Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008

2008-06-24 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:47:22 + (GMT) From: edward desilva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mario?had previously said: "and we Ph.D.'s are just a bunch of Einstein wannabes". > Mario responds: > First Seb tried this trick of truncating what I said in order to change its meaning, and now his buddy, Edwar

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008

2008-06-22 Thread Seb dc
Ed, I have no interest in this tread, since if for arguing sake u can go on and on. The man has already quoted it wasn't him doing the bangara. I don't like to play with words so i had already said it would be my last post. Its not in my interest to put down fellow goans for some cheap talleo...I

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2008-06-22 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Edward It wouldn't hurt if you checked your facts before splashing them on Goanet. Persaud admitted that he had plagiarised material from sources that he did not acknowledge properly or at all. For this he got suspended from his medical Consultant post for three months. This had nothing to do with

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2008-06-21 Thread edward desilva
  Mario wrote: In the US we have a case right now of an Indian professor [with a Ph.D. which will make Edward happy] who is on trial for paying a hit man $10,000 to kill his black daughter-in-law. -- Reply: Yes Mario, When I read stupid action stories of PhD people, it does make me happy. Whic

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008

2008-06-21 Thread edward desilva
Mario said: This post contains my responses to first Seb and then Edward who both misunderstood what I had written previously. - Mario had previously said: "and we Ph.D.'s are just a bunch of Einstein wannabes". -- Reply: Einstein was a PhD was he? I, all along thought he had left school an

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Vol 3, Issue 742

2008-06-20 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hello Rui I am really happy that you have responded to my post in reply to yours on the Brahmins. I am a democrat first and foremost and would fight for your right to discuss the Brahmin issue anywhere provided civilised language is used of course. It is unfortunate that Bosco de Mello articulated

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Vol 3, Issue 742

2008-06-20 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
> > Give the man a break, will ya? > > Chris > > > > - Original Message - > From: "rui nuvo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Goanet] The International Goan > Convention July 2008 -

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues Vol 3, Issue 739

2008-06-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:04:04 +0100 From: "rui nuvo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mario the philosophy of Live and Let Live is fairly self explanatory. > In particular, people have a right to privacy of their family and homes. Did you miss it in my original posting? Marriages comes in this category or d

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Vol 3, Issue 742

2008-06-20 Thread Chris Vaz
y, June 19, 2008 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Vol 3, Issue 742 Hei Cornel, 0. - I could not make out what you meant by FIRMLY with your appeal to the moderator. I might have mistaken it for just verbosity but as it is in upper case pe

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-19 Thread Mario Goveia
This post contains my responses to first Seb and then Edward who both misunderstood what I had written previously. > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:43:38 +0400 From: "Seb dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In plain simple language, i had asked; Do you have a Ph.D or Not? Cause if you read your mail properly in y

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - BrahminIssues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-19 Thread Seb dc
I suggest you open another id on goanet and respond to all your posts, it will make others believe that atleast someone is in conversation with you. - Original Message - From: "edward desilva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "goanet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: T

[Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-19 Thread edward desilva
Mario responds: Spellings are the least of our problems, Rui:-)) There is a word for those obsessed with such picayune details, but it escapes me right now.:-))   Mario asks: Apology accepted, Seb. But, what is your question? You seem to have lost your train of thought, and yourability to spell,

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues Vol 3, Issue 739

2008-06-18 Thread Carvalho
--- On Tue, 6/17/08, rui nuvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > God forbid when it > is ok to bring home a Rat and recommend to us that every > home needs one. > - Dear Rui, I find your views offensive and an affront to the dignity of human beings. Fortunately by and large th

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin issues Vol 3, Issue 715

2008-06-17 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Rui I hope the Goanet moderator permits me this one opportunity to POLITELY but FIRMLY respond, as in conventional academic style, and as impersonally as possible, to your two main posts on the Brahmins even though I am at a loss to understand how the issues of Brahmins and the Goan Convention

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues Vol 3, Issue 739

2008-06-17 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Mario and Cornel, Mario I accept that your humour sometimes percolates through. And I honestly have no doubt, that what you say is not meant maliciously. It has been fun and while the last post may have been close to the knuckle I hope that you are not too offended. I would have liked to have

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-17 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Gabe I note what you say. However, in response to Edward and Rui who clearly celebrate caste, by objective sociological criteria, Mario would be deemed middle class. OK, mixed messages have come from him mainly in non Goanet posts re the comparative prosperity in the USA and in Britain and to wh

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:41:50 +0100 From: "rui nuvo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It would appear that Gabe, Edward and I are in agreement about you. > Mario responds: > What excellent company you keep:-)) > While flocking with "birds of a feather" like Gabe and Edward, it would appear from your fatuous

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-17 Thread Gabe Menezes
2008/6/17 CORNEL DACOSTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > CORNEL: Mario is definitely middle class in the > America to which he belongs as a national of the > country with a middle class education, outlook, > lifestyle, income and social acceptance among his > middle class peers and aquaintances---among man

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues Vol 3, Issue 721

2008-06-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:14:09 +0100 From: "rui nuvo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I noticed a spelling error in the line I wrote to you earlier. I feel better getting it right. It should read: > "Is it possible that you are the victim of your own petard ? ". > Mario responds: > Spellings are the least o

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-17 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Rui You and Edward keep trying to be clever when cleverness does not really suit you both. Let me just give you one example interspersed below: --- rui nuvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hei Mario, > Edward suggests that if you do not understand your > own caste to which you > belong then it i

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-16 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Mario, It would appear that Gabe, Edward and I are in agreement about you. Just that what we said we said differently. Essentially, Gabe thinks you are a bit of an arrogant peasant :))). Edward suggests that if you do not understand your own caste to which you belong then it is highly unlike

[Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: > Hey, Rui, Once again, Rui, you and your new friend, Gabe, are missing the point.? Has either of you grasped yet that there is no such thing as caste in Christianity?? > Of all the Hindu religious practises our ancestors dropped when they became Christians, the leadership retained thi

[Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-14 Thread edward desilva
Mario responds: Hey, Rui, Once again, Rui, you and your new friend, Gabe, are missing the point.  Has either of you grasped yet that there is no such thing as caste in Christianity?  It is high time we finished what our ancestors started and became like other mainstream Christians the world over Re

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues Vol 3, Issue 721

2008-06-14 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Mario, On this topic 'this slow to get it frog' gives way to the hare. :). I noticed a spelling error in the line I wrote to you earlier. I feel better getting it right. It should read: "Is it possible that you are the victim of your own petard ? ". regards rn

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin issues Vol 3, Issue 715

2008-06-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:56:35 +0100 From: "rui nuvo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What Gabe said was "One does not have to be a Brahmin to espouse the qualities you have mentioned;". It is a fairly reasonable proposition would you not agree. Gabe then goes on to suggest that in his view and his experie

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:54:49 +0100 From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes Sir, we are to believe you have achived, so you can proclaim to all your adversaries, 'talking down' to them and very patronizingly at that! > Mario responds: > Whether I talk down or up to anyone depends entirely

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin issues Vol 3, Issue 715

2008-06-13 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Mario 1. What Gabe said was "One does not have to be a Brahmin to espouse the qualities you have mentioned;". It is a fairly reasonable proposition would you not agree. Gabe then goes on to suggest that in his view and his experience that you display the very same qualities you abhor. Perhaps

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-12 Thread Gabe Menezes
2008/6/12 Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Mario observes: What I have repeatedly opposed is superiority and > discrimination based on one's caste as opposed to > one's character and achievements. RESPONSE: Yes Sir, we are to believe you have achived, so you can proclaim to all your adversa

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-12 Thread Mario Goveia
> Mario observes: >> > Rui, >> > Just to keep it simple, what the Brahmins are guilty > of is the assumption of superiority and privilege > because of their accident of birth, not by their > personal character and achievements. This, in a > changed world, which now frowns on privilege and > birthr

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-11 Thread rui nuvo
Mario, I thought my posting would attract you like a red rag. You have not disappointed :). I spelt it out for "you" about what "we" are and what we are reconciled with. Clearly, you still fear that it is we who are confused about ourselves and not you because you know better and we must be seen

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-11 Thread Gabe Menezes
2008/6/11 Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:25:15 +0100 >> > Mario observes: >> > Rui, >> > Just to keep it simple, what the Brahmins are guilty > of is the assumption of superiority and privilege > because of their accident of birth, not by their > personal character a

[Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-11 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:25:15 +0100 From: "rui nuvo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Whatever the Brahmins maybe guilty of, it is unlikely that Brahmins are likely to renounce their caste to the chargings of the anti-Brahmin free masonry. Confusing Archbishop Desmond Tutu like forgiveness and olive branche

[Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues.

2008-06-11 Thread rui nuvo
The International Goan Convention should welcome issues like the Church vis-a-vis Caste, What the Goans gave Kenya, Honour Killings and anything that the Goanet anti-Brahmin lobby may like to raise. People should be free to say what niggles them. The Convention could provide an excellent opportunit