hazing claims another life

[æRLO]

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maybe it is just me, but i find it a dubious test to loyalty. anybody can endure such pain and humiliation, but is not exactly a guarantee of loyalty. and it is equally fair to say that those who cannot endure it cannot be loyal as well.

what it seems to prove, however, is a neophyte is willing to go through something that might be totally opposite to what the organization stands for, just to belong. and i find this quite sad.

what i am looking for is a re-imagination of the entire initiation process wherein the positive ideals of a fraternity is incorporated in this very process, not exhibiting it's opposite at the start of a neophyte's membership. doing the later seems to exhibit the weakness of the very ideals that the organization seems to be standing on, that or simply members do not understand these ideals, hence the inconsistency.

while i believe you might be looking at the entire thing as a procedural error in the part of the initiation overseer, i am looking at it as a systemic error in the twisted irony of starting a good thing by doing its complete opposite.

Well, it's a system/ritual that has been around even during the earliest human civilization. I don't entirely agree with it, but it would take the majority to act on it to change the status quo.

[icarus_]

Well, it's a system/ritual that has been around even during the earliest human civilization. I don't entirely agree with it, but it would take the majority to act on it to change the status quo.

which is again another great irony.

groups are formed to place a distinction among people. certain organizations/fraternities supposedly form themselves around benevolent ideas to change the status quo. but as it appears, they end up maintaining it by exempting themselves from following such ideals right from the very start.

this was the situation where i was, at the beginning, looking for some ethics from.

[LytSlpr]

6 months mental and psycho-emotional and just a little physical, tan-awon ba nato kung di ba mo-active.

daghan myembro one day survival from a very physical initiation. after a few months, pa-full pledge dayon, that means another physical endurance pero mga inactive unya kasagaran mga buringog ug utok. tsk.. tsk.. tsk..

[peachjay26]

para sa mga wala kabalo mao ni list sa existing fraternities sa philippines..sa kadaghan ani murag lisod gyud wagtangon ang hazing ky tanan members ani nga frats ni agi ug hazing.(f d mn gani tanan but majority)

List of fraternities and sororities in the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Zebastian rella]

when will this end??

[peachjay26]

sa kadaghan ug sa kadugay na ani nga mga frats bro murag dli na gyud na mawala..part of fraternity life na gyud na..

[xiboy]

Luoya pud sa mga nakabsan ug kinabuhi sa tungod sa ingon ani nga panghitabo.

[chris_bern]

mao cguro ni iyaha pasabot, sir spring...

GOOD LUCK to the members of this frat.. I hope physical violence is not already practiced here.

[istoryamember]

nganong mo apil pa man jud ug frat? Kanang hazing dili na jud tingali na mawala labi na kadtong nabunalan mobalos man jud to. Bitaw kidding aside, ayaw nlang mo apil2x anang frat oi. Just my opinion.

[slyder10]

better join singles or couples for Christ. or join a choir or glee club. other clubs like rotary or lions club. or you can buy a motorcycle and join a certain group. there's also for car enthusiast. for me, real friends aren't hard to find. you don't even have to experience pain to have them.