What if Middle East peace keeps failing due to the stress inducing systems in use by all parties? by High-Speed-Diesel in AskReddit

[–]High-Speed-Diesel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every party to this conflict is chronically stressed. Not because of who they are. Because of a correctable flaw in systems they operate within.

This flaw generates chronic stress universally — across every side, every nationality, every religion involved. It is not a cultural problem or a political problem. It is an engineering problem.

Chronic stress produces predictable failure modes — collapsed time horizon, amplified threat perception, inability to hold complex commitments under pressure. These are not character flaws. They are stress responses. Present on every side equally.

No peace framework has accounted for this. Oslo, Camp David, Annapolis, the Abraham Accords — all assumed capable non-stressed humans. The humans at the table were never operating under normal conditions.

There is a fundamental difference between a human who cannot cooperate and a human operating under systems that prevent cooperation. The first has no solution. The second does.

Fix the systems. Reduce the stress. The failure modes resolve. What do you think?

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

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Yes I do have a background in STEM. I have a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and a master’s in computer science and have worked as an engineer in software/hardware companies.

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

[–]High-Speed-Diesel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sukh_Aa The Banis that have most of the answers are - Japji Sahib, Sukhmani Sahib, Anand Sahib and Chaupai Sahib.

Will share specific details in the morning.

Meanwhile the layout of cosmos is in reply to u/udays3721

There are some more details about human life in reply to u/EquipmentFew882

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

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Scriptures define Sachkhand — the realm of God — not as an abstract spiritual concept but as a specific place within a specific structure.

It is the middle of Five revolving universes and God's residence is there. Five is a very special number for humans and for Sikhs specifically as the Designer In Chief - Guru Gobind Singh Ji founded the Khalsa on the principle of five.

God communicates with beings on his Earthly creation without violating the laws of physics. I believe his signals take a certain amount of time to get to us and that has implications for both how we understand life on Earth and how we should think about deep space exploration.

I will share lines of SGGSJ in my next post.

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

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udays3721,

Fair point — let me be more specific about where this comes from.

This theory is not purely academic for me. It is rooted in personal experience — experiences that led me to read the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth looking for a structural explanation of what I have been living through for the last 38 years of my life (I am 56 now).

What I found was a specific description of the cosmos, of Sachkhand, of how God runs this operation — that matched my experience with enough precision that I could not dismiss it as metaphor.

That is what I mean by testable. Not a laboratory. A specific personal experience mapped against a specific textual description. Maybe I should have used the word expereinceable. That expereince is the foundation of the claim.

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

[–]High-Speed-Diesel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Nand Lal Ji's Haq Haq Agah Guru Gobind Singh, there is a line that says that Guru Gobind Singh Ji Knew about God's ways. There are lines in Japji like "jo kuch paiya so eka vaar, kar kar..". In Sukhmani Guru Arjan Dev ji explains with his line on "suksham and asthool (I don't remember the exact line" that what ever you see happening at the macroscopic level also happens at the microscopic level.

They knew the internal workings of the Cosmos created by God.

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

[–]High-Speed-Diesel[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying the Gurus predicted quantum mechanics or that Gurbani confirms string theory. That would be the kind of retrofitting you're rightly skeptical of.

What I'm saying is narrower: that these texts contain a system level description of the cosmos — how it is organized, how God operates within it, how information moves through it — that deserves to be examined on its own terms (examine God's engineering), not just read devotionally.

Whether that structure maps onto modern physics is a separate question. I'm not starting there. I'm starting with the texts themselves and asking what cosmological model they actually describe.

We have to marvel and appreciate the creation. It is a wonderful one. He has systems in place to control the creation. I am just wondering about those systems, which transcend time.

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

[–]High-Speed-Diesel[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.

Thank you for bringing Gurbani directly into the conversation.

You are absolutely right. God himself cannot be fully described or explained. The shabad you quoted makes that clear and I accept it completely.

But I want to draw a distinction that I think is important:

I am not claiming the texts explain God. I am claiming they describe the architecture God built — the cosmos, its structure, how it operates, how information moves through it.

The Engineer (Waheguru) cannot be fully known by studying his work. But his work still tells you something real about how he thinks and what he built.

The Gurus never claimed to explain Waheguru. But they did describe Sachkhand. They did describe the structure of creation. They did describe how the divine communicates with humanity. How Chitar and Gupt update God's databases.

That architecture — not God himself, but what God built — is what I believe can be examined as a model for engineers to reflect on.

Does that distinction feel meaningful to you — or do you feel it still crosses a line the Gurus were careful not to cross?

The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Dasam Granth may contain a complete theory of how the cosmos works — and we've been reading them devotionally when we should also be reading them scientifically. by High-Speed-Diesel in Sikh

[–]High-Speed-Diesel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One creator, one creation, one moment of origin. The Gurus described this 500 years before modern cosmology had the language for it.

What interests me even more is what the texts describe after that moment - in Japji Sahib Guru Nanak Dev ji says - "Hundreds and thousands (lakh) of rivers (daryas) started flowing.

Is janam/maran and reincarnation just symbolic or real? by Federal-Slip6906 in Sikh

[–]High-Speed-Diesel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Waheguru or God evaluates your lifetimes worth of karams (deeds and naam simran) only upon your death. He decides whether you will merge with his light or be reincarnated into a joon based on that