Coach: Yes... AND even worse... The members who eventually leave too often have put FAR
TOO MUCH into the organization and have not gotten anywhere near what they
SHOULD have gotten in return.
The offered ROI in Freemasonry is worse than poor for these investing members. It's depressing in far too many cases.
Fortunately,
when members ignore most of what Freemasonry uses to distract members with,
and invest in the Masonry that Ritual directs us toward, their ROI is
overwhelmingly abundant to the positive.
If only more Lodges divested themselves of their vices and superfluities.
Brother 2: Your last sentence is a great statement. I never thought of identifying
a lodge's collective activities that do not contribute to a Mason's
development as vices & superfluities. But, in fact, that is what
they are. Unproductive actions that need to be eliminated.
Coach: Thanks! It's Brothers like you who inspire me to speak the truth as I see it. Thanks for letting me know you see relevance in them.
Lodges who dare to take the time to list any and all activities that create undue strain and stress on their Lodges, make an action plan to effectively reduce, and better yet work to eliminate them, are in a far better position to keep existing and future members.
Those Lodges (and Grand Lodges!) who don't do this as a matter of daily course, are screaming to their members and Lodges that the very principles each member is directed to do will never be done collectively.
And THAT message, "we will as a Lodge ignore our vices and superfluities", is what serious and dedicated Masons listen to intently and divest themselves of accordingly and appropriately by leaving.
Members who leave have divested themselves of these vices and superfluities.
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