at least 4 weeks of local history.' The voting delegates vote yay or nay on if they want these resolutions to be pushed into the California government. If you're like me, you thought this sounded a interesting and like a tremendous learning experience and rather like a lot of fun. Wrong! Well at least on the fun part. I am definetly learning a bunch and it is.....interesting...in a way.
I'm on the Committe of Education for this thing. And our resolution that we're working on is a resolution on making sure that words like mom, dad, mother, and father are not removed from text books. Apparantly, there are several groups that are fighting to have those words removed because they make kids not feel pressure to marry the opposite sex. So that, they can know it's ok to marry the same sex if they like. So, myself and a committee of about 5 other people have been working on that. I was asked to stand up and read it to the 125 Grange delegates. I agreed. But now that I have seen other committees read some of the resolutions, I'm not sure I want to do it. People were standing up and arguing what the resolutions said and what not. It looked quite intimidating. But then, it become ridiculous. They use all these old slavery terms; master, overseer, assistants, stewards, for the officers in charge of the group. Then it becomes just plain strange. They had this guest speaker, the Secretary of Calif. Agriculture, and they had this strange ceremony. They had these two people with long chicken catcher poles parade around the room to this music with the secretary following. They when they reach the podium, they lower the chicken catchers together, forming an arch, and they had the secretary walk underneath it. I was....ooookkkkaaaayyy.
Then later on, they asked me to participate in their secret ceremenonies b/c they need more kids to help with it. They gave me a copy of their secret book and what I posted above is a couple excerpts from it. I have to give the little book back to them b/c these books are carefully guarded. Weird. I'm not supposed to have even seen the book or be allowed to attend the meeting. But they are desperate, so they'll use me. They have secret codes in the back and everything. And this is a group that is almost completely adults. I don't understand why they would want all this silliness. Too strange. My mom just sits in the back and raises her eyebrows at me from time to time. LOL. Actually, I'll be honest. I befriended these 2 teenage guys and asked about this secrecy and they're the ones who are getting me into the creepy secret meeting and got me the secret book. Even though i really don't want anything to do with it. Creepy.
Hahahaha. So the last day of the convention is tomorrow. We'll see how it turns out. hehehe. I'm thinking of going into the secret meetings just so i can learn the secrets and leak them out. Not that the rest of world cares. But Grange thinks they care. So, i'd have Grange in pocket, or something like that. muhahahahahah. (ok, obviously too tired to continue blog) hehehehehehe
A.S: Patrons of Husbandry who have labored diligently in the Subordinate Grange and who now desire to gain admission to the Court of Pomona.
Spector: Have they brought offerings to lay before her?
A.S.: They have not.
Spector: How, then, do they expect to gain admittance? Have they authority from the Worthy Master?
A.S.: They have failed to secure that.
Spector: Why did they fail?
A.S.: Because they brought no offerings.
Spector: Then they cannot pass.
A.S.: Are all their hopes, then, blasted? Is there no way in which they can gain your faovr?
Spector: There is-one way.
A.S.: What is it?
Spector: Hope and Perserve
A.S.: In what respect?
Spector: All through life! Let it be a lesson, never to be forgetton, that success in a good cause is gained only by perseverance. Never be discouraged. Hope and Perserve!
All.: Hope and Persevere!
(Spector disappears)
A.S.: (to all) Now we have a clue! With it you may gain your end. Come this way.
Does this not seem slightly strange to you? This is an excerpt from the Grange secret book. I'll explain in a second. Oh OH! Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the book.
Master: Brothers and Sister, we have assembled for work in the Degree of Pomona. Please assist in the opening of Grange. Worthy Overser, please ascertain if all present are entitled to remain with us in the Fifth Degree.
Worthy Overseer: Worthy Steward, will you direct your Assistants to satisfy themselves that all present have received the Fifth Degree?
Steward: My Assistants will make examination and report.
(The Assistan Stewards open the Bible, receive the words form the Overseer, and make the examination and report.)
Overseer: Oh, Worthy Master, I am satisfied that all present have been instructed in the Fifth Degree.
Master: Worthy Steward, is the Gatekeeper on guard.
(The Steward will ascertain if the Gatekeeper is at his post and report)
Steward: He is, Worthy Master.
Think this is just a teency bit weird? I do. Since Wednesday (this is Friday) I have been attending the Grange Convention. You see, I joined Grange in June as an organization that I could show my aniamls through. It's a bit like 4H or FFA. Well, Grange holds this convention every year for delegates from every Grange group in California to get together and vote on changes in the Grange organization itself, or in resolutions that Grange works to get the United States to make into laws. There are resolutions on serious things such as abortion and there are resolutions for stupid things like 'it should be required that ever highschool in California teach at least 4 weeks of local history.' The voting delegates vote yay or nay on if they want these resolutions to be pushed into the California government. If you're like me, you thought this sounded a interesting and like a tremendous learning experience and rather like a lot of fun. Wrong! Well at least on the fun part. I am definetly learning a bunch and it is.....interesting...in a way.
I'm on the Committe of Education for this thing. And our resolution that we're working on is a resolution on making sure that words like mom, dad, mother, and father are not removed from text books. Apparantly, there are several groups that are fighting to have those words removed because they make kids not feel pressure to marry the opposite sex. So that, they can know it's ok to marry the same sex if they like. So, myself and a committee of about 5 other people have been working on that. I was asked to stand up and read it to the 125 Grange delegates. I agreed. But now that I have seen other committees read some of the resolutions, I'm not sure I want to do it. People were standing up and arguing what the resolutions said and what not. It looked quite intimidating. But then, it become ridiculous. They use all these old slavery terms; master, overseer, assistants, stewards, for the officers in charge of the group. Then it becomes just plain strange. They had this guest speaker, the Secretary of Calif. Agriculture, and they had this strange ceremony. They had these two people with long chicken catcher poles parade around the room to this music with the secretary following. They when they reach the podium, they lower the chicken catchers together, forming an arch, and they had the secretary walk underneath it. I was....ooookkkkaaaayyy.
Then later on, they asked me to participate in their secret ceremenonies b/c they need more kids to help with it. They gave me a copy of their secret book and what I posted above is a couple excerpts from it. I have to give the little book back to them b/c these books are carefully guarded. Weird. I'm not supposed to have even seen the book or be allowed to attend the meeting. But they are desperate, so they'll use me. They have secret codes in the back and everything. And this is a group that is almost completely adults. I don't understand why they would want all this silliness. Too strange. My mom just sits in the back and raises her eyebrows at me from time to time. LOL. Actually, I'll be honest. I befriended these 2 teenage guys and asked about this secrecy and they're the ones who are getting me into the creepy secret meeting and got me the secret book. Even though i really don't want anything to do with it. Creepy.
Hahahaha. So the last day of the convention is tomorrow. We'll see how it turns out. hehehe. I'm thinking of going into the secret meetings just so i can learn the secrets and leak them out. Not that the rest of world cares. But Grange thinks they care. So, i'd have Grange in pocket, or something like that. muhahahahahah. (ok, obviously too tired to continue blog) hehehehehehe