Re: [Goanet] Subject: There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese

[Edwin/Diana Pinto]

It really baffles me why all of us spend so much time and energy debating 
what happened in the distant  past, when this can never be 100% confirmed as 
the last word in accuracy. These issues only serve to polarise our society 
even further. What does it matter anyway unless there is some lesson to be 
learnt by all of us? WE cannot undo the past. WHat is very important in my 
opinion is the manner in which we are charting our course TODAY and the 
manner in which we are living our lives here and now. Because, most of us 
are anyway failing to live up to our respective scriptures, or else our 
society would not be in the state that it is today. We are framing our 
doctors' pictures and prescriptions on the wall, but are we really 
swallowing the doctors medicine?  Makes better sense to spend our time doing 
something to improve ourselves and our community today, rather than 
remaining mired in an irrelevant past.

Diana Pinto