What is your "Great Work"?

[Ed Anger]

Organic Superlube.

Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff.  You really have to keep an eye on it, though—it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets.

[CountDeMoney]

I've shit 5 times today.

Yeah, there's a medical term for that.  It's called "dying". 

[Ed Anger]

Enchiladas.

[DontSayBanana]

Apparently freemasons hook each other up in the business world more than big school alumni. 

Having worked for a freemason, holy balls, yes.

Having a masonic ring is pretty much the holy grail of networking.  It was always amazing watching my old boss get wheeling and dealing once he established contact with a fellow freemason at *any* level of an organization he was doing business with.

[Valmy]

Damn maybe I should join the Freemasons.

[Ed Anger]

I won't wear an apron.

[Barrister]

My Great Life Project is to design and implement an organizing principle to replace the failed Methodism of my father.

Does your father consider that Methodism has failed him?

[Barrister]

Apparently freemasons hook each other up in the business world more than big school alumni. 

Having worked for a freemason, holy balls, yes.

Having a masonic ring is pretty much the holy grail of networking.  It was always amazing watching my old boss get wheeling and dealing once he established contact with a fellow freemason at *any* level of an organization he was doing business with.

I don't know if many masons exist under the age of 80 or so.

[Valmy]

My Great Life Project is to design and implement an organizing principle to replace the failed Methodism of my father.

Does your father consider that Methodism has failed him?

I am frankly more confused about Methodism being an organizing principle.

[Razgovory]

One day I will help Ide make a very poignant political statement.

[DontSayBanana]

I don't know if many masons exist under the age of 80 or so.

Hard to estimate- they don't usually advertise it so much.  That boss I worked for is in his mid-40s, though.  Also, a friend of mine in my grade in high school married a guy two years ahead of us who is a mason, for a couple of examples that they're still around.

Fun fact: my mom was actually a member of the female equivalent: the Order of the Eastern Star, so maybe I'm a little tuned to it, since I grew up around that stuff.  I actually considered freemasonry, but the sticking point is that I'm really not sure whether or not I "believe in a supreme being."

[LaCroix]

i don't think i've ever had a desire to accomplish a "great work" as defined in this thread.

[Barrister]

i don't think i've ever had a desire to accomplish a "great work" as defined in this thread.

In this, I have sympathy for Marty's thread.

Have you never aspired to be a part of something "greater than yourself"?  Whether it be your family, your faith, to improve the world, to leave some mark after you're gone... is there not some greater purpose to our day to day existence than merely existing?

[LaCroix]

i mean, i'd like to have children some day, but that's more out of selfishness. i have every respect for mankind, etc., i just don't think i've ever wanted to actually help out. it's not that i lack drive, it's just focused inward rather than outward. beating down competition/opposition is a heck of a lot more fun and interesting.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't know if many masons exist under the age of 80 or so.

Still very big with the younger Dazzling Urbanites.