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I'm starting to have trouble understanding you. No offense, but your grammar and spelling are atrocious. Oh well. At least it proves that you're not a POOFTA. I thought of this topic not because of Rakash only, but because I'm concerned that people are losing their basic humanity, in spite of their home-made religions and self-serving doctrines (which basically tell them "do as your fathers did"). Basically, a child can be born in Canada in, say, 1986, and depending on who their parents' ancestors were they end up hating their Muslim or Sikh or Jewish or Hindu neighbours, and keeping centuries-old feuds alive in the name of tradition. They forget that for all of them, their happiest times were when they felt most safe. Therefore they start threatening each other and building/keeping weapons. Everyone starts to feel unsafe, then the learned mechanisms for perpetuating the enmity (say, for instance, the old folks' way of using a harvesting tool to disembowel the foreigner) come back with a vengeance. Carrying a weapon (and a basic knowledge of how to use it) means you have the power of life and death over someone else (unarmed) within range of your weapon. All I'm saying is: YOU DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT. If you do, then your neighbour will try to neutralise your weapon with a weapon of his own. This will escalate the situation and create a relationship of mistrust. It takes an incredibly brave person to trust a stranger who can kill them in an instant. You can count on that bravery from someone like me (and write it off as lunacy), but not from most other people these days. You're asking for fearlessness, from Joe Public who is terrified of anyone with a kukhri in their belt. It's not realistic. That's the problem with your old-school maryada. The weapons. Drop your "tools" and start talking to the people who hate you as well as the people who depend on you (there is a difference between love and dependence).

Akali, please stay on topic. Perhaps you posted your personal ad here by mistake?

That was on-topic.

Dancing is better. I've been in fights and I've been to dances. It's all very well going to learn how to gut someone like a fish like they did in the "good ol' days", but will you give yourself the same chance at dancing?? Try salsa. That takes skill.

I have decided to write this message for the nihangs and nihang shagirds. Don't say I never told you. I wish to appeal to you guys to stop thinking in terms of violence. It's great that you're upholding Sikh traditions, for the sake of history and so these things are never forgotten. But please stop the weapons hankering. Weapons are really ugly, horrible things. Look at a tegha. Imagine what that could do to you or a loved one. Imagine the horrific wounds that can be inflicted by tiger claws and other such things. Please don't bring back the 17th century. Leave the weapons at home, or better yet, in the museum for all to admire them. These are gruesome vicious things that belong in the past. Those things were extremely effective at what they did. They even hurt the psyche of the Sikh people, which resonates down to today and which was not helped by 1984 and subsequent events. Weapons are a FALSE god. They only ever served man and his political ambitions. Weapons bring bad things about. Don't carry blades and stuff around with you. If you're being threatened or something, let someone responsible know. Or else you can post the problem here on SikhAwareness, and listen to some suggestions to resolve matters peacefully. I promise to try to help resolve such problems by offering peaceable and lawful solutions. I SAY, from this corner of the networks, NO MORE FIGHTING. EVERYONE (Sikhs and everyone else) stop fighting. NO MORE WAR.

Professor Ironside!!! Uglier than the ugly!! Better known as the TALKER!! LOL

What's the use of bhagti? I mean, why adorn a mirror?

That was extremely offensive Sukhi. I'm lost for words. I spent the whole of this evening crying about it.

It's the steroids and his testos-boosters. They turned his brain into one giant phallus, and he's forgotten all his previous posts on SA.

Sukhi, are you absolutely sure that a prostitute would not be turned away from the Guru's Darbar (is that the right word?) for her occupation? If so, then what good is the Guru's Darbar? Just wondering.

Hi there! I have some great information about the RAMGARHIA misl for you. There is a self-styled mislee among us today, who is a backstabbing traitor, and who could never be trusted by any of his "friends". Are you aware of him Sardar Moderator Singh? What do YOU think should be done about him? Discuss. Many thanks,

Truth comes from within what? What is self?

Rakash, what do you mean "he does'nt have a 3foot sword"? Everyone has one of those.

I reckon that people start fights whenever they see the prospect of gain from fighting. I find that an understandable and regrettable thing. Does'nt it follow that anyone who threatens violence is in fact gambling? Just an idea.

Speaking from personal experience, you go through that door, learn what you need to learn and then move on. No point in walking through the same door thousands of times, once you know that space and time are not real.

I mean a site where Sikhism is ridiculed and mocked? I was looking at the Ghup-Shup forum, and found the Sardu's profundities quite enlightening. Neo?

Who cares who is who? Come on.

Is it when they have most to lose, or most to gain?

So it has 3 weapons in there? Interesting. Hmm. Interesting. Hmm. Interesting. Hmm. Is sukhi goddess a light Gauri or dark goddess? Is her face pretty or terrible?

No way. I'm not calling anyone any names. I do believe that Bhindranwale unwittingly did too much harm though. Cossacks have'nt been tolerated in Punjab since Partition. He unwittingly or wittingly modelled himself as some sort of Punjabi Cossack (much as many of you guys fancy yourselves), and reaped the rewards of that approach. He was a Jatt supremacist (i.e. a sort of gypsy headman/chieftain) and not a religious leader at all. Having said that, his intentions were probably good (although in the context, they were absolutely irrelevant). I just meant that playing with fanaticism is an unsound military/political strategy, because the martyrs you create are dangerous to everyone until they are dead. They cannot be used as bargaining chips. There is one humanity. If you spread the doctrine of death, it's the same as if you were trying to give everyone cancer. OTOH, at the barbecue everyone has a full belly and a sense of well-being. A Sant ought to know that and take advantage of it, to everyone's benefit. You don't need any lessons to learn the "vidya" of Aryan supremacy. Some people have been playing that game for a very long time.

Don't go clubbing. Just go to Brixton Rec Centre tonight.

Fateh!! With a bit of application you will be a teacher soon I'm sure. Those who can teach. Fateh!!

Yeah, maybe he was bored. So what? Read the LAST 2 LINES carefully.

How many weapons does he keep in there?

AJAPA JAAP just about sums it all up perfectly, does'nt it?