Monday, August 18, 2008

The Importance of Religion

What is religion?

A religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law.


The Importance of Religion

For most of the people living in the world, religion makes a significant impact on not only their being, but also their society or culture as well. Religion can be verified dramatically based on both of their personal beliefs and understandings of their culture.

Religion forms an important aspect of the entire society. They are usually responsible for many of our wars or disagreements, in another world, religions give us something to hold onto in time of trouble or indecision. The idea of there is a God ruling this world is comforting for many of us and will give people scene of peace in the end.

However the religion has been questioned by modern science nowadays. Science has shown a clear path towards answering all kinds of questions that once could only b answered by the God. Does this prove that religions is merely the domain of ignorance and fools who wish to believe in “talents and faith” only? However their bewilderment of towards why most of the educated people still believe in the presence of God has rather non-mysterious answers.

One of the important reason for that argument found was that religion provides a sence of certainty in an uncertain world. When an individual has absolute faith in something, for that individual especially, there is something he can hold and fight for. Religions offer hope that this life is only one stage of our whole existence in a long loop.

If all that sounds like a bunch of romantic nonsense and self-delusion, then indeed perhaps it is. But for those people who believe in a religion, they provide them a feeling of contentment and hope that nothing else in this world provides. For that reason, I do not see religion disappearing anytime soon.

Is Talent As Imprtant As Hard Work?

If I am questioned "Which is more important for success, talent or hard work?" My answer is both. Both of talent and hard work can offer you opporunity to be successful. The key is you must know what you are talented at and get to work on it. Hard work always pays off no matter what you intense to do but it pays off more if you work on what you are talented at.


For instance, there is a famous australia guitarist named Tommy Emmanuel. He described his hard work on playing guitar as "playing day in day out and locked a lot of time on that instrument." This explains his ability to play guitar in the manner he can do now. And i think this shows how well you can achieve usually depends on how serious you are willing to go which equals how much effort you are willing to put in. As we have been told since very youg:" You can get it if you really want", the hard work is essencial for success.

However does this mean talent is not important at all and we can just ignore the talent difference but work hard blindly? I think the answer is no. And I think the most important role of hard working is to promote your talent not to take place of it. Everyone can work hard but not everyone can success in every area. And this is where the hard work comes to play: it will make you different from others and this difference may be able to help you success in the end.

I'm not saying hard work won't get you places. It will get you far but it won't get you as far as you would get focusing your hard work into something you control. And you can control your progression on stuffs you are interested in and talented at. In the end, I believes that people will benefit most if they put hard work and talent together.

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