Re: [Goanet] Let us pray for the world 

2020-03-25 Thread JOSEPH LOBO
  Tom,  I/m  not  quite  sure  who  you are  but, Thank You  for  your  message. Even  though  many  folk  are  sceptical  of  prayer,  we  folk  who  do  believe  in  a God,  do  realize  that  much  more  than  we   know   can  be  achieved  by  the  power  of  Prayer !   

[Goanet] Let us pray for the world 

2020-03-25 Thread Tom
Received this from a friend please pray for the eradication of Corona Virus in the world. May God Bless us all.

Re: [Goanet] LET US PRAY FOR PARRIKAR.....BUT NOT FORGET TO PRAY FOR OUR GOA

2018-02-21 Thread Bernice Pereira
The Lord has shown his might. Holy be his name. Sent from my iPhone > On 21-Feb-2018, at 9:40 AM, Aires Rodrigues wrote: > > WHILE WE PRAY FOR CHIEF MINISTER MANOHAR PARRIKAR’S HEALTH > > > > . …. LETS ALSO NOT FORGET TO PRAY FOR ALL THOSE GOAN FAMILIES WHO

[Goanet] LET US PRAY FOR PARRIKAR.....BUT NOT FORGET TO PRAY FOR OUR GOA

2018-02-20 Thread Aires Rodrigues
WHILE WE PRAY FOR CHIEF MINISTER MANOHAR PARRIKAR’S HEALTH . …. LETS ALSO NOT FORGET TO PRAY FOR ALL THOSE GOAN FAMILIES WHO ARE SUFFERING DUE TO INJUSTICES INFLICTED ON THEM BY THIS CORRUPT AND NEPOTIC MANOHAR PARRIKAR GOVT. LETS PRAY FOR the families whose houses in Mopa were

[Goanet] LET US PRAY FOR THE HEALTH OF DR J.C. ALMEIDA

2017-09-24 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Retired IAS officer and Goa’s former Chief Secretary Dr. J.C.Almeida is quite unwell. Let us all please pray for his health. Dr. J.C.Almeida has been a distinguished administrator and a dear friend to the student community. It was due to his untiring efforts that during the 1979 student

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 11/11/09, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Couldn't hypnotism also be considered a pseudo-science in its early days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotism#History Hypnosis has always been regarded as a legitimate natural phenomenon, although explanations to

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-11 Thread Frederick Noronha
Couldn't hypnotism also be considered a pseudo-science in its early days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotism#History This description from those times sounds very bizarre now: In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of

[Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-11 Thread Joao Barros-Pereira
*Let us pray* *Tue Nov 10 20:04:49 PST 2009* FWIW, Gregor Mendel, who is known as the father of modern genetics, was a monk; as was, in a manner of speaking, Abbe Faria our own father of hypnotism. Joao observes: True! But what is his contribution to spirituality? Or for that matter, Abe Faria?

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-11 Thread Frederick Noronha
Interesting article! Are the New Atheists As Bad as Christian Fundamentalists? By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. Posted November 3, 2009. http://www.alternet.org/belief/143674/are_the_new_atheists_as_bad_as_christian\ _fundamentalists?page=entire The most aggressive members of the New Atheism

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am talking about priests who are not professionally qualified in any scientific field i.e. who have not obtained legitimate advanced scientific education and training. An example of such a priest is one who is posting bogus and dangerous pseudoscientific nonsense in this forum, and

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
- Original Message From: Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Tue, 10 November, 2009 7:52:08 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Let us pray  There are priests teaching Science in Catholic Colleges and Universities

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 11/9/09, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Not every Hindu priest has the competence to discuss the relationship between Science and Religion. It is quite true that a scientist may not be able to tell us anything about religion, as it is the case with Dr.Santosh for the last

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-09 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com --- On Mon, 11/9/09, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Not every Hindu priest has the competence to discuss the relationship between Science and Religion. It is quite true that a scientist may not be able to tell us anything about religion, as

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: I repeat that not every Hindu priest can discuss the relationship between Science and Religion. Every Catholic priest studies science, philosophy and theology, and even so not every Catholic priest may be able to discuss this

[Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-08 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Here is an interesting point of view: Excerpts: Attending a weekly religious service, regardless of your faith, may lower your risk of death by 20 percent compared to people who don't attend services, researchers are reporting. [image: Click here to find out

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
icso...@bsnl.in wrote: We cannot put God's healing power to test with scientific trials... This shows exactly why there is a conflict between religion and science. This is why a religious priest cannot tell us anything about science, and a scientist anything about religion. Moreover, what a

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
While it may not be apparent to people who are easily taken by expressions of religious chauvinism in one form or another, and especially to those who fail to recognize the perils of cherry picking and selective reporting, scientific investigations about the relationship of religious beliefs

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-08 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com icso...@bsnl.in wrote: We cannot put God's healing power to test with scientific trials... This shows exactly why there is a conflict between religion and science. This is why a religious priest cannot tell us anything about science, and a

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-07 Thread Ivo da C.Souza
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Prayer (of any religion, every religion!) could well be a low-cost, less-stressful option to medical practitioners:

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Prayer (of any religion, every religion!) could well be a low-cost, less-stressful option to medical practitioners: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032302177.html On the contrary,

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-02 Thread Frederick Noronha
As George Bernard Shaw said in another context the will to believe creates its own evidence! (This was in his play 'St Joan'... where he was poking fun, if I recall right, of a 'miracle' that resulted in the hens refusing to lay eggs as the Maid of Orleans, not New Orleans!, arrived on the

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-02 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:23:21 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com On the contrary, the above study showed that prayer had no medical benefit for the patients at all. Please see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12082681/print/1/displaymode/1098/ QUOTE: In the largest study of

[Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-01 Thread Albert Desouza
Albert writes:- Who will know about heaven, God, and souls better ? the one who has come from there or the one who is imagining things to be ? while on one hand Jesus who has descended from the Father, who has seen Heaven has told us to come to him and he will take us to the Father, what

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-01 Thread eric pinto
Have you ever considered consulting a medical practitioner ? !    eric. Albert writes:- Who will know about heaven, God, and souls better ? the one who has come from there or the one who is imagining things to be ? while on one hand Jesus who has descended from the Father, who has seen

Re: [Goanet] Let us pray

2009-11-01 Thread Frederick Noronha
Prayer (of any religion, every religion!) could well be a low-cost, less-stressful option to medical practitioners: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032302177.html Looks like we still need a lot of it in Goa, despite the high medicos-per-capita ratio :-) FN PS:

[Goanet] Let us pray

2009-10-31 Thread Joel Moraes
Let us pray to all the Saints today and also do remember all the souls tomorrow.Only the Saints and the good goan souls can take our prayers to the Creator and save Goa from the ugly hands of Goa's ugly politicians.    Joel Morais P.O.Cuncolim, Bencleamvaddo, Salcette,Goa.   Viva Goa! Viva