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St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled "Lion King"
December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa
to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall
& upgrading the school playground
Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha
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Hi George,
Thanks for your post. Perhaps you need to apply what you have written to
yourself, which was further elucidated by Mario.
You are right about my post to Cornel. I wrote it in a hurry since I did not
want to waste time with his same old ... same old... . Yet after I posted it,
I wished I expanded the basic issues. As a US resident you found the Senator
Larry Craig reference confusing. So it is likely others (including Cornel)
found it even more puzzling. Though, a web search on Senator Larry Craig would
shed some light.
Either way let me clarify, with some science, as this may be helpful to Goans.
Cornel's obvious casteist attitudes (inflating his own resume by demeaning
other Goans), and his repeated (self-plagiarized) anti-casteist rants does show
hypocrisy. The important point, a psychiatrist friend told me during the
Senator Craig episode, that this hypocrisy is a well-known psychological
concept / disorder termed 'cognitive dissonance'. This is not my field. Below
is from the web. I am posting the relevant part from a paper to demonstrate the
science. Others can read the entire article and other related web articles
including wikipedia.
So back to Cornel, his anti-casteism writings may be a compensatory response to
his personal obvious weakness of Casteism. The treatment for this, as per my
psychiatrist friend, is psychological counseling. Perhaps Cornel should do that
before he make an effort (himself) to write on his favorite topic. This advice
is for his own benefit - and yes ours too. Thank you for giving me an
opportunity to clarify.
Finally let me repeat what you wrote for YOUR benefit, "elevate the level of
discussions and not making it personal." I hope you will practice what you
preach.
Kind Regards, GL
The psychology and neuroscience of hypocrisy
By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.D
What is important about this new research is showing the part of emotions in
the overall mix of inputs into our decision-making. And this brings us to a
potential explanation for what is called “cognitive dissonance”. What is meant
by that is the nagging, and sometimes profound discomfort we feel when our
behaviors don’t align with our beliefs. Our prefrontal cortex will keep nagging
us, disturbing our peace of mind, interfere with our sleep, afflict us with
unpleasant dreams—until we bring our behavior into alignment with our beliefs,
which in reality are the products of the judgments made in the prefrontal
cortex.
I accept that if you say one thing and then do another, the cognitive
dissonance you will suffer is a result of your weakness. But when you do one
thing and then say another — this is no weakness, this is willful hypocrisy
.......
---------- George Pinto
Dear Gilbert ... If on the other hand you have LEGITIMATE arguments to make,
please do so in a lucid manner (does anyone understand what the following
means: "Your anti-casteist stand puts you in a similar league/pathology as US
Senator Larry Craig").
Thank you in advance for trying to elevate the level of discussions and not
making it personal.
---------- GL wrote:
Hi Cornel, I would have thought you would know that I consider you the
poster-boy for Goan casteism - inflating your own ego resume by demeaning other
Goans. Your anti-casteist stand puts you in a similar league / pathology as US
Senator Larry Craig.
--------------- CORNEL DACOSTA
I wish the casteists would just go away and leave Catholicism alone which they
have polluted in Goa for centuries by their vile ideology. In turn, I am very
critical of Catholicm in Goa that has been complicit in the evil of caste.
Herein lies the dilemma to which I would value your rationale...
I do hope desperately that, you may have an answer that is persuasive.
