Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Outrageous Truth


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

First of all I would like to point out what’s " wisdom of the time"is, it basically has to do with the mind set of the people of today, at what level they think, how broader is there mentality and how easily they are ready to take the changing time towards future. The wisdom of time is where the word is today at this part of time is. We can look back in time and see how it had changed in last few decades.

The issue drove me back to the time of Galileo. Galileo Galilei one of the greatest scientific thinker of the time and the founder of astronomy. He questioned the prevailing idea of that time. He focused people eyes on what’s happening in the sky and gave his one of the major work in the form of ''The Starry Messenger” this work described the universe as heliocentric (sun is the at the center and earth revolves around) rather then the earth is the center of universe which at that time was advocated by the church. This work landed him into trouble as the church opposed it forcefully. This even lead him to spend last four years of his life under house arrest. This Copernican against the Ptolemaic system is one of the most appropriate examples of the issue above.

Also we can take examples from law of “natural selection”. There was a serious scientific objection to the theory of evolution by Mr. Charles Darwin. That indeed was the most successful theory of the nineteenth century. To which the religion and the people at that time opposed strongly. Criticism of Darwin’s theory of natural selection was outrageous then and eventuality it was accepted by the world. His theory purposes, a direct challenge to the already existing religious and moral grounds of that time.

One of the most recent truth of time is homosexuality its have been accepted at some parts of world but is still hideous in most of the places. Sooner or latter it will be accepted

So I think the issue stands true for most of the cases. History justify that the truth at first is outrageous and latter accepted at that part when it becomes the need of time.