Friday, October 03, 2008

Fatalism Vs Activism

Our Indian cultural history has a great deal of discussions on "FATALISM" or destiny over many 1000s of years ... Whatever happens, good or bad events, people for many centuries believe that everything is written and acted upon time constraints. The situations rises up in times forces one to think about fate. We can play the game only when the whole lot is in our control. When things go beyond our reach, the game starts to play with us. This group will believe in presence of god.
To say it in other words, the future is fixed and predetermined no matter whatever you try. It is always a way to accept our defeat or stop trying and blame it on "universal law". Here uncertainty plays the key role which indirectly means there is no future.

The activism calls it as the reaction of the actions performed by people or any other activities through people. To put it simply, the outcome of good or bad events depends on our actions. Newton's third law of motion has its equal contribution in believers of both fatalism and activism. Here certainty is the key player.