Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Random Building Thoughts - 2021-01-03

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This is the Basis of "The Craft Unmasked!"
book's Theme and The Craft we Practice
within the Society of Free & Accepted Masons.

For Further Light: http://www.coach.net/TCP.htm

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Don't confuse "forgiveness" with "forgetfulness" and "re-Trusting". One can forgive offenses, but one would be foolish to forget offenses that go uncorrected and to re-trust an untrustworthy individual.

Once someone has offended you, it is your responsibility to assure that an appropriate boundary is both Established and Maintained so that future offenses do not occur -- for your sake and for other's sake.

Forgiveness entails "clean up". It should never include:

1) continuing to place trust in a person who shows no signs of correcting offensive behavior, or

2) forgetting the character of such a person and setting yourself up for another offense.

To continue to trust someone who is untrustworthy is simply insane. This doesn't mean you cannot forgive the person for the offense. It simply means that forgiveness doesn't mean re-trusting. There is much more to it!

For Further Light:
https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-brother-asks-forgiveness.html

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A group of candidates you are mentoring are finding it difficult to believe that murderers making every effort...

1) to hide a dead body; and

2) to outrun their accountability

...would deliberately "plant an acacia [sprig] at the head of the grave, in order to conceal it so that the place may be known should occasion hereafter require".

They insist that such an act would actually draw attention to the grave rather than conceal it. Furthermore, they cannot understand what occasion hereafter would be required. Why would the ruffians WANT to find the grave when their very act of burying the body was TO CONCEAL IT!?!?!

You were at a loss for words and they were disappointed. The discourse ended shortly afterward, to your mixed relief.

Fortunately, it did not end there. Your lodge education committee chairman overheard the discussion and asked you to research the matter, do a write up on your findings and present it to the lodge within two weeks. Realizing this would make you a better mentor, you accept the challenge.

YOUR TASK:

1) Validate these candidate's observations.

2) Explain why the ruffians did what they did.

3) Explain what specific occasion hereafter would require locating the grave.

What do you do?

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