Recent content by AngloSikhPeace

WJKK WJKF Harry ji, please lay off the 'be a strong person' tough love routine. This brother of ours is clearly suffering from serious psychological problems and he needs sympathy. Likely he has nobody else to turn to besides the internet. As someone who has suffered from similar problems with...

I never do sarcasm on the internet without properly labelling it as such. :) Nobody can understand sarcasm online...

Well, staying in Uni accomodation should be a learning experience then. People come there as immature kids, suffer from the chaos for a bit, learn to work together and then leave as young adults. Stay strong, live and let live, but don't forget to be the voice of reason when it's needed. You'll...

Wheew... That's a big one that I hadn't thought of. First year students are often little more than teenagers, so as such they usually have difficulty with sharing at first. Who gets to shower when is a big source of conflict, but in your case it could be an advantage. If you shower early in the...

I never said that the only people who had problems with it were Sikh, and really for myself the Sikhi side of it was not really the problem. And I am white so don't make this about race.

Whilst it's important to respect other people's way of life, for many people the behaviour of some students can be very distressing regardless of religious beliefs. It isn't pleasant for most to live in an environment where there's a noisy party somewhere nearby at least once a week, where the...

I don't really know about the USA. As generally people aren't very knowledgeable about world religions you will probably be mistaken for Muslim at least once, but there are unlikely to be any serious consequences to that (at least from the students). Students tend to either be a-political or...

At that time I didn't wear a dastar regularly, but I did have uncut hair and a beard. They knew I was a Sikh and one time I did come home from the Gurdwara wearing a dastar, but they never bothered me about anything like that. I presume that it could be different in the US as Sikhs are pretty...

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki fateh. I stayed in uni dorms here in the UK, I really disliked the experience. There was so much noise, people partied all night and the stench of weed and cigarette smoke festooned the entrance areas. It was difficult to cook or clean anything due to the...

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki fateh. Just to correct the title/heading, this is not the first Singh to contest a UK general election, there have been other Sikh candidates before. He is the first to contest in Northern Ireland, which is an achievement in itself. As the article says...

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki fateh. 1. I never get racist prejudice against me because I'm a Sikh, and never from my family at all. I do receive prejudiced comments from strangers because I'm a white Sikh (oddly enough). Everyone sees Asian Sikhs all the time, but since white Sikhs are...

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki fateh. I don't understand the question about eating. If you have kesh you probably wear a dastaar, and most people wear their dastaar all the time. What's the exception with eating? Does your friend take off their dastaar when eating, or only put it on when...

Interesting. So the Shabad-Guru is everything that allows us to realise the Param-aatma? Does this only include Gurbani in the literal sense (ie the teachings of the Sikh Gurus) or can the teachings of other faiths allow this realisation to take place? And what does it mean to 'realise the...

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh. But what's the difference between Humanity and the Guru? What's the actual definition of what the Guru is? The Guru is the Shabad as you correctly say, but what's the difference between matter and Gurbani? If everything's part of Waheguru, then...

Thanks for the answers!