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.

3 hours ago, Premi5 said:

Thanks for your suggestion.

Are there any other brands you would recommend, or avoid?

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.

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. 

9 hours ago, Singh559 said:

India will flex diplomatic powers and thus we shouldn't direct unnecessary energy against whiteness, zionism or any other social justice warrior co-opting of issues.

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social situations in whichever western countries we live in, I think it's imperative we adopt a cynical and slightly withdrawn demeanour to the khel and tamasha in these countries.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.

5 hours ago, jkvlondon said:

If you look at punjabi culture it is very similar to greek culture /italian culture meaning rural not city/urban ...even the dancing and folk music , we have a lot of history of cultural exchange with Sycthians  so it's understandable . Jewish culture not so much

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.

21 minutes ago, MahadrasSingh said:

 The main difference between the elite jews and us is they want world domination while we want liberation of the world. 

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. 

10 minutes ago, Singh559 said:

Sant Ji also said to take inspiration from Israel and how they have kept Arabs at bay fighting against such odds.

India will flex diplomatic powers and thus we shouldn't direct unnecessary energy against whiteness, zionism or any other social justice warrior co-opting of issues.

We need to become powerful enough where lobbies like America, Canada or Israel will take us more seriously than India.

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. 

7 hours ago, jkvlondon said:

OK so we are back with the zionists ....what about black thunder then ...what's your theory for that name ?

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.

1 hour ago, jkvlondon said:

in satyug I thought it was one person sinned and the whole world paid for it

then tretha one person and the country paid for it

dwapur one person and kul suffered

kalyug one person, they suffer themselves

Guru Bachan in Gurbani and rehitname speaks of actions which will destroy your kul, and others which will condemn your own soul to suffer. Besides isn't Sikh concept of yugs equivalent to states of being on the spiritual/mental plane?

As for Aurangzeb's descendants they are struggling now to even eat , I remember a couple of years back they came to Darbar Sahib to beg forgiveness

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

2 hours ago, Ranjeet01 said:

Can someone please explain to me, some people say that you reap what you sow in your lifetime.

Do we actually atone for our sins in this life only? 

But Aurangzeb lived up to a ripe old age of 93. He never reaped what he had sown.

It is said what goes around comes around but not for this person. 

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.

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.

53 minutes ago, Preeet said:

I thought dhari munan vales are monehs regardless of a jura 

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

27 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

The reality that I am coming to realise more and more is that we need our own state. 

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. 

41 minutes ago, AjeetSinghPunjabi said:

LOL ! I am chuckling. You think all of my hindu friends are bad and malicious to sikhs ? The problem with you uncle is that you make up bizzare inferences in your head about people which do not necessarily correspond with the reality. 

I am not pushing sikhs against hindus, rather i would sikhs become more aware of the impending danger from the quarters they would least expect . However, I feel you would rather be ok with the cowish passive mentality of our people nowadays then with them becoming more politically aware , like the hindus of rss 

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

1 minute ago, AjeetSinghPunjabi said:

you only see my weak points and not how i am constantly trying to wake our apney by posting latest happening on this site. 

you think hindus are our friends, any better than muslims are ?

atleast muslims were foreigners , hindus are someone for whom our gurus laid their lives and we protected them and covered their temples with gold while they broke ours using tanks and canons. You stilll think they're our bros ? 

I think these hindutva freaks are our greatest enemies, far greater than any abrahamic cult 

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.

7 minutes ago, AjeetSinghPunjabi said:

and you hate islam on this site is so obvious. Did they bully you ? 

just go check how rss is distorting history and how sikhs have been fooled and still to this day. 

You just proved my point, lol. 

3 minutes ago, AjeetSinghPunjabi said:

As I said previously kalki is  a vishnu avatar . 

Guru Gobind Singh ji (or perhaps the poets among the 52 in gurus darbar) have mentioned the avatars of vishnu and of shiva in dasam granth under the sections "chaubis avatar" and "rudra avatar" respectively.

Ofcourse, one can say Guru ji reprhased Ramayan and Mahabharat , but it is not guru ji's original content. I believe he merely translated from sanskrit to brij so that people can read easily and don't have to depend on bahmans ! 

Any content of this sections is purely a replica of the original sanskrit scriptures and should therefore not be seen as guru ji's own viewpoint. For instance , when in Krishna avatar, Krishna is referred with honorific names akin to god, it is Ved vyasa's view who originally compiled Mahabharat , not of Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji maharaj. 

 

Plot twist : He's coming to establish Hindu rashtar for rss

and all sikhs or should i say "keshadhari hindus" will have to go back to their roots. 

Kalki's gonna make singhs drop their kachhera and wear dhoti instead LOL and kes will be reduced to bodi , and kirpan will change for janeu. And he will finally destroy the "evil" Tat Khalsa and replace them with Hindu-Sikhs who wear dhoti angavastram , janeudhari tilakdhari "singhs" and put the sacred idols  back in Hari Mandir , which the "evil" singh sabha movement sikhs removed in the early 1920s . 

because he's a hindu avatar, so he will think about hindoos . why about you ? 

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.