Random Building Thoughts - 2021-05-07

 

-------------- HUMOR --------------  

 

 It's about Time!

 

-------------- TRAVEL! --------------  

 

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." 

― Bro. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

 
A Prescription for Social Sanity from a Well -Traveled Brother...

 

-------------- RAYS --------------  

 

  

There shall always be a part of Grammar 

that you cannot see, 

hidden from us by our position and view. 

And just as the Moon reflects imperfectly 

the rays of the Sun,

 so too do our words reflect imperfectly 

the rays of our thoughts; 

with some never getting reflected at all!

 

-------------- SOUL --------------  

 

A Human is not a Sum of Parts; 

You'll not find a Soul within. 

The Human IS the Soul.

 

-------------- CHARACTER --------------  

 

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

– Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

 

Quoted in: Chapter X - The Powers That Be (Building Ruffish - Volume 6) 

 

-------------- MYTH --------------  

 

"The way mythology is integrated into life is by way of ritual. 

What has to be ritualized is essential to the life of the day.

 If one is to try to bring a mythological perspective into action 

in the modern world one has to understand the relationship 

of what is being done to the essentials of life, 

not to the superficialities of life. 

The essentials of life remain the same;

 they’ve been the same since the Paleolithic caves. 

Eating, reproduction, being a child, being mature, growing old. 

To realize that these things one is doing 

are not personally initiated acts 

but are functions of a biologically present world within yourself 

is to live in a very different way from the way one lives 

if one feels that one is the volitional initiator 

of everything going on."
-- Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey, p. 205

If you don't understand this, 

you don't understand the myths 

that rule and run your life!

 

-------------- BE! --------------  

 

 To BE a Mason, 

you must Build Beneficially. 

Until such actions are put forth, 

you are merely an Apprentice 

of what might BE. 

 

-------------- HUBRIS --------------  

 

When any organization as a whole 

doesn't do what's necessary

 to actually practice and safeguard 

the very things it espouses, 

it is hubris, 

it dooms itself unworthy 

and summarily seals its fate.

 

-------------- MAKE YOU FREE! --------------  

 

 

The Truth shall Make you Free, 

but not before 

It Makes your Head Spin, 

Knots your Stomach 

and Makes you Question Everything 

you Thought you already Knew about the Craft.

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

 

 -------------- PSA: LODGE POLITICS! -------------- 

 

LODGES CERTAINLY DO HAVE POLITICS!!!

For Further Light:

11 Cognitive Biases
That Influence Political Outcomes

 

THIS INFORMATION APPLIES 

TO ALL LODGES, THEIR ELECTIONS 

& THEIR OPERATIONS...

 

-------------- GET IT? -------------- 

 

got good? want better? get it now!

 

 -------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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