Re: [Goanet] Goan Taliban?/to Helga

2006-06-09 Thread Alfred de Tavares
Does one sense a wee bit phobia in that sentiment dear Elizabeth? We all for WOMEN and WOMEN allways for us, poor dear things... Alfred From: Elisabeth Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org To: HELGA GOMES [EMAIL PROTECTED],Goa's

Re: [Goanet] Re: Fr. Jorda and Loyola High School

2006-06-09 Thread Alfred de Tavares
Dear Fausto, Dear Dicky was Edward da Cruz not Edwin. Despite our innumerable altercations on mor than one campus we came to be very close dear friends. The last I met with him was when I, for the first time, brought down my wife Eva to India during monsoons 1974. We had a most pleasant

Re: [Goanet] Goan Taliban?/to Helga

2006-06-09 Thread HELGA GOMES
Thanks Elisabeth. I too wonder why there aren't more women on this forum. Maybe its for the same reason that there aren't any women priests? Actually I am not sure why there aren't any women priests either! We lost Diana a genuine activist probably because she is busy doing something about the

[Goanet] ADPI (THE BRAIN BEHIND MOPA DESIGN) STILL ON THE PROWL

2006-06-09 Thread Philip Thomas
http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?id=31612template=c ache=6/8/2006%207:14:44%20PM Government prioritises airport revamp The Left might not allow private players in modernisation of Kolkata airport, which could go to the Airport Authority of India. Last week all four Left

Re: Re: Re: [Goanet] Theist v/s atheist?

2006-06-09 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Valmiki Faleiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, Cornel, I didn't mean to evoke an apology from you. I thought you had good reason to imply Mario was not insightful, from the way you said. Mario's posts do stir thinking, though I do not agree with most of his rightist diatribes. But

Re: [Goanet] Re: Mario's mantra about a rock solid code

2006-06-09 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario Your rhetoric below is too garbled to waste time trying to make sense of it. Mario replies: Then, let me ungarble it for you :-)) On the one hand you claim to respect religious people, Catholics, Christians, whatever. On the other hand you

Re: [Goanet] Goa importing poverty

2006-06-09 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue is how does society prevent the abuse of a good thing? And how do we (society or govt.) address important issues rather that create short- term and short-sighted solutions to more fundamental problems. Mario observes: Before we

Re: Re: Re: [Goanet] Theist v/s atheist?

2006-06-09 Thread cornel
Val Many thanks for your kind reply. Regards Cornel - Original Message - From: Valmiki Faleiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list,estb.1994! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:31 PM Subject: Re: Re: Re: [Goanet] Theist v/s atheist? Sorry, Cornel, I

[Goanet] Re: Woman priest says Mass

2006-06-09 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Cornel, From claiming that I said that I am, denying that Hindu temples were destroyed during Portuguese rule in Goa , Marlon switches his claim to, deny the reality that churches were built on top of destroyed Hindu temples! Contemporary historical accounts do document PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS

Re: [Goanet] Goa importing poverty

2006-06-09 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Cornel, With all due respect (of which I have ample for you), the analogy is a spurious one and undeserving of Gilbert's post. The US is grappling with an immigration problem and there is much debate about this. There are an estimated 20 million illegal immigrants from Latin America

[Goanet] my view on 'the colonial mindset of celebrating European saints'

2006-06-09 Thread de Quadros, Ciril
Fr. Ariosto Coelho in his mail asks : does your Goan organization/association and church/priests remember and celebrate native Goan saints like Blessed Vaz and Venerable Agnelo or does the colonial mindset of celebrating European saints only continue? Fr Ariosto I don't have any

[Goanet] Video: Goa, India's Cultural Crossroads (National Geographic)

2006-06-09 Thread Goanet News Service
May 3, 2006—The state of Goa on India's southwestern coast is home to one of the world's most unique confluences of cultures. From 1510 to 1961, the region was controlled by Portugal as a base for spice merchants and Christian missionaries. But Goa's Indian residents managed to hold on to

[Goanet] Secular went in the tin!

2006-06-09 Thread Cecil Pinto
Incy Vinci Spyder Spouting nonsense that should be washed away by the rain By Cecil Pinto After successfully arm-twisting the government into banning the movie 'The Da Vinci Code', the Goans Against Religious Blasphemy (GARB) have elected an Executive Committee. This comprises of a few MLAs,

[Goanet] Goan lifestyle vulnerable to AIDS, says Governor

2006-06-09 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=060943 Goan lifestyle vulnerable to AIDS, says Governor NT Staff Reporter Panaji, June 8: The Governor, Mr S C Jamir today observed that Goa, by way of its lifestyle, is vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, and the large number of tourists as well

[Goanet] MIG 29 CRASHES IN JAMNAGAR [MIG 29Ks DUE IN GOA]

2006-06-09 Thread Philip Thomas
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1632381.cms But another MiG bites the dust [ Friday, June 09, 2006 01:20:10 amTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] RAJKOT: A MiG-29 trainer aircraft of IAF crashed approximately 30 km north of Jamnagar into the sea, near Pirotan island, where the Marine National

[Goanet] DE-CODE DA 'AIRPORTS' CODE (FOR A CHANGE!)

2006-06-09 Thread Philip Thomas
HERALD 8/6/06 Headline: Mopa panel gets 6-month extension Gist: A six member committee to go into the Mopa international airport issue was constituted by Government of India in end-January 2006 under the chairmanship of Goa CM Rane. The members consisted of Goa's 2 LS MPs, one RS MP, and two

[Goanet] Goa news for June 9, 2006

2006-06-09 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Slick alarm for Goa coast (The Telegraph) Mumbai, June 6 (Reuters): An oil slick from a cargo ship that sank off Indias coast is threatening popular tourist beaches in Goa,

[Goanet] Navelim subway a focal point for launch of Road Safety campaign

2006-06-09 Thread Goacan
---Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to yourfamily members, relatives, neighbours and friends.Help others be BETTER INFORMED,The time is come for the people of Goato ORGANISE not AGONISE

Re: [Goanet] Theist v/s atheist?

2006-06-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
Mario Goveia wrote: Is there any way to document what an individual unorganized atheist REALLY believes?” Yes. Books, articles and internet forums are good ways to document what individual unorganized theists and atheists believe. The claim above that moral teachings in religious texts are

[Goanet] 9th June FRIDAY BALCAO to focus on Right to Information Act 2005

2006-06-09 Thread Goa Desc
-- Welcome to the FRIDAY BALCAO -- Dear Cybergaonkars on Goanet, Friday Balcao the fortnightly discussion event to be held on 9th June will focus on the use of the Right to Information Act to

Re: [Goanet] Re: Mario's mantra about a rock solid code

2006-06-09 Thread Marlon Menezes
I am surprised that Mario would consider himself as being a committed catholic as he has publicly denounced the Pope and the church hierarchy. I think it would be more appropriate to say that Mario is in between a rock and a hard place. Definitely no rock solid code however! Marlon --- cornel

Re: [Goanet] Why stray dogs always will be a problem in Goa !!

2006-06-09 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
Caution, mate! You may be hauled up for contempt of court. The Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court, upon intervention by local Animal Lovers groups, has already ruled out the destruction of strays is not legal. You may get into the dock on another count, or get docked... .. If Ms. Grace Kare,

[Goanet] The Kitchen Prayer

2006-06-09 Thread Livia/Jorge de Abreu Noronha
Dear Netters I would like to share the following prayer with you since I had to copy it to send it a a friend of mine who visited me lately. I have had it on a bone china plate plate in my kitchen since 1965. I have not been able to find a similar plate since then. When I googled for it I

[Goanet] Goenkar, buyer beware.

2006-06-09 Thread Gabe Menezes
Indian stock markets drop again Indian share prices have fallen by 4% in the wake of steep declines in other Asian markets. The benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex fell by more than 400 points to 9,397.93, the lowest since January. Indian shares have fallen by more than 25% over the past

Re: [Goanet] Theist v/s atheist?

2006-06-09 Thread cornel
Mario It would be helpful to figure out what you mean by true knowledge. That concept was largely rejected when religious knowledge was questioned with the rise of modernity. Further, one would even be pressed very hard to refer to anything in science as true knowledge. Have you missed the

Re: [Goanet] Goa importing poverty

2006-06-09 Thread cornel
Hi Gilbert Just one small point re your Why are the world economists (who were in favour of WTO and NAFTA) not stepping forward to come up with innovative plans to create jobs in Mexico to keep the indigenous workforce in their native land? Could the same have been said about Indian doctors

Re: [Goanet] Goa importing poverty

2006-06-09 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Gilbert, This is a good post but response to it maybe limited. I don't know how many Goans are based in the US on this forum and of those how many are closely following the immigration debate. I disagree with you about the Dubai Ports deal. It was not economics or security that kept that

Re: [Goanet] RE.: Angry Man Go Whistle !

2006-06-09 Thread Mario Goveia
Francis, I'm sure Dr. Kaza Moyo's skills would be far more usefully employed in your search for eternal youth and mental mastery from obscure Hawaian medicine men whose credibility has not even spread beyond their own environment, than in anything I have said or done :-)) Not to mention your

Re: [Goanet] India gobbling the world

2006-06-09 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gilbert, As you know, I have felt some scepticism about India's rapid growth to super economic status in the imminent future but I dearly hope it is true and that we will not be disappointed. Mario observes: India's rapid economic growth can be