MisterrSingh

Our desire to assimilate and integrate into wider society mostly overrides any in-group concerns. The boat you're hoping for set sail a very long time ago. You can't dial things back in these situations unless there's almost a social reset after a major societal upheaval like war, etc. The best you can do is to enact these changes in your family unit, and hope others in your circle follow your example.

I heard that HP aren't as good as they use to be, although that may have changed recently. Something to do with overheating. Huawei MateBook is supposedly the top laptop at the moment. Acer make decent laptops, too.

A baba. Easy money.

Stick with Dell unless their quality control has regressed in the past 10 years. Their laptops are work-horses. If you want something fashionable, then there's many manufacturers out there.

This is something that I absolutely agree with, and I'm only quite recently trying to put into practice. It's difficult, though. Most Sikhs possess altruistic traits that are mostly rooted in our religious teachings and experiences; justice, righteousness, and the desire not to see people languishing under oppression, these are all admirable qualities. The problem arrives when we posture and punch above our weight, jostling to be noticed and praised for issues whilst mysteriously neglecting the immediate problems facing us. Whilst I wouldn't recommend a policy of total isolationism and indifference to the dog's dinner of the political and social situations in whichever western countries we live in, I think it's imperative we adopt a cynical and slightly withdrawn demeanour to the khel and tamasha in these countries. Yes, only a total loon h@ram of a community revels in the misfortune of their host's fortunes, but we tend to go completely overboard and make ourselves look like loyal stooges. Either this is steeped in a somewhat creepy desire to be praised, admired and favoured by our hosts, or we're genuinely just too honourable, lol. Whatever the reasons, we unfortunately lack depth and originality in thought, and this manifests itself in us jumping on any and all popular bandwagons. It's annoying and upsetting to see us unknowingly dancing to the beat by which everyone else is hypnotised, even though our religion teaches us to travel the middle path. We value and follow non-Sikh transient ideologies and belief systems -- or in the most egregious examples we tend to create a Frankenstein's monster of an ideology by hybridising various western practices with Sikh beliefs -- because we lack the knowledge of our own ways, and this aimless wandering from cause to cause only serves to highlight how little we truly understand about the true workings of the world despite the leap in worldly education levels in our community. We are too emotional and prone to be driven by instinct and the prevailing mood. These are traits that are not conducive to the long-term wellbeing of our people.

I'm not referring to music or other overtly specific cultural markers. There's small habitual similarities that are recognisable when observing the day to day family and communal experience, particularly the matriarchal commonalities between the two groups and the manner in which our language is quite metaphorical and used for purposes of humour. It's there if you bother to look closely.

From a communal and cultural perspective there are similarities between Punjabis and Jews. If you ever read the works of Philip Roth, his accounts of the Jewish family unit and their broad cultural attitudes and experiences aren't too far removed from the Punjabi way of things. Religiously, it's a different story altogether.

All we need is our own Rothschilds to lobby and barter with the international order on our behalf, and a superpower like the U.S. to send us $38 billion in military aid on an annual basis. How much does Reuben Singh have in the bank, lol? I'm afraid we have neither the standing or the credentials for following the Israeli template. Israel thrives not through its own efforts of pluck and determination, but because the U.S. intimidates Israel's opponents and hostile neighbours into not pushing their luck beyond reason. In many ways we are similar to the Jews; in a few other notable ways we are absolutely nothing like them.

It sounded cool?

I've had an absolutely insane theory about this for a few years, but I don't think anyone is ready to hear it, lol. On closer inspection it doesn't hold up to scrutiny, but I sense there's something there beneath the surface. I'll just say there's a reason it was called Operation Blue Star. Lol, madness, yet maybe truth is stranger than fiction.

It was something like that. I last heard the katha a very long time ago.

I think there's an element of the sinner's deeds being visited upon their offspring or their loved ones, so that he or she can observe, in their own lifetime, the fruits of their evil impacting their own blood as the ultimate punishment for targeting innocents. Seems a bit cruel, but life is cruel. I recall a sakhi which says this no longer applies in kalyug, as this phenomenon was more of an occurrence in the Dwapar (or was it Treta?) yug, whereas supposedly in kaljug you are meant to reap what you sow directly. However, from personal observation and experience, I have to say I've seen this "sins of the father" phenomenon still transpires to this very day in our own community; despicably evil individuals ruining young lives, thinking they've escaped punishment as the decades pass without any blowback or consequences, only for the loved ones of the perpetrators to suddenly begin dropping like flies over the course of a few years. I suppose it varies from case to case. Who genuinely knows how this karmic justice / debt system really works?

A brief glance at the current social media landscape as it relates to Sikhs (I don't own a smartphone, but my mum's phone is always lying around, lol) shows that the dastaar is making a comeback as a visible symbol. Granted, I suspect it's more a cultural expression of pride in Punjabi identity than anything rooted in religious sentiment, but i believe it's a good sign going forward.

Aggan bhet in a wheelbarrow down t'allotment.

I never realised the extent to which he is held in high esteem by his followers until I went to Punjab a few months ago and I came across at least 3 unrelated families in different parts of the state, and each family had a small shrine to him in the form of various framed photographs, in front of which they'd light some incense each morning and each evening. One striking aspect of the Dhadhriawale phenomenon is how the masses rarely have any recollection of the particular content of his various sermons but they all seem to be in a hypnotic trance at his very existence. Some of the language I observed being used in relation to him was very unsettling. The lightning shaped scar on my forehead becomes rather agitated when I see him, lol. Oh well, I'm beginning to understand why the elite families and corporations of the world hold the masses in such contempt: we are sheep at the best of times. So, so easy to manipulate.

They must've been doing matha tekh to the screen when they first saw Gandalf in Lord of the Rings.

Their work ethic (both sexes) also played a considerable role in their health. The food they ate -- some of which contemporary people would deride as fatty or too rich -- provided them with the necessary energy to do all they did, with very little of the potential side effects from eating such food manifesting itself as weight gain or other potential health problems. Of course, modern agricultural practices and general lifestyle issues must be taken into account if we're discussing this problem as it relates to contemporary society.

I never said otherwise. I just thought he had long hair on his head despite trimming his beard.

Yes, that's something that's become concrete in my mind, too. There simply isn't any other way to ensure our survival.

I literally had no idea he was a mona underneath the pag. I assumed he trimmed his beard but had a joorah.

What the Sant doesn't know isn't going to hurt him. If he's truly a sant, his ESP abilities will allow him to discover if you're lying when you're actually caning the andhe on the sly but pretending you aren't. If he doesn't say a word, he's a fraud, so don't waste time inflating the ego of a pakhandhi if he can't spot anything as basic as an undercover egg lover in his sangat.

If only you displayed such integrity and honesty in your personal life. Lol.

Most people know exactly what they are. We have eyes and ears. The truth is you would neither care nor object to their activities to the extent that you do, if their impact on Sikhs didn't intersect with their toxic affects on your emotions. So, what you're actually trying to do -- quite obviously -- is drum up hostility (whether it's warranted is irrelevant) on this site under the guise of activism and awareness, which will, in your mind, soothe your emotional pain as you see some of your fellow Sikhs pile in to these dhoti-wale who make your life unbearable, because it's the kind of support you wish you had in your offline existence. It's quite twisted and malicious in a way. Don't continue to push me because, as you can see, I will push back.

You just proved my point, lol.

Where did I imply or suggest I was counting the days until he arrived? I'm merely curious at his possible motivations, because I suspect the so-called saviour of eastern dharma cannot be the same person who'll herald peace on earth from the Abrahamic perspective. So, either it's all nonsense or those respective personalities will be at loggerheads, which begs the question: who'll be the the good guy and what will he want to achieve? Your hate for Hindus, because they bully you, is making you see things that simply aren't there. Some perspective, please. You're slipping into old habits and we're on the verge of falling out again. Don't knowingly mischaracertise my words and my intentions to push your propaganda.