Badass of the Week: Baba Deep Singh

[Danny]

caught this article on someones facebook status

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh.html

 

[Laddi]

"Once you step onto this path, you may well give up your head rather than the cause."
word.

 

[rajkaran]

I LOVE the way this was written! So entertaining! Awesome find!

 

[Meistro]

"badass" of the week? thats pretty disrespectful. The whole article is appalling. "a guy so extreme balls-out in his insatiable quest for vengeance that something as inconsequentially-trivial as being fucking decapitated". yup, thats exactly how you describe a religious martyr. Then again, it was probably written by a hippy so you can't expect anything other than an article like that.

 

[Jimmy]

Honestly, i would be fine with it if it didnt have penis-related comments regarding Baba Deep Singh.

 

[COMTONDAJATT]

lol. that was interesting. "They also have to grow super-long awesome beards and badass Rollie Fingers-style handlebar moustaches. " im not gonna lie, as a kid this is what got me most excited to show off to my friends. "hey look man, my grandpa's mustache is a perfect circle!!!"

one major thing wrong in the article though. ahmed shah durrani was a pathaan dude and not a mughal. so he wastes a bunch of time on that fact.

 

[Meistro]

I mean if you want to spark interest in like younger kids to keep their attention, I guess its fine as long as, like Jimmy said, you keep penis-related comments out of it. Otherwise the bruce lee comments and "intro to ninja gaiden on old school nintendo" comments are fine. Just gotta keep a certain level of respect.

 

[Jimmy]

Yea i completely agree with Meistro. Thats what immortal productions was trying to do with religious albums. They tried to aim them towards people who weren't "attracted" to kirtan.

 

[yraparla]

Just to be equal-offending-forum:
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rama.html

 

[Meistro]

I feel like the mainstream american media has really destroyed the way the world views religions. Theres no respect anymore. Just off the top of my head, I can think of, Jesus, Mary, Budha, Hindu religious figures, who basically have corrupted images because of stupid novelties with "jesus is my homeboy" written on them. Comical movies making fun of Jesus. Rama on flip flops. Budha, being some fat/happy figure with no significance to spirituality. Now its Baba Deep Singh Ji. Whats next? The sikh gurus? Religion isnt seen the same way it was before. Now people question it and feel that it can also be made a mockery of.

 

[Jabar Jung]

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/maibhago.html

 

[Ramani]

WOW reallyy..???

 

[justAguy]

I feel like the mainstream american media has really destroyed the way the world views religions. Theres no respect anymore. Just off the top of my head, I can think of, Jesus, Mary, Budha, Hindu religious figures, who basically have corrupted images because of stupid novelties with "jesus is my homeboy" written on them. Comical movies making fun of Jesus. Rama on flip flops. Budha, being some fat/happy figure with no significance to spirituality. Now its Baba Deep Singh Ji. Whats next? The sikh gurus? Religion isnt seen the same way it was before. Now people question it and feel that it can also be made a mockery of.

Brother it's not always mainstream media, you have to understand the media gives us what we WANT to see.

People themselves ridicule and destroy ideologies, ALAWAYS. If you study history, theologies are always undermined by people that identify themselves with them. (America is no democracy, it's controlled by a financial oligarchy, we went from one powerful king to many rich kings. Communist countries are nothing like what Marx talked about. Islam isn't about killing people. Bhangra isn't about objectifying women and parading alcohol. The list goes on and on). Ideas get ruined because people don't understand them (I'm sure you have read the Republic... understanding is about rational intuition, grasping the essence of things, not the images of things), and therefore over time ideas get so ruined that the majority of people believe something completely false.

There is no respect for religion by religious devotees themselves. When you have Christians protesting homosexuality, Muslims eating meat, Sikh uncles with paggs on drinking and eating lamb chops…
Religion has been destroyed by the so called people who 'follow' them, the media just adds onto that by making a joke out of it in a way that's funny or appealing to the common person. Look at Christmas, you actually think Jesus was born on December 25th? Christmas now days is nothing but an economical scam, initially aimed to wipe out Pagan traditions. In the name of a spiritual preacher, people head to Walmart to trample on employees, just so they can buy more material shit that they don’t need, made from lucrative businesses that exploit poor people. Having a fat stupid Santa Claus walk around a mall charging 20 bucks a picture is more insulting to spirituality and Christianity than ‘Buddy Jesus’ or ‘Jesus is my homeboy’.

The essence of every religion is exactly the same. If you study the world religions enough you will come to a point where you realize, they are exactly the same. Peace, love, humility, divinity. Be loving and help others, don't do bad things, don’t be a slave to your physical indulgences, find the power within yourself that manifests the universe (God), and you will eventually be free of your body. Yet these same ideologies have been carried for so long that nobody understands them anymore. A true Sikh is a true Jew who is a true Christian who is a true Buddhist who is a true Muslim. The differences are artificial, and the titles are man made.
Religion is just a bunch of stories with meanings to them. So often people get lost within the doctrines, rituals, traditions, and misconceptions & mistranslations of these doctrines, that they don’t understand the simple true meanings behind them.

My point being that every ideology, whether it be religious, or political, it gets ruined by people themselves because people fail to understand them. Ideologies get ridiculed so much that people don’t take them seriously and perpetually make a fool out of them. Religious people themselves make a mockery out of their religions, not realizing it, and that’s how bad images start, through ignorance and false expressions.

 

[justAguy]

ComtondaJatt, your comments are always very insightful, are you a history major?

Meistro, yours as well

 

[justAguy]

Religion isnt seen the same way it was before.

Well not really, it's always been like this. Why do you think there are so many variations of Christianity? Why do you think Martin Luther had so many complaints? People have always been demoralizing religions, and then new ones spring up, and then later on, they too are debased and degraded, and then new ones again spring up. Sikhism was somewhat founded on fighting for justice against Mughals, who had completely corrupted Islam by trying to forcefully convert others through violence. The loss of religious understanding is really nothing new.

 

[COMTONDAJATT]

ComtondaJatt, your comments are always very insightful, are you a history major?

Meistro, yours as well

Thanks yaar. I am not a history major, I just read a lot of history books. Punjabi history, North Indian history, Islamic history are my main areas of interest recently.

Religion isnt seen the same way it was before. Now people question it and feel that it can also be made a mockery of.

I get what you are saying about crudely mocking religions but why is people questioning religion a bad thing?

 

[PartyJatt]

Nice find

 

[KalaShere]

The essence of every religion is exactly the same. If you study the world religions enough you will come to a point where you realize, they are exactly the same. Peace, love, humility, divinity. Be loving and help others, don't do bad things, don’t be a slave to your physical indulgences, find the power within yourself that manifests the universe (God), and you will eventually be free of your body. Yet these same ideologies have been carried for so long that nobody understands them anymore. A true Sikh is a true Jew who is a true Christian who is a true Buddhist who is a true Muslim. The differences are artificial, and the titles are man made.

Def. +1 on that one. I've been trying to spread that philosophy for years...I've lived by it since my teens, when I first learned about Sikhi and other religions thereafter. Nevertheless, justAguy, you do make a good point..I guess now its just waiting and seeing whether the world falls short or actually begins to bring itself to understanding each other...With Religion, as with everything else, Time will tell

just my thoughts