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No, this post isn’t prompted by the recent Roseanne or Samantha Bee language furor. These incidents only prompted me to write some thoughts swirling around in my head for a week or two caused by a Facebook friend request – by a Mason. Several weeks ago, I received a...
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The Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca, in a letter to his friend Paulinus said this: “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of...
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Masonic organizations have jumped in on the internet social networking craze and established a presence on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. But what about the brothers who could care less about internet socializing and being notified by...
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“The Tragedy of the Commons” is a concept introduced by the economist and ecologist Garrett Hardin, the Tragedy of the Commons states that in a system where a common resource is shared, with no individual responsible for the wellbeing of the resource, it...
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Seth Godin wrote in a blog post entitled In Search of the Minimum Viable Audience, that if you endeavor to reach the maximum audience you will tend to dumb your message down, average it out, and try to please everyone. He said when you try to engage as many as...
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Most all Masons know that one of the first duties performed before opening lodge is to see that the lodge is secure. To do that, the Master asks an officer what is it that a lodge should do first. He replies, “to see that the lodge is tiled.” Have you ever thought,...