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BhForce

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  1. Then why are you asking? If it's just like choosing a brand of toothpaste, why even ask? Or, when you say you don't understand, does that mean that no one has told you why sex out of marriage is wrong, or people have and you reject that?
  2. Of course it's true. It's not like the translation was written by Guru Sahib. You should listen/view Youtube videos that have transliteration. Reading translations is actually kind of boring, since Gurbani is poetry meant to be experienced.
  3. Huh? The article says sangat told the sevaks to stop, but they said they will do anything "Baba ji" tells them to do. Stupid beyond belief.
  4. You did not directly refute my points, so I guess they stand. OK, I guess you have a point there. But do know that the New Testament doesn't call on people to kill non-Christians. The Koran does (non-Muslims).
  5. Have you ever read Gurbani, bro? Guru Sahib mentions other faiths all the time. And saying they are wrong. Sukhmani Sahib lists all the ways Hindus and Jains try to find mukti. And then refutes them. ਹਿੰਦੂ ਅੰਨ੍ਹਾ ਤੁਰਕੂ ਕਾਣਾ ॥ This entire shabad mentions many Hindu stories, and refutes them. Guru Nanak ji talks about the filthiness of Jains. There's another shabad talking about the pain endured by various figures worshipped by Hindus. Guru Arjan Dev ji and Bhagat Kabir ji talk about the futility of worshipping idols.
  6. No, bro, how could that possibly be? Islam came 700 years after Christianity, how could it possibly mention Islam?
  7. Who says it was his teaching? He didn't write the Bible.
  8. The fact is that some Sikhs have taken to saying what the poster above said (that Sikhs are not supposed to preach). It would be more accurate to say that the Sikhs prefer to tell people about Dharma (religious obligation) without regarding to religious specifics while also putting forth Sikhism as the best option. Then, people who are desiring to do so, can adopt Sikhism.
  9. Agreed. I mean, where do they think the current Sikhs came from? Sikhmart?
  10. So that's your first post? Why don't you make a list? Or do you know what the "firangi colonizers" changed but you don't want to reveal your hand?
  11. Exactly. She simply is MI6. Why, if you were from a country like Iran, and somehow or another made it out of that country, would you ever go back?
  12. Yeah, I'm sure that that was the case. MPs care about stuff you can do to affect them. England is a very small country. You can easily drive from one constituency to another to do stuff (knock on doors, volunteer for campaigns, etc.). Also, you can help to elect a party even in your own constituency. MPs want to be in the treasury benches, of course, not the opposition.
  13. Well, are you denying that the PSEB published his book? Or are you questioning whether CM Beant Singh authorized it? I believe his book was published in 1994? Beant Singh died in 1993, right? But the question is, before his death, did Beant Singh authorize the PSEB to publish Purewal's work? If so, it totally destroys any fig leaf of pretense that Purewal might have to be pro-Sikh. Purewal needs to be questioned as to who he met with in order to get funding to publish his work. Did he meet with Beant Singh? I would like to see if he denies or accepts it. And if there is proof of a meeting (as in visitor logs). Who was he working for in those days? What was his day job? If calendar dabbling was his day job, who was funding him? The Panth deserves to know.
  14. Not a call, bro. Either in person or video streaming (Skype or something). I'd like to see both men faces while they are talking in order to assess where they're coming from.
  15. I don't necessarily agree. But I do agree that 1) celebrating according to Bikrami is not Brahmanism and 2) there's no rush need to change from Bikrami. Strongly agree. As Sikhs, we would be fools to go into the technical details of these debates. Arguing about Gurpurab dates, Surya Siddhant, Dasam Granth Sahib birs, and so on is simply missing the point: our detractors want us to spend our energy and time arguing and fighting instead of doing something for the Panth. Are there any pictures of him? He should answer why he cut his hair before and why he kept it later. Did you have some sort of religious awakening? If so, what? For the supporters of this man, it would be useful to know what his personal rehit and faith is. The reason is that he has made emotional appeals to religion in order to make his case. Sikhs deserve to know who the man is that is pushing the entire Panth on his whims. (The same for our Jathedars.)
  16. I suppose we are. The point is that the real discussion of technical calendar points gets very hairy real fast. And it should be a protracted discussion. It should not be something where Purewal is trying to whip up a frenzy among half of Sikhs to try to wage a kind of religious war against the other half merely for the gratification of his ego. And there is simply no reason to rush things along. And no appeals to irrelevant arguments like Bikrami is Brahmanism. Once those ground rules are accepted, the Panth can have a calm, detailed discussion.
  17. If that's the case, go ahead and post the link. Perhaps a reason for that might be the fact that Purewal himself made emotional/political arguments in his own PDF arguing for his calendar. I don't see why Purewal should get to make non-technical points and Nishan Singh should not.
  18. Very right, the both of you. The BBC love showing Sikh women as oppressed by "evil brown men with beards", but of course they would never do that with Islam because the Muslims would bomb BBC headquarters. Not proposing a bombing, of course, but I am saying that pressure should be applied. If the Sikhs got together to protest the BBC at their headquarters, they would write a news article saying that the Sikhs were trying to physically intimidate journalists. Of course, no such intimidation or protests are necessary by Muslims because the intimidation occurs without protests in the minds of BBC bosses who are mentally cowed because they know the Muslims will physically hurt them for writing against Muslims and Islam.
  19. That's not necessarily the case, bro. If you live in the same country, you can still influence MPs because you can influence the party.
  20. Really? When did this happen, and for which Muslim?
  21. That's what Sikhs believe. Guru Nanak ji was/is God, and all the Gurus have the same light. A handful of Sikhs believe the Gurus were mere mortals.
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