Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mario Miranda Festival, July 24-26, 2008 Old GMC Building, Panjim. June 24, 4.30 pm Children's Day (with Bookworm). June 25, 5 pm Mario's medium analyzed. Short films on Mario. Featuring the first public appearance in Goa by Amruta Patil, graphic no

[Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-22 Thread Miguel Braganza
lary" under the Theft Act of 1969 or just robbing the day lights?    Mog asundi.   Miguel Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:40:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am neither interested in

[Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-21 Thread Mario Goveia
Sun Jul 20 11:29:51 PDT 2008 From: Miguel Braganza miguelbraganza at yahoo.co.in > My personal choices as punishment for the Robber would depend on the reason for the robbery, the circumstances and the robber's state of mind at the time of the act. > Mario observes: > Kitem mhontai, re? "...depe

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-20 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dear Dr. Jose,   If charges are framed in a Court of law and evidence is brought on record to support them, GENERALLY no leniency is possible. Fortunately, there have been exceptions.   Inquisition cannot be defended. The use of Inquisition of 18th Century to do a "Shuddikaran" now is as reprehe

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is a pity that Dr. Santosh Helekar, a professed > atheist/agnostic rationalist, should actually bring home > the point of what is essentially a CHRISTian > belief:REPENTENCE , not punishment, as the first > option. No one can

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-20 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
[1] Gilbert: A 30 year old male robber breaks into your home. He steals the jewelry, physically assaults a member of your family and flees. The robber is caught and confesses to the crime. His guilt is beyond doubt. [2] Miguel: If a 30 year male breaks into my home, assaults a member of my famil

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-20 Thread Bosco D'Mello
-Original Message- From: Gilbert Lawrence What would be your suggestions as to the appropriate punishment for this robber? Kitem re irmao Gilbert...having a slow Sunday?? "Evaluating the Past" and seeking punishment for the future?? Why dont you jump into the car and da

[Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-20 Thread Miguel Braganza
n. No one can claim to be Christian and justify Inquisition at the same time. That is akin to storing ice-cubes in Hell.   Mog asundi.   Miguel   Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past Message-ID: <

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-20 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Miguel,   Your message below with the "Mog asundi" was very touching.  Likely you have given this (mercy not sacrifice) a deep thought.  So let me ask your (and anybody else who would like to volunteer their) opinion. This is a special invitation to attorneys and those in the law-and-order (p

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the past

2008-07-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 7/18/08, Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did I read you right, that the Greeks like Hippocrates or > Galen were not practicing and teaching what they (and we) > call "scientific medicine"? (see below) > Gilbert, Yes, you read me right. Their medicine was pre-scientif

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the past

2008-07-18 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Santosh,   I avoid giving a response to your response to my post. Yet I could not resist your long explanation of what you got from my post.   Like in many fields, medicine has many "scientific fads" which do not stand the test of time. With the passage of time we learn from those mis-concepti

[Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-18 Thread Miguel Braganza
h Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It appears that the post quoted below, for some reason, is trying to defend the inquisition by drawing a non-existent analogy between it and early pre-scientific forms of medical trea

Re: [Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
It appears that the post quoted below, for some reason, is trying to defend the inquisition by drawing a non-existent analogy between it and early pre-scientific forms of medical treatment. It is true that we have progressed both morally and scientifically, but the strained analogy between moral

[Goanet] Evaluating the Past

2008-07-17 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
I am not an authority on Goa's (or any other) history.  Neither am I an authority on medical history.  Yet as a history buff, I welcome a cross-comparison of events across other disciplines. And we should be open in evaluating how other scientific fields look at the past and remember those achi