Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-12-19

-------------- PROCESS! --------------

Has it ever occurred to you
that the EA and FC degrees
are Winnowing processes
designed to separate out
the wheat from the chaff?

For More Light:
Losing EAs

What percentage of loss
does your lodge incur?

-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------

-------------- UNWORTHY --------------

When a Brother makes every Effort
to Attack you for your Beliefs,
it's a Sure Sign
that he was never Worthy
of Wearing the Title of "Brother".

(I've had this occur a few times,
and would have never expected it
from members placed so high
within the organization.)

-------------- NURTURE! --------------

When you continuously fail
to nurture a man,
it is delusional to think
that inviting him back
for more of the same
shall do anything more
than annoy him
and eventually entrench him
in resentments.

What must you do
to change this experience
for those you invite back?

-------------- THE WHOLE --------------

The whole of what Freemasonry offers
is not about making
better masons, better Freemasons, or better members.

It is about showing men
what is required to improve themselves,
and by extension their world.

Once shown,
it matters not where they do this.

How do you honor those members
who go out and practice our principles
as his own?

-------------- PROGRAM RATES --------------

If only three Amended their ways,
three Did Not,
and there are nine that are still Wandering Aimlessly,
does that mean this Program
has an 80% Failure Rate?

-------------- PSA --------------

PSA for the Day...

im·peach - verb: impeach; 3rd person present: impeaches; past tense: impeached; past participle: impeached; gerund or present participle: impeaching

1. call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice).

Similar: challenge; question; call into question; cast doubt on; raise doubts about

Opposite: confirm

British: charge with treason or another crime against the state.

US: charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.

Origin - late Middle English (also in the sense ‘hinder, prevent’; earlier as empeche ): from Old French empecher ‘impede’, from late Latin impedicare ‘catch, entangle’ (based on pedica ‘a fetter’, from pes, ped- ‘foot’). Compare with impede.

The offered definitions, from online sources, are not correct, However, the etymology is spot on!

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impeach (v.)

formerly also empeach, late 14c., empechen, "to impede, hinder, prevent;" early 15c., "cause to be stuck, run (a ship) aground," also "prevent (from doing something)," from Anglo-French empecher, Old French empeechier "to hinder, stop, impede; capture, trap, ensnare" (12c., Modern French empêcher), from Late Latin impedicare "to fetter, catch, entangle," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + Latin pedica "a shackle, fetter," from pes (genitive pedis) "foot" (from PIE root *ped- "foot").

In law, at first in a broad sense, "to accuse, bring charges against" from late 14c.; more specifically, of the king or the House of Commons, "to bring formal accusation of treason or other high crime against (someone)" from mid-15c. The sense of "accuse a public officer of misconduct" had emerged from this by 1560s. The sense shift is perhaps via Medieval Latin confusion of impedicare with Latin impetere "attack, accuse" (see impetus), which is from the Latin verb petere "aim for, rush at" (from PIE root *pet- "to rush, to fly").

The Middle English verb apechen, probably from an Anglo-French variant of the source of impeach, was used from early 14c. in the sense "to accuse (someone), to charge (someone with an offense)." Related: Impeached; impeaching.

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It's not about justice. It's about sabotage.

-------------- PRACTICE! --------------

Freemasonry Closes The Door
to Profanity But Only
When It is Practiced

What profane ways
do you still practice?

-------------- MEANINGS --------------

FILED UNDER: Understanding what was stated, and also implied, by Bro. Anderson

A Mason is Obliged*, by his Tenure**, to Obey the Moral Law; and, if he Rightly Understands the Art***, shall never be**** a Stupid Atheist***** or Irreligious****** Libertine*******.

AS IN...

A Mason is Bound, by his Grasp, to Obey the Moral Law; and, if he Rightly Understands Acting, shall never Authentically Portray a Stupid Atheist or a Disrespectful free thinker not bound by accepted religious conventions.

* Bound

** Grasp

*** Acting

**** Authentically Portray

***** Someone who does not believe in a "Personal" God

******Disrespectful in regards to Religion

*******A free thinker not bound by accepted conventions

-------------- BOASTINGS --------------

Maybe a Crazy Thought:
Shouldn't a Society that Boasts
of Bettering Good Men
Act that out through Programs
Supporting that very End
and not just give it Lip Service?

-------------- DO THE MATURE THING --------------

When you find what I post
objectionable, offensive or disgusting,
just "unfriend" me and move on.
Don't stay connected thinking
you're FB connection gives you the right
to assume, ridicule, condemn, harass, or dismiss me.
We're better off disconnected.

PS - If you stay connected
and do so as a troll,
you're dishonest
and you elect to be disconnected
soon thereafter.

-------------- BOOK REVIEW --------------

"I just finished it.
What I think is that it is the most profound Masonic writing
that I have had the privilege of reading to date.
It brings everything in to perspective.
It both simplifies the Craft,
and makes it more meaningful at the same time.
Thank you!."
-- Bro. Chris Bonner

(Thanks again Bro. Chris!)

Found Here:
http://www.coach.net/TCP.htm

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