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Re: TroubleOkay. Well, I am half Brazilian, and half Italian and Swiss. My mother was born to a Catholic family, and she is unpracticing now, but she still believes in it. She raised my sister and I not teaching us anything about religions at all. All I knew was just God. So when I was about 12 or so I started researching religions (people had been asking me what I was, and I couldn't say Catholic because by then I had read about it and didn't agree with it). I spent a long time studying one religion at a time. First Judaism, then Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and then from there I learned about Sikhism. The first thing that attracted me was gender equality. Then I read about the ten gurus and the Guru Granth Sahib. Everything about Sikhism fascinated me. At first I was only studying, but then I started to want to be a Sikh and follow their ways. I spent more time studying and listening to online Hukamnamas and their translations. Believe me, I am not jumping in anything. I always look thoroughly before jumping. Thank you for answering, skeptik Ji. And I will appreciate any advice you can give me. kds Ji- Oh, well maybe I shouldn't have done this, but we saw a Sikh in a natural foods store and she asked me if I knew anything about Sikhs later on(because I study religions) so I told her about the 5 Ks and she kind of got a little weird when I told her about the kirpan. She knew I respected Sikhs and she said "Can't you choose something else?" Maybe I should have told her a different aspect of Sikhism, to get an "oh that sounds nice" reaction first. Thank you
Re: Trouble
Okay. Well, I am half Brazilian, and half Italian and Swiss. My mother was born to a Catholic family, and she is unpracticing now, but she still believes in it. She raised my sister and I not teaching us anything about religions at all. All I knew was just God. So when I was about 12 or so I started researching religions (people had been asking me what I was, and I couldn't say Catholic because by then I had read about it and didn't agree with it). I spent a long time studying one religion at a time. First Judaism, then Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and then from there I learned about Sikhism. The first thing that attracted me was gender equality. Then I read about the ten gurus and the Guru Granth Sahib. Everything about Sikhism fascinated me. At first I was only studying, but then I started to want to be a Sikh and follow their ways. I spent more time studying and listening to online Hukamnamas and their translations. Believe me, I am not jumping in anything. I always look thoroughly before jumping. Thank you for answering, skeptik Ji. And I will appreciate any advice you can give me.
kds Ji- Oh, well maybe I shouldn't have done this, but we saw a Sikh in a natural foods store and she asked me if I knew anything about Sikhs later on(because I study religions) so I told her about the 5 Ks and she kind of got a little weird when I told her about the kirpan. She knew I respected Sikhs and she said "Can't you choose something else?" Maybe I should have told her a different aspect of Sikhism, to get an "oh that sounds nice" reaction first.
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