Petition regarding Greek life
 

A hearty hello to the various chatters on www.greekchat.com! As most, if not all, of you are college graduates (and it goes without saying people very much familiar with frat life), I decided to start my online social awareness campaign here. I urge everyone to keep an open mind when they consider my pleas to the communities of college fraternities and sororities.

I myself belonged to a fraternity at one point. I will not be naming it here because of privacy reasons. I went through the whole of frat life; brutal hazing, hedonistic alcoholism and sex with sorority girls I was too drunk to remember what they looked like much less their names the next morning. I thought back to my Sunday school teacher denouncing all such things to the junior youth pastors in training, but I shoved it to the back of mind. Still, this flagrant violation of my morals began to gnaw at me. I started to use marijuana in conjunction with the alcohol. Still, it did nothing. I still wore my badge proudly as I struggled through my classes, suffering from a massive hangover and barely able to focus on even the simplest of my classes, womens' studies.

Then one day in the early junior year of college, salvation came. Father Lando Beleressian, a travelling Catholic revival preacher, ste up shop on campus. His tabernacle was rainbow colored amusement park styled after the musical "Jesus Christ: Superstar". For reasons beyond me to this day, I stumbled into the tent, and left a different man. The padre told me that I could have a fufilling life by serving God. I began attending church, speaking to my parents, and finally I left my fraternity of sin behind.

So here's the deal. Every reply to this topic will be a signature for my petition. Once this topic reaches 1,000 replies, I am going to send this the College Board in hopes of them removing any references or links to colleges which do not ban both fraternities and sororities.

WTF is this about?

And the line about the circus tent... makes me think of the Simpsons episode where Bart becomes a faith healer.
http://www.thesimpsons.com/episode_guide/1111.htm

OH MY GOD, I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT THANKS TO YOUR POST, TOMSODA!!!!!!!!! Your 3 paragraphs of random bullshit has made me SEE THE LIGHT! I HAVE BEEN SAVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kddani, this is exactly what it sounds like; a petition to remove all institutions of higher educations which tolerate fraternities and/or sororities from College Board's web site.

I thank you for your signature; please refrain from reply anymore than once in order to keep this accurate for the folks at College Board.

Do you not have anything better to do with your life?

You're also in the wrong place for this sorta thing. Being that all of us here at Greekchat are proud, successful members of greek life, your random post is going to be laughed at.

If you're even close to serious... i suggest you seek counseling or at least some sort of coaching on reality.

1000 "signatures" on a message board is laughable.

I am sorry that you so angry that I am suggesting an alternate viewpoint. Because of the nature of this topic, I suggest you make a different topic for discussing my viewpoint. As ancient Greece was the world's first democracy, I think it would truly be in the Greek spirit for you to actually challenge my ideas, not my mental state (which is beyond me why you would bring this up).

Thanks. :)

HUH? Sorry to seem stupid, but what is College Board?

:confused:

As this isn't a message board regarding ancient Greece, I could care less about "Greek spirit".

You're not suggesting a viewpoint. You're talking about a circus tent preacher.

Does your preacher have a website?

www.collegeboard.com is a popular site for high school students to aid them in their journey for higher education. Thank you for your signature. Thank you for your signature.

And kddani, if you don't stop disrupting my topic I will be forced to report you to the forum moderators for flaming.

Then why don't you take your nonsensical petition to www.collegeboard.com?

You go ahead and do that reporting thing. I'm a mod, too. And the mods who run this particular forum are laughing at you.

Lord, please protect us from the true believers and Kool-Air drinkers. This guy is an idiot. He claims to have been a young pastor in training yet he joined a bad fraternity (fell in with bad companions) and subquently gave in to every weakness which possessed him. Now, he seeks to blame others for his weakness and so give justifaction to his sanctimony.

Brothers and sisters, can I get an AMEN?

Hatchett Version 2.0 -- the protege.

But he doesn't have a book to sell us or a crazy website...

I hate to say Hatchett is more legitimate than someone, but I gotta give him a bit of credit.

Re: Petition regarding Greek life
 

Sorry, but I have learned to embrace and enjoy my sin.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08784a.htm

Take a look, children. Perhaps being too absorbed in pop culture phenomenons has dulled your minds to popes. I wouldn't be suprised if Father Lando took his name from Pope Lando. I won't tolerate any more Catholic hate speech and linking pictures to screen captures of "Blues Brothers" in order to bash my faith.

Please keep this civil.

Tomsoda, as a Christian and a member of an NPC women's fraternity, I am appalled that you want to blame your failings on your fraternity. The "whole frat life" that you describe were all things that you chose to participate in, not things that were forced upon you by members of your fraternity. Did the brothers strap you to a chair to brutally haze you, pour alcohol down your throat, and force you to perform with sorority girls? If so, I'd be going to to police rather than trying to ban Greek Life-affiliated schools from the College Board web site. I think you need to spend some more time with your Bible and less time blaming those you allowed to influence you. You can blame no one but yourself for your sins.

And the fact that you can believe that obtaining 1000 "signatures" (I use the term loosely, as none of us are interested in your ridiculous cause) on a Greek Life-affiliated web site can convince the College Board to remove information of hundreds, possibly thousands, of colleges nationwide which have affiliation with Greek Life is absurd. Take your nonsensical ramblings elsewhere, we have no time for them here.

Oh my God.. now that you put it like that, I see the light! As a Catholic, I should never have joined a fraternity. Father Lando and his rainbow tent could have saved me.. but alas, all is lost... :(

You are so right. The college board should totally kick all of those campi off of its board! Then it could display Alfred... Liberty College, Bob Jones, I think Panhandle State here in Oklahoma is devoid of Greek Life (among many other things)... Southern Nazarene University..

Come on.. can anyone name a few others?

Yes, the College Board website will sacrifice its status as a worthwhile resource to HS students just to prove the point of the original poster... especially because such heavyweights as kddani and ktsnake have "signed" the petition!

-- I motion that a thread mod rename this "dumbest thread ever."

Is there a second?

ETA: I want to commend kddani on her excellent choice on a random picture.

It's our board. We'll play how we want. A crusading anti-greek person comes to a greek message board expecting to be treated well?

Obviously your movement is tiny being that there's not even a website for it.

A lot of us here are Catholic. No one's bashing the Catholic faith. Actually, this sounds like a jump-off from the Catholic faith anyway, so you're not really a Catholic.

BTW- We're bashing your "ideas" that you can't even back up.

You made your own mistakes, and like the trend in this country, refuse to take responsibility for your own actions and choices, and you want to blame everyone else but yourself.

PS- I'm Catholic. Neener neener neener.
PPS- Naming himself after a Pope? Ever hear of the sin of pride?

Hey Tomsoda -- I think "God" is a myth people made up to make themselves feel better.

Gee, what about all those Catholic colleges that have greek systems?????

And the College Board removing all those schools from its website would accomplish what exactly????

I think Tomsode should change his name to Internet_Preacher. He and Internet_Lawyer could have a lot of internet babies to promulgate the Catholic faith.

Tomsoda makes me think of that obnoxious song Tom's Diner.

I am posting here on Greek Chat
I am pimping my "petition"
I'm deluded and not too bright
I really need a life

doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

This is a fair request. Let's all play nice, kidz.

I don't know the song... but I sure know Tom's Diner.
I'm hungry now!

What was her name again? Suzanne Vega?

"Luka" was one of my favorites.

You can get a big Greek omelet
But the service sure is crappy
At the one that's on the South Side
And down in Dormont, too

doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

I'm signing off because this is worse than the Green Eggs and Ham pentameter as far as being able to do it for hours.

Tom, I believe in God, and am a Christian. You, however, are the reason people often choose not to. Congratulations.

Re: Petition regarding Greek life
 

1.) You are a moron.
2.) Do you really think 1000 posts from a bunch of well to do Fraternity men and Sorority women bashing your ignorant claims are going to sway some college board administrator to pull off that kind of a rash horseshit action.
3.) You have some "great" ideas....lets detract America's youth from going to Ivy League schools and other top universities because they have greek systems. Sweet Jesus, this really pisses me off.
4.) I think it was 95% of Fortune 500 CEO's and Congress are all Greek....shit the system "has" to be messed up.
5.) You were probobly "that guy" in your fraternity that was brutally hazed so they would try to get you to quit. You endured it so they let you stay out of pity. You then remained at the bottom rung of your house and served out the rest of your time in the Greek life as the biggest douchebag on campus.

Congrats, you suck at lfe........go step into traffic.

lol, I love it. I haven't read a post that makes me laugh in awhile.


But....is it wrong that I find psychotic cult-followers funny?

stop posting!
 

As much as I completely and wholly disagree with this Tomsoda creep, yall need to remember that he said that every reply to this topic would count as a signature to his petition. I think we should put an end to this thread ASAP!

Re: stop posting!
 

Lol. Because he has any sort of official magical powers to make our postings be "signatures" to any valid authority?

Do you know how hard he would get laughed at if he actually submitted this thread as "signatures" to his "petition"?

Just because he says something doesn't make it so :)

you really think that college board would accept a petition full of "signatures" from an online message board? especially from a wackjob like this guy

I love the smell of troll in the evening. Eau de troll, the newest GC scent.

haha, this post cracks me up.. i know i'm relatively new to posting on here but i just had to make this:


http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a58/mamunia/trolls.jpg

This guys amazing. Honestly I hope posts more.

Hey, you never know with some people...he's a little out there, so I wouldn't put it past him.

As entertaining as this thread has been, I think we've all seen enough. Closing thread.