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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Orcas Island, WA
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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

      Impromptu theology lecture with my Sikh Uber driver who started peppering me with questions about the differences between Christian sects. He couldn't understand why a monotheistic religion would opt for a thousand variations on a theme. "But God is One", he'd interject.

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

      This started when I noticed a cross hanging from the rearview, but the turban and 'kara' indicated he was Sikh. Apparently, he kept the cross from a previous owner, which started the religion talk. "What's the difference between Baptists and the Catholics?", and off we went.

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    3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26

      It's interesting to try and convey the nuances of a vast topic (that you yourself only vaguely grasp now) to someone with just enough knowledge to get the basics, but still viewing things from outside. This business of Jesus being divine was a subject of lots of follow-ups.

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    4. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
      Replying to @antoniogm

      Sikhs in North America are very hung up on being a monotheistic faith. Not sure why but maybe they believe it is a path for their religion getting more respect in the West.

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    5. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
      Replying to @BurntOutCase @antoniogm

      I grew up a Hindu in India with many Sikh friends and always saw Sikhism as an offshoot of Hinduism but within the same umbrella. In the US I quickly learned as an immigrant that American Sikhs saw it very differently.

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    6. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
      Replying to @BurntOutCase @antoniogm

      I have attended weddings in Gurudwaras in US where I felt a bit awkward as the priests kept on talking about Sikhs were a monotheistic religion ad nauseam with the understanding that they weren't like those crazy Hindus.

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    7. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
      Replying to @BurntOutCase @antoniogm

      Overall I think the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and Khalistan secessionist movement has led to North American Sikhs hardening certain aspects of their religious identity that are a bit more complex then they will be willing to admit.

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
      Replying to @BurntOutCase

      Ah, maybe. I recall several taxis in Berkeley (in my pre-Uber grad school days) with 'Free Khalistan!' slogans on their cars in huge letters. They seemed militant about it. I imagine 99% of riders had no idea what the politics was about.

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        2. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm

          It was a scary time to be growing up as a kid in North India when the Khalistan movement was at its peak. There were bombs going off in buses and trains pretty frequently. I remember once I had to go to Shimla for a summer vacation and I was terrified of train bombs.

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
          Replying to @BurntOutCase

          Yeah, politics in India are interesting. I was in Rajasthan after the Parliament attack, and the army mobilized while we were heading west to Jaisalmer (close to the border). Rode in a train full of Indian army officers and soldiers. All very war zone. Felt like World War III.

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        4. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm

          India is a poor, developing nation with all that it implies. Yet against all odds it has stuck together as a democracy in one of the most diverse nations on the planet. I am very proud of that. I think it is because Indian culture is inherently accepting of diversity.

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        5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
          Replying to @BurntOutCase

          I was astonished at how little crime or violence there was, given the extreme income inequality and mind-blowing ethnic diversity. Any other culture, that place would be a war zone, and forget about democracy. I should go back. Probably my most memorable backpacking trip.

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        6. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm

          Since I believe you have some Jewish roots it will interest you to know that during the 1971 war with Pakistan that led to the creation of Bangladesh the Head of the Eastern Command was a Jewish General (JFR Jacob).

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        7. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 26
          Replying to @BurntOutCase

          Reading about his life now. Interesting. Had no idea. During my trip (with the Jewish gf), we considered heading down to Cochin to see what's left of the tiny Jewish community there. And I made a pilgrimage to Goa to see Francis Xavier's grave. Marvelous history there.

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        8. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
          Replying to @antoniogm

          I think most left after Israel was created. I have run into many Parsees and even ethnic Chinese Indians but never ran across a Jewish Indian.

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        9. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 26
          Replying to @BurntOutCase @antoniogm

          In the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks Pakistani terrorists targeted a Synagogue. I didn't even realize India had functioning Synagogues today till that attack. 6 Jews were killed in the attack although the Indian nanny did manage to save the Rabbi's infant son.

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        2. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 27
          Replying to @MFAKhalsaRaj @antoniogm

          I acknowledged the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. I am not going to relitigate the Khalistan movement. It was a murderous, violent terror campaign in which thousands of innocent civilians were killed. I also acknowledged that the Indian govt put down this movement with brutal means.

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        3. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 27
          Replying to @BurntOutCase @MFAKhalsaRaj @antoniogm

          The Khalistan movement didn't start with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots BTW. The person after whom you have named your account was leading it before that and defiled the Golden Temple by occupying it with his band of thugs and turning a holy shrine into a snipers nest.

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        5. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 27
          Replying to @MFAKhalsaRaj @antoniogm

          Oh shut up. You named your account after a hateful man who killed fellow Sikhs he felt were not following his Taliban version of pure Sikhism and regularly advocated for violence and killing of Punjabi Hindus in his public speeches and rhetoric. All of that happened before 1984.

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        7. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 27
          Replying to @MFAKhalsaRaj @antoniogm

          You are well following the tenants of the figure on whom your account name is blamed. He assassinated the Sikh priests who did not want him to defile the Golden Temple and turn it into a armageddon factory.

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        8. Burnt-Out Case‏ @BurntOutCase Oct 27
          Replying to @BurntOutCase @MFAKhalsaRaj @antoniogm

          He killed Sikh sects he thought were impure and exhorted every Sikh to kill 32 Hindus each. This is the kind of evil human being whose name you have adopted.

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