38th MENTCON2006 web page loaded...comments Raju & Ravi

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Dear All

Our official site for the Maharashtra State ENT conference has been launched

please check on this link

www.jalgaoncity.com/38thmentcon2006.html

Please send in your comments. I tried the free sites but couldnt upload my

prepared page, hence we hired a local site.

bye

Murtaza ' 84

Shah wrote:

Dear everybody,

On the face of it, the idea that some subjects are barred from discussion

seems ridiculous. Aren't we old enough or mature enough to discuss any topic

reasonably and peacefully? If we can take crucial decisions regarding life

and death, can't we logically discuss whether God exists or not?

However, for all those who joined in late, I would request you to read the

mails of about 3 years ago, to realize how dangerous and unruly these topics

had become. These mails are on record and you only have to go to the

yahoogroups pages to read them all.

Discussion of Politics starts off with someone sending a mail about some

political stance, either supporting or opposing it. Then some one else

states a contradictory opinion. Then a strongly worded rebuttal appears.

Ultimately, someone says that the other person is an agent of so and so

party and such people should be deported to Pakistan, or some similar

sentiment. In fact, I have censored some of the filthiest mails, which would

make anyone blush.

A similar thing happens in religion. It starts peacefully enough. Someone

states that to attain peace of mind, one must recite a particular mantra or

name 500 times a day. Press delete button if you do not agree, you say?

Fine. However, then as it is a mail in the public domain, some one else

replies that it is idiotic to rely on something which has no evidence. To

which the first person says that some things can never be proved because

they are beyond your (snigger) mundane science. To which others say that

that this is illogical. Then the pro religion guy says that saying anything

against God is like abusing his mother or father. Someone else replies that

our parents and forefathers were no fools. Then others add that fools is

exactly who they were.

Spirituality, without religion, is like a headless man. The trouble starts

when you get bombarded with 9 or 10 mails saying the same inane things in

different words. Thus, when you open the mail box to refresh yourself with a

little bit of nostalgia from the past, all you get is (what you think is)

garbage, but which are actually pearls of wisdom according to some Swamiji

or the other on our mail group.

In this general melee, the real purpose of our egroup is lost, in fact

antagonized. This group was mainly created to foster togetherness and

belonging to our Alma Mater. However, all these mails create is bitterness

and bad feelings about one another.

Some argue that just jokes and entertainment are mindless and

unintellectual. Maybe. However, I have not seen bitterness erupt in a reply

to a joke on our group yet. (Fortunately, our jokes are innocuous, even if a

bit risqué, at times.)

Thus, I am faced with a very difficult decision. Do we allow all mails and

face the risk of bitterness and unnecessary fights? Or should we lower our

intellectual level and just keep entertainment and jokes as the mainstay?

There is no problem with reminisinces from the past or news on achievements

by members (including childbirth / Marriage and Nirvana).

At my age (should I say advanced or senile?), I prefer peace to angry mails

any day. And this is not only my opinion, but that of the majority who write

here and have opined previously. As for the silent majority, if they prefer

to remain silent, they have to take what is dished out without complaining.

However, times may have changed and opinions may have been modified. So I

would like to hear from all of you on this topic to decide the future course

that our egroup will take.

Kishore Shah 1974

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