While Jacinta is making a good point about "saving the planet", there are people wondering How to survive. That, I believe was the posit made in the "Jorge Dias' post.
Jacinta may wish to visit the NE of India or Gujarat or even a few miles south of Goa ....to Chicamangaloor and understand that there are more emergent problems that minorities face. And then there are the constantly evolving Maoist and Naxalite situations which are affecting a significant part of India. I also wonder if jacinta is correct about the origin of the name Peter from the 'Persian Pedrom'. (I am not sure that such a name exists in Persian, but that is besides the point). It is my understanding - and I stand corrected, if I am wrong that: The Persian language is about 2500 years old Greek and Latin are about 3500 years old The name Peter (and its Hebrew/Aramaic version) signifies a 'rock' originates from Petros in Greek and/or Petrus in Latin I will not get into "what is Indian" ......it would be discussing 'What is Australian" without taking the Aboriginees into account. jc 2009/9/23 jacinta/chander <[email protected]>: Traditional Catholic names are basically European names some are corrupted names from the middle eastern region. e.g George from Jorge/ Peter from Pedrom (persian) and so it goes on. The so called Hindu names are Indian names and they are more in tune with the language and the region. Instead of getting hung up on issues of names there are more important urgent matters at hand e.g green house emmison, land preservation for posterity and preserving the planet for the future. Move on Jorge.
