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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred, you are a pretty sharp individual! That quality in some comes with practice, mentoring, introspection, rigorous analysis, as also sometimes sheer awareness among other variables and virtues. Hence, often AWARENESS appears as STRANGE. Particularly when one runs into strong reasoning. Let me also add that the same intellect may have weaknesses, peeves, etc. (said her to diffuse any attempts smugness). Now, even if Eugene was REMOTELY not addressing Selma what he says has rigor and relevance. In fact it would have been better to not address anyone but speak to our minds and hearts--which to an extent Eugene succeeded in doing. That is a whole other focus. Somethings at sometime, more often than not need to be beaten down. I have often wondered whether Goan politicians were aware of how other parts of country conduct themselves. I am talking beyond cleanup. Stuff like selling property, etc. Or did they simply say screw it and got into the fray. On the same note, was a white paper floated around which gave guideline to have the maximum could be extracted from Goa. Also what are their shastric concerns, and the same on the other sides (christian, Muslim, non-believer, etc). Autonomy could have been sought in how Goans saw themselves, but that seems to have never been the concern nor the awareness. We must avoid jumping up and down when a racist strand is thought to have been noticed>>observed. But see it for the hurt that is there and peer at it closely and be of assistance--clarity. Otherwise forget the fact that we see ourselves as Christians or that we baptize our children. It frankly hilarious. It is rarely cut an dryl There is a whole group of folks out here on Goanet. who relish every altercation among you Christians and that extends among Christians themselves. But they will never correct their own. Other than giving the top-level disclaimers. ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 01:24:51 +0530 > From: Frederick FN Noronha ????????? ???????? *??????? ??????? > <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] re Wake up to the smell of India > > > This is STRANGE! I somehow agree more with Eugene than with Selma here. > Well put, Eugene. Apart from being a patriarchal society, ours is a very > class-biased one too! FN > > On 2 January 2012 12:45, Eugene Correia <eugene.corr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The "showte", the "bebbe", the "sungtam" and the "biktan" will make > > merry during the yuletide season. They have as much right to enjoy the > > spirit of Christmas wherever they want and how they want to as long as > > they don't break the law and enjoy within the permissible limits of > > decency. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------