I posted this elsewhere the other day...just things I would enjoy discussing...
If there is a god… (Philosophical musings)
Things I don’t understand:
If god created the earth AND the heavens and universe, and things that are “on the ground” for me in Canada are on “the top of the world” for someone right around the globe for me, and there’s no true “up or down” in space, why should it be wrong to put a gutka or religious book such as ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ on the “ground”??
Did god create feet to be dirtier than hands? Why is it a sign of respect to touch someone’s feet with your forehead or kiss their feet, but disrespectful to put your feet facing the ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ? And what of the idea of the people who go about in the shoe room at the gurdwara dusting them and touching them…to get the knowledge of their wearers symbolically?
Are bacteria weaker than we are because we are bigger and we think we can fool them? Or are they stronger, more powerful, and therefore superior to us because a single teaspoon of them could sometimes kill us? Why the fear of bacteria in food or with the idea of washing your hands before praying or eating but do you wash your money (which has a LOT of bacteria typically on it!!) before putting in the slot for donations at the gurdwara? If you don't wash your money right before doing so, doesn't the fact that you washed your hands before manipulating contaminated money kind if seem rather like a useless ritual in the end?
(All this being said I personally think bacteria are absolutely necessary and mostly beneficial, because if we tried to live in a sterile world we would be sicker not healthier).
I have more but I’ll think some on it…
questions
If there is a god… (Philosophical musings)
Things I don’t understand:
If god created the earth AND the heavens and universe, and things that are “on the ground” for me in Canada are on “the top of the world” for someone right around the globe for me, and there’s no true “up or down” in space, why should it be wrong to put a gutka or religious book such as ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ on the “ground”??
Did god create feet to be dirtier than hands? Why is it a sign of respect to touch someone’s feet with your forehead or kiss their feet, but disrespectful to put your feet facing the ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ? And what of the idea of the people who go about in the shoe room at the gurdwara dusting them and touching them…to get the knowledge of their wearers symbolically?
Are bacteria weaker than we are because we are bigger and we think we can fool them? Or are they stronger, more powerful, and therefore superior to us because a single teaspoon of them could sometimes kill us? Why the fear of bacteria in food or with the idea of washing your hands before praying or eating but do you wash your money (which has a LOT of bacteria typically on it!!) before putting in the slot for donations at the gurdwara? If you don't wash your money right before doing so, doesn't the fact that you washed your hands before manipulating contaminated money kind if seem rather like a useless ritual in the end?
(All this being said I personally think bacteria are absolutely necessary and mostly beneficial, because if we tried to live in a sterile world we would be sicker not healthier).
I have more but I’ll think some on it…
questions