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Post by Tamrin on Oct 31, 2012 6:06:31 GMT 10
Wednesday, 31 October Halloween1517 - Martin Luther posted 95 theses on Wittenberg church — Protestant Reformation began 1795 - Birth of John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn) 1860 - Birth of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts in USA 1920 - Birth of Richard Stanley “Dick” Dick Francis, CBE, British jockey and crime novelist 1926 - Death of Bro. Harry Houdini (b. Erich Weiss), American magician and escapologist 1987 - Death of Joseph Campbell, US mythologist (Mythic Image) 2008 - Death of Studs Terkel, American activist and progressive journalist Catherine Helen SpenceScottish-born Australian journalist, social and political reformer, pioneer feminist and author (Born this day 1825) As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption
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Post by Torence on Oct 31, 2012 23:26:06 GMT 10
Regarding Luther and Our Great and Mutual Revolutionary Heritage, Let Us Masonic Brothers endeavor to remember, (at least here in the States where strangely our Public Schools are Prohibited from Teaching Religion and yet every one of them celebrates Witches Sabbath), the sacrifices that have been made for us by our Fore Bearers, laying out plainly the Truth, Illustrating for uUs By Risk and Example the Many Terrible Forms of Intimidation. Let Us, at least for the day, Be Like John Galt, and not one of the looters.
Fraternally, Torence Evans Ake Secreay - Auburn Park Lodge No. 1138 - Crete, Illinois MIGS - Triluminar Lodge No. 767 - Lansing, Illinois MIGS - Illinois lodge of Research City and Country Steward PM - Arcadia Lodge No. 1138 - Lansing, Illinois
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 1, 2012 5:31:15 GMT 10
Be Like John Galt, and not one of the looters. Be neither like the self-serving, anti-social Objectivist "hero" Galt or the looters.
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 1, 2012 5:32:06 GMT 10
Thursday, 1 November Celtic: Samhain, beginning of year & most important holiday Christian: Solemnity of All Saints' Day Australia: Melbourne Cup Day (first Tuesday in November) 0079 - Pompeii buried by Mt Vesuvius 1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited 1636 - Birth of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (Boileau), French poet and critic 1871 - Birth of Stephen Crane, American author (Red Badge of Courage) 1893 - Birth of John Anderson, Scottish-born Australian philosopher ( Australian Realism) (I studied the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis under his son A.J. ‘Sandy’ Anderson) 1955 - Death of Dale Carnegie, American writer (How to Win Friends and Influence People) 2006 - Death of William Clark Styron, Jr., American novelist (Sophie’s Choice) Étienne de La BoétieFrench judge and author (The Politics of Obedience) (Born this day 1530) That which controls you has only two eyes, has only two hands, has only one body and but one thing which the least of men in all the cities has, but more than you all, it is the advantage which you give him to destroy you
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Post by Smithee on Nov 1, 2012 9:12:25 GMT 10
Be Like John Galt, and not one of the looters. Be neither like the self-serving, anti-social Objectivist "hero" Galt or the looters. Looks like you have hooked an Objectivist troll. Since before my time on the internet there has been a small but intrusive cadre of trolls fouling online masonic discussion with their libertarian politics.
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Post by Torence on Nov 2, 2012 1:31:44 GMT 10
I am that I am and that's all that I am - Popeye
Fratrenally, Torence Evans Ake Secretary - Auburn Park Lodge No. 789 - Crete, Illinois MIGS - Triluminar Lodge No. 767 - Lansing, Illinois MIGS - Illinois Lodge of Research PM - Arcadia Lodge No. 1138 - Lansing, Illinois
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 2, 2012 5:14:35 GMT 10
Friday, 2 November Catholic: All Souls Day1734 - Birth of Bro. Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer 1755 - Birth of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France 1795 - Birth of Bro. James Knox Polk, 11th US President 1865 - Birth of Bro. Warren G Harding, 29th US President 1930 - Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solomonic Dynasty 1950 - Death of George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Fabian 1961 - Death of James Thurber, US humorist (The Male Animal) George BooleEnglish philosopher and mathematician (Boolean logic, foundation of computer science) (Born this day 1815) Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is per- haps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 3, 2012 6:10:28 GMT 10
Saturday, 3 November Feast day of St Martin de Porres, patron of interracial understanding (died this day 1639) 0039 - Birth of Lucan, Cordova, Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile) 1793 - Execution of Olympe de Gouges, French playwright, journalist and feminist 1794 - Birth of William Cullen Bryant, US poet and journalist 1874 - Birth of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist 1901 - Birth of Andre Malraux, France, novelist and art historian (L'Espoir) 1920 - Birth of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly, Kath Walker), MBE, Australian poet 1952 - Birth of Roseanne Barr, American comic actress Wilhelm ReichAustrian-born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst criminal pseudo-scientist (Orgone Institute) (Died this day 1957) The Rockerfellows [sic] are against me [paranoid delusion of grandiosity]. The airplanes flying over prison are sent by the Air Force to encourage me[idea of reference]
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 4, 2012 5:27:16 GMT 10
Sunday, 4 November George Washington’s Masonic Initiation (1752, Fredericksburg Virginia) 1862 - Birth of Eden Phillpotts, English novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes) 1879 - Birth of Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma), humourist 1908 - Birth of Sir Józef Rotblat, Polish-born British physicist 1916 - Birth of Walter Cronkite, US news anchor (CBS) 1918 – Death of Wilfred Owen, English poet ('Anthem for Doomed Youth') 1922 - Howard Carter’s water carrier discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt 1995 – Death of Morrie Schwartz, American Sociology professor and author (Tuesdays With Morrie) Joel Barlow, American poet, diplomat and politician Wrote first treaty between USA & another nation (Libya) (Signed this day, Triploli, 1796) As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, – as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tran- quility of Musselmen, – and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 5, 2012 5:46:27 GMT 10
Monday, 5 November U.K.: Guy Fawkes' Night1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes et al. try to blow up English Parliament 1688 - The Glorious Revolution began: William of Orange (William III) landed at Brixham 1855 - Birth of Eugene V Debs, US labor organizer, Socialist and presidential candidate 1857 - Birth of Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist 1884 - Birth of James Elroy Flecker, English writer (The Old Ships) 1885 - Birth of Will Durant, writer/historian (Story of Civilization) 1943 - Birth of Sam Shepard, Pultzer Prize-winning American author and actor Vandana ShivaIndian philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author (Born this day 1952) I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but dem- ocracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemploy- ment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based
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