> From: cedrico dacosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Goanet] Bishops comments on Migrants will be misread by > Politicians
> Rev Filipe Neri's comments on migrants will definately > make ghanti loving politicians like Goa's Cm Digamber > Kamat happy -- Yes, of course. Such is the profession of politicians and their cheeleaders and acolytes -- be they 'ghanti-loving' or 'ghanti-bashing'. They take simple, basic truths and twist them to suit their narrow sectarian political agendas or otherwise putting them to the service of their lust for power. As a ghanti myself, I have been wondering whether cyberspace is a surreal world. The kind of things I read there have been directly contrary to my lived experience in the various places that I have had the good fortune to live in during my life, including Goa. We are all human beings. And ordinary people recognise that and behave accordingly. We human beings all have base emotions within us, but the essential spark of humanity resides in us all. This ghanti thanks you, Archbishop, for your words. It is an ominous sign of the dark times we live in that you felt the need to remind us of something that is so obvious and basic that one would imagine that it would not need to be stated. Dark times in human history see curious inversions. One of these was brought to my attention recently -- atheistic ghantis allegedly representing immoral satanic forces have taken to quoting scripture. Well, since the dog has been given a bad name and hung, it may as well be for a sheep as for a lamb (ghantis also hash and mix their metaphors very badly :-). So here goes: "All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." -- John Donne, Meditation XVII -- Question everything -- Karl Marx