Father Christmas and Copernicus

Father Christmas When every child is small he or she believes in Santa Claus and he is the person who is supposed to be giving gifts to small children. So when i was small even i believed in Santa Claus and asked him for whatever gift i wanted and i always got that gift surprisingly but as i grew older i realized something that it was my mother who always asked me what i had expected from Father Christmas. So it later became quite obvious that it was my mother who had kept the gift in my room and not Father Christmas.When i was small anyone who said that Father Christmas did not exist i thought of that person to be the biggest liar and the day i came to know that Father Christmas did not exist i literally started crying. As my Dad’s birthday is on the 25 th of December we usually celebrated Christmas and his birthday on the same time . Several times on my Dad' birthday i would dress up exactly like Santa with the same " Red Clothes and the Red bag which Santa carried ".I used to then go around the house distributing gifts to all the small kids in my building. At this age thinking about those days feels really funny. We being Human beings never question what is told to us and accept whatever is told to us which we should not from now. What i now feel is that no child should be told about the non existence of Father Christmas and that child should someway or the other come to know on his own this will in one way test him. Copernicus There was a man called Copernicus who had denied the fact that the Earth was the centre of the Universe. People in those days thought the Earth was the centre of the Universe no one knows why they thought so it was maybe because the Pope had said so and at that time no one questioned what the pope said .It was also believed that the Sun rose in the East and set in the West and this showed the Earth was the centre. So this shows that the people believe what is told to them and as Copernicus spoke against the popular classes at that time what he said was not true without actually knowing what he said and on what basis. It was like no one had an own thinking but Copernicus did but the entire society did not believe in what he said but he was later proved to be absolutely right by Galileo. So every person should have an own thinking and should say what that person feels without thinking what the others will think about it.The similarity between Copernicus' theory and about the existence of Santa Claus was that at Copernicus' time people believed in what was told to them by the Pope so did i believe when i was told about the existence of Santa also that what conclusion i come to is that in every human being there is a Copernicus just that the feeling of confidence and logical reasoning is required. The subject Theory of Knowledge is teaching us that we should learn to question what is taught to us and we should have a logical reason in whatever we believe. This is the only way in which one can learn what is true. What i feel is that beliefs can be true or false but truth always has to be true as the word suggests.

Father Christmas and Copernicus

It is common belief, amongst the youngest of our population, that a person called Father Christmas exists. I too, was no exception to this case. Until the age of six I was deeply rooted in the belief that Santa Claus did exist. All those month-long preparations for Christmas lists, decorations and shopping were all in anticipation for that one night of 24th December. The milk, cookies and carrots would be left out by 9, and an hour later I would be tucked into bed, too excited to sleep. The next morning the presents would be there, under the tree, waiting for me. When I turned six, however, my world came crashing down when I was told (by my then-evil sister) that Father Christmas did not exist. At first I could not believe it. Nothing made sense without Santa Claus – where did all the presents come from!? But when I began to reason his existence, some things did not seem to fit. How was it possible that each and every child around the world got a gift exactly on the same night? How were there Santa Clauses at each and every street corner? How did the post reach the North Pole, and more importantly, how could Santa read my writing?! It was nevertheless strange for me to grasp the concept that my parents were the ones delivering the presents and not the happy fat man in the red suit. The destruction of belief in Father Christmas came from my sister’s knowledge which I now had, as well as reasoning from myself. In the same way, when Nicolas Copernicus said that the earth was not the centre of the universe, he too, crashed the world of many people. He said that the earth rotates around the sun and he confirmed this by noticing the behaviour of movements of two particular stars (the planets Mercury and Venus). This came as a great shock and people refused to believe him as the Pope himself believed that the earth was the centre of the universe. His theory went against the belief of religion and philosophy of that time. The previous belief was so strong even though there was no evidence for it. Such a strong destruction of belief brought about a strong sense of denial and many people refused to accept the discovery until many years later. Therefore it is observed that Copernicus’s discovery proved the belief of that time period wrong. It is due to the evidence that the theory was soon accepted. Similarly, when a child discovers that Father Christmas does not exist, it can relate to Copernicus. It is through other’s knowledge, reasoning, self knowledge and the ability to learn, absorb and comprehend information that allows us to reconsider our some times misguided belief.

5 Things I am certain about

1. Everything is destiny we can try changing it but in the end what happens is decided. 2. I believed in Father Christmas when i was small. 3. Every single person in this world has a fingerprint which is different. 4. Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone . 5.French is just too tough to be studied