GreekChat.com Forums - Why the negative connotations???

They say that "the heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling".

In Kappa Sigma we might say that the ritual made us brothers.

Taking some of the mysticism out of it, the ritual is a secret that everyone in your organization chose to share. That above all is what makes it special.

Much like the secrets that really tight groups of childhood friends have, secrets that bind them together through shared experiences, so do our Rituals bind us to the thousands of members we have of all different agees and from all different regions.

If you told your childhood secrets to others they wouldn't appreciate it in the same way because they never experienced it. Same with our rituals, you could read them, but it wouldn't mean the same thing as having gone through them.

And personally, sometimes i don't want to cheapen an experience by sharing it with someone that can't relate to it because they never went through it.

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Originally posted by SGill4613
I know I'm stating the obvious. But everyone else calls them secret socities or whatever because they're not a part of them and our rituals are secret to their eyes.

Lets be honest. There is really no need to keep a ritual secret. What is wrong with letting the world know what we have pledged to do? To hold up certain virtues and ideals shouldn't really be secret, but it makes the members happier that when they do it, no one quite understands it like they do.

In reality, everyone around you ought to know your ritual by the life you lead. Thus not making it secret anymore, but when we fail, thats where those newspaper articles come in. It happens. We know we're still better people, its just that no one else sees it because they don't want to. They're better off thinking we're just drunks that haze.