I thank you for the synopsis on the religion. Whew, where do I start. So far, meditation is required. Not that this is a bad thing, I really should try it, I think it is healthy. I would have to learn how to do it.
And the doing work for the community sounds good, certainly helpful, except that I am rather lazy and I like to spend the time I have here on earth doing things I like to do. There is so much to do! Art, photography, woodworking, writing, playing and recording music....It is a good thing though, this community work, I think some more sacrifice of my time to help others might be good for me and for others. I am rather selfish. After all , it is my life, I should get to choose what to do with my time. You agree? And here is the real problem I have with your religion, the hanging out with "holy people." They might get on my nerves. I don't like that requirement at all. Do I have to? I like to choose who I hang with. And I argue a lot. Do they stand for that? I have been told that I am "abrasive" already in here. It might be true. I prefer the term "provocative" (it has a little "positive" aspect to it) I say what I think, and I don't care if you are a holy person. Oh and I bet the gurus write like Tinker or worse don't they. I don't know if I can hang with those colorful phrases that nobody can give me a clear interpretation of. And if it is "old language" I get really skeptical on interpretations and such. I have a bad feeling on that. Let me know if you think I have a "prayer" to use a term. On Jul 31, 8:13 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Heh heh, okay I'm going to start from the bottom here and work my way > up. You'll notice I do that offten, I'm not sure why, perhaps it is > my bad short term memory, so that the last thing I read is the first > thing in my head, whatever, but here we go. > > That's good and joyly decent of you old chap. > > In a nutshell then Sikhi teaches the belife in one god, and that God > can be 'realised' (that is to say that we can overcome our false > belife that we are seperated from God) by meditation upon God, by > doing work for the community (that is the global one) and by keeping > company of holy people. > > Unlike other religoins our holy scripture was written by the founders > of the religioin, the ten Sikh Gurus, and at the death of our last > human Guru (Guru Gobhind Singh) was pronouced by him to be the > everlasting Guru and so renamed from the Adi Granth (Punjabi --(lit) > first book) to Guru Granth Sahib. > > So we have the strange thing of regarding our holy scripture as a > living Guru. In addition we are taught that all religoins can lead to > God, one can be a Muslim and as long meditiation(Simran) and good works > (Seva) and keeping the company of the Sahd Sangat(holy congregation) > is done then God realisation(Gurmukh) can happen. In fact much of > Guru Granth Sahib is taken up in this sort of thing, asking Muslims to > let good works be their prayer mats, and Hindus to let Simran be their > sacred thread etc.. > > On 31 July, 15:42, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 31, 1:26 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Then at the risk of being accused of proselytising let me ask you do > > > you know much about the Sikh faith? > > > Zilch. If it comes with a book, and rules, and vague esoteric > > language? I am probably not going to like it, but I will give it a > > looksee. > > > > Ther are many things that I have problems with, one such being the > > > propensity of some atheists to use only the Christian concept of God > > > when rufuting religion. This makes litte sense to me, and seems > > > illogical. > > > I will try and spread around any refutations evenly and fairly- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
