Gadianton wrote:oh..by the way, more to the point, yes, frats are mini cults. This is proven by the fact that BYU doesn't have any fraternities. Cults tend to like monopolies and the church certainly wouldn't want any competition.
BYU doesn't allow frats? What about sororities?
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Bond...James Bond wrote:BYU doesn't allow frats? What about sororities?
Neither are allowed. Although they claim to make up for this by having "social clubs". I'm not sure what those are, but I remember one of them involved a bunch of nerds dressing up in chainmail and fighting each other with wooden swords on the grass near Heritage Halls.
MishMagnet wrote:I was told at BYU that we had wards and then furthering that - 'families' made up of one apartment of guys and one apartment of girls. This was to be our smaller sense of community and our allegiences were not to be divided much like fraternities and sororities would cause.
When I left BYU my next college did have only one sorority. I was kind of bummed about that, having missed the opportunity. This is not to say I would have joined a sorority anyway. Kind of bummed to not have the option.
Really that is kind of stinky if the priesthood was to take the place of the fraternity. I mean, what about us poor, poor women-folk? We didn't even have a kitchen in Helemon Halls to magnify our callings as mothers in Zion.
What I always noticed were the Family home evening families in college were generally a mechanism to separate the ward members into economic pigenholes. The kids in leadership had theirs, the flunkies had theirs, the socially awkward-not going anywhere kids had theirs.
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Bond...James Bond wrote:BYU doesn't allow frats? What about sororities?
Neither are allowed. Although they claim to make up for this by having "social clubs". I'm not sure what those are, but I remember one of them involved a bunch of nerds dressing up in chainmail and fighting each other with wooden swords on the grass near Heritage Halls.
Nah, that was just Keene
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Mercury wrote:Are frats cults? If I were to pledge would I be joining a cult? What about Freemasonry? What makes it cult-like when compared to frats or sororities?
Do they consume ceremonial malt beverages? Do they possess a paddle? Do they handle women like objects?
Mercury wrote:Are frats cults? If I were to pledge would I be joining a cult? What about Freemasonry? What makes it cult-like when compared to frats or sororities?
Do they consume ceremonial malt beverages? Do they possess a paddle? Do they handle women like objects?
What fraternity are you specifically addressing?
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Gadianton wrote:oh..by the way, more to the point, yes, frats are mini cults. This is proven by the fact that BYU doesn't have any fraternities. Cults tend to like monopolies and the church certainly wouldn't want any competition.
Crock alert! That is ridiculous. BYU doesn't have fraternities or sororities because they are not inclusive, they are exclusive and they encourage people to pride. "I belong to DG's and I am better than you."
This is one of the funniest posts I hve seen since I have been here.
The way the word "nerd" is bandied about around here is pretty silly. Sounds like a bunch of adolescents. Pretty much junior high school. Giggling at the guy who wears glasses. Trying to bolster up their pimply faced little egos by tearing someone else down.
Sorry, I can feel my IQ dropping just be listening to this thread. I will therefore leave before it falls any more.
Gadianton wrote:oh..by the way, more to the point, yes, frats are mini cults. This is proven by the fact that BYU doesn't have any fraternities. Cults tend to like monopolies and the church certainly wouldn't want any competition.
Crock alert! That is ridiculous. BYU doesn't have fraternities or sororities because they are not inclusive, they are exclusive and they encourage people to pride. "I belong to DG's and I am better than you."
This is one of the funniest posts I hve seen since I have been here.
No, it's the covenants, vows, obedience, and brotherhood that is not in devotion to the church and that could perhaps take precedence to the covenants, vows, and so on as per the Mormon cultic rituals.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Crock alert! That is ridiculous. BYU doesn't have fraternities or sororities because they are not inclusive, they are exclusive and they encourage people to pride. "I belong to DG's and I am better than you."
Sounds like a lot like the Mormon Church to me, considering it is the one and only true church and all of us excluded from it because we don't believe, are not going to make it to the Celestial Kingdom.