Rituals

MoxieGrrl · #1 07-07-2002, 01:16 PM

Have any of you ever found out, accidentially or otherwise, a part of another GLO's ritual? How did it make you feel?

I'm wondering because at my school, guys were always asking girls to tell them parts of their ritual and vice versa.

**Note** Please don't say what you found out if you did!

SilverTurtle · #2 07-07-2002, 01:20 PM

I haven't ever come across any valid information of secret rituals. I try to avoid the likes of the fraternity secrets web site. I don't recall anyone ever asking about other GLOs rituals or anything else secret while I was in school, although I imagine it happened occassionally.

Even when I've looked @ public rituals I feel kinda funny because I'm not a member of said GLO.

Tom Earp · #3 07-07-2002, 01:20 PM

NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS!

I will never tell anything about my Ritual! I hope You do not!

People that want to find out have to much time and of small minds!

Kevin · #4 07-07-2002, 01:24 PM

I'm sorry but asking about someone else's ritual is totally and completely rude. It should not even be done jokingly!

Most of us hold our ritual to be the embodiment of the ideals that we strive for as members of our respective organizations. Being privlidged to be granted the secrets told to initiates in an organization is a great honor!

To try to dig and find out these secrets is literally spitting in the face of everyone that has worked hard to become a brother/sister.

dzsaigirl · #5 07-07-2002, 01:42 PM

I have been told ritual by people who had just been initiated and didn't know any better. The actives from their chapter stopped them when they heard what they were saying. However, it's not like I now have this divine knowledge since I know something outside of my own ritual. I don't plan to share their ritual, because if someone were to tell a non-DZ some of our stuff, I would hope they would have the decency not to pass it on...especially since you never REALLY know if what you have been told is true or a fabrication.

Colleenie · #6 07-07-2002, 01:53 PM

I honestly accidentally came across someone elses ritual. I was cleaning up the study room at our house to prepare for a meeting and a woman from another GLO had been there studying with one of my sisters earlier. For what ever reason she left behind a bunch of papers including some ritual papers for her GLO. When I realized what it was I felt so bad and I got them back to her, asap! I still don't understand why she was so careless with them. But I didn't think about it after that night nor did I tell anyone what I saw. I can't even remember what I saw on the papers anymore.
As far as people wanting to find out another's ritual, I don't understand why they care? My sorority ritual is sacred to me because I am a part of it, I took those oaths, and it means something to me.
Personally I think it would be boring to know another's ritual because it means nothing to me. So what if you know XYZ's secret handshake - what do you do with that info now??? It's pointless and those that plaster supposed secrets all over the web are only showing how cowardly, immature, unintelligent, and classless they are.

DeltAlum · #7 07-07-2002, 02:04 PM

I have no interest in knowing other rituals.

As for ours, I could send you a Delt Ritual book tomorrow and you might not be able to figure out which GLO it belongs to because certain key words (like the letters) and other phrases are left out.

In truth, our Ritual is beautifully written and a memorable ceremony, and as such, would be a wonderful thing to share beacause of its meaning and guidance offered.

But I won't share it for the same reasons you shouldn't.

bro_strawter · #8 07-07-2002, 02:26 PM

I could care less. If it's not Alpha Phi Omega, or Masonic Rituals, I have no use for 'em.

Pi Kapp 142 · #9 07-07-2002, 04:44 PM

There was once a study done by a respected scholar on fraternity rituals. I can't remember who did it, but a quick search on google will bring it up. About 20 GLOs voluntarily gave him the ritual handbooks and what not, wiht out revealling any secret meanings or grips, just the handbooks. No one particular fraternity was named, the guy just talked about certain similarities and historicle parts. He devided them up by certain periods. It was quite an interesting study though.

josh8o · #10 07-07-2002, 09:09 PM

before i attended school in San Diego, and was in a fraternity, one of my friends from high school joined a sorority. one night i saw something written on a scrap book in her room, so i asked what it was. she told me it was from her sorority and that she couldn't tell me. not being Greek i didn't really understand that it was part of her ritual, or what a ritual even was. anyway, i asked why not, and she ended up telling me what it meant. when she told me i was like whatever...it didn't have any meaning to me so i could care less.
now that I'm in a fraternity i see the importance of ritual. if i had known i would have never asked...anyway, i never told anyone because i didn't think it was a big deal. now i know that there are girls who hold its meaning dear to their hearts, so i shall never repeat it.
i have a friend at my school who is in a chapter of the same sorority, and we were talking about little things that you can do, say, or write that only people in your organization would know. she showed me (without telling me what it meant) what i had seen on my friends scrap book, and told me that she would never tell anyone what it means because it, and her sisterhood, means so much to her. I didn't tell her that I knew what it meant, and never will.
anyway, that's my story...if you are in a GLO, you don't want to know anyone else's ritual, you understand its importance to initiated members. If you're not in a GLO then its a different story because you cannot understand the importance of ritual.

ThielGirlie · #11 07-07-2002, 10:39 PM

I was told when I really didn't want to. I was telling a girl who deactivated from a certain sorority that I was thinking of rushing there. The girl then said, "Oh, don't go there. You know what they do for initation? *Insert ritual here*"

I can't believe she just came out and told me like that, even though she was deactivated and all. I don't really care to know the rituals of any orgs I don't belong to. It wasn't even anything considered hazing or anything... I thought it was quite nice, but I just found it so not cool for her to say that.

Oh, and another one. There was this guy that lived in my dorm building that was in my German class (who is SO annoying... he stuffed me into a trash can once!

.) He was part of the re-colonized fraternity on our campus, which my best friend's boyfriend is also a part of it. When my best friend, me, and him went on a fieldtrip to Michigan for a German field trip, he told us that night in the hotel their WHOLE ritual for initation... Not to be nosy or anything, we told some of the other members of that fraternity, and needless to say they have a close eye on this guy.

MoxieGrrl · #12 07-07-2002, 11:00 PM

The reason why I was asking this is because my boyfriend asked me today..."What does AOT mean?" I was kinda shocked because I thought, "As if I would ever tell him! And if I did, why would he care? What would it mean to him?"

It amazes me how some people can be so casual with it all! Members of the XYZ sorority on my campus made COPIES of their ritual book in the LIBRARY....and left them there! A sister of mine found it, read enough to figure out what it was....and sent it through the shredder. (It was just a copy...not the originial

)

Another instance...some of my sisters went over to a fraternity house and the guys were taking down everything from inititation....and just let my girls in the door.

Crazy.........

Blaire · #13 07-07-2002, 11:20 PM

I have a lot of friends who are members of the greek community...I can honestly say that I have never had the desire to know their ritual or anything like that. But what I find interesting is that people who arn't in a greek letter organization want to know all the secrets! I can't even begin to name how many times someone has asked me..so what's your password? Ex-boyfriends, friends in general, my aunt...so on and so fourth. Finally, I realized something...I could sit down and tell them all about our intiation but it wouldn't mean a THING to them! The whole reason I value my ritual so much is because I love my sisters as much as I do...I would feel as though I was letting them down. In the meantime, I have all my relatives convinced that our password is Chitty chitty bang bang!

Blaire

So proud to be a DELTA ZEE!

No matter the letter, greeks do it better!

KillarneyRose · #14 07-07-2002, 11:30 PM

If I hadn't taken an oath to keep it a secret, I would be proud to share my sorority's Ritual with other people. It's a beautiful, touching ceremony (and, contrary to what some people may say, has NOTHING to do with Aladdin

) and I feel proud having been one of relatively few people who have shared in it. I'm fairly certain, though, that most people feel that way about their Ritual!

I've never accidently found out any information about another GLO's Ritual, and I'm glad I haven't. I feel it would be mortifying for me; sort of like walking in on my dad in the bathroom or something

ChiOJenn78 · #15 07-07-2002, 11:45 PM

Let me tell you what, I don't even want to know about other GLO's rituals. I think it's so disrespectful when you hear members yakking about their rituals to people who aren't members of their group.
One time Mr.ChiOJenn had a box full of Sigma Nu stuff at my house (pictures and whatnot) and I was like, oh can I look at the pictures? He was like-hold on there might be ritual stuff in there. I dropped that photo album so fast you'd have thought it had the plague on it.

He's never asked about my rituals and I have never asked about his. (Even though Dumbass Ex once started yakking at me about it-I was like-arghhh don't want to hear it).