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hey tell non vegetarians about this http://www.vegetarianstarterkit.com/ :wub:

Do u think businesses use sikh images on their products because it gets people to buy them more? My grandma's been getting boxes of harminder sahib tea and they always have a little card with Guru Gobind Singh Ji in them. do u think thats good, wrong, or doesnt matter?

people created the religions and they gave different messages. God didnt create them or mean for tem to be how they were thats just how it turned out.

everything happens at ur own will that u are physically and mentally capable of. if u feel like doing something wrong God wont stop u only ur mind can. things usually work out somehow because we're able to adapt to whatever changes but that doesnt mean it was meant to happen that way. other things like where ur born and how much ur exposed to sikhism just have to do with ur luck and coincidence i think.

HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN RELIGION IN TEN EASY STEPS! 1) Create a God. One with a catchy name is best. Should be simple and out of the ordinary, but not too far out that people can't remember it. In our example we will create "The Great God Lardicus". It has "Lard" in the name which people already associate with fast food. It has "-icus" at the end of it, which sounds Greek, so it must be old and have centuries of tradition behind it. 2) Make it in charge of something people already focus on, but don't have a target for that focus. In this case, eating too much fast food and poor dietary practices. Poof! Millions of people are now in your target audience. 3) Make it something that people will be reminded of frequently. In this case, whenever they think of fast food, they will think of Lardicus after reading this (at least for a while). In fact, the next time you drive down the road I bet you will think of The Great God Lardicus at least once. And the second time, you'll think of it because you'll remember thinking of it the first time. And so on. See how easy that was! 4) Make it easy for them to "buy into" the worship of your New God. In this case, whenever you eat fast food, you are honoring The Great God Lardicus. Whenever you pay at the drive-in window, you are tithing to The Great God Lardicus. 5) Make it ambiguous. Let both sides of an argument claim it as their own. In this case, is The Great God Lardicus a "Dark God" bent on destroying The Temple Of Your Physical Being, or is he a "Light God" and the patron of those who are too busy in their lives to stop and eat a w ell-balanced meal? Why define it when you can let people fight it out themselves. People are funny. They'll fight over anything. Even something you just made up. Enjoy the show and try not to think too much about the Karmic issues you are creating for yourself. 6) Establish some standards by which the God should be referred to, creating an intrinsic reverence right from the start. In this case, The Great God Lardicus must always be referred to as "The Great God" Lardicus. Once people see this a few hundred times, they'll start believing it without even realizing it. Make sure that the Full Title and Name are Always Capitalized. This is because that everybody knows that something that has Capital Letters Is Much More Important than something that isn't. This is called "Marketing" and all the Most Holy of The Great God Lardicus's High Priests study the Dark Arts of Marketing and practice it many times a day in their Most Holy Rites. 7) Make cool symbols. They should be things that people already know and see everywhere. And they should be easy to draw and say. In our case, The Great God Lardicus's symbols will be the Arch, the Crown and Pigtails. (If you think you'd look silly in pigtails, just substitute an image of a Pig, which works well when you think of bacon, pork chops, and the obvious "pig" symbolism). You'll suddenly start seeing The Great God Lardicus's symbols everywhere. Temples to The Great God Lardicus will appear, as if by Divine Intervention, on every street corner in every town across the nation. Boy, that was fun! Okay, we've now created our first God. Now, let's see how easy it is to turn it into a Religion! You can't have a cool religion with just a single character, so.... 8) You need an opposing force. Not necessarily an arch-enemy, but an opposite perspective so that people can pick sides and fight over things. Remember the stuff a bout people up there in Number 5? If everybody gets along, nobody will ever hear about your new religion. Most people hardly ever talk about how happy and content they are with their spirituality. In fact, many feel that they have to impose their beliefs on others in order to validate themselves and their beliefs. Because if you can get other people to be convinced to believe the same thing you do, you must be right! And that validates your choices. You want to play into that if you're going to be creating your own religion. In this case, we will create The Gentle Goddess Dietima. Notice how we have used all the rules so far with this name and the subtle effects it engenders. Let's review: 1) It has "Diet" in the name, which is obviously the opposite of "Lard". It sounds Greek too, so it fits nicely into our freshly created pantheon of psuedo-Greek deities. It sounds catchy. And it should. Because we have simply co-opted the name of an actual character from Greek Literature, Diotima. Many people will vaguely (but not quite) remember her name from a high school or college class. This is another great technique when you are creating a new religion: overlay your gods, legends, temples, holy days and whatever else you can think of over top of the ones used by The Other Religions. Why invent something new when you can simply co-opt it and claim it as your own? Then people can fight over who stole what from whom and the nefarious motivations for doing so. People love to fight, and it would be cruel of you to deny them this chance. 2) Who hasn't been on or thought about going on a diet? The Gentle Goddess Dietima is the patron for you! 3) Is there anyone you know that isn't painfully aware of diets and dieting? My point exactly. 4) It sounds Feminine with just the right mix of Fluffy-Bunny and Wise Woman. It is sweet enough for the flowering gentle pre-teen who wants a kinder, more understanding world but it also sounds great for attracting the people who would never worship a masculine meat-eating fatso un-environmentally-conscious goat-mater like Grease God Lardicus! Wow! Intolerance is fun and yet still makes you feel superior and important, while at the same time elevating you to the moral high-ground above those who you don't agree with. Neat, huh? 5) Notice how we have made The Gentle Goddess Dietima attractive to the entire spectrum of human emotion! Now we can just sit back and watch Her Faithful fight over which of her aspects is "The Real One". 6) The Gentle Goddess Dietima should always referred to as "The Gentle Goddess", unless you are in need of her unspecified warrior attributes which are whatever you want them to be whenever you want to use them. Good ol' rule number 5! 7) Dietima's symbols are the cute adorable little bunny (because nobody could not love a cute adorable little bunny), a curved silver knife (crescent moon shaped, great for cutting earth-friendly veggies to eat and tilling the ground, and useful for those unspecified warrior aspects, and similar enough to the Arch to cause more fun bickering) and the egg (fertility, orb shapes are common, and it will further confuse the whole spring holiday symbolism thing and cause more exciting discussions). So much for the review, now back to the recipie book: 9) You need to confuse everybody. This will make sure that nobody can be really certain WHAT they believe, because it is all so non-sensical to begin with. And when you don't spell it out exactly (or even if you do) you know how those funny humans will all magically just get along, right! In this case, we'll try to be real thorough here: The Gentle Goddess Dietima and The Great God Lardicus are Divine Brother and Sister. However, they are also Husband and Wife. And The Great God Lardicus is the child of Himself and The Gentle Goddess Dietima. As is Dietima. They love each other, but argue and even fight regularly fo r a variety of reasons that we won't go into here because we want people to make up their own reasons, which they can then fight over. We don't even have to explain how any of this is possible because they are Gods and can do whatever they want. We don't want to specify who was born first or the details of their immaculate self-conceptions, because that might give one side the upper hand in any arguments. Remember Rule Number 5: Keep it ambiguous. The Gentle Goddess Dietima and The Great God Lardicus may or may not have other children, parents, siblings or acquaintances. We can add them in later if we want or need to, and then the old-timers (historians, scholars, etc.) can fight the new converts (who are always the most passionate about things) about whether they should "really" be in the pantheon or not, since they weren't there in the beginning. We'll probably just say we found some ancient scrolls that nobody is allowed to examine that mentioned them when we want to add in any new characters. That'll be fun! And last but certainly not least: 10) The Big Reward. You know everything you always wished you had in this life? After you die, you'll get it! We promise! Hot women. Cute Guys. Flying Cars. Washboard abs. Rivers of Chocolate that won't add an ounce or an inch to your perfectly fit, weightless body. And lots of cute, adorable fluffy bunnies to frolic with in <admin-profanity filter activated> green pastures. In our case, we guarantee that you'll get everything listed above. And then some! But wait! There's more! All the people you love in this life will be there. But not the people you don't like. They all go to "The Other Place". Don't worry. They'll get theirs. And you'll spend eternity in Paradise. Really. We Promise.

then again yahoo and msn are good enough

wouldnt hurt

there is nothing wrong with bhangra. my whole family likes to start dancing just sometimes when we have music playing at home or in the van and its a fun thing. -culture shows include sikh related skits and information and baisakhi ALWAYS includes bhangra events. -baisakhi was a time for farmers to celebrate harvesting their crops which they did with music. -all punjabi people wear a kara and some have khanda necklaces. -lots of sikhs that have turbans also shave. -iampunjabi.com is also sikh related too. -SSA programs can have punjabi culture related skits (like the one at saint soldier) the point is that people have a mix of religion and culture and i think its best that way instead of being one sided. the reason people push sikhism away is because it doesnt seem to be open to some things so if it was people would be more encouraged to include it in their balance

the word dance isnt even used literally in most of those quotes and if it compares love for the guru to dancing (gurmukh nirath har laagai bhaao || The Gurmukh's dance is to embrace love for the Lord.) thats not saying dancing is bad.

sikhs can definately enjoy bhangra and dancing. i've seen lots of girls with keskis and also sardars that dance even at a gursikhs wedding. dancing should not be discouraged because its better than just sitting there, makes u feel happy and confident, and its good for ur health. bhangra is especially good because its so easy for anybody to do and its just clean fun. all other fun things like laser tag could be argued as being false etc too but i think they're all good to do as long as its limited.

hey u guys need to think more like a politician. sonia refused it to make her way to the top. this was to make sikhs happy. i think she's planning to easily win the next election because if she took it now she would have been at a big risk. anyway i hope manmohan singh does something special

If you woke up this morning >> with more health than illness, >> you are more blessed than the >> million who won't survive the >> week. >> >> >> >> If you have never experienced >> the danger of battle, >> the loneliness of imprisonment, >> the agony of torture or >> the pangs of starvation, >> you are ahead of 20 million people >> around the world. >> >> >> >> If you attend a church meeting >> without fear of harassment, >> arrest, torture, or death, >> you are more blessed than almost >> three billion people in the world. >> >> >> >> >> If you have food in your >> refrigerator, >> clothes on your back, a roof over >> your head and a place to sleep, >> you are richer than 75% of this >> world. >> >> >> >> If you have money in the bank, >> in your walle t, and spare change >> in a dish someplace, you are among >> the top 8% of the world's wealthy. >> >> >> >> If your parents are still married >> and alive, >> you are very rare, >> especially in the United States. >> >> >> >> If you hold up your head with a >> smile >> on your face and are truly >> thankful, >> you are blessed because the >> majority can, >> but most do not. >> >> >> >> >> If you can hold someone's hand, >> hug them >> or even touch them on the >> shoulder, >> you are blessed because you can >> offer God's healing touch. >> >> >> >> If you can read this message, >> you are more blessed than over >> two billion people in the world >> that cannot read anything at all. >> >> >> >> You are so blessed in ways >> you may never even know.

does anyone have a link for the slideshow they played at the funeral?

oh i was watching the show too but i guess i missed that part. atleast they mentioned "I’m not an Arab, I’m a Sikh"

yea because that was really funny wasnt it :wub: she should regret what she said, so u think its ok to refer to our guru ji as a devil do u! ya it was "<admin-profanity filter activated>" type of funny. just a one second chuckle. no i didnt say it was ok for her to say that just that its quite pointless to debate about it. u dont really need to worry about her regretting what she said because she can learn herself if she's willing to. it was enough to just say how she was wrong that one time and then move on. worry about urself first

what a joke. i think sikhs make themselves look really bad when they make a big deal about something like this because its just bakwaas. the person that made the comment clearly showed she didnt know what she was talking about cause she didnt even know guru nanak's name in the first place. i dont think thats anything to debate about its just a chuckle... also, just because what she had to say was offensive doesnt mean they should regret letting her speak. they should simply say how she's wrong and move to the next person. did anyone else just laugh when they heard guru nanak being compared to satan? i think some sikhs get offended too easily

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hehe its also funny how people with popular last names like gill worry about someone they're interested in having the same last name

they were all so young

thankyou for posting kulpreet

kps those pictures are awesome

i heard this shocking news as soon as i woke up this morning. it is so sad that someone that accomplished so much in his young age has to go so soon and makes u think how lazy u are compared to him. does anyone know what caused the accident though? did they hit something or get hit by someone else? anyway to see this in the best light i think all we can do is follow his message even more strongly ;gwork

http://www.rss.org/New_RSS/Mission_Vision/..._Minorities.jsp

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cool. interesting how half the people have the exact same yellow rumals