Re: [Goanet] Goanet as learning instrument - response to Elisabeth

2006-07-23 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: Dear Cornel, I have much respect and sympathy for the Jews, for their enormous contribution to society and their perseverance through all they've had to endure in history. However when they had an opportunity to make right the wrongs of history, they've proven

Re: [Goanet] TIATR AKADEMI: Public Meeting of tiatrists and MLAs

2006-07-23 Thread Edward Verdes
Mogall Prince Jacob, It is great news for Romi Konkani lovers that finally the Tiatrist have woken up. You may remember my last conversation with you when you were down in Kuwait to perfrom for a show, where in I had personally requested you to inform the tiatr lovers in Kuwait and Goa about the

Re: [Goanet] GOAEVENTS: Free Software meet, July 22, 2006 3-5 pm at Miramar

2006-07-23 Thread Peter D'Souza
Fred and others who attended this meeting, You might be interested in Ubuntu's free CD offer: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ Concerning virtualization, don't waste your time on Red Hat right now. They offer no support for Xen virtualization. You will have to wait for RHEL version 5, due out at the

[Goanet] Of pagans and us... Was: Re: Bombay bombings

2006-07-23 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
http://www.religioustolerance.org/paganism.htm What is a Pagan? Everybody has their favorite definition of the word Pagan. Most people are convinced that their meaning is the correct one. But no consensus exists, even within a single faith tradition or religion as to what a pagan is. Origin of

[Goanet] AICHEA DISAK CHINTOP - Julhaiachi 23vi, 2006!

2006-07-23 Thread domnic fernandes
Munxeaponnachi mot eke sontre porim; ti ugtti astannam ekdom bori cholta. (The human mind is like an umbrella; it functions best when open.) Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the

Re: [Goanet] Pro-science and logical - really?

2006-07-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
Hi Frederick, Thanks for poking some fun at my cost. But seriously, I think your post shows how different individual perceptions can be. One can even make up one's own definition of fundamentalism. Mainstream moderate convictions can be portrayed as extremist ones by simply redefining them

Re: [Goanet] Dr helekars challenge...

2006-07-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Vivek, You make very reasonable points. One has to exercise individual restraint on all occasions. The trouble is though that a secular public forum has people with diverse tastes, perceptions and backgrounds. People also hold different types of prejudice and misunderstanding. Some might

Re: [Goanet] Rock solid Christian moral code

2006-07-23 Thread cornel
Mario A few responses to your post. Cornel - Original Message - From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Rock solid Christian moral code --- cornel [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] Clarification ......Tanzania re castes in diaspora

2006-07-23 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
I've always been very curious to know how one could tell the caste of a person. I'm reasonably fair, with light eyes. I speak English with a British accent, Konkanni with a Goan accent and quite a smattering of French (if my life was at stake). How would someone be able to identity me at a dance

Re: [Goanet] Clarification on the St. Xavier's Society in Tanzania

2006-07-23 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
On 23/07/06, Mervyn Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I amazes me that just a generation ago, most Goans would marry only someone chosen/okayed by their parents. A generation ago (in the Goa of the late 'sixties), I didn't know what electricity was, we studied by candlelight, and my brother and

Re: [Goanet] TIATR AKADEMI: Public Meeting of tiatrists and MLAs

2006-07-23 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Nice to see Prince Jacob on Goanet. Obiously, cyberspace is becoming more relevant to Goa too. Every Goanetter would probably know Prince Jacob as a prominent tiatrist and the guy behind the Konkani film PADRI. (My daughter, 8, was in tears over the comedy sequences in the film.. and even I

[Goanet] Just eight people currently BPL in Saligao village

2006-07-23 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Just eight people currently BPL in Saligao village SaligaoNet SALIGAO, July 23, 2006: Believe it or not, there are just eight persons on the 'Below Poverty Line' list in Saligao village currently. So, has poverty vanished from the village? Is the situation being glossed up simply by making it

Re: [Goanet] My challenge

2006-07-23 Thread Aristo
NO to Censorship. YES to exercising restraint from making grossly bigoted, disrespectful and inflammatory statements. Cheers, Aristo. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org

[Goanet] Goa news for July 24, 2006

2006-07-23 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa govt to crack down on foreigners buying land (The Economic Times) GOA: The Goa government will come down heavily on foreigners illegally purchasing property in Goa, in connivance

Re: [Goanet] Goanet as learning instrument (reply to Cornel)

2006-07-23 Thread Nasci Caldeira
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nasci I would be happy to accept your contention that I could not tell the difference between 'continental' and Continental if you can provide the specific evidence. I await your response. Please ensure your response is exactly illustrative of my

[Goanet] Love/arranged marriages

2006-07-23 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Frederick \FN\ Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of us may have decided on our own marriage partners, but I for one would certainly not look down on 'proposal' marriages. In one case, you fall in love first and then get married, while you do it the other way around in the other case!

[Goanet] Debate between Mario G and Elizabeth C re free market - great success (sic)

2006-07-23 Thread Jaswant Krishnayya
Mario G and Elizabeth Carvalho have had a dialogue on the issue of Minimum Wages, and how to better organise the Labour Market vs. Mario's view that the unfettered Free Market is the best way of ensuring that everyone gets work. (Wages would come down, obviously, but that is more efficient.) In

Re: [Goanet] India's response to attacks on civilians versus Israel's

2006-07-23 Thread Mario Goveia
--- lenny dsouza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Elisabeth, I have always seen that war appear to stop terrorism only for a short time but germinates more wars. This attack may appear good now but imagine the lifes of the civilian, put your self there in their place. I have seen pictures

Re: [Goanet] Of pagans and us.......

2006-07-23 Thread George Pinto
Hi Nasci, Should dead pagans be shot too? Why not. Modern religious fundamentalist chauvinism should be creative in its crusade unlike the old crusades which just killed living people. Regards, George Nasci Caldeira wrote: I wonder what Radha Krishnan Nair, Vivek, Aristo and Santosh,

[Goanet] Fake Morality (part II)

2006-07-23 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Part I - response to Elisabeth Part II - response to Bosco Response to Bosco regarding unanswered questions will be another post. Why does a society develop cultural and social norms at the given time? Irrespective of which society and religion developed these norms, they were developed to

Re: [Goanet] The beauty of a secular public forum (2)

2006-07-23 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The beauty of a secular public forum like Goanet is that any ordinary person like me can express his views without fear and intimidation. No amount of petulant outbursts and abusive attacks, whining and complaining, distortions and fabrications,

Re: [Goanet] My challenge

2006-07-23 Thread Frederick \FN\ Noronha
Nice to hear from our readers! And, for the record, Goanet never believed in censorship. We will never block your views because we don't agree with them, or because they might be politically incorrect. Unfortunately, a small group on this list has been spreading the canard that censorship equals

Re: [Goanet] Clarification ......Tanzania re castes in diaspora

2006-07-23 Thread HELGA GOMES
Sorry Elisabeth that I have to break the bad news to you and many other ex pats who thought that castes do not exist outside of Goa. They do - very much. Whether in Toronto, Vancouver, and all the big cities in the USA where our community has spread and of course in the UK. Maybe as a kid growing

[Goanet] AICHEA DISAK CHINTOP - Julhaiachi 24vi, 2006!

2006-07-23 Thread domnic fernandes
Avsaiponn itle sovkasaen viaj korta ki durbollkai rokddich tachi patt dorta. (Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.) Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN