Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

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Plump Line:

1) The Lineup for Lodge meals.

2) The Working Tool used to Measure your Physical Superfluities.

(Hat tip to Bro. Brian Zimmerman)

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FILED UNDER: MISSING THE MARK

A Master is Honest with himself and others about Proficiencies and treats them accordingly. Currently, required Proficiencies do no more than show that a Brother has an ability to remember something he was told to say. They have nothing whatsoever to do with being Proficient in what he is saying. They do not show Skill, Expertise, Experience, Accomplishment, or Mastery in what he repeats back.

It short, the word, "Proficient", is not currently used Proficiently in addressing what is required to be Proficient in the Work Ritual Directs men to do to become Proficient. Masters assure those participating in modern day Proficiencies do not fool themselves to believe anything more.

When you want to turn the tide, you have to be an acting agent.

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* Proficient (adj.) -- competent or skilled in doing or using something.

* Proficient (noun) -- a person who is proficient.

[synonyms] skilled, skillful, expert, experienced, accomplished, competent, masterly, adept, adroit, deft, dexterous, able, professional, consummate, complete, master

[antonyms] incompetent

Origin: late 16th century: from Latin proficient- ‘advancing,’ from the verb proficere, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do, make.’

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When Life gives you Lemons,

it is Your own Sweetness

that Determines what they

Ultimately become for you

and Those you Serve.

(Hat Tip to Bro. Jerry Klein)

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Bro. I just read something I thought you would find interesting:

"The only way in which society can be made safe from disruption or decay is by the intervention of the conscious and instructed intellect as a factor among the forces ruling its development" ...

..."If the effective intrusion of the intellect into social affairs does happily occur, it will come from no organ of society now recognizable, but through a slow elevation of the general standard of consciousness up to the level at which will be possible a kind of freemasonry and syndicalism of the intellect. Under such circumstances free communication through class barriers would be possible, and an orientation of feeling quite independent of the current social segregation would become manifest."

-- Wilfred Trotter, "Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War" originally published in 1919

From my good Brother Chris Bonner (back in 2014)

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Guard yourself against anyone

who bullies you to share your opinions.

Such engagements are traps

that will trigger

by your participation.

For Further Light"
The Loaded Question

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Messing up is not proof

that we have not done the Work.
Messing up is part of life!
Not knowing how to correct
or clean our mess ups
and not willingly doing so
is proof we have more Work to do.

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“The goal of life

is to make your heartbeat

match the beat of the universe,

to match your nature with Nature.”
-- Joseph Campbell,
A Joseph Campbell Companion:
Reflections on the Art of Living

A Metaphor Worthy of Living!

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FILED UNDER: OUR BROTHERLY DIVIDE

Brotherly Request: Please Come Back and Enjoy the Fellowship

Brotherly Response: Sure! Please Provide Something Worthy of Attending in Fellowship

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Romantic Notions

are what Attracts so many men

to Freemasonry's Doors,

and so do Shattered Illusions.

Make sure you offer more than a fantasy.

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All of Freemasonic History & Lore

begins to make perfect sense

the moment one accepts

Stonecraft Continuance

is but an illusion.

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FILED UNDER:
One of many reasons behind membership decline.

When you want

to fix something,

you must first

be Proficient

in doing so.

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Question #18: In activities outside or inside the Lodge, how do you determine without reservation when you are in the presence of a Ruffian?

Question #19: If you were required by your Lodge or GL to put together and put forth a comprehensive program to provide Continuing Blue lodge Masonic Education (CBLME) credits for Blue lodge Masons, what materials, concepts, topics and exercises would that program include and how would it be structured?

Question #20: An Apprentice asks you how he should go about checking his Moral Integrity. What do you say to him?

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