issue41 主流和肥猪流 写过这个题目的可以互拍

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TOPIC: ISSUE41 - "Such nonmainstream areas of inquiry as astrology, fortune-telling, and psychic and paranormal pursuits play a vital role in society by satisfying human needs that are not addressed by mainstream science."
WORDS: 414
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010/3/13 21:08:51

结构简单了，审题重在needs上，于是观点1，满足好奇，2，安慰对未知的恐惧，3，激励人们好好学习
继续一边倒的写法，没有让步……

Some people accuse nonmainstream areas as evil and against scientific experiments, while I am convinced that such areas like astrology and paranormal phenomena analysis can sufficiently help people in many ways by satisfying their needs for curiosity, security and pursuit of profound knowledge, which cannot be met by mainstream science.

People are always curious about the world unknown. They've been asking so many whys ever since they were little babies. Unfortunately although contemporary science has reached an unprecedentedly high level, still there exist some unfolding mysteries in every aspects of human life. The most alluring thing about knowledge is the power to predict the future. Why we meet certain people in a certain place at a certain time? Chinese superstitious version of the answer is "Yuan", Indian version is "karma", and western version may be serendipity or luck. All of these are nearly the same thing of leaving this question to agnosticism, but are wildly accepted over the world because no scientifically examined answer could be reached. This explains the popularity of fortune-telling---sometimes we are surprised by the consequence but are not able to find the cause, or we are really desperate to know in advance what will happen in the near future. Although the answers provided by astrology or fortune-telling may be nonsense at all, they do have assuring effect on people who believe it.

Curiosity is not always neutral or positive. Sometimes struggling to learn about uncertainty and unknown world imposes great anxiety on people, and superstition serves as placebo to them. In ancient times, people were ignorant about the origin of the planet and many natural phenomena like volcano eruption or shooting stars which they regarded as punishment of the God. They resorted to nonmainstream areas for explanations and found proper explanations, thus dismissing their fears about the unknowns. Emperors and kings also used the superstitious explanations to comfort their people and secure the social stability. Imagine without those superstitions, what chaos would there be when disaster occurred. Even some scientists are interested in nonmainstream explanations when their wisdom ran out. Prestigious as Darwin, who invented the evolutionism, turned to religion when he was bereft of his beloved daughter. Only in another field could he found some comfort to his sorrow. In this sense, nonmainstream fields act as sanctuary to people’s fear and desperation.

Nonmainstream areas usually lack empirical evidence and are doubted by skeptics, thus inspired people by exciting their appetite for knowledge. We used to be bewildered by the predict power of some fortune-tellers, but now, thanks to systematic research in the fields of psychology and biology, we know that fortune-telling is actually nothing but a form of psychiatric suggestion or hint. Fortune-tellers say things in accordance to our aspiration and we only remembered what we want to hear from them. Paranormal mysteries like Crop circle still puzzled us, but they are being studied by a bunch of scientists now and are hopefully to be solved in the future. After all, it is human’s intelligence and diligence that create the current world and will continue to do so.


In sum, although nonmainstream knowledge may lack scientific support now, their merits of satisfying people’s curiosity and sheltering them from fear can never be erased. Moreover, they are motivations for people to find truth. Maybe in the near future, we will find that then nonmainstream areas become mainstream sciences.


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Some people accuse nonmainstream areas as evil and against scientific experiments, while I am convinced that such areas like astrology and paranormal phenomena analysis can sufficiently help people in many ways by satisfying their needs for curiosity, security and pursuit of profound knowledge, which cannot be met by mainstream science. （T很清晰）

People are always curious about the world unknown. They've been asking so many whys ever since they were little babies. Unfortunately although contemporary science has reached an unprecedentedly high level, still there exist some unfolding mysteries in every aspects of human life. The most alluring thing about knowledge is the power to predict the future（carp一下，后面说的缘跟预测未来略有差别，缘更偏重于人与人之间的交集羁绊之类的吧）. Why we meet certain people in a certain place at a certain time? Chinese superstitious version of the answer is "Yuan", Indian version is "karma", and western version may be serendipity or luck. All of these are nearly the same thing of leaving this question to agnosticism, but are wildly accepted over the world because no scientifically examined answer could be reached.（例子很新颖~有意思） This explains the popularity of fortune-telling---sometimes we are surprised by the consequence but are not able to find the cause, or we are really desperate to know in advance what will happen in the near future. Although the answers provided by astrology or fortune-telling may be nonsense at all, they do have assuring effect on people who believe it（何种assuring effect？此概念像是突然冒出来的）.（‘科学不能满足所有问题’ 这个方面是否还需要加一两句话，或者段末小结一下之类）

Curiosity is not always neutral or positive. Sometimes struggling to learn about uncertainty and unknown world imposes great anxiety on people, and superstition serves as placebo to them. （前段末尾提到的assuring effect是否就是这个placebo？是否会让人感觉两段内容有重复之处？就我来看，上段是从非主流存在的必然性入手，而这段是讲其影响，嗯那样的话assuring effect就不必在上段详述了。）In ancient times, people were ignorant about the origin of the planet and many natural phenomena like volcano eruption or shooting stars which they regarded as punishment of the God. They resorted to nonmainstream areas for explanations and found proper explanations, thus dismissing their fears（不一定能够消弭恐惧。知道了是神的惩罚，不会更恐惧么？有一种理论很有意思：人们往往会潜意识地认为有神灵的惩罚，而自己应该努力去迎合上天以逃避惩罚。从这个角度看，有些非主流的东西其实是虚构了一个“讨好上天”的方法，让人觉得自己能够跟神套近乎——虽然受到惩罚，但是感到这惩罚是能够通过套近乎来消除的，于是让人安心。诶这一堆解释起来恐怕有些复杂= =只是开拓一下思路。LZ随意。） about the unknowns. Emperors and kings also used the superstitious explanations to comfort their people and secure the social stability. Imagine without those superstitions, what chaos would there be when disaster occurred（解释。真的会有那么严重吗？会有啥灾难？私以为这并非不言自明。[比如来了蝗灾或者大旱的时候，人们信不信神又有啥本质的不同呢？难道会因为相信那是神的惩罚或者相信神会救世人，于是就坦然接受平静等待了吗？实际上还是会很焦虑吧。就算没有这些迷信，若政府工作做得好，也没啥大不了] 若要真的强调灾难性后果，还是直接一点讲出来不要人家脑补啦）. Even some scientists are interested in nonmainstream explanations when their wisdom ran out. Prestigious as Darwin, who invented the evolutionism, turned to religion when he was bereft of his beloved daughter（这个是when their wisdom ran out造成的？）. Only in another field could he found some comfort to his sorrow（是心理层面，不是wisdom方面。要说wisdom的话，许多科学家都笃信宗教，比如牛顿将万物之源归为先验的，大概能算。不过确实也不是单纯的wisdom问题，还是有很多心理方面的东西）. In this sense, nonmainstream fields act as sanctuary to people’s fear and desperation. （首先扯到古代，然后扯到科学家（算是近现代吧？），论证非主流安抚人心的作用。但觉论证不够深入鲜明，具体注释见文中。）

（连接词）Nonmainstream areas usually lack empirical evidence and are doubted by skeptics, thus inspired people by exciting their appetite for knowledge. We used to be bewildered by the predict（词性不对。predictive？这个不确定） power of some fortune-tellers, but now, thanks to systematic research in the fields of psychology and biology, we know that fortune-telling is actually nothing but a form of psychiatric suggestion or hint. Fortune-tellers say things in accordance to our aspiration and we only remembered what we want to hear from them.（此例子如何支撑“非主流以其可疑而刺激appetite for knowledge”的观点？可疑勉强可以看到。可是是如何inspire的？这段倒更像论述“为啥非主流看似合理”。） Paranormal mysteries like Crop circle still puzzled us, but they are being studied by a bunch of scientists now and are hopefully to be solved in the future. After all, it is human’s intelligence and diligence that create the current world and will continue to do so.（最后一句如天外飞仙，不知其所来。）（从TS入手，下文大概该论述非主流如何值得怀疑但又如何激起人们的兴趣了云云，重点是要说清如何激起了兴趣。这个也许可以转到非主流跟主流的相互转化，比如占星术与天文学，炼金术与化学之类。此段中麦田怪圈的例子尚算OK，前一个就不甚满意。）

In sum, although nonmainstream knowledge may lack scientific support now, their merits of satisfying people’s curiosity and sheltering them from fear can never be erased. Moreover, they are motivations for people to find truth. Maybe in the near future, we will find that then nonmainstream areas become mainstream sciences.
如作者所言，是一面倒的写法。当然只要能处理好，这种写法也是OK的。只不过我个人会倾向于有让步，尤其是这个题目很适合发展让步。
语言不错，读起来很顺畅~论证还可以斟酌一下。

以上~加油！

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2# pluka Some people accuse Some people accuse nonmainstream areas as evil and against scientific experiments, while I am convinced that such areas like astrology and paranormal phenomena analysis can sufficiently help people in many ways by comforting them and satisfying their needs for curiosity, security and pursuit of miracles which cannot be met by mainstream science.

基于论证的完整性,越写越多了，分成2大点：comfort 和motivate, 第一点分2部分，满足对1，未知的因果关系2，未来的渴望需求，这两点都有comfort的作用，第二点，非主流的解释给人们探索未知提供了思路，激励人们找到更合理解释，推动科技发展

Nonmainstream areas’ first contribution is its comforting power. Struggling to learn about unknown imposes great anxiety on people, and nonmainstream areas serve as placebo to them. People are curious about the mysterious causal relations in the world. In ancient times when mainstream sciences were just fragmentary, people were ignorant about the origin of the planet and many natural phenomena like volcano eruption or shooting stars which they regarded as punishment of the God. They resorted to nonmainstream areas like religion or myths for explanations and found proper ways to react—ritual sacrifice, exorcism or pray. These reacts are actually psychological protection mechanism of human nature without which people will sink into the abysm of fear and helplessness, so much as social turmoil.
Even till the latest decades when contemporary science has reached an unprecedentedly high level, still there exist some unfolding mysteries in our daily life. Why we meet certain people in a certain place at a certain time? Chinese superstitious version of the answer is "Yuan", Indian version is "karma", and western version may be serendipity or luck. All of these are nearly the same thing of leaving this question to agnosticism, but are wildly accepted over the world because no scientifically examined answer could be reached.


People are also curious about the unknown future. The essence of knowledge lies in its power to predict, especially to predict people’s future. Unfortunately, there’s no such science named future-prediction. People would not like to wait in fear and trembling all day long worrying about what the tomorrow has for them, whereas nonmainstream areas employed certain fantastic methods to predict the future—the alignment of stars, the stochastic sortilege and such. This explains the popularity of fortune-telling---sometimes we are really desperate to know in advance what will happen in the near future. Although the answers provided by astrology or fortune-telling may be nonsense at all, they do have assuring effect on people who believe it by giving some indications and time to prepare for surprise or calamity.

(The most powerful comforting effect of nonmainstream areas comes from religion which satisfies the ultimate human needs—the reason to be alive. Different religious system provided various explanations to questions that cannot be answered by pure science. Even some scientists are interested in religious explanations when their wisdom ran out. Prestigious as Darwin, who invented the evolutionism, turned to religion when he was bereft of his beloved daughter. Darwin could not understand why he had to bear so much suffering, only in mysterious religion could he found some comfort to his sorrow. In this sense, nonmainstream fields act as sanctuary to people’s fear and desperation.)这段扯出宗教来感觉太难驾驭了，万一考试遇上我肯定不会写的，自娱自乐。

The second sphere of nonmainstream areas’ contribution to society is the inspiration they provide. As mentioned above, nonmainstream areas do provide explanation to questions, plausible or lame, which usually lack empirical evidence and are doubted by skeptics. But skepticism is just the impetus for new science, those who doubted the nonmainstream explanation will seek to disprove it and find more logical answers. For example, paranormal mysteries like Crop circles still puzzle us, some say they are creation of aliens, now they are being studied by a bunch of scientists and are hopefully to be solved in the future. Those nonmainstream explanations give people some clues to explain the mysteries and inspire people and scientist to further analysis the cases and eventually unveil the myth. Maybe in the near future, we will find that then nonmainstream areas become mainstream sciences.

In sum, although nonmainstream knowledge may temporarily lack scientific support, their merits of satisfying people’s curiosity and sheltering them from fear can never be erased. Moreover, they are motivations for people to make progress in science. That’s why I am convinced that nonmainstream plays a vital role in human society.

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Some people accuse nonmainstream areas as evil and against scientific experiments, while I am convinced that such areas like astrology and paranormal phenomena analysis can sufficiently help people in many ways by comforting them and satisfying their needs for curiosity, security and pursuit of miracles which cannot be（+sufficiently）met by mainstream science. 


基于论证的完整性,越写越多了，分成2大点：comfort 和motivate, 第一点分2部分，满足对1，未知的因果关系2，未来的渴望需求，这两点都有comfort的作用，第二点，非主流的解释给人们探索未知提供了思路，激励人们找到更合理解释，推动科技发展

Nonmainstream areas’ first contribution is its comforting power. Struggling to learn about unknown imposes great anxiety on people, and nonmainstream areas serve as placebo to them. People are curious about the mysterious causal relations in the world. In ancient times when mainstream sciences were just fragmentary, people were ignorant about the origin of the planet and many natural phenomena like volcano eruption or shooting stars which they regarded as punishment of the God. They resorted to nonmainstream areas like religion or myths for explanations and found proper ways to react—ritual sacrifice, exorcism or pray. These reacts are actually psychological protection mechanism of human nature without which people will sink into the abysm of fear and helplessness, so much as social turmoil.（突然又纠结了一下：啥叫非主流？话说，其实在古代，迷信是主流，科学倒是非主流来着= =囧了这又要复杂了……LZ无视我吧）
Even till the latest decades when contemporary science has reached an unprecedentedly high level, still there exist some unfolding mysteries in our daily life. Why we meet certain people in a certain place at a certain time? Chinese superstitious version of the answer is "Yuan", Indian version is "karma", and western version may be serendipity or luck. All of these are nearly the same thing of leaving this question to agnosticism, but are wildly accepted over the world because no scientifically examined answer could be reached. （加一句绕回去非主流，联系起来）

People are also curious about the unknown future. The essence of knowledge lies in its power to predict, especially to predict people’s future. Unfortunately, there’s no such science named future-prediction. People would not like to wait in fear and trembling all day long worrying about what the tomorrow has for them, whereas nonmainstream areas employed certain fantastic methods to predict the future—the alignment of stars, the stochastic sortilege and such. This explains the popularity of fortune-telling---sometimes we are really desperate to know in advance what will happen in the near future. Although the answers provided by astrology or fortune-telling may be nonsense at all, they do have assuring effect on people who believe it by giving some indications and time to prepare for surprise or calamity. （可以来个具体点的情景不？比如某某破产了于是找算命的安慰或者穷困者梦想某日发财寻找安慰云云）

(The most powerful comforting effect of nonmainstream areas comes from religion which satisfies the ultimate human needs—the reason to be alive. Different religious system provided various explanations to questions that cannot be answered by pure science. Even some scientists are interested in religious explanations when their wisdom ran out. Prestigious as Darwin, who invented the evolutionism, turned to religion when he was bereft of his beloved daughter. Darwin could not understand why he had to bear so much suffering, only in mysterious religion could he found some comfort to his sorrow. In this sense, nonmainstream fields act as sanctuary to people’s fear and desperation.)这段扯出宗教来感觉太难驾驭了，万一考试遇上我肯定不会写的，自娱自乐。

The second sphere of nonmainstream areas’ contribution to society is the inspiration they provide. As mentioned above, nonmainstream areas do provide explanation to questions, plausible or lame, which usually lack empirical evidence and are doubted by skeptics. But skepticism is just the impetus for new science, those who doubted the nonmainstream explanation will seek to disprove it and find more logical answers. For example, paranormal mysteries like Crop circles still puzzle us, some say they are creation of aliens, now they are being studied by a bunch of scientists and are hopefully to be solved in the future. Those nonmainstream explanations give people some clues to explain the mysteries and inspire people and scientist to further analysis the cases and eventually unveil the myth. Maybe in the near future, we will find that then nonmainstream areas become mainstream sciences（仍然忍不住要建议上例子= =仍然忍不住就想到了炼金术到化学= =囧我惯性思维了么）.

In sum, although nonmainstream knowledge may temporarily lack scientific support, their merits of satisfying people’s curiosity and sheltering them from fear can never be erased. Moreover, they are motivations for people to make progress in science. That’s why I am convinced that nonmainstream plays a vital role in human society.
感觉好些了。私以为B2（还是B3？就是People are also curious about the unknown future那段）的主题句还可以改下，把非主流能提供安慰这个意思包括进去是否好些？