Learning from Failure

No one starts off as a Master.  It requires work, effort, learning, and a lot of failure.

There is no better path to Mastery, than learning from failure.

Failure

Why do we fear failure?

Secret

If Freemasonry claims to be a "peculiar system" of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols..."

...why do we expect someone to tell us some kind of a secret?

Horse

You know what they say...

You can teach a Mason ritual, but you can't make him think!

What say you?

Does learning the ritual require contemplation?

Uniformity

Is it possible to have unity without uniformity?

Conformity

We are all initiated, passed, and raised.  We make obligations, learn ritual, and memorize lectures.  In fact, there are many things that we are all required to do...

At what point do we start worrying about conformity?

Carlin

"What we do, is oratory.  It's rhetoric.  It's not just comedy, it's a form of rhetoric.  With rhetoric, you listen for rhythms, and you look for ways to sing at the same time you are talking."

- George Carlin

Setting Maul

The Setting Maul

was not used to persuade, encourage, or convince.

It was used for compulsive coercion under duress.

Remember, if you find yourself "pushing the point," not to go too far.

Time Ruler

How does one apply the lesson of the 24 inch gauge...

...to a continuously shifting or changing schedule?