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    Lies are the sharpest weapons...

    Lies are razer sharps knives. Truth, a rustly spoon. Which should I use to cut the evil out of you?
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    How could my sins be forgiven?

    I could give you a lovey-dovey pep-talk but the only good it would is make me look good. I know you fell unworthy of doing good. You aren't worth of doing do. Forcing yourself to do it even those you are unworthy is the pence you have to pay to be absolved of your sins. You want god to...
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    Why Has Waheguru Blessed Us With A Son With Autism?

    from Socrates to Benjamin Franklin to Chip Morningstar "You can't tell anyone anything" You can only help one live vicariously through yourself. So I won't even try to tell you yous answer. Just this, "Why did the Great Guru waste the precious gift of life on your Autistic son?"
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    Why can't I be what I want?

    I know you actually meant "areligous"not "Godless" like 'Atheist' means but the reason you can't be godness be exactly the problems you're having. With out a personal relationship with an authority beyond rationality and the statistical reality you can stand up to the mass mind and will do...
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    How to tie a turban?

    Hello I never wanted to cut my hair or shave. I would say it's against my religion. The with 9/11 I heard that Sikh don't cut their hair on the TSA website and I joked I should be a Sikh. It wasn't until I was doing a websearch to why isn't the RedCross considered treason since it's giving add...
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    Hard Talk Is anyone willing to fight for justice for all?

    A while ago, after giving a TEDx talk about how we can do more to stop the sexual abuse of children, the speaker received death threats and asked TEDx to remove it from their YouTube channel. What she promotes in the talk is a more thoughtful, objective understanding of people who may pose a...
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    Punjabi word for "scribble"?

    That seems right from my limited abilility to read punjabi but when I entered it into Google TRanslate t oget the proper pronunciation it said "Puppies" :P I'm going to assume you right and Google's wrong.
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    Punjabi word for "scribble"?

    Hello. I'm looking for a word in Punjabi that means, "write or draw (something) carelessly" In there is no single word for it what's a short phrase?
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    Project to provide people with a safe way to learn about sexuality

    We sikhs are supposed fight for the benefit of all humanity not just are fellow Sikhs. This project isn't just to help those following the ambrosial path laid out by Nanak. Let me start out by introducing myself and explain why I have chosen this as my fight. When i was 12 my brother's then...
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    Are we WehaGuru's Shakti?

    I hope this is the right subforum for this. In my early teens and before I a heard about Sikhi I studied the Indian sex centric religions known in the West as Tantra. “shaktis” originally meant “power” but it came to imply “female consort". A Shakti is the earthly power of a god. I think...
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    Self Confidence About The Way I Look And Feel

    This is a more troubling problem than just if you want to look good. It's the ultimate question of your life. “Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.” Are you going to be comforted by that fact the you you are part of...
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    Adoption: Why Is It Taboo?

    I'm not anywhere near ready to take on the responsibility for a child but I would rather adopt than have my own. As to why Adoption is taboo. unlike in the USA where you're in laws are considered just as much family as your blood relatives. In most of the world if you have the choose of saving...
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    Revelations in Sikhi

    One of the top reason's I'm a Sikh is that SGGS isn't the divine, infallible word of god it's Commentary written by an extraordinary well versed author. It's a direct Revelation religion, the goal of Sikhi is to develop the ability to hear message god is telling you, but we don't hear become as...
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    General Sikhism And Salvation

    Mokh is letting go of the nut. Let's take a few steps back. what is the cycle of birth and death? "What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive...
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    What Do You Visualize When You Think Of Ik▫oaʼnkār ੴ

    I don't Visualize anything. I don't have a visual imagination. I conceptualize abstract truth as embodied in the debate of the realism of Quantum Mechanics.
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