Why people believe the unknown ?
When a stranger gives you a bunch of coins and says that there are 20 in them, you wont believe in him, you would immediately count them to verfiy it.If sombebody says that there are millions of starts in the universe, although you might have hardly seen thousand of stars in your life, you would believe him.Even more worse, we won't believe the humans around us and build faith in them, we would believe in the supreme.Why is this strange thing happening in us?.
Lets take it case by case.It's fair that people verify what they see, it's of the simple reason that we can comphrend and fairly understand what a coin means, we know how to verify the hypothesis that there are 20 coins by the process of counting that we have learnt.The more you understand something the more predicatable it is, the more comfortable we are with it.All wisdom in this world begins with doubt, doubt leads to questioning, follows with a seeking to understand and finally you'll know the truth.
You must have undergone through this a couple of times in various circumstances.If you understand a subject and comprehend it properly, you will deliberate/discuss on it with anybody in any forum.You would not mind any anti-motion against it.It is because if you don't understand the opponent view completely, it means you have not understood your stand of view completely.
Let's take the other case where we tend to believe that there are millions of stars, we tend to believe.It is because we don't understand the nature of the universe.when we have this weakness of ignorance, we tend to accept without conviction in whatever is being said out of it.This is typically the mugging procees which happens in schools, students don't understand the subject, they end up memorising cues to reproduce in the examination.Nothing was achieved in the end except for the worthless grades.The student is now incompetent and lame to any concept expressed in the subject.He would need books and artefacts even to authenticate the basics.He now believes in the unknown without deliberating becauses he does not understand it !!
Nobody is a master of everthing and none can be.All we need is the spirt to overcome the ignorance by increasing our domain of awarness.Lets strive to be aware of the unknown!!!
Sara it was nice going through ur blog daa! keep posting..
chandru
Posted by Anonymous | 7:59 am