Monday, July 10, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-07-10

 

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

A Speculative Brother 
Who Takes No Operative Action
 is a Do Nothing.
 
For Further Light:
Speculation / Operation
 
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------  
 
 
-------------- KNOW YOUR STUFF! --------------  
 
 FILED UNDER: 
 
KNOW YOUR STUFF IN-DEPTH!
 
When you know your stuff in depth, 
no superficial response will do!'
 
I: What is WSB?
R1: The Three Pillars that support the Lodge (I, D, C);
R2: What must be present and in agreement to Manifest the Master's Word;
R3: What KS, KHoT and HA Represent;
R4: What sits behind the Square, Level, & Plumb;
R5: East, West and South;
R6: FC Work, EA Work, and MM Work;
R7: The Composite Pillar;
R8: What Tuscans LACK!;
R9: A Sacred Triad;
R10: YOU when you have done the WORK pointed toward by the first two degrees!
 
Shall we continue?
  
-------------- BE! --------------   
 
 
 Be the Role Model You Seek! 
If you cannot find what you are looking for outwardly, 
create it internally let it be seen by others too.
 
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------  

What is thought to be known 
is too often misunderstood 
or misconstrued 
by those tethered to mass transit. 
 
They move en mass, 
enmeshed in conceptual slumber. 
 
I've found more insight in my Travels
 sojourning off the beaten paths, 
trailblazing through thickets untouched 
and keeping my sights upon stars overlooked
 than taking the main roads. 
 
Have I ever ventured onto the main thoroughfares? 
 
Yes, 
but only when I know 
I can get my off-road vehicle 
to where I want to go quicker. 
 
The problem is 
I too often have to make 
my own exit ramps 
and that gets messy. 
 
My fellow travelers understand this
 and are usually right behind me 
pointing out the best times 
and places to do so.

-------------- EXALTATIONS --------------  
 
 
Cowan Exaltation within the Craft 
is only outdone by Ruffian Empowerment. 
While the former installs 
unsquared & unmortared Ashlars within its Ranks,
the later instills Ruin.
 
-------------- CONFIDENCE --------------  
 

 "Confidence sells - 
people believe in those who believe in themselves. 
No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people 
who feel like they don't deserve to be there. 
Stop wondering if you're good enough. 
Know you are and start acting like it."
-- Simon Black
 
(Hat tip to Bro. Bill Anderson!)

 
-------------- ENLIGHTENMENT --------------  
 

What is Enlightenment?
 
When you See
and Understand Things
in Ways that Demand Better Choices
and Decisions that,
in Blindness,
would have Caused Harm 
or Hardship to another
or yourself.

 
-------------- JUST DO IT! --------------  
 
 
 
Make Light of your Day! 
 
  -------------- FIRST THINGS FIRST! -------------- 
 
 
 To Properly Bring Order
 to Chaos within One's Mind, 
one must first do so 
in One's Heart.
 
-------------- IMPORTANT ENOUGH -------------- 
 
 
(Hat tip to Bro. Allan Bryant!)

-------------- LOGIC --------------  


Always look beyond the choices offered...
 
A false dilemma (or sometimes called false dichotomy) 
is a type of informal fallacy, 
more specifically 
one of the correlative-based fallacies,
 in which a statement falsely claims an "either/or" situation, 
when in fact 
there is at least one additional logically valid option.

-------------- HEAL FIRST! --------------  

 
-------------- RUFFIANS --------------  


You may be a Ruffian if... 
 
...you have no “real-time” 
compassion, sympathy or empathy 
for those you 
intentionally, wantonly and willfully 
abuse, harm or violate.
 
-------------- TWO WAYS -------------- 
 
 

“There are only two ways to live your life. 
One is as though nothing is a miracle. 
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
-- Albert Einstein

Yeah, also a false dichotomy, 
but we are not conveying fact here 
- just a point!
 
-------------- CHARACTER --------------  
 
 
Tru Dat!
 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 

"Once you understand symbolic things,
 you, too, will see symbols everywhere" 
-- Joseph Campbell
 
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------  
 
 
Describe what "Progressive Science" actually is
 and what any serious discipline 
based upon a rational body of knowledge 
would have to consistently engage in 
and hold to 
for it to be classified unequivocally as such.
 
Enjoy the Rabbit Chase!
 
-------------- DID YOU KNOW? --------------  
 

 ...to keep off cowans and trinklers?
 
-------------- END --------------

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

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