ISSUE41: （SpringCity飞跃小组作业）

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How does my future? What is my fate? What is it when we die? Some people often want to know the answers of these questions, whereas the mainstream sciences can not give answers to these questions or the given answers which people are unsatisfied with. So the speaker asserts that nonmainstream areas play an important part in society because they satisfy human needs that are not addressed by mainstream. In the one hand, I agree with the statement of the speaker that nonmainstream areas can satisfy human needs. However, in the other hand, I disagree that nonmainstream play a vital role in society, whereas they may are harmful for people in many aspects.
I concede that nonmainstream sciences such as astrology, fortune-telling, and psychic and paranormal pursuits can meet some people needs. Consider individual future and the fate, which is can not predicted by mainstream science, but these are mysterious and curious for many people. As a result, people try to know their tomorrow and their future according to fortune-telling. When people face the difficulties which they do not know how to resolve, when people have many choices that they want to know which is best, they would seek the help of nonmainstream sciences and do not think by themselves. They think that the science of astrology and fortune-telling can give the best answer to them.
In addition, when we face the natural phenomenons which can not interpreted by mainstream sciences, such as why the universe and the human society is in current state and not in other states, why human die, what it is when people die, nonmainstream areas give satisfying answers to all these question. Meanwhile, nonmainstream sciences explain the our characters which decided by some fixed factors such as birthday, people often depend on these nonmainstream areas to understand themselves. In a word , nonmainstream sciences resolve many puzzles which can not resolved by sciences and can give satifying answers to people which can not given by sciences.
However, consider validity and influences of these answers, nonmainstream sciences does not play a vital role in our life. In contrast, it may be harmful to people. When nonmainstream sciences give an explanation of our character or predict our fate, we get an explanation on our current state. We do not make great efforts to pursue higher purpose. All successes and failures become natural, and only are decided by immovable factors, not by subjective endeavors. Furthermore, because nonmainstream sciences often provide satisfying answers, many people begin to believe the details in the nonmainstream sciences which violate mainstream science. Such as some people refuse doctors when they are ill, only because psychic and paranormal pursuits tell that illnesses can be cured by human spirit. Some people choose suicide because fortune-telling predict it is the best time to end his life. The nonmainstream areas provide explanations to us but the explanations have no scientific base and may be incorrect at all. Sometimes they may guide people to wrong directions.
Taking accounts to the discussions above, it is easy to draw a conclusion that nonmainstream areas really satisfy human needs that are not addressed by mainstream science, however, these explanations may do harmful to our life and guide us to a wrong way. In final analysis, we should believe in the science and take nonmainstream areas as an interesting joke of mysterious problem.