------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | New on Goanet's website's A&E section - http://www.goanet.org | | Book in Review: A Kind of Absence - Joao da Veiga Coutinho | | POEM: SUSEGAAD - Cynthia Gomes James | | http://www.goanet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=216 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mr. Sudarshan (a fellow Hindu) has been called an ignoramus > three times in a single paragraph below. Even if he indeed > were one, I am thoroughly embarrassed by the ferocity of the > attack on Mr Sudarshan by some highly questionable > 'know-it-all' character. > Mario (the "know-it-all" character) responds: > Cornel, I wasn't aware that you had converted yet again, this time from atheism to Hinduism. Congratulations. Good for you. > Did I call Mr. Sudarshan an ignoramus only three times in one paragraph? I wasn't counting. Is there a limit? I guess three was all that was necessary to make my point. > Firstly, if you had not been in such a hurry to pour insulting water on my duck's back, you would have seen that Mr. Sudarshan did not post his vitriol directly on Goanet. He was quoted by one of your Brit-Goan friends. > Secondly, if there was something in what Mr. Sudarshan said that you agreed with, or something I said that you disagreed with, one would expect you to make specific rebuttals, and provide facts and opinions of your own. Instead, you have confined yourself to gross generalities that only serve to display your irritation, and shed no light on the issue of Mr. Sudarshan's misrepresentations, which I exposed in some detail. BTW, I have re-read Mr. Sudarshan's vicious and fact-free rhetoric and see no reason to change anything I said about him or his comments. I also confirmed that the three references to him as an ignoramus were adequate. > Cornel writes: > > Surely the best way to contradict Mr. Sudarshan would have > been to persuade him that there was an alternative to his > perceptions, and thus, to try and win him over to alternative > views instead of obviously alienating him from Goanet--perhaps > forever. > Mario responds: > What is it with you liberals? First, Ethel DaCosta comes up with "the only way" to fix the problems in Goa. Now you come up with "the best way" to contradict Mr. Sudarshan. Who made you the experts? > Firstly, I doubt Mr. Sudarshan has even heard of Goanet. Secondly, when someone engages in assertions of "rampant racism" when blacks are responsible for blacks, and then blames it on Catholicism, I felt no need to appease him or to pursuade him, but only to expose him and his ignorance. If I failed to ask WWJD, or WWCD, I will deal with that in my next confession. > Cornel continues ranting (not at the misrepresentations of Mr. Sudarshan, but at me, who exposed him): > > Even if it is difficult to keep one's cool, at times, such an > alternative approach would be constructive and educational > within Goanet aims, which emphasise the concept of building > social capital. > Mario replies: > Goanet "aims, which emphasize the concept of building social capital."??? Really? I thought Goanet was simply a forum. > Cornel, please believe me. I am always as cool as a cucumber, even when I am verbally dripping vitriol on someone who richly deserves it. I'm not in the education business when someone levies a deliberate and unprovoked attack as Mr. Sudarshan did. > I am the soul of discretion and civility, endless patience even kindness, with honest critics of the USA that are fair and balanced, and have used recognizable facts in their opinions. Those who use selective outrage and fact-free verbal attacks are treated with the contempt that they deserve. > Cornel writes: > > I therefore wonder if the respondent, a certain Mario Goveia, > was in a rage, or has never been socialised in being civil and > courteous OR possibly both? Clearly, he ought to be encouraged > to read Young T. (2001): How to Lose Friends and Alienate > People. London, Little and Brown Co. > The "certain Mario Goveia" replies: > Cornel, I am never in a rage when dealing with deliberate, impersonal and fact-free attacks, because rage clouds what I would want to say. Mr. Sudarshan is a total stranger. I have not lost any friend. If he reads my post maybe he will see the errors in his information and conclusions. Maybe he will respond. Anyway, I don't need friends who levy bigoted religious attacks. > Cornel writes: > > But, who knows? He may have already read the book but failed > to understand its clear message. But who knows still, maybe an > apology to Mr Sudarshan may yet be in the offing. > Mario observes: > Judging from your comments, the book you are touting seems to be pretty ineffective. > Mr. Sudarshan will have to wait till hell freezes over for his apology, which may be awhile, what with all the global warming going on. >
