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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="Sinister" data-source="post: 122677" data-attributes="member: 2684"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Well, </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This thread started off as irreligious by asking a question in the title ‘is there a god?’. Then it somehow evolves into a discussion and critique of religion because nobody seems genuinely committed in discussing philosophical strategies that help discern the variety of the 'naturally' constructed realities. Nobody seems to be asking the right questions; why does god exist or how god could exist? Or what is the nature of existence?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Now, it has come down to the posting of Sam Harris videos from youtube that have little if any ting to do with the discussion of god/philosophy but simply social religion.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">What I argue is simple, skeptics will use words like ‘soundness’ to discuss against god but do a 180 turn and argue rather vigorously for the soundness of the belief in such things as time and material reality… or the soundness of the belief that the space-time continuum can be bent in order to explain something like gravity. Why does their skepticism stop?…lack of knowledge. If you ask me, the belief in materiality and such theories that cannot be comprehended, is just another ‘quantum leap’ of creating a model to understand outcomes (identical to a model of god).</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Words like ‘spaghetti monster’ and ‘Elvis’ are floated but simply add up to nothing more than an expression of a primal urge (just like the word god), because if anyone truthfully and honestly believed the scientific proven notion that all matter and time exist as the result of a probability…those questions would not be asked with such a profoundly emotional underpinning or conviction.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So i would say to Mr. Harris (I dare not call him a DR.), ‘Skeptics’ just like the ‘Religious’ are an emotional bunch and show strikingly similar insecurities and urges when they express their beliefs of reality.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Our minds cannot comprehend quantum superposition, quantum leaps, (basically reality) but such things are not only observed but also considered scientific truths. Because how is it physically possible to observe a particle and then deduce that not only could it be in multiple places but IS in all these places at once until observed?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Uncertainty (for the pessimist) and Probability (for the optimist) are the only truths. For the pantheist then, god is a probability and can be argued for or against with equal legitimacy, depending upon a persons taste…but the only way to discuss god is to first acknowledge that our understood reality is nothing more than a probability otherwise disagreement is inevitable and nothing but a waste of time (which a material skeptic would argue exists).</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">the simple observation, that the subject of god, can effect the emotional state of a man should be enough proof of existence.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">what is existence?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sinister, post: 122677, member: 2684"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Well, [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This thread started off as irreligious by asking a question in the title ‘is there a god?’. Then it somehow evolves into a discussion and critique of religion because nobody seems genuinely committed in discussing philosophical strategies that help discern the variety of the 'naturally' constructed realities. Nobody seems to be asking the right questions; why does god exist or how god could exist? Or what is the nature of existence?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Now, it has come down to the posting of Sam Harris videos from youtube that have little if any ting to do with the discussion of god/philosophy but simply social religion.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]What I argue is simple, skeptics will use words like ‘soundness’ to discuss against god but do a 180 turn and argue rather vigorously for the soundness of the belief in such things as time and material reality… or the soundness of the belief that the space-time continuum can be bent in order to explain something like gravity. Why does their skepticism stop?…lack of knowledge. If you ask me, the belief in materiality and such theories that cannot be comprehended, is just another ‘quantum leap’ of creating a model to understand outcomes (identical to a model of god).[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Words like ‘spaghetti monster’ and ‘Elvis’ are floated but simply add up to nothing more than an expression of a primal urge (just like the word god), because if anyone truthfully and honestly believed the scientific proven notion that all matter and time exist as the result of a probability…those questions would not be asked with such a profoundly emotional underpinning or conviction.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]So i would say to Mr. Harris (I dare not call him a DR.), ‘Skeptics’ just like the ‘Religious’ are an emotional bunch and show strikingly similar insecurities and urges when they express their beliefs of reality.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Our minds cannot comprehend quantum superposition, quantum leaps, (basically reality) but such things are not only observed but also considered scientific truths. Because how is it physically possible to observe a particle and then deduce that not only could it be in multiple places but IS in all these places at once until observed?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Uncertainty (for the pessimist) and Probability (for the optimist) are the only truths. For the pantheist then, god is a probability and can be argued for or against with equal legitimacy, depending upon a persons taste…but the only way to discuss god is to first acknowledge that our understood reality is nothing more than a probability otherwise disagreement is inevitable and nothing but a waste of time (which a material skeptic would argue exists).[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]the simple observation, that the subject of god, can effect the emotional state of a man should be enough proof of existence. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]what is existence? [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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