[Goanet] GLOBAL GOAN CHILDREN ART COMPETITION 2007

2007-07-16 Thread Ethel Dacosta
Friends of Goa and Global Goan Associations organize `GLOBAL GOAN CHILDREN ART COMPETITION 2007' Friends of Goa and Global Goan Associations, in partnership with Gallery Attic, Goa, India, announce the `Global Goan Children Art Competition 2007' to celebrate World Goa Day commemorated on

[Goanet] God and you

2007-07-16 Thread Albert Desouza
Dear goannetters In today's gospel Jesus tries to explain who our neighbour is.Much before Jesus came into this world people had strange gods.The israelites were influenced by various cultures. There were the greek influence, the roman influence and the jewish influence.God was not happy with

[Goanet] Catholic Schools - Something for Nothing.

2007-07-16 Thread eric pinto
The kind i went to in Bombay, at a cost of ten rupees a month, four decades ago, would be called a Prep school here in the US, and tuition would run around ten thousand dollars a year : one pays around four thousand at a smaller parochial school. The tax on homes, an average five thousand a

Re: [Goanet] Why *some* missionaries get a raw deal

2007-07-16 Thread George Pinto
Dear Frederick There is good reason all religious fundamentalists should be shipped to another planet. The RSS does not need Goanet to feed its propaganda, people like M C Mathew were in the news, including warrants for his arrest. Bhandare does not take his anti-Muslim, anti-Catholic views

Plans to build masjid in garage draws MLA�s ire

2007-07-16 Thread Bhandare
The herald internet edition carried the following item: http://oheraldo.in/node/26465 Had the same thing been done by a BJP MLA then Fred and others would be up in arms and shout secularism from rooftops. is SGF also communal? Is Reginaldo lourenco,local Sarpanch Martha Cardozo, Curtorim

Re: [Goanet] reply to kamlaksh

2007-07-16 Thread KAMALAKSH CHARI
From: Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is what Bhadare writing below a fact? Or is it RSS fear-mongering with madarsas mushrooming in goa? What is wrong with residents building their palace of worship - be it Temples, Mosques or Churches? We condemn Goans of the Middel Ages for

Re: [Goanet] Evolutionist Kevin?

2007-07-16 Thread Aristo
In my opinion, getting rid of the concept of Dualism is the last step from a 99% Atheist (Agnostic) to a 100% Atheist. In my attempt to learn more about the sense or self or Consciousness a long time ago, I picked a copy of Roger Penrose's The Emperors new Mind but I found it digressing and did

[Goanet] Bhandare's musings

2007-07-16 Thread Bosco D'Mello
Bhandare, #1) Can you extrapolate further on your insightful comments: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2007-July/059035.html I am convinced that inspite of being educated many posters here Condone pedophilia Who are these posters you refer to? And how did you come to

Re: [Goanet] Evolutionist Kevin?

2007-07-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
Selma's characterization below of my assertions in this thread is totally wrong. What I stated cannot be recast in the antiquated philosophical dichotomy of monism and dualism. The current scientific understanding of the brain points to a much more complicated scenario. Googling for monism and

Re: [Goanet] reply to kamlaksh

2007-07-16 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
On 15/07/07, Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly I would encourage the Muslim community to spend a few hundred million dinars of Saudi money (pocket change) in Goa to build a very beautiful mosque, which also serves as a great tourist attraction. Now everybody wins ... through

[Goanet] The Confessional - LA Church 'in abuse deal' Vol 2, Issue 584

2007-07-16 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Readers, I was prompted by the LA Church topic to add a cautionary note about confessionals. Here is what you can read on the net Argentine priest in Dirty War trial. Here are extracts. This one from Agentina. Von Wernich would visit prisoners after horrific torture sessions and asked them

Re: [Goanet] global goan convention in lisboa and other notes

2007-07-16 Thread Eugene Correia
is there another convention in lisboa that i am not aware of? if the writer(s) are talking of the one held by Casa Goa, then i think it is too late to have raised this issue. i met a Goan at a Goan restaurant who had just arrived from Goa to collect his Portuguese passport. he told me that the

[Goanet] T hings you want to know

2007-07-16 Thread Albert Desouza
Dear Fredrick There is no need to mock me.All you have to do is close your internet facility that you have taken for your computer for what I wrote about Egyptions worshipping the sun god is not my own.It has been just copied from the net.It is history and it is a fact.I have not made

[Goanet] Believer does not really Belive ref Vol 2, Issue 587

2007-07-16 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Folks, I was uncertain from what he was saying whether one of our contributor articles Kevin Saldanha was an Evolutionist, a believer of the Faith and I inquired on his views of the delicate relationship between Hope and Faith. So I asked him to clarify. To be fair to the man he came across

Re: [Goanet] please help me out

2007-07-16 Thread Jim Fernandes
Hey Amit, In today's world, you can get info on pretty much anything, on the INTERNET. You can go to www.google.com and type out Goa Tourism Development Corp GTDC (without the double quotes) and I quickly got the link you are looking for. Here it is:

[Goanet] Phone search, address search for U.K.

2007-07-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
If the phone # is not listed as ex directory, you may find it by clicking on to the link below... http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England

Re: [Goanet] T hings you want to know

2007-07-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 16/07/07, Albert Desouza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Fredrick There is no need to mock me.All you have to do is close your internet facility that you have taken for your computer for what I wrote about Egyptions worshipping the sun god is not my own.It has been just copied from the net.It

Re: [Goanet] Bhandare's Musings

2007-07-16 Thread Sunith Velho
Bosco, To be fair, sometimes Jekyll Bhandare does have a point but Hyde Bhandare often steps in with a lot of bigoted crap and 'factual' information backed by paranoia instead of proof. As far as this perception that Muslims all over the world are trying to build, of them getting a raw deal

Re: [Goanet] Goa to Portugal - the journey of art .......thethree-day Global Goan Convention in Lisbon

2007-07-16 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
Dear Shashikant, What I really find strange is the fact that for more than 40 years you or your parents and/or so many other citizens did not bother to maintain your Portuguese citizenship. Now in the last years, everyone wants to demand their rights. You have to agree that there is some

Re: [Goanet] Catholic Schools - Something for Nothing.

2007-07-16 Thread George Pinto
--- eric pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kind i went to in Bombay, at a cost of ten rupees a month, four decades ago, would be called a Prep school here in the US, and tuition would run around ten thousand dollars a year : one pays around four thousand at a smaller parochial school. The

[Goanet] 9,000 and 50,000

2007-07-16 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
Let me share some good news with you: I've crossed sharing 9,000 (mostly Goa-related) photographs via Flickr.com and the same have drawn a little over 50,000 views. Feel free to visit, share (for non-commercial purposes) and pass the word on about: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ Rgds, FN --

[Goanet] Pai Panandiker on Goa

2007-07-16 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
This is a quote from V A Pai Panandiker, circa 1995, when he was Director of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, life trustee of the International Centre Goa, and chairman of Marpol Ltd, Goa: There is one more vital strategic advantage which Goa has. It has one of the most tension-free

Re: [Goanet] Miscellaneous issues - Part 1 response

2007-07-16 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Cornel, Thanks a million for your short and pointed responses. These were very enlightening. I will respond to them briefly, and the responses follow your paragraphs. I take this opportunity to state that, your passing and scurrilous references to me in thrid party posts unrelated to this

Re: [Goanet] T hings you want to know

2007-07-16 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
Albert, I mock you not. I am just citing the old Christian (and other) believe, Do unto others as you would like them do to you. What was your point about Egyptians worshipping the sun, anyway? Are you also suggesting that if I close my internet facility then I will be able to sleep early

[Goanet] Goan fishing operations...

2007-07-16 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
Could anyone help me to find the English translations for the following fishing nets used in Goa: kanttalli. paguer, rampôn, ormól, ênddi, zalli. Thanks in advance. FN -- Frederick Noronha Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: +91-832-2409490 M:

[Goanet] Bhandare's Musings - response for Bosco

2007-07-16 Thread Bhandare
Dear Bosco: I believe that if someone contributes money to an organization which then uses that money to protect pedophiles then that is equivalent to condoning pedophilia. If someone is a member of an organization whose highest elected official tried to hamper law enforcement efforts and tried

Re: [Goanet] Goa to Portugal - the journey of art .......the three-day Global Goan Convention in Lisbon (Gabe Menezes / Jose Colaco)

2007-07-16 Thread Zodiacs
I agree with jose response to my message especially the portuguese government not trusting indian documents. However i would further add to my reply that; 1)Why has the portuguese government not obtain the records of Birth,marriage, death from the respective registrars of Goa, daman diu and

[Goanet] Goa Sudharop: 2007 YEAR OF THE ENVIRONMENT

2007-07-16 Thread George Pinto
Thank you to Principal Alan Rodrigues and Vidya Vikas Academy for promoting environmental awareness in Goa. VIDYA VIKAS ACADEMY in association with GOA SUDHAROP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC., U.S.A. (www.goasudharop.org) presents ENVIROZEST on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at Vidya Vikas Academy

Re: [Goanet] Catholic Schools - Something for Nothing

2007-07-16 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Eric, Your quiet but heart-felt generosity to friends, strangers, and charitable causes more than makes up for your brother's attitude. Still, you have made a valid point, and I'm sure it will be noted by many. Enjoyed meeting you that Sunday, and our all-too-brief chat. Warm

[Goanet] 'Last Bus to Vasco' provides poetic idiom for Chennai

2007-07-16 Thread Goanet AE
Blog Review by Vincent D'Souza, of Brian Mendonca's poetry reading at Park Hotel, Chennai, Thursday July 12, 2007, 7-8 pm July 13, 2007 POEMS ON GOA: CREATE SPACE FOR CHENNAI 'Last Bus to Vasco: Poems from Goa' This is the

[Goanet] FW: Goa to Portugal - and citizenship delays - a response to Shashikant

2007-07-16 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
From: john menezes JM's rejoinder: Dear Jose, Congratulations for your forthright reply. My remarks pertain to those of my age-group who are applying for Portuguese citizenship for themselves, their children and grand-children, and a legitimate question is: Why have they waited 40 long

[Goanet] Translation of lyrics

2007-07-16 Thread domnic fernandes
Hello Sharon, Many thanks for promptly clarifying that the song 'Scientist' is composed by Wilson but sung on the audio cassette by Michael. I like all songs on 'WILMIX Konkani-Originals' Album No.1. It would be a great idea if you could come up with a CD of this album so it remains for