Been To A Sikh Temple Today

[nailit]

What lovely people they are
(*waits for someone to bring up Sikh wars*)
They have donated a transit van load of food.
Went into the temple and the first thing that they asked was
''Would you like any dinner''
(just ate my sarnies beforehand)
Stayed for a cuppa and (several) pieces of homemade cake and a good chat.
Wished more people were as welcoming and friendly as the Sikh community
Absolutely delightful people.

Just an observation...

[ummmm]

Yes, I've only met extremely nice Sikhs and they've always done community work.

[Buenchico]

A relevant link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langar_(Sikhism)

[bednobs]

my daugter has been studying Sikhism at school. She told me yesterday she wants to be a sikh as they are very nice

[nailit]

They were such GENUINE people.
Just wanted to help the less fortunate.
Told me that they cook and feed over 200 people a week.
And they made the best cup of tea ever :-)
(couldnt eat any more cake after today tho...)

[Tilly2]

We have a lot of Sikhs in this area and all the ones I know are lovely, community-minded people. I have been into the hill top Gurdwara many times and have been treated with nothing but kindness and welcoming hospitality.

[nailit]

Having said that, I went to a mosque last year and they were equally as friendly. Different belief system but donating to a christian charity.
Maybe our differences arnt as great as our common aims?
(religious, atheist or otherwise)

[nailit]

//I have been into the hill top Gurdwara//
Is that Hill Top as in Biddulph More Tills?

[Tilly2]

Unfortunately not Nails. I wish it were so. :-)

[Tilly2]

P.S. Hill Top is in Brown Edge. :-))

[david small]

I’ve always admired and respected Sikhs, they seem down to earth, but with a innate dignity.

[nailit]

//I wish it were so. :-)//
Piqued my interest now Tills....



//but with a innate dignity//
Thats just what they had dave.
No religiosity or anything, just a good heart.

[Tilly2]

I apologise. There's also a Hill Top in Biddulph Moor.

I was looking at this today:-
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/56928495?search_identifier=dd2cff98b64b235a01180d710d0e9f0e

Hummm?

[nailit]

//I apologise. There's also a Hill Top in Biddulph Moor//
I know.....a sat nav dropped me into a field full of cows last year in Hill Top, Biddulph Moor, supposed to have been a church!

[fraser]

Sikhs and hindus are good it's just the Muslims are wrong no doubt this will get taken down!!

[nailit]

Did you not see my post @19:18?

[Mamyalynne]

Fraser, there's good and bad in all types of people - with faith or without, the good far outweigh the bad too.

[sherrardk]

All of my kids went to a Sikh temple during their time at primary school and all came home, bizarrely, with a bottle of squash.

[Theland]

I listened to a lecture recently on the ills of our society.
BAME people account for about 13% to 15% of our population.
The numbers of Sikhs and Hindus in prison is so small as to hardly be worth counting.
Pakistani Muslims account for a much higher percentage of the prison population than are present in the population as a whole, and the same goes for African and West Indian ethnicities.
Obviously Sikhism and Hinduism are positive influences on people.
My friend who owns a few shops locally is Sikh. We have been friends for about twenty years.
Lovely family.

[woofgang]

Theres so much good in the worst of us
and so much bad in the best of us
that it ill behoves any of us
to talk about the rest of us.