singher23

what is bbq

Barbecue. When you go outside and grill food

Correct but anatomically the structures still remain dissimilar. They only develop that particular trait that benefits them.

That is exactly what evolution is. Species evolving new traits due to mutations in the genome. There is overwhelming evidence for evolution, and it's pretty much is true.

Anyway the way I see it, whether evolution happened, or didn't happen, either way it was Waheguru's hukam.

And no, humans did not appear on earth the minute it was formed. Homo Sapiens have only appeared roughly 200,000 years ago, the Earth was formed 4.6 Billion years ago if I remember correctly from Biology

It helps with stomach if you no do too much oily oily at the dinner n dance.

I have absolutely no clue what you mean, but I died of laughter

"New Jersey and New York are the states with the highest abortion rates in America. These states are simply baring the fruit of their karma. Hopefully Gursikhs, in these areas continune reciting Gurbani during these turbulent times so they can endure Karmas wrath. Prayers are with sangat from these areas."

Disgusting thinking. Anyway for those wondering what the situation is, lower manhattan is still without power, as is much of queens and Staten Island. I got out thankfully. Subways are still flooded mostly

Never understood this nonsense western idea of naming deadly occurrences as if they were the family pet. Of course I do understand that the practice has its origins in the Christian religion and particularly the Catholic traditions in the islands of the Carribean whereby deadly storms were given names begging the protection of christian saints. Still, as a son of the east, who's anscestors were writing the alphabet whilst the anscestors of the people that give storms names were eating each other in the caves of europe......I find the whole thing difficult to understand. I mean we have natural disasters in Punjab that cause massive destruction and take a massive number of lives. We don't feel the need to call them 'Flood Baljinder'...or 'Dust-storm Kamaljit'......or 'earthquake Boblee'.

Still, having said what I've said, I feel for all of you in the path of the storm in north America. I can imagine its difficult times for you and your loved ones. Hope Waheguru keeps you and your homes safe.

no one names earthquakes or dust storms. Only hurricanes, and that is because there are so many of them each year it makes it easier to identify and so everyone knows which one you are referring to

Brother, what are they saying about Long Island and Queens?

More specifically, towards the north shore but still in the middle of the island?

Like in Jamaica/Richmond hill area? Strong winds and rain. No real fear of flooding, as some places are in zone C which has a flood risk from a category 3 or higher hurricane only and still more places aren't zoned. There is a likelihood of power loss though, it's been flickering in manhattan

It's pretty bad right now in NYC, not much rain but extremely windy. Some parts of the city and subway have already flooded, and it's expected to get a lot worse

Thank you to all who have replied and sent me PM's. I have been doing loads of paat and that has calmed me down immensely, and hopefully soon I will be able to give my father a call or visit him and tell him the truth about how I feel about this. But he has to follow his own path in the end and who knows which way that goes. It's all Maharaaj's hukam in the end

Although I'm not one to criticize, because I've made plenty of mistakes in my life, here is a piece by a former member of 3HO who has left because he claims many of their practices are dishonest and directly violate rehat. You may have already seen it, it was written by the same person who made that video the day after the Gurdwara shooting in Wisconsin urging Sikhs to take up firearms

http://gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?id=344

WJKK, WJKF

I debated posting this in Gupt, but then I figured I, what the hell, might as well do it here. Just to preface, neither me nor my father are Amritdhari, although one day I hope to be

My father has never been the most religious man, but has always kept his kesh and gone to gurdwara regularly. However, in the year or so a very large change has happened. He started not always wearing a Pugh when he went out, just a small joori on the back of his head. At first it was only quick trips to the store nearby. Then he started doing it more and more, and now, unless he is going to work or Gurdwara, or someone's house, he almost never wears a Pugh. He also has stopped going to Gurdwara, last time he went was almost 2-3 months ago. I never said anything, because honestly, it's none of my business. My mother, who, on the other hand, is fairly religious, didn't say anything, but I could tell she really did not like this. About 6-7 months back he started trimming his beard. Not close, in fact, you could barely notice it, just enough so he didn't have to tie it (I am not trying to justify trimming ones beard at all). Again, I didn't say anything. 2 months ago, I left to go to college where I currently am. Last week when I went home, he talked about how he had started reading Richard Dawkins and whatnot, and that he had arrived at the conclusion that "All religion was basically B.S". I didn't say anything in response, just left the room.

Today I saw him again. He visited me where I go to college, and again he wasn't wearing a Pugh. But this time, is beard was visibly trimmed closer, now it was obvious. As I ate lunch with him, he brought up the fact that he was thinking of no longer wearing a Pugh at all, and perhaps cutting his hair one day. He asked him what I would think, and of course I told him that I wouldn't like it at all, but obviously he is free to do what he wished. I acted as if it didn't really bother me, but it does. I sit here typing this as tears are falling down my face. I'm not asking about how to convince him not do this, but what he has said really hit me hard. I don't know what the <banned word filter activated> to do, or how to deal with this. What if he actually cuts his hair? I don't think I would talk to him again. I really, really want to go to Gurdwara to think about this but there are none nearby. Any thoughts about how to deal with this would be very much appreciated

Why don't you just put it in airport parking?

It's not a pure Kenyan style pag. It's been changed somewhat since being appropriating by Punjabis in England. That's why I called it the "England style"

Anyway, if you could tell me how long of a piece of cloth I need, it would be very helpful.

6-8 meters probably. You find a girl yet? (serious question)

This was a lame attempt at humor

I think everyone here knows what I mean by an "England style" pag, and there is no other term for it that I am aware of

I thought it was funny. I think what you are referring to is "Kenyan style" pugh

Also, how often do you wash your hair? When I was younger, I would sometimes go 2 weeks or longer without washing my hair (super disgusting, I know). As soon as I started washing once a week or even more,my acne cut down drastically

Right now no but back then Jesus and his crew were Sikhs for sure.

I don't think that's how it works man. You could easily say then all Sikhs are jews

The problem is that when you have SGPC type organisations, they dont or cant say we support Sikh Freedom, or we support Khalistan. They leave themselves open when then asked about 84 memorials and Sukha and Jinda. Their fence-sitting is causing them problems. SGPC have never endorsed, rejected or said anything about Khalistan or 1984.

If that had been me in KiranJots place, i would have said straight, " the indian army is a terrorist army and murderers to us, in the same way that Sukh and Jinda are murderers and terrorists to you. You build your memorial to your terrorists, we'll build ours. "

I'm probably in the minority, but I am glad that the SGPC is doesn't comment on Khalistan or 84 or whatever. That is not their role. Their job is to maintain Gurdwaras, that's it. It's the Akal Takht's job to do the commenting and whatnot. The less the SGPC is involved with Sikh politics the better

Drink more water, eat more fruits and veggies, and go to a different dermatologist and see what they say

When Jews go out and kill Nazi killers it is called justice, but when Sikhs want to kill the people who are responsible for genocide then you want to call it a revenge. Tell me how these two scenarios are different. Only difference is they (i.e., Jews, Hindus, etc.) have power and we don't. Also, why we keep on worrying about the media, this same media (both western and Indian) has not helped us in the last 30 years, and they are not going to help us now. For them we are just a small community that doesn’t count in a scheme of things.

I am not against having some leverage on the media, but presently we should not worry about the media because they are not going to help. However, I keep on reading what western media thinks about us!!

Difference is is that when the Mossad did those missions to hunt down escaped Nazi's, they had a country backing them that was friendly with the West. We have no nation to support us

stop deleting my posts

Double posted by mistake. Delete one of them. But you'll probably just delete them both so what does it matter

Ok this is actually starting to get ridiculous. Anything the Mods (Not sure which ones) don't like or go against their opinion are starting to get deleted. This happened before in the thread that Auzer created, and it made quite a big fuss, and it is happening once again now in various threads that Curioustoknow has created.

Mods, at least inform us of which posts and are getting deleted, and WHY they are getting deleted.

How does that imply that Sherdil got banned?

"We hit the BAN button"? How can that be interpreted in any other possible way other than to think that person got banned?

You really think I am crazy to ban anyone, don't you?

By the way, in case you didn't know, I am not the only one who does that sort of thing on here, i.e. weed out trouble makers

Sherdil hasn't posted in this thread for 4 days now, and its only after repeated warnings that we hit the BAN button.

I read this post perfectly fine. Maybe you would like to re-word it so people can understand what you really mean

Wait you guys banned Sherdil? What the hell

Regarding the act of trying to get rid of Brar, what does sangat think? Was it a wise thing to do taking into account the possible ramifications for Sikhs and Sikh rights in the UK, or does what happened in 1984 override any sense of trying to get things done through official, peaceful channels?

IF it actually was Sikhs who were behind this attack, I would be proud and disappointed. Proud because they actually tried and disappointed because they messed up so badly. As regards to whether it was a wise thing...there comes a point in time where you know justice is not going to be served, and you become so, so angry because it will never happen, that you just need to do something. And even though I'm sure that those people knew who attacked Brar (assuming they were Sikhs), that this would cast Sikhs in a negative light, they decided to do so anyway. That was because they believed that punishing him was more more important than the way Sikhs were viewed in the eyes of the general public.

There will be those who totally disagree and say "Why did you do this our community, you tarnished us in the public's eyes", and then there are those who agree. It basically comes down to this, would you rather Brar punished for his heinous acts than be viewed highly in the eyes of Britishers.