Sunday, August 31, 2008

GRE ISSUE ESSAY OF THE WEEK

Present your perspective on the issue below, using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your views.

"Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time."

4 comments:

Ashik Ch said...

Truth is considered as an important component for goodness in the world. There is no proper meaning for the "Truth".The word truth extends from honesty, faith, sincerity, agreement and reality in Brain.Even today there is no perfect definition for it.This makes it unclear for philosophers, scholars and scientists.

Truth evokes many emotions and many feeling in Us.Mostly It picks out sad,horror,panic,fear,pity,
happiness, joy and a lot more towards something or someone.A Human Brain goes smoothly and doesn't like another Emotion to creep in suddenly.

Its difficult to believe sudden unexpected truths that releases some high emotions in us.These truths are normally accepted till It is verified by at least one of our sense organs like eyes, nose, ear, mouth,skin and mind.Sometimes this acceptance requires higher accuracy in our sensory organs which might not be possible, here we will take help of some other persons.For example, Suddenly I hear a sad news that my friends DAD is dead then I can't confirm unless I ask my friend.

So,Truth will be uncomfortable for an amount of time till it is accepted with verification.The amount of time between the Truth is heard, verified and accepted has a lot of stress and wisdom psychologically.

Joy Mookerji said...

"Veritas Vos Liberabit"

The truth will set you free.
This is a very old Latin proverb.
It is imperative that it is very difficult to accept truth when our own selfish intentions are jeopardized by its revelation.
However history of mankind has shown us repeatedly that truth cannot be neglected or obliterated. It cannot be abrogated by bigots.Many earlier scientific discoveries were rebuked by people with mediocre intelligence.
When it was declared earth revolves round the sun it was considered a bizarre theory and rebuked and considered a dream of an frivolous mind. However people finally became amiable and accepted the truth of our Solar System.The scientific discoveries though some of them were fortuitous were supplemented by data and finally got accepted as facts.
The sagacious mind cannot be diluted with prevarication and truth will always shine.Truth is a sign of amelioration and always comes out to be winner in the midst of tough competition of cynical minds of people.

Anonymous said...

truth is the best thing in the world every body shuld always speak true nothing like lies should be thier."Truth"the word truth extends from honesty,trust,faith,sincere,etctrea.even in today world their is no exact defination of this word truth.This makes unclear for philosophers,scholars and scientists.

truth evokes many emotions recently i saw a movie named "GHAJINI" it is very nice flick in true sense and the love story which starts with the lies it became very comedy because of the actoress of the film that is asin thottumkal very good looking and peppy role then the love story remains incomplete and she doesnot know the real name of the guy she loved and the guy now has a short trem memory loss.

it is very difficult to belive some unsudden truth.
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Anonymous said...

Truth is best vertue of life if followed with courage,and most children get this lesson from the teachers and parents to speak truth always in and in all circumstances which is not so easy but most kids follow it but when we grow up and become adults our life changes and we have to survive and manouver in a tough world. Though there is no restrictions on truth but people around us start to develope intolerance to truth which provekes an innosent mind to mess up with thoughts and create there own untrue stories.In most cases too much restriction, fear to loose love and respect in eyes of our loved ones and friends give birth to lies.As a matter of fact it starts from not hurting our loved ones which sometimes convert into hardcore habit of lying. There is no such harm in lying ar there is no obvious gains of telling the truth which furthur confuses people.Manytimes people can not tolerate the truth,for example telling the truth to the relatives/parents of a a young imaginary teenager patient stuck by a car,and in coma at the moment, that his/her death is actually inevitable is not only a hard decision for a doctor/nurse but also very impolite and inhuman act. In such real life situations the lie, for example 'we are trying our best but we dont hope too much' is a well thought and well framed lie and an effort to prevent ongoing trauma to the relatives. This is just one example there are so many situations in our day today life when we consider our and other people's comfort level with the truth befor exposing it. Another good example of 'telling truth or not dellima' is with many professionals like police,detectives and investigation agencies, forign delegates,diplomates,spys,negotiators, and polititions. It is practiacally impossible and against the interest of country for them to tell truth in all situations. This is the part of there job to maintain privacy and silence on many issues. In the end I support the issue because of the above mentioned reasons, if a hidden truth is less uncomfortable to us and others than the wisdom lies in accepting the truth that the lie never existed. I know truth always wins but if a truth kills someone's emotions, if truth hurt someone deep in their hearts, that truth is no good for humanity and it should not be there to hurt people.