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Originally posted by AXPGoBot
But I'll say it again to be clear, YOU ARE NOT A FULL BROTHER/SISTER UNTIL INTIATED UNDER RITUAL. Otherwise, what's to stop me from saying that I could go to a Delta Chi or Kappa Sigma Bid Party and then walk around claiming I'm a Brother? It's just wrong.
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But going to a bid party is different from actually being pledged? I guess it just see it differently - for me, sisterhood begins at the NM ceremony, when the chapter has decided to make the women a NM/Sister and the NM/Sister has decided to join. These promises are only further deepened at initiation.
It's a difference in opinion, but it could also be a different in ritual/organization. Because for me it's wrong not to call a NM a sister.
I see it (really really really bad analogy here) like becoming a nun (I said it was bad). Once you take your temporary vows (nuns take a vow of three years before vowing for life) you are a nun. It doesn't matter that you haven't taking your final vows. Okay. I said it was a bad analogy.
Of course .... I can only talk for my chapter.... and I find it amusing that I"m arguing this at all - but at a personal level - I agree with you - I didn't want to wear letters until I was initiated. I just don't see the benefit in "forbidding" it or anything else....