Hi Gilbert This is just to say that your response below might suggest that, perhaps temporarily you have switched off intellectually or been forced to seek refuge in pseudo psychology/psychiatry because you are unable to answer my very simple question about how you can reconcile belief in casteism and belief in Catholicism at the same time? And do remember that, I was merely responding to your pious definition of religion when I posed my key question to you and also that, one cannot plagiarise from ones own thoughts however often they are used. However, not all is lost and lest your fellow casteists see you as throwing in the towel and not even remotely trying to answer the specific question I posed, nor in even attempting to defend casteism (the substantive issue on the table) let me remind you that: 1. I had welcomed you into my fold as an anti-racist/anti-casteist. This window of opportunity remains open with a warm welcome to you and fellow caste apologists when they see the light emanating from this long discourse on casteism on Goanet and with other sane voices joining in. 2. I have been consistently anti-racist for decades and latterly anti-casteist as a university academic because of the moral imperative that all forms of racism (and casteism is a distinctive and insidious form of racism) are wrong as per all international authorities, the Catholic Church, and of course national governments including India where caste is endemic. You seem to link my concern over this issue, to some pseudo psychology/psychiatry you apparently picked up from the Net. You forget that I studied psychology from proper authoritative texts, until metaphorically, it literally poured out of my ears and therefore I do not need some vacuous material from your source to try to undermine me simply because you are definitely stumped by the question I posed to you about how you can reconcile casteism with Catholicism and also as noted by other Goanetters. I would have more respect for you if you simply admitted that, you were unable to answer the question instead of beating about the bush. Also, it would be nice if you acknowledged that, the world contains millions of sane anti-racists like me whose business it is to undermine all forms of racism including casteism, be it in academia, on the Net, the police, army, civil service and in the corridors of power. I therefore hope you can see how utterly foolish your view is of my psychic state regarding my discourse about the "abomination" of caste as once illustrated by Mario. You also seem to want to be treated exceptionally as an apologist for casteism.. To me, this is totally strange and not in keeping with someone living in the West with so much exposure about racisms and also being a professional to boot. Moreover, in the light of explicit and implicit segregation among the so called 'Catholic Bamons' of Goa, you should have been at the forefront in attacking the casteism that categorises you from among the Khasti Bamons, Seth Bamons and Sarwasat Bamons (plus others with varied spellings), not withstanding that some of the latter are evidently barely articulate and coherent compared to you. I now have a a reasonably accurate break-down of caste designations of the Bamons on Goanet and suggest that you should find this internal Bamon segregation utterly disgusting as I do, and also, about how the Catholic Church continues its complicity in caste to this day. Hopefully, the Church's role in this sordid caste affair will come out in an authoritative book sooner rather than later. Finally, in a lighter mood, let me ask you how St Peter at the Pearly Gates might view a guy who claims that he is a devout Catholic but bears the Satanic and unchristian belief of caste in his very being? OK, this may be yet another challenging question to you but you really ought to try to answer such searching questions rather than be dismissive of them because you haven't got a clue or intellect to address them. Kind regards Very sanely, Cornel Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
---------- 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.
