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TJ Hancock

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My grandfather, a Master Mason and Southern Baptist preacher, always told me while growing up when I did questionable acts, "If you're going to be stupid, you gotta be tough." He also had a habit of telling me, mostly when I had a problem with some of the chores I was given on the farm, "If you don't like it, you're welcome anyhow!" Unknowingly, he was preparing me for my life ahead.
 

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Rapscallion
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...while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. - V.
 

nickthomp

NL#40
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BroBook

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There are billions of people on the planet, and only one truth and every body got it.


You missed it!

Bro Hooks ( my masonic instructor) he had more, one more before I go, " When you can walk through self, touch I and come back and you still yourself, you a bad ( shut your mouth ) too!!! As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the ending world without end AMEN!!! SMIB.
 

dfreybur

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The books of the Bible were written down a few centuries BC. Before that they were handed down orally as our ritual is. Technically rather than books they would have been songs and/or stories and/or lectures as our ritual is. The original versions were orally composed rather than written. Supposedly and probably thousands of years ago.

We have the text of written versions and the evolution of how they have been translated is interesting. At each translation the stories are changed a little. This is unavoidable when doing translations so the small changes might or might not be deliberate. At is very interesting to read the differences as new translations emerge and the discussion among scholars about those differences.

We know our ritual evolves. Those of us who attend GL are there for the votes. Those of us who attend ritual schools at district levels and above remember that every single year there is at least one change in the ritual.

As the books were handed down for millennia before being written down, we know they evolved in a manner very similar to the way our ritual evolves today. We can't know how they evolved so we can't discuss the differences over time, but we do know they did evolve.
 
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