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Reply 40
Big Sister
Its funny to see how something I thought was pretty harmless can get out of hand. Its open to interpretation I guess..I just wanted to say happy vaisakhi...it would have been easier for some people to ignore the post.

I m sorry for offending all the people who had nothing better to do than to waste their energy being offended and then compelled to write a reply. I think "no response" or silence is an under rated gift.

PS I DID NOT ONCE SAY I WAS A SIKH...but everyone is quick to assume!

Happy Vaisakhi to all sikhs and to anyone who cares...wishing you all a good day. :confused:


It would have been easier for you to just say happy vaisakhi and be done with it. The "Shame we don't have a public holiday for events from all cultures" was definetly crazy (not to be confused with controversy).

Maybe if you didn't add the comment/criticism on the end people would have been more interested in what vaisakhi is all about. So you caused all the problems in the first place and you killed vaisakhi for everyone.

And this is coming from a sikh.

Happy vaisakhi
Reply 41
samd294
I love how everything turns into a fight on this forum, even a jolly greeting. Its generally when anything religious turns up. Kinda sad


i totally agree, i can see where people trying to inflict their beliefs on you could make you upset, but it seemed like all she was doing was recognizing another religion, and everyone gangs up on her. Some people really do need to calm down, and argument could start on here about anything...
Vaisakhi is an Indian spring festival Sikhs and Hindus alike celebrate
Reply 43
Kurdt Morello
Vaisakhi is an Indian spring festival Sikhs and Hindus alike celebrate

i didnt celebrate it, my grandma goes temple every day and she didnt celebrate it coz its a sikh festival
kokopops
i didnt celebrate it, my grandma goes temple every day and she didnt celebrate it coz its a sikh festival

hijacked by the sikhs me thinks - it is a spring festival to celebrate the growing season
Big Sister
The Sikhs are celebrating Vaisakhi today (The anniversary of the Sikh's identity) so Happy Birthday Sikhism.


Ditto.
Reply 46
Kurdt Morello
hijacked by the sikhs me thinks - it is a spring festival to celebrate the growing season

achaaa
kokopops
achaaa

indeed :smile:
Reply 48
Howard
No it isn't. How the hell would we get any work done if we spent all our time having public holidays to mark all these events?

More's to the point what relevance does Vaisakhi have to the average Joe? I quite honestly have never heard of it let alone do I wish to spend a day celebrating it. :rolleyes:



NOONE is asking you to fcuking celebrate it.
Reply 49
Anu
NOONE is asking you to fcuking celebrate it.

erm we've already been through all this... read the rest of the posts please. kurdt, for sikhs vaisakhi celebrates the birth of the khalsa- it is probably different in hinduism
Reply 50
Kurdt Morello
hijacked by the sikhs me thinks - it is a spring festival to celebrate the growing season


actually kurdt and u others, it was not "hijacked by the sikhs". Vaisakhi does mark harvest time in India and a new growing year, but as Dil says, Vaisakhi celebrates the birth of the Khalsa too, which was formed on 13th April 1699. It's date coinciding with the new year, hence marking a new being for the Sikhs.

And btw, I hope Vaisakhi does not become a national holiday, spare us from the commercialisation man!
Reply 51
Kurdt Morello
hijacked by the sikhs me thinks - it is a spring festival to celebrate the growing season



Its not HIJACKED by the sikhs.

Vaisakhi is a festival in Punjab when the wheat fields are ripe and ready to be harvested. To the Sikhs, it also marks the day when the first baptism ceremony or Amrit Parchar was held.
Reply 52
hattori
It would have been easier for you to just say happy vaisakhi and be done with it. The "Shame we don't have a public holiday for events from all cultures" was definetly crazy (not to be confused with controversy).

Maybe if you didn't add the comment/criticism on the end people would have been more interested in what vaisakhi is all about. So you caused all the problems in the first place and you killed vaisakhi for everyone.

And this is coming from a sikh.

Happy vaisakhi


Was speaking about my time in Singapore, where they share public hols- I am not a sikh!!
Reply 53
Tek
You can't use quotes to replace common sense, Big Sister. Perhaps you might like, seeing as we are on the topic of politics - of which incidentally you seem to know very little - to check out the Home Secretary's plans for a "Citizenship Test". Or, indeed, to look at France, and how the Muslim population there is eroding France's secular culture.


hav u ever thot dat ur comments might be insulting other ppls beliefs
Reply 54
Some responses are rather insulting. Its not like anyone makes these comments at christmas/easter although they ain't got nothing to do with some people in exactly the same way. And I don't remember this forum being for christians only. Also people are entitled to their own opinions and others should learn to accept them.

Happy Vaisakhi
(a bit late though)
Reply 55
Big Sister
Was speaking about my time in Singapore, where they share public hols- I am not a sikh!!


never said u were!!!
:smile:

did they celebrate vasakhi in Singapore? What did they celebrate?? Tell me more.
yes we would like 2 know more what sort of festival is it like?
i must say i am quite annoyed at the way some people have made comments about what vaisakhi is about, when they seem to have got it completely wrong - and more so, insulting us sikhs by saying that we have hijacked a damn spring fesitval ?????? do ur bloody homework first !!!!

like it has been said before on this thread, vaisakhi is the celebration of the birth of the following of sikhism - ie the teachings of the gurus were not followed as a separate religion until this time in 1699.

i'm a sikh, proud of it - happy vaisakhi to all my sikh brothers and sisters out there

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