Well if these people this is their organization and they feel that they want to put you through a certain level of stress why is that not okay how do you differentiate between something like that and because obviously there are those that would say well you know the
Military does that you know what you know and they’re just trying to make sure that you’re a viable candidate you know like like like who you to try to buck the trend in a sense I guess because the whole thing is whenever there’s brainwashing being done whenever
There is a person losing their identity of who they are it’s always wrong it’s always wrong whenever there’s secrets involved where it makes you question who you are as a woman as a man as a black as a white as a Christian whatever religious you are then it’s always wrong
Because one of the things about the sorority lifestyle is I realized that once I became a member and I pledged and I was a soror I definitely changed my identity you know we’re going to parties and I wanted to wear a pink shirt how could you wear pink that’s the aka
Colors so I couldn’t wear P because then I’d you know be looking like an egg a and or if I put on right and what how could you wear red and white that’s the dances colors you know I could I wear blue I wear gold or the simplest thing
To do is we’re black so we all ended up dressing alike we called support it’s all of us wearing black all of us had our hair in the same way you know because that that peer pressure was there and I realized that who I wanted to be that individual that that I was
Was being taken from me slowly and a lot of my friends that weren’t in fraternities stories I could hang out with them anymore why because I was always told to do something for my sorority that I was in you know so it’s always wrong because and then being a
Christian it said the Bible talks about being unequally yoked with unbelievers you know I knew even during the pledge process that it was wrong because one of the pledges that I had to recite was the goddess he always opens the door for Sun god Apollo something
Clicked in my head and I know now it’s all these spirit telling me why are you reciting that but I was so far in the process you know after being hates for like a month too much you’re like oh and they keep telling you it’s almost over
It’s almost over you know you’re like I’ve gotten so far I don’t want to turn back now see like Oh attack let me just complete it you know but I knew it was wrong I knew when they had me reciting Greek alphabets and chants dealing with Egyptian gods and goddesses
But of course I remember that every night before I pledged my sorrow over the last things we did was open to buy whatever you first Corinthians 13 to solidify the foolish things that we did basically say hey it’s okay because you still believe in God but I now know that
A lot of the pleasures we recited when we said the word died we didn’t mean God that gave His only begotten Son to die on a cross Jehovah it was a God which was type of concept of just a general God it’s you Muslim God Buddhist God whatever that very very very very
Significant do you remember who you send a little bit of it of that do you remember the oath that you took the one initiation well the oath and I took upon initiation is that I don’t remember it for but it talks about our Creed our call and the interesting part is our
Call is the skull in the crossbo makes our call that was something we had to learn online and if you look at our shield as well as many of the other sororities and fraternities their shields have a lot of things that you’re like seven school teachers decided that
They’re going to use a skull and a crossbow to make their call that’s very interesting I mean if me and a group of my female friends got together and said and I’ve started an organization we’ll probably do something girly like cookies and Care Bears not something as significant as skull and crossbone when
I went online and I looked up the words falling cross bro the definition was followed was to symbolize death and that’s what we used to say that makes our call so the Sigma game a real shield it doesn’t have a skull and crossbones on it yes it does
Dude does Sigma Gamma Rho consider itself an organization that’s founded upon Christian principles so they say they do seven school teachers they all of them all nine organizations say they were founded on Christian principles but through my research I found out that 85% of the founding fathers of the
Fraternities and sororities were all masons or Eastern Stars well the church is full of Freemasons and used to stars is that also an organization that based on your research you found to be faulty or I realized that in my definition of its preparing youth individuals to continue the legacy it’s not the legacy
Of eternia sorority because 50% over 50% of sorties and fraternity members become a sensation stars it’s like a recruiting tool for Masons because you the pledge process that you’re going through is preparing you for the pledge process that you go through with Masons and Easton stars you know so that’s the
Interesting part so when I when I studied Masons and I started so some of their symbols and the things that they did I was like oh my god my organization is just preparing me to be calmer and he’s since done so are the fraternities and sororities direct descendants of the
Order of Freemasonry is out of Sigma Amaro and the other fraternities and sororities are they just trying to copy Freemasonry did I know you said that some that were Masons established it dude from your research is that something that was purposed or did people who were freemasons or Eastern Stars did they
Just begin something new I definitely think it was purposed because a lot of our members are of our grand chapters our judges and lawyers and doctors and they old high sex within Masons and Eastern Stars and I definitely believe that it was something that was that was
Planned like one of the things that we do you can do is you can get branded and you’ve branded your fraternity symbol and a couple of my mates and friends from back in college they were branded amazing symbol but then when I looked over on their other arm they had a
Fraternity and sorority symbol so it was preparing them and it’s just like within Masons and Easter stars you remember for life within the sorority you’re also a member for life but here’s the interesting part with Sigma Gamma Rho you’re a member for life but you have to go through nine consecutive year of
Paying your dues on time never missing a year in order to become a life member and once you become a life member that’s another process that you have to go through to becoming a life member but hey after nine years of playing your dues that’s you basically saying this is
Me showing my allegiance and with Masons and Easter stars there’s different levels that you can go through and in different ways of becoming these different members that like paying dues so it’s interesting to me that when I open my handbook a lot of the rituals that we do are very similar to the
Rituals that I’ve read it’s amazing so then there are handbooks and literature that the sororities give out is it a lot is it similar to is it similar to what you would get if you opened up a computer several books or is it just one
Book ah is it is it similar to the Bible how does that work it’s one book that’s given to you at your pity ceremony they give you a book they give you a pen and in that book was all the rituals like one of the things that we do is when we
Get together in a meeting we’re supposed to make the circle and we’re supposed to cross our hands over and hold the symbol and hold each other’s hand and we’re supposed this Susan Sigma Gamma Rho simple and we’re supposed to sing the chant of our pledging our love our
Loyalty to Sigma Gamma Rho and that was was the way we started each meeting you know and so the book tells you step-by-step how to incorporate each remember how what to do how the pledge process the the pinning ceremony different ceremonies for different things that you do like we have a know
Laura Aurora is you get them from high school you prepare them to becoming Sigma Gamma Rho versus a legacy a legacy is someone that if I’m gonna sorta you’re in a fraternity and you have a child you know it’ll be easier for them to get in because there would be a
Legacy because they have a parent that was in it so it’s different process the book goes step by step details on how to do how to go through I guess a chapter the different chapter meetings that we have to do and and how to become run for presidents and different things like
That okay I believe that every organization and everything that’s in existence has a purpose obviously God God the Father created all things and and Isaiah says that he did not only create good things he says I create good and evil so God is the creator of all
Things period and so we know that what God calls things they are so if he calls it good it’s good if you call the baddest fat so that said my question then is because and prior to me asking this question because God creates all things he does not waste anything everything
Has a purpose okay now knowing that everything has a purpose what do you believe as a result of your experience with secret societies as we know them what what’s the purpose for the fraternities and sororities
source
#alphakappaalpha #sorority #hbcugrad #hbcu #aka #1908 #strolling
