How do you carry your weight and maintain bearing?

[MorallyandMoral]

Very newbie here; but, deeply researched and thought through. I carry my own weight of enormous moral responsibility initiated through a very VERY deep study of philosophy and Stoicism. I cannot imagine how Marcus Aurelius carried the weight of the Roman Empire, or Epictetus with his lame leg.

Yet, Freemasons carry such enormous weight that I find it incomprehensible.

How do you carry that weight and maintain your bearing, fellow brothers?

 

[MorallyandMoral]

Without attachment this is not possible. Is it?

 

[tomoso]

It ain't heavy, I've got Brothers

 

[jermy Bell]

I don't think I've ever been vain. I only use the mirror to shave.

 

[Warrior1256]

It ain't heavy, I've got Brothers

Lol...Agreed!

 

[Bloke]

Without taking anything (much) away from the Original Poster, I note on his profile "Home Lodge:Self-Taught". @MorallyandMoral - that's not how it works.

And seriously, I thought this was going to be a post about being overweight.. we do love out tucker us Freemasons.

You only feel weight when it's too heavy for you. And a load only becomes too heavy for you if you pick it all up at once.
Don't do that.

That's how I carry my "enormous moral responsibility", which, I suspect I perceive something like you do, but I don't pick it all up at once.

And I liked the quote from James from Gita 5:10. I do the same. Rather than go for something Biblical or Masonic, I'll go for this one;

Self-pity
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence

 

[TheThumbPuppy]

And seriously, I thought this was going to be a post about being overweight..

I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I was going to say, I lean slightly backward to offset the frontal load. But that's another story.

 

[Winter]

In my opinion, which literally is to the best of my knowledge, in the first degree the Common Gavel is to be used in terms of a convergent approach to factor in a particular skill set for this purpose. With regard to strategizing a mind set I am inclined to to take a comprehensive- listening stance on the subject for the ideas, or opinions of others that i hope to learn from in fact.

Is this all you intend to do here, resurrect years old threads with your nonsense AI generated posts as you continue to masquerade as a Freemason? Your conduct here is obviously some type of depression fueled attention seeking behavior or some other mental health issue. I sincerely hope you seek help soon so you can eventually find the validation in society you are so obviously lacking.

 

[Bloke]

Is this all you intend to do here, resurrect years old threads with your nonsense AI generated posts as you continue to masquerade as a Freemason? Your conduct here is obviously some type of depression fueled attention seeking behavior or some other mental health issue. I sincerely hope you seek help soon so you can eventually find the validation in society you are so obviously lacking.

He's gone ! I suspect divine intervention from the Moderation Gods

 

[coachn]

He's gone ! I suspect divine intervention from the Moderation Gods

Okay, it's been 20 days... We can officially declare this a dead thread again!

 

[Winter]

Just for that, I'm going to revive it once a month with an unrelated question just to annoy you. 3

 

[coachn]

STOP!!!! You had me at "REVIVE!!!!!"

 

[Bloke]

Okay, it's been 20 days... We can officially declare this a dead thread again!

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I know some might say 4 days.. but personally 41 days and nights sounds about right... just to make sure...

And I like Winter's plan

 

[coachn]

MWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

 

[Spiro D'Estini]

Is this all you intend to do here, resurrect years old threads with your nonsense AI generated posts as you continue to masquerade as a Freemason? Your conduct here is obviously some type of depression fueled attention seeking behavior or some other mental health issue. I sincerely hope you seek help soon so you can eventually find the validation in society you are so obviously lacking.

I also thought that this seems like AI generated blather.


:Ah I see that this comment to which I am replying is near a year old as well- the font color for the date is so close to white that I have to highlight the page like I am using a National Treasure cipher in order to read the date against the background. I will explore the display options.