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--- Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(broadband is just here, and unlimited use costs a
fairly affordable Rs 900 p.m) kept me from getting
swollen headed... so far.
Mario responds:
Now, now, Fred. Let's not get carried away :-))
Fred writes:
The photo both were referring to
--- On Sun, June 11, Fred Noronha wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Goa ::: please see
and contribute. -FN
Mario adds:
Fred,
Are you aware of the following development at
Wikipedia?
Vivek,
Please do not selectively associate me in this issue.
If you have followed this thread you would know that I
have clearly said that this kind of atrocity was quite
possible during Goa's Christian-fascist Inquisition
period. If it did, it is another unfortunate
historical atrocity, among
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario
I definitely made no claim that I was in any way
certain that Hindu temples were destroyed for
Catholic churches to be built over them. To say I
had read about this is not to make a claim.
Are you experiencing some difficulty in
comprehension?
--- Mario Goveia wrote:
Was it really necessary to mention Mossad and
undercover agents when talking about a country that
has continuously been in survival mode
--- Valmiki Faleiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought yes. Not for the reason I think you
adduce, but to underscore
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very strange that Mario says that those not living
in Goa just pontificate about the road situation in
Goa. As I know that Mario lives outside Goa and
indeed a long distance away, is he not pontificating
as per his own criterion? Just puzzled really!
On Sat Jun 3 13:12:31 PDT 2006, Eugene Correia
wrote:
There's been a lot of debate over immigration --
local and foreign. As the US is in the midst of
a crisis and Canada under the Conservative Stephen
Harper is also turning into anti-minority,
immigration is come under fire from the
I have configured my email program to recognize and
dispose off endless and deliberate repetitions of
serial misrepresentations that take far too much time
to correct over and over again. Thus I only see young
Marlon's posts when I visit the archives. In doing so
I noticed that he has been
--- Valmiki Faleiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me at least, Goanet has been one. Not just an
instrument of learning, but more. I have
rediscovered old friends and made new ones, sought
and obtained assistance.
Mario adds:
I endorse the eloquently stated sentiment above.
Valmiki
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, I was most surprised in one instance, about
ten days ago, that India was not placed in
the same league as China by a commentator who had
placed them both on an equal footing only some two
months earlier.
Mario responds:
On the other hand, I
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is why I emphasised the importance of getting
behind commonsense and the need to debunk it as good
thinkers and scientists have done historically. I
was genuinly hoping for a good discussion with you
when I asked for examples of what you meant by
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mario
Yes it does. Water boils at different temperatures
related to the altitude. This is something pretty
basic in science.
Mario replies:
I'm glad I was finally able to convince you that there
is such a thing as true knowledge in science after
you
I hope some of the naysayers who obsess only on
India's problems will pay attention to this
acknowledgement of what the people who actually put
their money on the line think of India and it's
progress since extreme socialism was jettisoned .
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My
--- N Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dear Mario,
I am very happy to see your suggestions and you
have nailed the need of the hour. I believe that
problems approached with a clear vision like that
of yours and with determination should take us
towards the goal. However, you
--- George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must disagree with Mario's observation of my
ability. I have no claim to any fame (intellectual)
except I once was falsely accused of being
good-looking at the Anjuna night flea market. Later
I found out the person was visually-challenged and
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
Dear Mario,
Sometimes you make me laugh and laugh and laugh. I
laugh so hard, I just roll off my couch. Believe me
there are more weapons of mass destruction, hidden
by my little daughter, underneath my couch than
there are in Iraq.
Mario responds:
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
Dear Mario,
Sometimes you make me laugh and laugh and laugh. I
laugh so hard, I just roll off my couch. Believe me
there are more weapons of mass destruction, hidden
by my little daughter, underneath my couch than
there are in Iraq.
Mario responds:
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
I am sure as, Dr Khushwant Singh and Chidambaram,
revel in the headway that India is making, their
foremost wish is Malthus be gone. Unfortunately,
the spectre of Maltus will follow both India and
China well into the next century.
--- George Pinto
On 12/06/06, Mario Goveia wrote:
Then take a steel cube and multiply the length by
the breadth by the height to get the volume. Then
using the water displacement method see if this
comes out any different.
Boil water the same way wherever you are again and
again and see
Thanks, Joe. Great pictures. How about some of old
Portuguese era churches.
--- JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Talking Photos: All about GOA bridges ferryboats
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--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
Dear Mario,
I really do think you are suffering from a rare form
of PDD, known as PDD by Proxy. Not only do you feel
the need to defend your point of view ad infinitum
but you feel the obsessive need to either defend or
take umbrage at someone else's point of
--- Melinda Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
The Government is considering Road Safety as part of
the syllabus in schools and colleges.Wonderful.But
by the time this becomes a reality, several more
youth would have lost their lives.I cant help being
skeptical ,we need action not
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you accept or do not accept from whatever hard
evidence you can garner, that Hindu temples were
destroyed in Goa and that a number of Catholic
churches, were built instead, on roughly the same
sites where the temples were destroyed?
Mario replies:
--- George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fortunately, Goan reporter Pedro was on the scene to
capture the magic of this moment. He reported
that one Angolan player was so overwhelmed by the
colonizer-colonized camaraderie, in the ecstasy
of the moment he invited a Portuguese player to come
--- Aurelius Figueredo wrote:
Well it's also quite well known the during the early
crusades in Europe, a lot of pagan temples were
destroyed and churches raised in their place. The
reasons were varied of which this thread doesn't get
into but it did happen.
Mario replies:
Many things
--- Dacosta Amilcar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Being of Goan origin, I felt ashamed to read the
article by some Pushpa Iyengar on Goa wants expats
to leave.
Mario responds:
Dear Amilcar,
Please calm down. No need to waste your energy being
ashamed. Why are you ashamed after reading an
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
I am assuming that you are using the second example
to prove that the first assumption is incorrect.
Hence, proving once in for all that science is not
to be trusted
Mario replies:
Elisabeth,
Actually, I did not use any assumptions. Both the
principles of
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario
Ah! So there are impediments in India's way to
imminent super economic status. This is what I kept
saying and you were so dismissive. Have you
woken up?
Mario replies:
No, but you seem to be in dreamland. Why do you
embarrass yourself like
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario
Thanks for your two examples. I would use different
terminology for both examples. Rather than say it
is true knowledge I would say that within a
balance of probability, the first object would stay
up as long as fuel is supplied. It could
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
What is going on in Goa? Are we taking 10 steps
backwards in every direction? I am not only ashamed,
I am actually terrified for Goa.
Mario muses:
Preetam Elisabeth,
With all due respect, while I agree that this new
dress code is silly and intrusive in the
--- Francis Rodrigues wrote:
Mario's gems:
Francis,
I'm sure Dr. Kaza Moyo's skills would be far more
usefully employed in your search for eternal
youth...!
Dr. Moyo,
Welcome. Your surname is one I have not heard
before...!
Having grown up an Indian, and now a US citizen
of...!
--- ralph rau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario seems to be very sure that Dubai is funding
terrorist organisations. He probably has access to
reliable sources. One hopes these are not the same
sources that Bush depended on for information about
Iraqi WMD.
Mario responds:
Ralph,
I
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario
As often, you seem to miss the point being made. I
asked if, because Gilbert had not personally found
the evidence about Hindu temples, he was happy to
accept that there was no such destruction?
Mario responds:
It would help if you avoided wild
Fred,
I strongly suggest you change the Subject line to
match the contents of your post.
Mario.
--- Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not do it in Free Software? Please see
http://feeds.goa-india.org
and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa to get a
feel of what's
happening
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
--- Valmiki Faleiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was not participating on the debate on that
thread, dear Mario, was just curious about the
import of an observation made by Cornel.
Mario replies:
Nevertheless, dear Valmiki, you took the time and
effort to broadcast to the whole forum that
--- Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes. Books, articles and internet forums are good
ways to document what individual unorganized
theists and atheists believe.
Mario responds:
The comments above refer to what the individual
unorganized atheists CLAIM to believe. If they make
an
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
Dear Mario,
I am glad to hear that you have never felt ashamed.
I on the other hand frequently feel ashamed about
many things in life. For instance I am ashamed I
inherited my father's mustache and have to spend a
lot of money on tending to it every month.
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
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
--- 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
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This admonition is totally uncalled for on a public
Goan forum. Elisabeth eloquently states what many
of us only have the courage to think (ie. those
of us who do THINK).
Mario observes:
Kevin,
Another one of your classic atheist/agnostic
pretenses.
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not a practising Catholic but I do respect
those who sincerely believe in their Catholic
faith.
Mario observes:
Shown below is an example of the utmost respect that
Cornel has for Catholics who sincerely believe in
their Catholic faith, whom he
--- N Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
HELLO,
This is to remind on the ROAD TO SAFETY ( ROAD
SAFETY) Even to-day I saw an accident at Miramar
near the Campal Inn. Accidents are more due to
negligence on the part of the two wheelers.
Are we aware of this evil? This is as bad as
--- Kaza Moyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Goanetters !
Just to say how much I enjoy this forum ! I'm
originally from Goa, but practised for quite a
while in the UK. I notice quite a few old friends
colleagues here. Hi Jose, hello Gilbert, viva
Santosh ! I've been away on holiday
Elisabeth,
Welcome back :-)) I guess you can take the Goan out
of Goa, but you cannot take Goa out of the Goan :-))
Now about that white picket fence...hurts me to even
think about it :-))
Mario
--- Elisabeth Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dear Francis,
Thank you for the advice. I maybe
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
Morality does not need the compass of religion to
guide it. It is inherent. Frazer in the Golden
Bough, wonderfully details how societies living in
isolation of each other invariably reach the same
conclusion. Pyramids for example are to be found
from
--- Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most people know that mere assertions can never
trump documented facts. That many moral teachings in
religious texts are now regarded as immoral is a
well-known fact. A rock solid moral compass cannot
have such gaping immoral holes in it.
Mario
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
Today, I hang my head in shame as we have proved to
the rest of India that we are as intolerant as the
RSS and that we are as capable of stoking religious
sentiment for political gain as the BJP. I am truly
ashamed of being a Goan. I am ashamed of belonging
to
--- Francis Rodrigues wrote:
Sweetness and light itself ! Methinks the sailor
doth protest too much - all this repetition -
doesn't it sound kinda fishy?!
Mario replies:
Fishy??? Deconstructed with your own words fishy???
I don't think so. More like fisher with a fish on the
hook.
But,
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
I love reading all the theist v/s atheists posts on
this forum.
I like sitting on white picket fences.
Mario observes:
I'm glad you are sitting on a white picket fence,
which can only bruise your posterior, instead of being
in the middle of the road, where
--- Francis Rodrigues wrote:
I'm sorry my intellectual superiority and physical
presence bother you. Perhaps you should seek
consolation elsewhere.
Mario replies:
Francis,
You can't be serious. We have seen no intellectual
superiority that you need to apologize for, though
there are a
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To those who are superstitious and belive in the
End-Times, the number 666 is ominous.
Tomorrow is that date on the calendar.
Kind Regards, GL
Mario responds:
End-times? Bite your tongue, Gilbert! I have plans
for next weekend :-))
--- Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I know Portugal has not offically
recognized Goa's liberation. Portugal only restored
diplomatic relations which were cut off after 1961.
Mario implores:
Eugene,
What does Portugal officially recognizing Goa's
liberation mean 45 years
From: Marlon Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The answer to the Mario's question is pretty
simple: It is called a welfare state. If in case
Gilbert and Mario are not aware, secular,
democratic rule has superseded the closed,
theocratic institutions they talk so highly about.
If anything one
--- Ricardo Nunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
North America is inhabited by a few hundred thousand
pacific NRMs (non resident Mongolians) who managed
to survive the brutal invasion of a swarm of greedy
NREs (non resident Europeans) who brought in boat
loads of NRAs (non resident Africans) to
--- Nasci Caldeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When there was this invasion by the Indian armed
forces, into Goa, ('de jure' Goa was the 'Overseas
Province of Portugal' even before the 'Union of
India' the present entity, was born on the 15th
August 1947.)the Potuguese Govt, abandoned Goa and
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:29:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The difference in my opinion is one of checks and
balances. For example, Christians have a rock-solid
Golden Rule
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Golden Rule or the ethic of reciprocity is
found
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Next you will probably be telling us that
Good-Morning and Good-night are some derivative
of May GOD give you a pleasant morning/night and
Hullo is related to an angelic cranial adornment
:-))
Mario responds:
Dear Kevin,
Wrong AGAIN, my friend. That is not
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario
It is always a matter of judgement when having
judged a point or piece as
drivel whether it is worth wasting time on it or
not. A perfect illustration
of drivel is when someone persists on saying that
the Portuguese took their
surnames from
Linda,
I think the difference is between being on a TOURIST
visa and being a resident.
The article was Pushpa Iyengar's personal spin on a
bogus issue. She refers to foreigners who are on
TOURIST visas. Why is someone who is on a TOURIST
visa, which is a short stay visa by definition,
--- afra dias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Goanetters,
'Left cheek first'. Its not only because we British
drive on the left, it is also because we write from
left to right.
Mario observes:
Afra, I'm surprised that you are disagreeing with your
British buddy, Gabe Menezes, who wants
Marlon Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given the predominence of Catholic Goans on this
list, there is a large bank of people
who will mount a vigorous defence of their religion
if it is attacked. Unfortunately, when individuals
make insensitive and bigoted comments against
hindus and
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote:
Dear Mario,
Your argument that there are economies in this world
that follow the principles of laissez-faire in the
absolute is bordering on the comical.
Mario responds:
I agree it would be comical if I that was actually my
argument. For anyone to construe
--- Francis Rodrigues wrote:
Let's give it a rest shall we, Mario ? Being
garrulous is no excuse for being verbose.
You threw, I called it.
Mario replies:
It is all of YOU that need to give it a rest, not me.
The less I hear from you all, the better.
You called nothing. You had threatened
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