Random Building Thoughts - 2024-06-27

 

-------------- HUMOR --------------  

 

 

With a little Perpending 

one discovers rather quickly

 that the importance of both 

the TFIG and the CG 

are summarily dismissed 

by one-day classes.  

 

----

 

OCD issue are not ever about

 the candidates who come through. 

OCD issues are all about 

robbing, cheating and wronging 

the candidates who come through them.

 

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

 

 

Sometimes it's Best 

to Step Aside 

when the Boulder of Stupidity

 is on a roll. 

-------------- CHALLENGE --------------  

Liberty and Freedom:

 

1) How are they similar and how are they different?

2) How do you distinguish one from the other?

3) Provide examples that show the difference between the two.

 

 

-------------- ALLEGORY-------------- 

 

For Further Light:
Symbolic

 

-------------- ALLEGORY-------------- 

 

 Thinking that 

throwing enough fertilizer

 at insane seeds 

will make them bear usable fruit 

is what keeps you 

from getting what you want. 

You need different seeds 

for different results!

 

-------------- FAST ENOUGH --------------  

 

  

My Frustration has nothing to do 

with any effort on my part 

to change your World for the better. 

It has everything though 

to do with my inability 

to change my World toward the better

 fast enough. 

 

-------------- MISSING POINTS --------------   

 

  

When you have no time to do the Work, 

you miss the very point of the TFIG.  

 

-------------- ENDS --------------  

 

 

 Kind Hearts move past misunderstandings 

and reconcile them well toward amends. 

Malicious Hearts use such instances 

to twist their desires toward bad ends.

 

  -------------- GLORIFIED... -------------- 

 

 

The Greatest Defect 

of far too Many "Masters" 

is that they Don't Realize 

they are Nothing More than 

Glorified Apprentices.

 

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

 

 -------------- HISTORY --------------  

“The most effective way 

to destroy people*

is to deny and obliterate 

their own understanding 

of their history.”
― George Orwell 

 

* or an organization or society...

 

-------------- THE MASONIC JOURNEY --------------  

 

I'm on it still!

 

-------------- QUOTES -------------- 

 

"Those who would give up

 essential Liberty,

 to purchase a little temporary Safety, 

deserve neither

 Liberty nor Safety."
-- Bro. Benjamin Franklin

And now, the rest of the story...
 
https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-benjamin-franklins-quote-on-liberty-vs-security/ 

  

-------------- MYTH --------------  

 

 
"Mythology is the womb  

of mankind's initiation  

to life and death."

-- Joseph Campbell

 

-------------- MDPS & FDPS --------------  

 

CRAFTING MASTERFUL MASONS

 

Personalized MDPs & FDPs:

 

1. What does your Personalized Masonic Development Plan (PMDP) look like?

2. How does it differ from your Personalized Freemasonic Development Plan (PFDP)?

3. How did you go about developing each?

4. What are the activities and time frames for each item on your plan?

5. Who helped you put these plans together?

6. Who shall help you assure that you accomplish each task?

7. To the best of your knowledge and on a scale from one to ten, how complete are your plans? (1 indicating incomplete, 10 indicating complete)

8. If you score yourself less than 10, what is missing from each plan that prevents them from being perfect 10s?

9. What's next on your list?

10. When shall this next item on your list be completed?

 

 

-------------- THOUGHTS --------------  

 

 

-------------- SYMBOLISM --------------  

Fun review...

 

-------------- END --------------

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A Brother Asks: Making Master Masons

 

A Brother Asks: Isn't the basic function of a Masonic Lodge is to make Master Masons? 

Coach: Unfortunately, for most every Lodge, the entire purpose of a Freemasonic Lodge is thought to be to make members. This is so that the money coming in from those members will help to cover the overhead of the white elephants they maintain. Those white elephants are their lodge building and associated properties commonly owned by the Fraternal organization itself. 

As far as making Master Masons, this is very far from the actual reality of Lodge operations. Lodges can call the members who go through three degrees "Master Masons" till the end of time or till they turn blue in the face, whichever comes first. However, with rare exception, these assembly line members are merely dues paying members. They're anything but masterful in what espoused Ritual asks of them. Most members have no clue what their Masonic purpose is.

Brother: Then what should the Lodge's focus upon to correct this?

Coach: The Lodge's Basic Function SHOULD be first and foremost making Masterful Masons. This focus would shift their activity insanity FROM new membership driven activities that try to keep the doors open by making more members TO a sane betterment drive that attracts new members because these pre-masons see evidence of mastery in the current membership.

With rare exception, pre-masons will NEVER see Masonic Mastery exhibited by the majority of the Lodge members they inspect because Masonic Mastery has NOT been cultivated in them; just the ability to memorize and regurgitate stuff that they have little to no understanding of.

 

 

 

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-06-26

  

 -------------- OUR MASONIC PURPOSE --------------  

 

For Further Light: 

You'll find it clearly stated
toward the end of
the Apprentice Degree.

 

Can you find
and communicate it?

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

 

 

-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION TOO --------------  

 

To understand

TRUE "Masonic Education" 

you first must understand 

how it differs from

"Freemasonic Education"

 

-------------- MASON JAR --------------  

 

 

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

 

 
When you Conclude 

that you can't Trust your Trust, 

you're still Trusting 

your Mistrust of your Trust.

 

-------------- CHALLENGE --------------  

 

Identify the year (or general decade) 

when the Working Tools 

were given symbolic application within Ritual.

 

NOTE: Not the symbolic application themselves; 

only the year!

 

Let the rabbit chase begin!

 

 

-------------- IT DOES! --------------  

 

 

Masonry Rocks!  

 

-------------- DRESS --------------   

 

 

 

Ruffian Attire: 

Because just like 

the Ruffians who wear them, 

they'll always cost more 

than they are worth!

 

 

 

 

 

-------------- GOD --------------  

 

It's humorous 

when people say they "found God". 

This of course is impossible! 

God doesn't get Lost. 

God made the territory. 

God surrounds us. 

They didn't "find" God. 

They merely became "aware" 

that God is present. 

They finally "noticed" 

that they were not alone. 

 

 -------------- TRUTH --------------   

 

 I've had far too many people in my life 

push me to this point, 

purposefully trying to prove I was disloyal 

by the most devious means possible. 

 

Each of them showed me 

that my initial loyalty to them 

was never in question. 

 

My placing trust in them was.

 

 Hence the crucial need

 for "No Training!"

 

  -------------- WELL? -------------- 

 

 

-------------- OFF ENDED --------------  

You're more Likely to get "Off Ended" 

when you're Already Mentally "On Edge".

 

-------------- ASTRONOMY --------------  

Tell me if you see something quite remarkable...

 

-------------- RUFFIAN -------------- 

  

-------------- MYTH --------------  

 

“Marriage is not a love affair. 

A love affair is a totally different thing. 

A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. 

That person is literally your other half. 

And you and the other are one. 

A love affair isn't that. 

That is a relationship for pleasure, 

and when it gets to be unpleasurable, it's off.

 

 But a marriage is a life commitment, 

and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. 

If marriage is not the prime concern, 

you're not married....

The Puritans called marriage 

"the little church within the Church." 

 

In marriage, every day you love, and every day you forgive. 

It is an ongoing sacrament – love and forgiveness.... 

Like the yin/yang symbol....Here I am, 

and here she is, and here we are. 

Now when I have to make a sacrifice, 

I'm not sacrificing to her,

 I'm sacrificing to the relationship. 

 

Resentment against the other one is wrongly placed. 

Life is in the relationship,

 that's where your life now is. 

 

That's what a marriage is –

 whereas, in a love affair, 

you have two lives in a more or less 

successful relationship to each other 

for a certain length of time, as long as it seems agreeable.”
― Joseph Campbell,  

The Power of Myth  

 

-------------- END --------------

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