Monday, July 31, 2017

Moral Dilemma Ahead


Can you name an instance when a moral decision interfered with a legal one?

Vice Versa?

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Kronk's Spinach Puffs


Taking the moral "high road" can be difficult at times.

Especially when she insults your spinach puffs!

Monday, July 24, 2017

Morgan Affair


The Morgan Affair damaged Masonry in the United States in more ways than we realize.

What effects came from this?  And what have we lost as a fraternity because of this event, and the Baltimore Convention?

Thursday, July 20, 2017

St. John the Almoner


Our Entered Apprentice Lodges are dedicated to the Holy Saints John.

One is St. John the Baptist, and the other is St. John the Evangelist.

Is there another St. John?

Monday, July 17, 2017

Skating Away - Tull


"Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense?

Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like you're the only person sitting in the audience?

Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day."

- Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull
Warchild (1974)

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Sense of Entitlement


Using standard Entered Apprentice work, we have successfully removed that nagging "Sense of Entitlement."

You're going to feel like a new man.

Monday, July 10, 2017

Biblical Zodiac?


"As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle."

- Ezekiel 1:10

Aquarius, Leo, Taurus, and Scorpio

Thursday, July 6, 2017

The Trivium


Grammar is the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought;

Logic is the art of thinking;

And rhetoric is the art of communicating thought from one mind to another; the adaption of language to circumstance.

Grammar is concerned with the thing as-it-is-symbolized.

Logic is concerned with the thing as-it-is-known.

Rhetoric is concerned with the thing as-it-is-communicated.

- Sister Miriam Joseph

Monday, July 3, 2017

Vices and Superfluities


Once you become aware that it is a problem, continuing it becomes your choice.

Goodbye Facebook

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