Dear Santosh:
I hear that you are a rational intellectual? Please re-examine the censored post you posted as an �exhibit,� which sadly betrays your claim that I am attacking religion. Show me where I have been offensive, and please don�t try and draw fallacious inferences from this post to somehow tarnish my name.
Here�s the post in its entirety, from my archives, -- re-read it again, and tell me (rationally) where I have been offensive in any form:
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�These cute observations illustrate that most things in life really come down to "point of view". Why did the chicken cross the road?
KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side.
PLATO: For the greater good.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.
KARL MARX: It was an historical inevitability.
RONALD REAGAN: I forget.
BILL CLINTON: The chicken did NOT cross the road. Not a single time. Never. (It was a boulevard).
HILLARY CLINTON: It was part of a vast right-wing conspiracy against my husband.
CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
JERRY SEINFELD: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?"
FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2001, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check (cheque) book.
DARWIN: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.
EINSTEIN: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
BUDDHA: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: The chicken did not cross the road ... it transcended it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die. In the rain.
COLONEL SANDERS: I missed one?�
~~~~~~~~ Best wishes,
Joe Vaz Aug 19 2001
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Santosh writes:
<Dr. William Robert Da Silva, who, I understand, has considerable comparative knowledge of world religions, actually pointed this out some time ago in this forum, but none of your pious friends or you dared to challenge him.>
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I do not recall that Dr. William Rober Da Silva, has mocked the Scriptures. Had he done, I surely would have challenged him.
Now, remember this, I don�t care how much support you may frantically drum up, -- but if you ridicule the Scriptures I will correct you, as long as I am on this d-list. If the moderators don�t like my line of defense, they are at liberty to remove me from this GoaNet list. My contributions on GoaNet go way back, and I write only if it adds value to the community.
And note that this discussion on the subject �Peace� was NOT started by me. I did not even address you to begin with on the �Peace� issue; it is you who initiated the attack on me. I reserve my RIGHT to defend my beliefs and myself, the best way I can, albeit professionally.
Please don�t patronize me, as being pious -- I am not! Wouldn�t you just wish I were? I am one of those who fight for a cause -- a just cause is what I stand up for; something I firmly believe in. As a member of GoaNet, I cannot remain a silent spectator to consume any nonsensical and abhorrent posts.
Now, if the moderators don�t like my standing up for critical issues, they are always at liberty to remove me from GoaNet. I (or my posts) have never been offensive. I believe in contributing to a just cause. I don�t stand up for people because they are my buddies, and likewise I will not jump on someone because I don�t just like him. However, I will not tolerate slanderous and salacious postings, on the forum, for public consumption. It�s simply not right.
And remember this as well: If I�ve said something on GNet, it�s when (and only when) I strongly felt about an issue, or if some one is wronged, -- and often it is for the latter reason. Now, don�t you think that you can browbeat me by misquoting me and/or using other people�s support.
If you are a true �gentleman and a scholar� as some make you to be, you wouldn�t have been mocking the Scriptures. Your posts, ridiculing the Scriptures, abundantly show your true gentlemanly and a scholarly nature.
I don�t think anyone is trying to convert you, (I certainly am not). You are free not to believe in God, but that does NOT give you the exclusive right to mock other people�s spiritual belief/s or religion, in that, it certainly does not give you the RIGHT to mock the Bible Scriptures.
Note that the miracles by Jesus raising Lazarus etc are Historical Facts. And I hope you know what �historical facts� are, Santosh. The Bible Scriptures are not scientific dissertations for you to analyze and amuse yourself to your heart�s content.
Also, I see your inference of this �new friend�? Is this some kind of a �setup� by you, Santosh?
Now, there is abundant (and conclusive) evidence from your past posting, where you have used the �Pandurang� pseudonym, while adding as �Santosh Helekar� at the bottom of your post. Isn�t that true?
If I may ask, are �Pandurang� and Santosh Helekar one and the same person? If, that�s true, --you think �Rohit� & �Raul� can be one and the same person, --just as �Pandurang� is (also known as) Santosh Helekar?
Go figure! Meanwhile let the others have some peace.
Best wishes, Joe Vaz
PS: I said I would not post again, but I cannot stand false innuendos -- and you provoked me again to respond.
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