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  1. Off late, I've been seeing this gentleman very often. Today I read a news piece calling him a follower of Santji, and somehow his story is related to Deep Sidhu. Can someone pls enlighten me what's happening?
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  2. He's not. Don't make assumptions without knowing anything about him. Read about him and watch his videos. Look at his socials from years before, he's always been like this and had those opinions. Don't give him the treatment that a lot of Punjabis and Sikhs gave Deep Sidhu calling him a government agent.
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  3. And you had foodoo apne protesting against the CAA bill in India which supported such refugees. What a pathetic bunch.
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  4. Just embrace the natural beauty of the beard.
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  5. I am going to try one more time to help you understand: a man with $50 in his bank account is ten times richer than a man with $5 in his bank account. But the difference is essentially meaningless, because both of them are extremely poor.
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  6. I don't understand what point you think you are making. Resorting to insults doesn't help your case. It is also really lame for you to make this some sort of US Sikhs vs UK Sikhs thing. Does it make you feel better about yourself to engage in this kind of petty one-upmanship? You don't appear to grasp very basic realities related to population density. From your posts, you sound very provincial. It might be illuminating for you to occasionally leave Wolverhampton or Southall or wherever you live. More troubling than your provincialism is your inability to understand basic quantitative reasoning. I don't say these things to try to insult you, and it gives me no happiness to note these things. You seem like a really nice guy (although you try to hide it). People like you are the future of the Sikh quam. So in making these observations, I feel disappointed and depressed.
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  7. The sad truth about Shabeg Singh is that he was not motivated by Sikhi. He was an old man with health problems and nothing to lose, and he had a personal axe to grind with the Indian military. I’m sure his grievances were legitimate, but that is still a far distance away from how his motivations are typically portrayed. Anyway, he was happy to go down fighting with other people’s sons. But none of his four sons were involved. They are nonreligious monay who live comfortably to this day posting photos of their father’s exploits in the Indian army online (but never a peep about Operation Blue Star).
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  8. I had never heard of the cousin thing. That is shocking and disgusting. I had heard about Punjabis sleeping around behind closed doors, but never about incest. I imagine it is because my relations who know about it find it so appalling and shameful that they don’t even want to mention it. It’s sad because I used to think that, despite our moral erosion, we would never stoop to certain levels (for example, cousin relationships that are apparently routine for Muslims).
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  9. The Richmond Hill area is the only area in NYC that has a substantial Punjabi population. It is not known to be a dangerous place. Punjabis move there for the same reasons they move to areas with relatively large populations in the UK (or Canada, or any other country).
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  11. New methods of farming are being taught to foreigners by Indians resulting in a ten fold increase in yields. Yet India is lagging behind the rest of the world. These methods make optimal use of land whilst utilising fewer raw materials including soil and water. Freed up land could be put to use for industrialisation, animal husbandry etc. With India's increasing population and under nourished children it is of paramount importance that this be alleviated through better farming methods.
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  12. Because no-one can force you to use or overuse the water on your own land. If that knowledge was known beforehand then the farmers would not have implemented any changes to a system they knew worked for them. Another example, the wheat grown today in Panjab is from a hybrid seed that was a result of research in Mexico. Before that Panjabi farmers used their own seeds, but when this new seed was taken to Panjab and trialled and the farmers there saw how it was better, they adopted the new seeds over their own. This happened in the early 70s. Slowly it replaced the original seed. Can we say the same for how water is used in Panjab?
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  13. I am not discounting their wisdom, and can't see anyone else tring to either but the point here is that we are trying to increase their wisdom. There was a time, when all farming was hard manual labour. When people needed bullock-carts to pull ploughs but now they use tractors. Nowadays, there is so much done by machine, even seriuosly hard mundane work like the planting of rice etc. Another point where farmers of Panjab seriously need to expand their wisdom is the conservation of water. Water is a key issue in Panjab at the moment. Farming the way our elders did 30 or 40 years ago is heading towards a mini-disaster. I saw a video where this guy had actually had a suspended tract of soil where he was growing ridiculously large vegetables because of his expert use of water. And he told how he was nonly using some 10% of water that he used to use, in traditional methods.
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  14. The reason is generational education. The older generation are set in their ways and fearful of new innovations, prefering to do things the way they have for the last 40 odd years, while a younger generation are not that interested in farming any more so don't hold an interest in learning new techniques or technologies, even though they can see it works. I have seen a similiar video and wanted to try and do it in my own garden but haven't managed to do it yet.
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  15. If someone carves a successful path for themselves, a template gets created and people tend to follow that path as they are too lazy. It takes a great deal of authenticity to carve your own niche.
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  16. "think when it comes to giving opportunities with employment the above is the key factor. This goes on a lot and I think that's why most desi firms don't grow. They'll f**k each other over but bum1ick a baharlaa bundha; probably because they see the apna as potential competition, and the barharlaa bundhaa as a potential contact for progression. " I think this comes down to a scarcity mentality. Too many pieces for a small pie. I think the scarcity mentality needs to be changed to an abundance mentality. Abundance mentality is the Sikh way. One way is to make the pie bigger. The other way is to our people to stop being like lemmings and look for different pies.
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  17. When you look at it, it seriously just seems like textbook sociopathy. And it goes in all directions. I've seen apnay help less fortunate relatives, but their whole demeanor and attitude when doing this is so low key haughty and condescending (and you can tell that they are loving every minute of the 'power'!). This would make anyone on the receiving end feel demeaned and sick to the stomach. I think the other party bites their lip temporarily out of 'mujboori', and whilst the giver fills themselves with narcissistic notions of how great and compassionate they are, the other side builds up white-hot seething resentment - which in the fullness of time turns into hatred. So you are right, help has to be given in the right way, with the right attitude, or it backfires. Many of us are proud people, we might stomach going without, but being on the receiving end of mentally degrading, supercilious behaviour by people who are going on like they are doing you a favour can have the worst effects. I think when it comes to giving opportunities with employment the above is the key factor. This goes on a lot and I think that's why most desi firms don't grow. They'll f**k each other over but bum1ick a baharlaa bundha; probably because they see the apna as potential competition, and the barharlaa bundhaa as a potential contact for progression. I don't believe your on the mark here, I've seen guys who've been helped to establish themselves, then sh1t on people who come up after him. They haven't followed the model of the people who helped them. I just think the whole Panjabi culture is built on very fragile egos, and anything to big yourself up like a to55er goes, most especially off the backs of your own. Crabs in a bucket.
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  18. That's the key point: I think it is OK and even very good to help others. Because this is Akal Purkh ka panth. But, again, until every Sikh has a decent life, helping others can only be a low (not high) priority.
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  19. We can't do Sarbat Da Bhalla if we can't even look after fellow Sikhs!!!
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  20. Okay, in what sense did they turn a blind eye? Are you referring to a failure to identify the grooming gangs as coming primarily from the Muslim community, or something more than that? UK Sikhs take a lot of things for granted because the mainstream British community has (at this point) largely accepted them, and because their population density makes it possible to have some political influence. In places like the US, the Sikhs are in a much more precarious situation. If you try to argue to someone that, for example, a Sikh police officer should be able to wear a turban and maintain a beard, the vast majority of the public will think asking for such an exemption is completely absurd and that it is ridiculous to accommodate some tiny, fringe group of people who they have never heard of. Most people will voice opinions along the lines of "if they can't conform to the dress code, they should find a different job." Do you know the type of people who are (by far) the most likely to come out and say that that's not right and that a Sikh in that situation should be accommodated? The leftists who you people are so quick to deride. "Wokeness" has its excesses, but "woke" people are generally much greater allies to minority communities like Sikhs than the right-wing majoritarian communities that for some reason you guys don't seem concerned about.
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  21. The experience of UK Sikhs who've been trying to combat the targeted grooming of Sikh females says otherwise. These lefty types turned a blind eye to that, I don't think they are as strong an ally as you think.
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  22. Traditionally Sikhs did shastar pooja on Dusherah and then had mock fights.
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  23. Historically Dushera is a hindu festival, and is celebrated in remeberance of Ram, the son of king Dashrath. Ram was an incarnation of Vishnu jee. People rejoice in celebrating it, as Ram rescued his wife Sita and killed the demon Ravan. It represents the victory of goodness over evil. For us as sikhs, we can have another more accurate view about this whole scene in the perspective of sikhee. Our soul is represented as Sita, the ten headed demon Ravan, as the mind with its ten heads as 5 karam indriyas and 5 gyan indriyas. This demon mind has kept us prisoners in this mayavee creation; keeping us apart from our Lord Wahiguru. This demon, plays tricks upon us, in the form of vaasnas, trishnas, etc, in order to divert our attention, our rememberance of our true Lord Wahiguru, towards the perisahble mayavee creation But then, the soul, using the Name or Naam of Wahiguru and making Him pargat within, He is manifested as Shabad Guru, who defeats this dusht mind or kaal, and takes the wadbhgee soul back to Sach Khand, our true everlasting blissful land... once the soul reaches there, there is an endless festival of Lights, of the Jot of Wahiguru. Outer dusheras and diwalis last only a few days, but, in the inner spiritual realms, there is constant Diwali, when the bride soul, gets reunited with the beloved Wahiguru Well, this was a play... an mystical interpretation of this seasonal festival .... Sat Sree Akal.
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  24. Waheguru Jio , Gurmat considers all days to be the same. In this age of kalyug we find an abundance of excuses for not attending Satsangat. Historically festivals and occasions were a good way of taking time out of the rat race and engaging in Seva and Simran. ps shraad and havan are not Gurmat.
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  25. How old are you? Can you please learn to write properly? I applaud your passion, but if you care about advancing the Sikh community, it is important to develop competence in basic things.
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