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Post by Smithee on Aug 10, 2013 19:16:38 GMT 10
After all these years of looking at the word Tamrin, which was the nom-de-plume of previous member, I decided to check it out to see who or what a Tamrin was. Seems that he was a very wealthy Ethiopian who was rather impressed by the wisdom of Solomon. He also provided some materials for the building of the temple. I learn something new every day. Well done Lorraine. Now when members are asked to state any specific thing they have learnt from you or Russell Holland here, they will have something to say. Although I am not sure how useful the information is and our Tamrin makes no secret of the derivation. tamrin.proboards.com/post/18137/thread. You could have asked him.
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Post by Smithee on Aug 12, 2013 12:40:50 GMT 10
I was ribbing you. Tickling you with my feather. How are people, especially visitors, expected to know when you are or are not serious? You post as the Administrator of a forum which calls itself masonic. You have the reputation of Freemasonry to consider. Its reputation already suffers enough from its enemies without.
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Post by Smithee on Aug 12, 2013 13:12:58 GMT 10
So you require a visitor to read much before realising it is ALL rubbish. Some readers do take longer than others to detect gibberish. We are happy that those depart in their own time - leaving the wellsprings still hidden. They leave with a poor impression of Freemasonry. Meanwhile you carry on with your meaningless gibberish sucking in other unsuspecting visitors who come to drink at our well but find bitter poison instead.
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Post by Smithee on Aug 12, 2013 17:19:06 GMT 10
I find that an interesting concept: learning things. I am not sure these days that my learning process is based on lumps of knowledge. It seems more an awareness process that gives rise to practical techniques and understandings. In the past I learned alleged facts but these days that does not seem so common. Perhaps my interests have changed. How about others? Some-thing specific as contrasted with no-thing. Cognitive learning is the first of the domains of learning. So it is a pretty basic ask of anyone claiming to teach that some specific facts be learnt. Then come the behavioural and affective or emotional domains. Outside of mainstream education comes instruction aimed at cultivating values and spiritual growth (morality).
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Post by Smithee on Aug 12, 2013 18:27:40 GMT 10
If values and growth are not things then perhaps that is what is learned here. Knowledge is certainly not the end of education and values and spiritual growth (morality) are also abstract things. Still, I repeat, "So it is a pretty basic ask of anyone claiming to teach that some specific facts be learnt." That aside, have members been instructed in and learnt any specific values and gained any specific spiritual growth (morality) here? I suggest that rather than a sense of oneness, the only lessons taught here are those of duplicity. “As it is the chief concern of wise men, to retrench the evils of life, by reasonings of philosophy; so it is the employment of fools, to multiply them, by sentiments of superstition.” - Bro. Wellins Calcott.
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Post by Smithee on Aug 12, 2013 20:38:45 GMT 10
At long last Russell Holland as "Paul" has figured out the basic forum function of restricting postings to members.
This was his last post.
On the one hand rather than offering something members have learnt from the staff at A406, he mentions something he would have learnt from my unwelcome participation.
To no effect however, as on the other hand, while saying he has learnt about tolerance, he then imposed even more censorship.
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 13, 2013 8:00:46 GMT 10
Great effort Alan,Unwelcome or not I am sure you caused many visitors to reflect on the content of the forum. You may also have brought home to some of the less delusional and less credulous members how much of what is posted there is more nonsense than sense or is simply vacuous, veiling an insidious, nihilistic agenda. There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted
Carl Sandburg
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 13, 2013 8:12:39 GMT 10
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds
Felix Adler (Born this day 1851)
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Post by Smithee on Aug 13, 2013 19:19:32 GMT 10
You may also have brought home to some of the less delusional and less credulous members how much of what is posted there is more nonsense than sense or is simply vacuous, veiling an insidious, nihilistic agenda. One has since posted "ive learned that i find the concept of "personal" truth an abomination. u could even say blasphemy." “You heard him say it? ‘Pain's the only evil I know about.’ You heard that? The monk nodded solemnly. ‘And that society is the only thing that determines whether an act is wrong or not?’ That too? "Yes." Dearest God, how did those two heresies get back into the world after all this time? Hell has limited imaginations down there. 'The serpent deceived me, and I did eat’.” - Walter M. Miller Jr.,
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 14, 2013 7:55:16 GMT 10
It seems your work was not in vain. As leaven to natural doubt, I expect the resonance will long persist.
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