Monday, January 24, 2022

Random Building Thoughts - 2022-01-24

 

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COACH'S CHALLENGE

You are the lodge Masonic Education Officer,
keeper of the Lodge Light
and provider of wisdom, insight
and assorted tidbits of esoteric knowledge.

A group of your lodge's Master Masons approach you
with a very serious question,
one that has been burning in the bowels of their minds
ever since they were each raised.

They approached you because they felt,
out of all the members who they knew,
you would be most likely the one
who would give them a straight, profound
and no-nonsense answer.

They provide you with some constraints though.
If they feel that you are beating around the bush in any way
and providing them an answer that is unworthy,
they will make sure that the tiler
will never let you set foot in the lodge again.

You know that they are serious
and that they have the means to make it happen.

You want to help.
You ask them what the question is
and what would be considered inappropriate responses.

They want to know why.
You reply that you want to make sure
that you can set foot again into the lodge 
and you want to avoid any landmines
in responding to their question.

They agree that this is fair and reply:

1. We want to know what it takes
to complete our temples.

2. We each want to complete our own temples
and live within them.

3. We want to do so while each of us are still alive,
and do so with ample time
to enjoy the temples we build,
enjoying the fruit of our labors into old age.

4. We also want to know the purpose
for completing these temples,
the benefits of completing each
and the problems that would occur
if any one temple is not completed.

Any response that implies or conveys
that their temples will never be completed
until they live their lives
OR be completed when they die
OR that their temples will never be completed,
will result in lodge banishment.

You agree that you will take all these conditions into consideration
and that you will provide to them responses
that honor their request.

What do you tell them?


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WARNING:
If you chose to play along with this
and post any response that
dishonors, disrespects or dismisses their request,
your response will be noted, filed and deleted!

 
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How different would your lodge's efforts be if you knew your lodge's product...
 
1) Was manufactured never to return
2) Was used to market and advertise your process
3) Was an example living among others who see the results of your work
4) Showed the world what you truly offer
 
The world sees what you produce. The market moves toward or away from the perceived value you offer. 
 
1) Does your process produce products that live up to your claims?
2) Does the product reveal your claims thoroughly and without waiver?
3) Does the market seek your process exclusively?
4) Does your product support your process?
 
The evidence of your offered process is before you. What does the evidence say?
 
-------------- WORK OUT! --------------
 
 
When You Start to Work Out
Rather Than Merely Run The Gym
You Only Then Begin Your Journey
Toward Becoming a Better Man
 
For Further Light:
Gym Interview
 
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Or in my case, TYPE!!!!!!
(Hat tip to Bro. Jason Vigorito!)
 
-------------- LORE --------------
 
Yup... Who's the trickster in Freemasonic Lore?

"Heraclitus said strife is the creator of all great things.
Something like that may be implicit
in this symbolic trickster idea.
In our tradition,
the serpent in the Garden did the job.
Just when everything was fixed and fine,
he threw an apple into the picture.
 
"No matter what the system of thought you may have,
it can’t possibly include boundless life.
When you think everything is just that way,
the trickster arrives,
and it all blows,
and you get change and becoming again.”
--Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
 
-------------- HUMOR --------------
 
 
 
ALIEN MASON
OUT OF THIS WORLD FREEMASONRY

When Landmarks COLLIDE!
AT A LODGE NEAR YOU!

(Thanks for the inspiration Bro. Tom!)
 
-------------- WORTHWHILE SIGNIFICANCE -------------- 
 
 
To Proscribe and Reduce any Insignificance,
Speculations Must Prescribe
and Produce Some Worthwhile Significance.
 
When you base any economy upon Speculation, 
and not Work that actually Produces Benefit 
to the Society that such Speculations are allowed to Operate within, 
the odds are significantly increased that such gambling 
will eventually bring devastation 
to whatever beneficial production that remains.  
 
-------------- INTERVIEW --------------
 
 
Building Hiram Book Interview
 
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