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Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to).
Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet.
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Gilbert wrote to Kevin on Goanet:
>
>As usual you and others responding to my post attack the messenger. You >did
>not write any original thoughts. So, as a suggestion, you (and >others) could
>respond to:
>
President Pandurang is very happy that Gilbert has appointed himself the
messenger on Goanet. The President had great difficulty understanding
Gilbert’s latest post on god because this time he said nothing about diet and
food, but used big words such as pleural secularism and quasi-ethical wonkery,
and shared extremely original thoughts that you will not find in any book or
dictionary. Nonetheless, here is how the President finally understood what
Gilbert meant to say.
>
>The rest of your characterization (and those of others) is a facile >little
>bit of quasi-ethical wonkery.:=)) If you do not believe in a soul >and
>life-after-death, please have the >courage of your conviction to say >so
>succinctly. Thus, you can save us from the >kathakali dance.
>
No dictionary gives the meaning of quasi-ethical wonkery. So the President
asked the very ethical Kazi from Indira Nagar what it means. Kazi Quasim said,
"Humko kya maalum ye wonkar-bonkar kya hai. Koyi humko ye bola to bolo usko hum
uske wonkar khont marenge. Phir vo kathakali sayi tara karega".
>
>"Pleural secularism" is the modern lingo for the age-old "gnosticism" >where
>everyone has THEIR OWN divine soul and personal knowledge of god. >Pleural
>secularism (and other such labels) is nothing more than 'Old wine
>>(gnosticism) in a new bottle'.
>
Because Gilbert used a big medical term, the President had to consult a
Portuguesa anatomie profsor to find out where in the pleural cavity of the
thorax is this secularism. Many years ago when the President had gone to GMC to
complain about a problem with his constitution, they put a tube in his side.
They said the tube was because he had a pleural effusion. The water that came
out of the tube was like old wine, and they put it in a new bottle every 6
hours. May be, Gilbert is talking about something like this, and not the
secular pluralism in the constitution of India. If so, the President wants to
know from Gilbert what other such labels besides pleural secularism he should
put on those new bottles.
About gnosticism, on Gilbert’s advice we have already banned the teaching of
knowledge (gnana) in our Chimbel schools of thought. Nobody there now has their
own divine soul and personal knowledge of god. We do not add god to any food
served to the children, in any case.
Cheers,
Santosh
