RE:If the bridge breaks!!!!! Mind you
by Vishnu Veni on Sep 13, 2007 07:38 AM Permalink
But remember just because we beleived, truth will not become false or false become truth. E.g., many centuries people beleieved earth is flat, or sun going around earth... did they change just because we believed. When the proof came beleiefs have to change accordingly otherwise we making ourselves liars and our children followers of the lie. Sometime back I read in Competetive Success, a magazine that many Group 1 exam takers prepare had secion on persons Past, mentioned Jesus 4B.C Budha ~500BC Mohemmed ~500AD there they showed Valmiki ~800BC and Vedavyas ~800BC as Sanskrit poets, who wrote stories, why didn;t this agitation takes place then?
RE:RE:If the bridge breaks!!!!! Mind you
by rajesh jha on Sep 13, 2007 07:54 AM Permalink
Dear Vishnu, The documentation of any occurance may not happen at the time of occurance itself and so we should not confuse that the time of documentation is the time of occurance. In olden days, wirtting was not invented, and so for generations, Ramayan was just carried on by words listened from elders. Finally Valmiki documented te whole thing and gave it. This does not meam that Valimiki got birth with Lord Ram. For your example of the earth, reaerchers contrdicted the belief only when they were able to prove that otherwise. here we are telling a long believed fact wrong because we are not able to prove it with the present technologies.
