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Symbols are one of the largest factors in both our ritual and general fraternity. To simply have such a nonchalant attitude toward our symbols shows a disrespect to their meaning.
I view our CoA like I do the USA Flag. It is just not some piece of cloth with some stars and stripes. It stands for something. It is the physical embodiment of those ideals.
Our CoA is the physical emodiment of our fraternal ideals. The lamp, light, swords are all part of what we believe in. To just turn your back and not care how those are betrayed is like saying you don't care about our ideals.
Quite frankly I don't care how other fraternities and sororities will view it. If I cared what other frats thought, then I probably would have joined them over LXA. What I do care about is the misrepresentation of what our symbols stand for.
Our CoA doesn't stand for some emo punk kids band. It doesn't just "look cool". It stands for something that [B]I[B] beleive, that [B]I[B] worked hard for.
And when someone or something uses that symbol wrongly or abuses it, it's saying what I believe in doesn't count, doesn't matter and cheapens what we stand for.
I guess I am just one of the older guys where oaths, symbols, promises actually mean something, when a handshake and your word was all you needed for a deal.
You know what, maybe we shouldn't care. Maybe we should let everyone just use our symbols as they wish. Maybe we should open up our ritual to the public, because after all, who does that affect? Maybe we shouldn't keep our ritual equipment in a special place or take care of it. It doesn't mean anything, let's just throw it in a small dusty box. Let's start letting other fraternities use our CoA for their own purposes and maybe charge them to use it?
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