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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
But realistically, if you see a heart or some outward symbol of "love" on a crest of an organization that has a "Phi" in their name, you're going to be pretty sure that means philia, for love. I have pretty good guesses as to quite a few groups rituals based on studying their crests and a vocabulary of 300 Greek words from the NT.
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Agreed.
If people really want to know what our letters mean, it wouldn't take much for them to make an educated guess. A little bit of Greek, some knowledge of heraldry and symbols, and a little study of the crests and open mottoes, and most people could make a decent guess for a lot of groups.
That said, I "know" some about a number of groups, and I could make guesses for a number more, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of what I know and a lot of what I would guess is wrong.
To me it's more interesting to know what things COULD stand for and what initiations COULD be like rather than what the truth is -- I think some of the fake initiation stuff I've heard is just as interesting as the real stuff.
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