Re: [Goanet] Take a Look

2008-08-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 8/16/08, Arwin Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ref statement identities of insiders and outsiders ; Given your high scientific knowlege; don't you from the comfort of sitting in the USA; see any problems to Goa with a high uncontrolled migrants influx. Arwin, I have

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles

2008-08-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 8/15/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **In the case of Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano, how can you perform this scientific procedure? So after all this talk about using a scientific procedure to certify miracles, we have a concession that such a procedure cannot

Re: [Goanet] Take a look...

2008-08-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 8/17/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some news for you. Angry or not, one Rajan on Goa's ground is worth a thousand Santoshes looking at outdated Goldman Sachs reports while sitting in the USA. Does an angry Rajan know as much about global economics by taking

Re: [Goanet] Take a look...

2008-08-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 8/18/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you have so easily written off Rajan's tremendous work in Goa, travelling around the length and breadth of it, recording for posterity, submitting PILs in Goa courts, meeting politicians and haranguing civic officials to do

Re: [Goanet] Take a Look

2008-08-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 8/18/08, Arwin Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good; now how can you contribute in ACTION to what you support. Arwin, Here is how I already contribute: 1. By not taking or offering bribes 2. By obeying the law 3. By taking out my trash and dumping it in a designated garbage

Re: [Goanet] Mother Earth - Wendell Rodricks in Goa Today

2008-08-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9. Further, a candidate for election, a political party or an office-bearer thereof is prohibited from accepting any foreign contribution. This is a very good law. It prevents non-residents with some affinity towards Goa but with

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles

2008-08-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 8/22/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ***I am reproducing the witness of those who have seen the white host being transformed into flesh and blood, thus confirming the words of Jesus of his real presence in the Eucharist through transubstantiation. I hope that the

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles

2008-08-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
edward desilva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same way Santosh is hiting a brick wall, no amount of evidence will convince these brainwashed people (from birth) that 'God' does not exist. My responses in this thread has nothing to do with convincing people about the existence or non-existence of

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles - Faith or God in action

2008-08-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 8/24/08, ralph rau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I heard Goanet was a forum for discussing social issues of concern to Goans and not debating matters of faith. Matters of faith and reason are social issues that are of concern to many Goans, as they are to the rest of the

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles - Faith or God in action

2008-08-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 8/24/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the Helekars and the Saldanhas of this world, faithlessness either becomes a badge of learning (Helekar) or a badge of social statement (Saldanha). I don't know why Saldanhas are brought up in this thread when no Saldanha has

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles - Faith or God in action

2008-08-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 8/25/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you are a Saldanha apologist, there was no need to drag Lisette Saldanha, the Goan Convention, and settling of scores into this thread at all. I would like to remind Roland that it is he who injected the Saldanhas in this

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles

2008-08-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 8/24/08, edward desilva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Santosh aspect the Devil to work miracles? Again as the saying goes: if your god is good my devil is not bad, is that what you are saying Santosh? I am saying that I do not care why people believe in miracles. They are free to

Re: [Goanet] Lourdes Miracles

2008-08-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 8/25/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In conclusion, it may be said that Science, when called upon to testify, has given a certain and thorough response as regards the authenticity of the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. Any objective lay person who has watched a

Re: [Goanet] Miracles - In Defence of Fr. Ivo

2008-08-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fr. Ivo writes of faith and miracles and there are pseudo-scientists and some men of learning on this forum who think that their education qualifies them to deny God and his existence. It is sad to see Roland descend into

[Goanet] Dr. Jose and Fr. Ivo (was Lourdes miracles)

2008-08-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dr.Santosh asked for a double-blind control (read below), admitting himself that this is difficult for such rare cases. The proposed method itself excludes all miracles. The proposed method is what is called scientific

Re: [Goanet] It is just not so

2008-08-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GJ quotes a reference who points out that never in the history of human civilization, and prior to that, was there a matriarchal society. I don't know about the rest of the material presented in this thread, but the above is

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Jose and Fr. Ivo (was Lourdes miracles)

2008-08-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
Jose wrote: In my clinical experience (of some years now) there have been some unexpected cures/recoveries. They have been amazing and wonderful occurrences inexplicable by our current knowledge. Until I find scientific explanations for the cures, I will call them miracles. Josebab,

Re: [Goanet] Kazur

2008-08-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The remarkable pre-historic art gallery at Usgaimol - now under threat from the criminal mining activity nearby - in Sanguem taluka is fairly well-known. This is an outrage! Can we file a legal petition to ban all mining

Re: [Goanet] Miracles

2008-08-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Science tells us that something is 'extraordinary', Science does no such thing. It only motivates us to discover the natural explanation, and provides us with time-tested powerful tools to do so. Cheers, Santosh

Re: [Goanet] Miracles

2008-08-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ***As I am given to understand, the Medical Bureau does all this enquiry and much more... What else could they do in these cases? They could stop pretending that they are conducting scientific studies, and limit themselves to

Re: [Goanet] Kazur

2008-08-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
I would kindly request Roland to have the courage and decency to post his gratuitous innuendo (please see below) in the forum from which he gathered his unrelated behind-the-scenes material. The people whom he is trying to malign might want to have the opportunity to respond to him. He has been

Re: [Goanet] Scientific literacy

2008-08-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
Fr. Ivo wrote: Your scientific method cannot be used, as you only admit. Even now I cannot understand your method for such cases. About your scientific method, it is the method to be used for common clinical cases. The barrage of posts that Fr. Ivo has unleashed on this forum are doing

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Jose and Fr. Ivo (was Lourdes miracles)

2008-08-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Regarding subjects that Dr. Jose does know something about, I am curious as to how he is going about looking for scientific explanations for the cures/recoveries he has observed for which there is no known medical

Re: [Goanet] Miracle at Kazur

2008-08-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While Fr Ivo and I do our miracle clown act, you can get Santosh to publish a scientific paper on posteriority - the new science of studying backsides. I think Roland is misunderstanding Marlon. Marlon really wants Roland to

Re: [Goanet] Kazur

2008-08-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
Hi Roland, Thanks. Hope you find some peace. Cheers, Santosh --- On Fri, 8/29/08, Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Kazur To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 12:10

Re: [Goanet] Kazur

2008-08-31 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This faith in the ability of the ASI is as touching as the faith in Goldman Sachs. Looks like this guy trusts nobody except himself and the Portuguese outsiders. Either that or his goal in life is to merely advance the cause

Re: [Goanet] violence in Orissa --- what were the cops doing?

2008-09-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Samir Kelekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the chronology 1) VHP leader was given a threat. 2) He filed an FIR, cops did nothing. 3) He was killed. 4) 700 people were coming back from his funeral and they burnt a nun alive. Again, where were the cops? Communal

Re: [Goanet] violence in Orissa --- what were the cops doing?

2008-09-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Root cause of the communal riots in India is the tendency...? Gee, which alternative universe did you grow up in? The above outburst and the rest of the material spewed in the above post indicates that my remarks have

Re: [Goanet] violence in Orissa --- what were the cops doing?

2008-09-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outburst? Gee, what have you been smoking? You can't seem to hold even half a thought together here, scientiss-bab. Rajan, Please tell me what according to you is the root cause of communal violence like the one we see in

Re: [Goanet] Scientific literacy

2008-09-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
The post appended below is full of mind-numbing contradictions. For example, here are two sentences that contradict each other: Theology works together with modern sciences, empirical, social, historical, archaeological. ...Fr. Ivo Science cannot have a say on supernatural, by the simple fact

Re: [Goanet] violence in orissa

2008-09-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
jane gillian rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As per e-mails below, only Chrsitians are secular, true citizens of Indians, who open their doors to people of all communities, irrespective of caste and creed. The above assertion reveals an attitude that is clearly not very secular. If

Re: [Goanet] violence in Orissa --- what were the cops doing?

2008-09-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The underlying rage and hatred will not be diminished by this enforcement of law order, but surely the bloodshed mayhem will be kept to a minimum. I was trying to point out that it is this underlying hatred that is the root cause

Re: [Goanet] Scientific literacy

2008-09-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consulted by ZENIT, Dr.Odoardo Linoli explained that as regards the flesh, I had in my hand the endocardium. Therefore, there is no doubt at all that it is cardiac tissue. The above claim belies the denial below: ***This I

[Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
Amidst the barrage of posts about people dying and churches burning, it is hard to tell the grain from the chaff. To make matters worse, true to form, sectarian impulses overpower any semblance of objectivity in the press or in internet forums. In all the propaganda and counter-propaganda

Re: [Goanet] Attack on Churches in Mangalore and Coversions activities

2008-09-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Laluram, Please tell me if Laluram Salvi is your real name. I have seen many people in this forum from different communal and political factions resorting to empty rhetoric and wild exaggerations, and injecting sectarian hatred in one form or another. I would like to know whether you have

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry your post is ill-timed. This is not what I would have expected from you. Sorry Selma, I disagree. This is a time, more so than any other, for level-headed rational thinking. Mindless frenzy and blame-game based on partisan

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 9/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all need to remember that if we are complacent today, it may be our turn tomorrow. It is important to remember that partisan frenzy and propaganda, whether it is published in Times of India or Goanet, can add more fuel to

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 9/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If only he were to come down from his perch in the ivory tower and empathise with the victims, he would know where the truth lay. Why is this guy now going after me instead of focusing on those who are responsible for the

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have asked Santosh in my previous mail to point out what information constituted propaganda and what was not. He is yet to respond. Yet very unscientifically he goes on to brand the information as propaganda and partisan

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingrid, reminds me of the police inspector who upon finding a rape victim, insist that they should have behaved themselves. Hi Selma, I am unable to judge your critique of Ingrid's perspective. Unfortunately, I don't think she can

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But as one who has been posting on various matters with a somewhat sense of balance and objectivity, your response to the carnage in Orissa was baffling and a big letdown. If you read your own posts again with a clear mind, you

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate

2008-09-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 9/21/08, Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, please show me a statement where I have derided Santosh. I have always held him in the highest regard and infact that is what I have stated, given his stature and standing in the community, his post is baffling. The

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 9/21/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He has tried to belittle and play down the violence in Orissa against the Christian community which has been by far the worst in India in living memory without condemning the violence. Marshall Mendonza has now descended to

Re: [Goanet] Why we hate!

2008-09-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 9/21/08, J. Colaco jc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is also important that Christians protest ALL forms of violence - not selectively that which is committed against their own interests. It is also important for ALL reasonable minded people to recognise that danger not only

Re: [Goanet] Response to Ingrid's piece

2008-09-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With reference to Ingrid Albuquerque's article, posted by Santosh, it seems to me that the writer has used the line the word 'Hindu' in the nominative sense for all Indians. It is hard to agree with a lot of what Ingrid Albuquerque

Re: [Goanet] Response to Ingrid's piece

2008-09-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The study of history shows that so far as this sub-continent is concerned, persons who have made religion their lifestyle have caused the greatest havoc to mankind. Two of these proponents- MA Jinnah and LK Advani. Jinnah was

Re: [Goanet] Scientific literacy

2008-09-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Alfred de Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Dr. SantoshFr. Ivo... Dr. Joe... sundry others... What is this that follows below, my dears??? Urban or divine legend??? Please kindly...mercifully advise ... lovingly oblige Chacha, This piece is

Re: [Goanet] Scientific literacy

2008-09-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read books on Eucharistic Miracles written by authors with scientific background. The ignorance about what is meant by science and its purpose continues. Students of science know that a book about the supernatural does not become

Re: [Goanet] Open letter to Goanet and other Goan related websites

2008-09-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 9/27/08, J. Colaco jc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4: If however, Santosh Helekar has requested information (as a member from GoaNet) directly from GoaNet admin, this cannot (I submit) be considered to be an action of any Kangaroo Court. If FN disagrees with this submission

Re: [Goanet] Karunankaran -an idiot?

2007-09-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007 http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10)

Re: [Goanet] Beware the exhibition of hatred...

2007-10-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Support growing the reading habit among Goa's next generation of achievers

Re: [Goanet] vatican city - purity

2007-10-10 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Support growing the reading habit among Goa's next generation of achievers

Re: [Goanet] exhibition of hate -response to santosh

2007-10-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Support growing the reading habit among Goa's next generation of achievers

Re: [Goanet] exhibition of hate - response to Santosh

2007-10-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
A good exchange between Jason and Chinmay! However, I wonder whether another approach would be more successful in addressing ideological and fundamentalist threats. I have noticed that all these ideological scuffles are big on rhetoric. They also waste a lot of words on demeaning the sundry

Re: [Goanet] Hindu Jagruti Samiti and Marxist Rubbish

2007-10-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to congratulate the HGS blokes for their efforts and wish them all the best in this worthy cause. Why, I may even cut a cheque and donate to them, and ask friends to do likewise. 1. What is their worthy cause? 2. What constructive

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath

2007-10-31 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dinesh enthralled the otherwise liberal crowd of college students who naturally tended to be inclined to the 'ills of religion' and the atheistic views of Christopher. Everybody can watch this debate at the following link and decide its worth for

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath

2007-11-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
Hi Peter, Good to hear from you. What was this debate about? What resolution were they debating? It wasn't clear to me. It appeared as if both these political pundits were promoting their books by rehashing their indefensible positions. Very few members of Pre-Christian religions and

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (Santosh)

2007-11-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gilbert, Are you trying to insult me again? Sorry, you will have to try harder. Cheers, Santosh --- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Santosh, You may deny this. I think the following is another example that displays YOUR casteism - inflating your own ego by demeaning other

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (Peter)

2007-11-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is a good point. In the western world there is no shortage of voluntary / free kidney donors from total strangers. While in India there is no shortage of kidney donors ... but for a price. It appears that the good point the above

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath

2007-11-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Hi Selma, How come Gilbert donates blood for consumption by others? Doesn't he follow the moral precepts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy? Your most recent point regarding Hitchens is well taken. Now as far as cannibalism is concerned, the evolutionary and archeological records show that while it

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (Cannibalism)

2007-11-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
As I have said before, cannibalism is rare in large mammals, including humans. Its rarity is a consequence of an innate dietary restraint in these animals. We know that most normal humans are disgusted by the prospect of eating their kind. They feel a similar disgust towards eating human excrement

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (Santosh)

2007-11-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gilbert, In your last post you claimed it was casteism. Now you are calling it criticism? Is something wrong with your keyboard? Cheers, Santosh --- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Santosh, No insult was intended and thank you for not taking my observation as an insult. I

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (organ donation)

2007-11-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gilbert, Did you forget that it is you who made the following assertion, and you who provided Dinesh D'Souza's explanation for it (with which you agreed)? ASSERTION In the western world there is no shortage of voluntary /free kidney donors from total strangers. While in India there is no

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath

2007-11-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
world, of which humans are still very much a part. Sincerely, Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. = Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:56:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath Hi Selma, How come Gilbert donates

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (organ donation)

2007-11-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santosh, Your attack on me about organ donation, as often misses the larger point that I was trying to make. Gilbert, I am sorry. As usual, it is hard to understand what you are trying to say, and why you are saying it. In this new`installment

[Goanet] First Ever Goan Narkasur in America

2007-11-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
Here are the first pictures of the first ever Goan American Narkasur: http://picasaweb.google.com/chimbelcho/FirstEverGoanNarkasurInAmerica This inaugural Narkasur was born in the Houston metropolitan area. If you want to know how to make a completely flammable Narkasur in a foreign country

Re: [Goanet] First Ever Goan Narkasur in America

2007-11-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
I just heard that last year someone else had made a Narkasur in Boston. So this is not the first one. I stand corrected. Cheers, Santosh --- Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the first pictures of the first ever Goan American Narkasur: http://picasaweb.google.com

Re: [Goanet] First Ever Goan Narkasur in America_burnin love

2007-11-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Venantius, Thanks very much. Good to have a creation critiqued by a real creator. The outfit reflects a fusion with Halloween. Note the orange, black and green. I have not yet come up with a good justification for the polka dot underpants. Made the little kids less scared of him though.

Re: [Goanet] Objectivity is a myth?

2007-11-13 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- 'objectivity' is a myth, and any process of selection perforce indicates a 'bias'. I am sure jc is not himself claiming to be 'objective' and 'unbiased'. All one can do is try to present facts to buttress one's viewpoints. It is hard to be

Re: [Goanet] Disappeared from the subcontinent.

2007-11-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
The text in the post appended below appears to be lifted verbatim from one of the following websites. http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/17cab/10c207/ http://onlinegoa.dyp.co.in/history.aspx It would be important to let the readers know whether the sender of the said post is really its

Re: [Goanet] HIV / Aids and the 10yr old boy who ate a contaminated pineapple from a HIV positive vendor

2007-11-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
I could not find the original hoax post in the Goanet archives. Perhaps, it was circulated on some other Goan forum or through spam mail. However, I congratulate John Monteiro for finding out the truth about HIV transmission from a responsible source, and for exposing this egregious hoax. It would

Re: [Goanet] Disappeared from the subcontinent_Caught at silly point

2007-11-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
. Cheers, Santosh --- Venantius Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good catch Santosh. Heres an analogy via cricket -- Eknath Solkar at silly mid-on. You too keep flushing them out, and raking in those catches. venantius From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The text in the post

Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....

2007-11-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
As I have said before, the problem with this debate was that there was no clear resolution to be for or against. So both debaters could erect their own straw men and flog them to death with stock phrases and well worn arguments. In my opinion, Dinesh D'Souza proved that he could do this better

Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza....

2007-11-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King

Re: [Goanet] Battle?

2007-11-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King

Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D Souza in debate

2007-11-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King

[Goanet] Request to provide supporting evidence for decay and decline

2007-11-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King

Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D Souza in debate - Santosh

2007-11-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King

Re: [Goanet] Request to provide supporting evidence for decay and decline

2007-11-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled Lion King

Re: [Goanet] Christians should let their actions speak/Gilbert

2007-11-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what Selma, Santosh or Kevin have disclosed that impressed you. I haven't met any of them but I think I know their ideology, perhaps better than they do, and I know they know mine:-)) Actually, I don't know Mario's ideology as it

Re: [Goanet] To be born moral

2007-11-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goanetters can make their own determination based on their own wide human observations whether majority of humans are born moral. Religion (mine) says only two were born so. It is unlikely that any Goanetter has observed any kind of immoral

Re: [Goanet] Sad tidings: Jorge de Abreu Noronha no more

2007-11-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07

Re: [Goanet] Christians should let their actions speak / Santosh

2007-11-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07

Re: [Goanet] Cognitive Dissonance - Victor

2007-11-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07

Re: [Goanet] To be born moral/to Santosh

2007-12-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Selma wrote: Dear Santosh, I'm quite curious about this subject since I am in the company of little children very often these days, I've taken to observing them keenly. Dear Selma, This post of yours slipped my attention. You are right, in general, regarding the interactions

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed ?

2007-12-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Sachin Phadte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am surprised that the moderators have allowed this message of John Monteiro through.The whole thing is conjecture and conjecture.Yes, there has been sati - no one will deny it.However, if we have to talk about sati in terms of Hinduism, then

Re: [Goanet] Changing people's hearts and minds on caste

2007-12-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goans not uncommonly portray themselves as superior than another Goan (specially one with achievements); which gives their mediocrity some oomph. This is regularly seen on Goanet. Is Gilbert trying to say that Cornel, Mario, Victor and RKN,

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dr. Parrikar has compounded his problems. His insinuation of the scientific method in the task of judging Robert Newman's credentials is absurd. To make matters worse he conflates the scientific method with his idiosyncratic fixation on a personal interrogation. It is well known that in science,

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dr. Parrikar and his followers (or Drs. Parrikars) are contricting their goal from Goan culture in general to non-Western, non-Christian elements of Goan music, just to suit their argument. Their claim that scholarly writing is merely suggestive of knowledge is bogus. This may be true for

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
In his latest installment Dr. Parrikar confuses the scientific method with the trivial act of digging through the Goanet archives. Reading what he has dug out of the archives again only confirms my earlier suspicion that his statements on what he refers to as the ghanti affliction are far from

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Venantius Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, it appears that it would have been acceptable had Helekar said that, Dr. Newman knows more about Goa than most Goans, instead of knowing more than any Goan. In the end the record will speak for itself. Hi Venantius, You are being misled

Re: [Goanet] Evolution and God (from a Scientist)

2008-02-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Fr. Ivo da C. Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We cannot dance at the tune of scientific theories. I assume Fr. Ivo means that he and his co-religionists cannot accept the validity of scientific theories such as the Darwinian theory of evolution, theories of gravitation and electromagnetism,

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-03-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- anand virgincar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The comment above is totally out of context to what Bab Rajan had said. I would be grateful to Bab Santosh if he does not give a communal slant to every statement as is the way of the communal harmony specialists in Goa and on goanet. I submit that

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Challange #1 - WINNERS

2008-03-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Mervyn Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Light-high: mildly intoxicated. (Santosh Helekar) Can the winners please send me an email instructing me how/where to send their prize of USD$ 100.00 each? Hi Mervyn, Thanks. Please donate my prize money to Goa Sudharop. Cheers, Santosh

Re: [Goanet] Wanton destruction of Taleigao and building violations

2008-03-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- J. Colaco jc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to Rajan Parrikar. Have you guys seen the venom he spews against my learned colleague Dr. Santosh Helekar? What is the problem? If you cannot get your way - you spit fire? Hi Josebab, I do not regard it as venom. It is passion and rhetoric. I

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-03-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What falls out of all this is the factoid that Dr. Helekar knows virtually nothing about culture, Goan or otherwise. Actually, with the above assertion Dr. Parrikar has refuted his own argument. How can he conclude that I know virtually nothing

Re: [Goanet] Opinion from Fr. Ivo requested

2008-03-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently in the USA media the following alarming statistics was presented: Nearly 40% of US babies in 2006 were born outside of marriage (to single mothers). In 1980, this statistic was 18%. Some of the 40% single mothers will marry the father of

Re: [Goanet] Evolution and God (from a Scientist)

2008-03-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Fr. Ivo da C. Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We cannot dance at the tune of scientific theories. . I would qualify now at the tune of so-called 'scientific' theories. In this revision of his earlier opinion Fr. Ivo appears to be implying that some

Re: [Goanet] AV RP

2008-03-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
. Ivo's interrogation of me, and vice versa. If RP ends up interrogating MP, he should ask the following question: Is every piece of unthinking rubbish, every concrete atrocity in Goa an Indian contribution? Cheers, Santosh Fr Ivo to interview Santosh Helekar Sandeep Heble to interview Jose

Re: [Goanet] Konknni as a mother tongue in Census of India 2001

2008-03-14 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- pratap naik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Goa the following 22 Scheduled languages spoken as the mother tongue in the descending order: Konknni 769,888; Marathi 304,208;.. ..Manipuri 49; Sanskrit 46; Santali 24; Bodo 7. I am surprised that Sanskrit is still

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