Everywhere it is persued by Catholic priests with scant regard to the pristine architecural beauty & longevity of old limestone plastered, tiled roof church, presbytery structures. It is deplorable. Roman Catholic priests today are not the ones that they were in yesteryears which, ensured propagation of Roman catholic faith to the expanse of what it is today. Today catholic church sadly is mired in controversies that make a proud x'an hang ones head in shame. Pls read what follows:
Commonsense paradoxically most uncommon
The last 2 decades of 2nd millennium has seen considerable building activity and modification of the topography of mother earth. The events those have been observed, leads one conclude that is common sense most uncommon? It pays to ponder for a while, on the metamorphosis that has resulted in changing the landscape of our motherland beyond recognition. If, one were to analyse the aspects that have changed or caused the change, deducation would be as follows:-
1 Geologists attributed the existence of mountain as formed on account of volcanic eruptions thousands or millions of years earlier than today. Volcano erupts owing to molten mass that is inside upper crust of the earth, find a weak zone in the crust of earth and this results in considerably high pressure build up at that point of the crust of the earth which, forces the molten mass to break crust open and erupt form these fissures.
The first volume of molten lava when exposed to the atmosphere cools & solidifies. Owing to this, subsequent eruption too cools as it spreads under the cooled mass laterally & thus forms a conical mass. This by its inertia exerts sufficient pressure which, neutralizes the pressure at which molten lava erupts, The volcanic eruption ceases. This molten formation acts for the earths crust, just as a scab on a wound on ones body which, not only blocks the losing of blood from wound but, also helps to heal it.
Hence, leveling of mountain commercially, causes mass imbalance on the crust of earth causing low tolerance zone on the crust of the earth which may progressively cause or trigger volcanic eruption elsewhere.
2 The mass of soil so excavated by leveling of hill or mountain is filled in a low-lying area which needs at least 20 years to settle into a integral mass. The more the incidence of such denudation of mountains greater is propensity of triggering yet another volcanic or seismic aberration, though not at place of excavation, elsewhere.
3 Conventional wisdom of our ancestors advocated construcation of houses building, with materials available which are generic to the mother earth such as stones cut form granite formation or leterite crust or mud finely sieved mixed with lime, sand jaggery and the roofs were constructed slantingly with enjoinment of rafters reapers wall plates, beams with over burnt clay tiles layering and as the roof extended almost 2 1/2 feet away from the periphery of the walls thereby protecting wall from formation of moss in monsoon by flow of water. Gap between wall top & roof allowed ample circulation of air by convection currents and also owing to the fact wood, clay tiles being non conductors of heat, retained the interior of house or building cool. As all the material used to build house or building were generic, to mother earth or nature there was generic, ecological, mineral affinity and dwellers in such a house felt an exquisite feeling of peace and tranquility.
4 Quite contrary to whatever stated in earlier paragraph the concrete construction employs mortar cement mixture twisted steel rods for reinforcement. Mortar cement mixture when it cures, form stubborn and firm mass of the shape of mould or caste. Construcation being easy it has acquired very ready acceptance among builders of houses or as well as buildings, more so, as it is very amenable to multi storeyed constructions and also owing to be fact that the conventional building materials do not support such high rise buildings.
5 This aspect apart, there is a definite advantage of a conventional construction for residential houses. Owing to the factors already explained conventional house built by time tested, age old matenals, it being the case whereby the convention materials are generic to the nature as well as mother earth and very light weight. RCC construction of a similar to a given size or of conventional shape is 50 times heavier than the conventional construcation. This results in localized excess load on the surface of earth, which, results in uneven pressure build on the crust of earth which, may trigger a seismic aberration on the earth elsewhere if not immediately, in course of time.
Further crust of earth does not have even load bearing capacity at every point of its surface. Whenever a building is constructed this aspect is never given importance to, most of the time this uneven load of one pillar on the earth to that exerted by the other, forming the structure, progressively the pillar at the less load bearing capacity point on the surface of the earth is subjected to slow sinkage at that pillar into the soil resulting in cracks in beams, in concrete walls. During monsoon these allow water to seep in, resulting in the twisted steel rods rusting and increasing in volume, thereby further cracking mortar cement mixture tending to widen the cracks contributing to the progressive damage of this structure.
6 RCC constructions are built as match box structure without a conventional slanting roof at the top, allowing rain water to flow along walls, as it flows along the walls causing moss formation, partial seepage into the walls, as mortar cement mixture is only water resistant and not waterproof. These aspect is ignored and the resultant seepage from roof or the lintel which, causing damage to roof and progressively increased seepage, further damages building . This can be avoided by having a slanting roof above the topmost lintel with corrugated zinc sheets coating them by 3 parts by volume of liquid coal tar mixed with one part by volume of turpentine and applied to this sheets at both surface.
7 This mixture dries in about half an hour and firms. This may also be applied on any metal fixtures exposed to rainfall & sunshine. This application is very effective against termites, white ants and may be applied to wooden reepers & rafters. Asbestos sheets are a taboo as they are proved to be carcinogenic. This also prevents heating of the building during summer by sunshine as concrete structures owing to the twisted steel rods embedded for reinforcement which being good conductor of heat absorbs heat and retain it longer causing intolerably hot inside building. Building materials used in the conventional building being of their generic to mother earth & affinity and also owing to the fact that these being highly non conductors of heat and absence of employment of twisted steel roads reinforcement retain conventional building cool in summer & a little warm in winter.
8 A wooden beam of given cross sectional area length sawed form well grow wood, has 30 times more load bearing capacity than a concrete beam of similar size & cross sectional area &is 50 times lighter than the concrete beam of similar cross sectional area & length
8. Conventional houses & buildings built with slanting roof made of wooden rafters, reapers & tiles are amenable to repair modification where as RCC constructions need rebuilding by demolition. Conventionally built buildings last longer than RCC constructions.
9. Use of plywood planks for wardrobe cupboard is ill advised. Plywood planks have no naturally formed integral fibres and grains as in natural wood. Hence, are subject to warping, layers flaking & do not have effective load bearing capacity.
10. Use of concrete well rings should be avoided as cement in water causes it to be toxic and iron rods used for reinforcement do rust causing water impure and this water if drunk leaves considerable strain on kidney.
11. Lime & sand mixture fermented with jaggery and used for stone, brick bonding and plaster, progressively firms and integrates with time & becomes so strong with ageing that it becomes break proof. Contrary to belief mortar cement mixture degenerates with ageing.
12. Use of lime for whitewash of walls is advisable logically as white surface reflects maximum amount of light incident on it whereas, all other colours absorb most of light incident on them. Hence if walls are painted in other than white, electricity spent on lighting of that room whose walls have been painted in other than white is very high & expensive. Moreover lime destroys insects & grerms.
13. Flats or apartments in high rise buildings are ill advised as there built ascendingly and occupants of flats at higher levels tend to breathe air exhaled from occupants of lower level flats. Moreover, as effective air circulation in flats is not available persons living in flats suffer from hypertension, insomnia etc.
WEDS
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 Cecil Pinto wrote :
>Renovating Churches & Chapels - the new mantra [input] [input] [input] On a recent mid-week visit to Aldona I was rather perturbed to find that the gossip was centred around financial irregularities in the churches and chapels, rather than the usual village accidents, infidelities and the 'outsiders' menace.
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>1) Apparently the Mae de Deus Chapel in Corjuem collected some 35 lakhs from the parishioners for renovation of one sort and then the Chaplian made a decision to renovate the front facade instead of sticking to the original plan. The Corjuemkars are angry that their funds are being used for a purpose other than the original intention, without them being taken into confidence. More details are available in the recent archives at
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aldona-net/
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>2) In the St. Rita Chapel in Carona the Chaplain has set a fund raising target of Rs. 50 lakhs to 'enlarge' the chapel as it cannot accommodate the parishioners on Sunday. One parishioner made a simple suggestion that two masses be held on Sunday instead of one. That surely would have solved the problem?
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>3) The massive Aldona Church renovation is nearly complete. Funds have been sanctioned to buy 6 chandeliers for Rs.1,25,000/-. Some parishioners are questioning the need for such ostentation.
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>In many parishes in Goa one finds such things happening. The parish priest decides that some major renovation, or completely new construction, has to be done during his tenure. An appeal is made for funds. Money flows in - specially from the hard working, good hearted and generous Gulf Goans. A spanking new facade/ church/ chapel/ extension is built, sometimes quite unnecessarily, and inaugurated with fanfare. The priest moves on to the next parish with another notch on his belt. And searches for new 'building
>ground' to perpetuate his name for posterity.
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>There are many of these 'builder' priests around and also a growing breed of civil contractors and hangers-on who have made such jobs their full-time occupation. With the relatively lax tendering procedures, and a flush of funds, the attraction is obvious.
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>Sometimes the need for renovation, expansion or reconstruction exists but more often than not it is just a exercise in expanding the particular priest's repertoire of 'projects'. Or the coaxing and manipulation of a shrewd contractor. I wonder if these energies and monies could not be better utilised to build the spiritual church rather than just the physical edifice.
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