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PM_Mama00 · #1 10-17-2006, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by blueangel

Actually, I did need the forum. I was about to throw in the towel because it had been nearly three years since my paperwork had been started, and I didn't know what the hold up was. Members of the Alumnae chapter didn't know, and couldn't seem to find out where the snag was. Remember.. AI is extremely rare in my GLO.

Just as I was about to give up on the whole thing, I started googling. I found the GC AI forum. I literally spent the entire night reading all of the old posts. I started to feel better, because I learned how long the process was for many here. Ironically, I read some of the stories from people who are now opposing this very forum!

Since there were no AIs from my GLO here, one of the AI's on this forum put me in touch with a member of my GLO here on GC who got the ball rolling again for me. Since, as I mentioned before, AI is extremely rare in my organization, a "random" member of my GLO on GC wouldn't necessarily be able to help me... remember.. my own Alumnae Chapter had tried to find out, but wasn't able to get answers. The person I met on the AI forum was able to point me to a person who was knowlegable about the process. It was this very person who knew who to call to find out what the hold up was.

To sum it up.. this forum is definately the reason I am in my GLO today. Had the AI forum not come up on my search, I wouldn't have found the people who helped me. Had I not read the story of others here, I would have mistakenly assumed it was never going to happen, and I would never have PMed anyone to help me find out where the snag was.

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YOU READ STORIES of other people's AI.... they weren't on here asking for help. If you have to go to people you don't know and have met on the internet for help with your bid or whatever they call it, that's pretty sad. We all (or should all) know that someone we meet on the internet isn't always who they really are. Sad. Very sad.

LPIDelta · #2 10-17-2006, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

YOU READ STORIES of other people's AI.... they weren't on here asking for help. If you have to go to people you don't know and have met on the internet for help with your bid or whatever they call it, that's pretty sad. We all (or should all) know that someone we meet on the internet isn't always who they really are. Sad. Very sad.

Maybe I am taking this all too far, but I want to suggested that we all need to be very careful about calling people's membership or an org's membership selection into question....as I feel the post above, and others re: OTW have done. I know these discussions can be heated, but questioning the integrity of an organization and/or its members based on one situation is really not appropriate or helpful.

Drolefille · #3 10-17-2006, 11:58 AM

Heather
I agree, although I don't think that PM_Mama was doing so in quite the same way as the other poster. Once you do so, you might as well stop listening to everyone else because you don't know if anything they say is true.

PM_Mama00 · #4 10-17-2006, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Heather17

Maybe I am taking this all too far, but I want to suggested that we all need to be very careful about calling people's membership or an org's membership selection into question....as I feel the post above, and others re: OTW have done. I know these discussions can be heated, but questioning the integrity of an organization and/or its members based on one situation is really not appropriate or helpful.

If other organizations want to meet their members online instead of in person, that's their deal. And in my opinion I think that's pretty sad. I also have very strong opinions about AI which I've kept to myself because I don't want to put people down who have made great contributions. It's not questioning the integrity of an organization... because I'm SURE there are Phi Mu AIs who've done this also and I do not agree with it. We all have our opinions of things and I"m just giving mine. And I wasn't putting down any organization off of one situation.

And OTW isn't really a member of a sorority. A little birdy told me. Haha that's the funniest shit I've ever heard.

Oh and Tom... how would you like it if your brothers were meeting people on Greekchat and helping them AI into your org? Or better yet what if a, say, TKE or Sigma Chi, were helping another guy online AI into YOUR org? What if one of those guys had happened to be Craig/UFPike/etc??? You need to start seeing this from our perspectives.

sigmadiva · #5 10-17-2006, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

YOU READ STORIES of other people's AI.... they weren't on here asking for help. If you have to go to people you don't know and have met on the internet for help with your bid or whatever they call it, that's pretty sad. We all (or should all) know that someone we meet on the internet isn't always who they really are. Sad. Very sad.

Wait!! Don't do that!! You've criticized her, therefore you violated the TOS. You will be reported.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. It seemed to easy.

DSTCHAOS · #6 10-17-2006, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

YOU READ STORIES of other people's AI.... they weren't on here asking for help. If you have to go to people you don't know and have met on the internet for help with your bid or whatever they call it, that's pretty sad. We all (or should all) know that someone we meet on the internet isn't always who they really are. Sad. Very sad.

LOL. Blueangel set herself up for that one.

It's one thing to say that it is helpful that a particular forum was available for info and that she was able to meet people that way--something I still wouldn't suggest aspirants to do since I think aspirants shouldn't come to GLO message boards anyway. However, it's another thing to credit a forum with your membership and say that you wouldn't have been an XYZ had it not been for the forum. Maybe it wasn't the actual forum at all but the knowledge, that you may've found elsewhere if you knew how/where to look, and your ability to reach out to members.

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Originally Posted by Heather17

Maybe I am taking this all too far, but I want to suggested that we all need to be very careful about calling people's membership or an org's membership selection into question....as I feel the post above, and others re: OTW have done. I know these discussions can be heated, but questioning the integrity of an organization and/or its members based on one situation is really not appropriate or helpful.

Well, blueangel credited one "situation" for her membership so why is it inappropriate to question someone based on the one "situation" they credit?

AGDee · #7 10-17-2006, 12:13 PM

This thread is a filibuster, right? 57 pages, 848 posts (after deletions) and wow.. it just dawned on me, it's a filibuster.

DSTCHAOS · #8 10-17-2006, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

This thread is a filibuster, right? 57 pages, 848 posts (after deletions) and wow.. it just dawned on me, it's a filibuster.

We alluded to this about 20 pages ago.

Drolefille · #9 10-17-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

This thread is a filibuster, right? 57 pages, 848 posts (after deletions) and wow.. it just dawned on me, it's a filibuster.

Not until I start reading out of the phone book:
Aagard, Lisa and Darin, 1134 Wedgewood Ct, 875-0476...

/Now it's a filibuster

#10 10-17-2006, 02:53 PM

Mary, Mary....why you buggin'?

33girl · #11 10-17-2006, 03:03 PM

Ok, I'm not in any way defending ReachTheArbonne, but I do want to say that the disses on little sisters are completely uncalled for.

The NPC only issued their statements on little sisters around 20 years ago - when it appeared their existence was undermining Title IX issues. Up until then, and probably since then (albeit underground) there have been many women who were little sisters and contributed much to the fraternities they were affiliated with. Not to mention the women who were sorority members AND little sisters. I wouldn't be surprised if some of our national officers were fraternity little sisters during their collegiate time, and very proud of it.

I know many of you are too young to remember them, but please let's stop the little sister bashing that occurs here too often.

Drolefille · #12 10-17-2006, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

Ok, I'm not in any way defending ReachTheArbonne, but I do want to say that the disses on little sisters are completely uncalled for.

The NPC only issued their statements on little sisters around 20 years ago - when it appeared their existence was undermining Title IX issues. Up until then, and probably since then (albeit underground) there have been many women who were little sisters and contributed much to the fraternities they were affiliated with. Not to mention the women who were sorority members AND little sisters. I wouldn't be surprised if some of our national officers were fraternity little sisters during their collegiate time, and very proud of it.

I know many of you are too young to remember them, but please let's stop the little sister bashing that occurs here too often.

I understand and it was a bit of a cheap shot. I'm almost positive that my mother was a little sister as well as an ADPi, at the same time I'm not sure that I think little sisters really contribute anything to fraternities (or vice-versa). But that's a discussion for another thread...

Tom Earp · #13 10-17-2006, 03:27 PM

Congratulations on all of the fine ladies of Greek Organizations who decide to belittle people!

Evidently, there are ladies who have AIed and are doing quite well within their Organizations.

There are ladies who whish to join GLOs in another fashion, so let them do it.

AlexMack · #14 10-17-2006, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Congratulations on all of the fine ladies of Greek Organizations who decide to belittle people!

Evidently, there are ladies who have AIed and are doing quite well within their Organizations.

There are ladies who whish to join GLOs in another fashion, so let them do it.

Congratulations on your upcoming sex-change surgery Tom! Soon you'll be a productive member of this forum and have a vagina to prove it!

AXO Alum · #15 10-17-2006, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by centaur532

Congratulations on your upcoming sex-change surgery Tom! Soon you'll be a productive member of this forum and have a vagina to prove it!

The thought of Tom Earp with a va-jay-jay is a freaking scary thing!!

Once again, Mr. Earp - you speak of something you know nothing of... might I direct you to the thread discussing the REAL "wave of the future" hair transplants... no, in fact, don't go over there. I don't need your cheap 2cents on another topic that you nothing about.

Again - I ask for you to show me ANY thread/post/etc. where ANY of us said:

1) AI's are not real members/productive members/ etc.
2) AI should never ever be done under any circumstances

Go ahead... I'll sit here & wait for you to find it & post it for us... besides, I am waiting to hear back from JimBob's Hair Did Doings about my HT with his elite & exclusive & expensive salon, so this will give me something to look forward to...