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1 hour ago, puzzled said:

What happens to anyone? What happens to people who have never been introduced to God or Naam? why should they be punished for their atheism if God never introduced them to himself.

No one will ever know.  

Does Sikhi say they are punished? I'm asking straight up, I don't recall the answer either way.

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2 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

Does Sikhi say they are punished? I'm asking straight up, I don't recall the answer either way.

I don't know, that's y I'm asking lol 

it would would be a bit unfair if people who have never been introduced God or naam to be punished! 

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15 minutes ago, puzzled said:

I don't know, that's y I'm asking lol 

it would would be a bit unfair if people who have never been introduced God or naam to be punished! 

I'd imagine there's a few possible answers someone determined to justify and relish the damnation of others (?) could proffer:

1. What's stopping such people from searching for their salvation? It might be argued the modern internet age has made available knowledge, philosophies and spiritual paths that were previously hidden from only but the students and enthusiasts of these schools of thought. If someone still chooses to remain in their comfort zone and languishing under ignorance, that's their apathy that's preventing them from seeking out something that is immediately available to them.

2. If we believe in reincarnation and that each subsequent janam is a potential step closer to the ultimate goal of merging with the One, then it's something that's going to happen when it's supposed to, and not any earlier. Usually, I think there's lifetimes of learning, pain, lessons, and experiencing atheism, Christianity, Islam, Rastafarianism, etc., lol, before the soul absorbs the necessary critical information required to reach a particular lifetime that's the so-called special janam where everything comes together. We as Sikhs believe that's Sikhi janam. Who knows how many lifetimes we've laboured under other faiths before arriving at this particular stage? 

There's Sikhs who squander their Sikhi janam while non-Sikhs enter the world as something else and end up finding Sikhi. It's karams IMO.

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1 hour ago, MisterrSingh said:

I'd imagine there's a few possible answers someone determined to justify and relish the damnation of others (?) could proffer:

1. What's stopping such people from searching for their salvation? It might be argued the modern internet age has made available knowledge, philosophies and spiritual paths that were previously hidden from only but the students and enthusiasts of these schools of thought. If someone still chooses to remain in their comfort zone and languishing under ignorance, that's their apathy that's preventing them from seeking out something that is immediately available to them.

2. If we believe in reincarnation and that each subsequent janam is a potential step closer to the ultimate goal of merging with the One, then it's something that's going to happen when it's supposed to, and not any earlier. Usually, I think there's lifetimes of learning, pain, lessons, and experiencing atheism, Christianity, Islam, Rastafarianism, etc., lol, before the soul absorbs the necessary critical information required to reach a particular lifetime that's the so-called special janam where everything comes together. We as Sikhs believe that's Sikhi janam. Who knows how many lifetimes we've laboured under other faiths before arriving at this particular stage? 

There's Sikhs who squander their Sikhi janam while non-Sikhs enter the world as something else and end up finding Sikhi. It's karams IMO.

I think it all comes down to karam, if God gets u to acknowledge him then you acknowledge him, otherwise you don't. 

I mean there are people born into Sikh families who are mentally not well or have a learning disability and can not understand what God is, yet they are still born into Sikhi. 

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1 hour ago, MisterrSingh said:

I'd imagine there's a few possible answers someone determined to justify and relish the damnation of others (?) could proffer:

1. What's stopping such people from searching for their salvation? It might be argued the modern internet age has made available knowledge, philosophies and spiritual paths that were previously hidden from only but the students and enthusiasts of these schools of thought. If someone still chooses to remain in their comfort zone and languishing under ignorance, that's their apathy that's preventing them from seeking out something that is immediately available to them.

2. If we believe in reincarnation and that each subsequent janam is a potential step closer to the ultimate goal of merging with the One, then it's something that's going to happen when it's supposed to, and not any earlier. Usually, I think there's lifetimes of learning, pain, lessons, and experiencing atheism, Christianity, Islam, Rastafarianism, etc., lol, before the soul absorbs the necessary critical information required to reach a particular lifetime that's the so-called special janam where everything comes together. We as Sikhs believe that's Sikhi janam. Who knows how many lifetimes we've laboured under other faiths before arriving at this particular stage? 

There's Sikhs who squander their Sikhi janam while non-Sikhs enter the world as something else and end up finding Sikhi. It's karams IMO.

So Sikhi is the only path to salvation?

There are 7.8 Billion people in the world and Sikhs are just 30 million. So those other 7.77 Billion have to be reincarnated as Sikhs to end the cycle of rebirth? And that is just human lives. If you include animals and insects it is even more.

It would take a ridiculously long time for every person to have the chance to be born a Sikh. In fact the world would probably have ended by that time.

What about prehistoric animals like Dinosaurs that were around hundreds of millions of years before humans, what was happening to their souls? Were they waiting for humans to be created? Modern humans have only been around 200,000 years and ones that are like us just around 30,000.

What happens to the soul of a mentally disabled person born into an Amritdhari family, who has no possibility to understand Sikhi or God? He has waited all of this time to be born into a Sikh family but cannot do anything now because he is disabled.

These are things I often wonder about.

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