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Hardkaur, read this closely please. Simply because those past events havent retained their controversy while the ones in recent decades remain controversial. It is not that your parents are ignorant - they probably know more about the details than you will, simply because they remember the...

Re: Need For Reforms In Sikh Practices,by Nanak Singh Nishter Oh dear, the Brahmin conspiracy again. Yes the cunning and voracious Brahmin spends his days plotting the end of Sikhism. More paranoia, more fear mongering, more xenophobia. This is shockingly anti-sikh, for our faith does not fear...

Re: Need For Reforms In Sikh Practices,by Nanak Singh Nishter Do i really need to add anything here? His toxic propaganda flows freely in this paragraph. But i would hasten to ask him this: Does he need reminding that even our Gurus counted on the loyalty of the masses who provided our faith...

Re: Need For Reforms In Sikh Practices,by Nanak Singh Nishter i give up. there is too much there for me to grapple with

How wrong you are to conclude from the remarkable history of Sikhi that Sikh gurus simply wished to attack whatever came from them, and not care to preserve any of it. How I wish i could correct your very wrong ideas, and yet, it is now clear that no amount of reason can reach a person who...

dalsingh you are mistaken if you think that conservatives do not have ideals. For we do. Our ideals though, as i've described already, are captured in the conservative method, and in beliefs of good society everywhere. They are those of opposing pressing evil, of fighting just wars, of defending...

All liberals implicitly believe this about change. They have always believed that change by definition is good. They believe it because they note that in the past, whenever progress has been made, some change was made, and in each such case, there was resistance to the change (from...

But they are not generally accepted in the Panth. Most sikhs simply do not know that there these silly 'intellectuals' writing such obviously absurd things about Sikhism. If they were aware, they would far from accept such writings as true, and would instead view the writers and their writings...

It is indeed difficult to change society, and this is a good thing, not a bad one. For if society were too easily changed, then there is a greater chance of it changing to become worser and not better. Consider an example. I have a television set which doesnt work properly, sometimes the picture...

DrKhalsa thanks for the kind words and for reading my posts. I really do appreciate that you did so. Dimitri, very quickly: This is not an acceptable explanation. For it implies that the Sikh gurus were also involved in holding back women. But no sikh will accept this view. Suppose that in...

It seems you arent even convinced by your explanation about the lack of diversity in guruship, and so you cannot expect me to be! It is a poor explanation, but I do not honestly expect you or any other neo-sikh to do any better. Because the truth is that the Gurus simply did not care about...

I do not measure the Gurus against general liberalism. I measure them against neo-sikh liberalism, which does not make a distinction between now and then. It simply says that the Gurus believed in these ideals - which i call the neo-sikh ideals - and that these ideals is what they, neo-sikhs...

The definitions advanced of a conservative are acceptable. The most important thing to note here is that the Sikh Gurus are not to be judged solely by the conventions of ordinary society - though that is important too, but also in comparison to the many saints and bhagats who preceeded them. The...

My Question: why is no composition by a female to be found in sri guru granth sahib? Your Answer: Does this mean that Sikhism suggests women are not considered as worthy of respect in its doctrines? Response: Your rhetorical question is again evasive. If one believes the common truth about...

My Question: why were all the gurus of the same race if they believed in race equality? Your Answer: Are you suggesting that they did not champion and practice the equality of the lower classes? If it doesn't matter to Sikhs what "race" their Gurus are from, why have you made it an issue...