Issue41【GTER三月机考群第二次作业】by Lafela

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Issue41 "Such non-mainstream 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."



提纲：(参考某大牛提纲)
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提出观点：不同意。
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人类有什么精神层面的需求？比如，纪念亡者，求运气，对未来命运的不确定/对未知的恐惧。
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人类的这些需求如何通过非主流来满足？年初五放鞭炮fire cracker迎接财神，占卜算命，通过这种心理慰藉来暂时使人们心情好些。
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非主流无法在社会生活中长久扮演重要角色。第一，是因为其本质。没有稳固的理论依据无法信服，比如，星座的说法不可靠、可能不准或是只是碰巧片面符合，邪教组织，占卜利用人的贪欲行骗。
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第二，人类在社会生活中的最重要任务是生存、适应社会生活，比如什么。这需求可以通过主流科学来达成，但是非主流无法帮助达成，因此无法直接有效满足人们的基本需求，不能起到关键作用。
（对知识的学习，对自然规律的探究，主流科学有帮助人们系统、有根据地明白现象，建立严密的逻辑和客观的世界态度。）
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总结：尽管非主流可以满足某些层面的需求，但始终无法成为满足人们主要需求的来源，所以没有成为VITAL ROLE。

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Non-mainstream areas of inquiry that have been accessible to people since long time ago and seem to take a large part in human life, as is claimed. But I think the claim didn’t pay attention to the people’s minds nowadays and thus is over exaggerating.

Admittedly, whenever in the dark medieval age or the information age, the non-mainstream areas of inquiry always attract a large number of people by what the mainstream science cannot give, such as predicting the future life by checking one’s astrolabe, enlightening people with confusions through meditation to Buda and contacting with the dead through a witch’s psychic. And whatever these things are true or not, as long as there are spiritual and emotional needs of humans, these inquiring ways will keep its supplements, making people believe they possess the sense of security and the right attitude of anticipation toward the unknown future.

But however these inquiries works, they can’t last long and become the vital role of human life.

Firstly it is the nature of these inquiries that determine their destiny of living short. The lack of persistent law makes the outcomes of these inquiries vulnerable to break down. Take astrology as an example. If we read some fashion magazines, the astrologic prediction about the near future will be commonly seen. Maybe a Gemini girl will find a certain description of Gemini so matched to her own experience in the following days and then set up belief in the prediction while another Gemini may experience the total opposition. It is not difficult for people to figure out the unstableness and the evidence-loss of these non-mainstream areas of inquiries, thus which are short living and can’t play a vital role in our life.

Secondly non-mainstream areas of inquiries can’t satisfy people’s needs and even may hurt people. For example, HZ Li, the leader of a heterodox group, made thousands of people believe he had the paranormal power to predict future and send people to heaven. His followers committed suicide by setting fire on themselves to accomplish the leader’s discipline, but they didn’t manage and all died innocently. What’s more, other followers took no alertness to this tragedy but in advert blamed those victims for not having enough faith. Tragedies will still be on if no actions are taken to cease the extremism and the likeness.

To sum up, although there are things unsolved by science which the non-mainstream areas of inquiries will in advance explain with various methods, we clearly know that the non-mainstream will not be able to override the mainstream and play a vital role to satisfy people’s needs.

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Issue41 (revised)

Non-mainstream areas of inquiry that have been accessible to people since long time ago and seem to take a large part in human life, as is claimed. But I think the claim didn’t pay attention to the people’s minds nowadays and thus is over exaggerating.

Admittedly, whenever in the dark medieval age or the information age, the non-mainstream areas of inquiry always attract a large number of people by what the mainstream science cannot give, such as predicting the future life by checking one’s astrolabe, enlightening people with confusions through meditation to Buda and contacting with the dead through a witch’s psychic. And whatever these things are true or not, as long as there are spiritual and emotional needs of humans, these inquiring ways will keep its supplements, making people believe they possess the sense of security and the right attitude of anticipation toward the unknown future.

But however these inquiries works, they can’t last long and become the vital role of human life. Furthermore, it will do harm to people’s normal life.

Firstly it is the nature of these non-mainstream areas of inquiry that determine their destiny that they are short-lived and can’t play the vital part. What plays a vital role in human life should be the areas providing human with persistent and reliable accounts, optimistic living value and realistic insight into life. But non-mainstream areas lack persistent law to account for the outcome of the inquiries and thus are vulnerable to break down. Take astrology as an example. If we read some fashion magazines, the astrologic prediction about the near future will be commonly seen. Maybe a Gemini girl will find a certain description of Gemini so matched to her own experience in the following days and then set up belief in the prediction while another Gemini may experience the total opposition. It is not difficult for people to figure out the unstableness and the evidence-loss of these non-mainstream areas of inquiries, which thus are short living and can’t play a vital role in our life.

Secondly non-mainstream areas of inquiries can’t satisfy people’s needs and even may hurt people. For example, the whole world was appalled by the mass suicidal scandal in 1978 which was committed by a thousand of disciples of the evil heterodox group the People Temple. Why did those disciples willingly kill themselves under the command of their leader Jim Jones? It was just because of their ignorance and credulousness to the evil religion and its so-called paranormal power that they finally ended up in such a tragedy.

To sum up, although the non-mainstream areas of inquiry can in advance explain things unsolved by the mainstream science in many methods, we clearly know that the non-mainstream will not be able to override the mainstream and play a vital role to satisfy people’s needs.