4th November, Tuesday Finally the day has come. Its unexpectedly cold outside. Strong winds lowers the sensory temperature. After fifteen-minute walk, we knock the door of the office Albert visited last year. Fortuantely, there is a man. He seems to remember Albert and invites us into his office. His name is Michael and is in the doctors course. He has an American accent. He says he has studied in USA for a few years. At the question about the definition of philosophy, he says it is looking for answers. When I ask for one of examples he has found so far, his answer is too long to understand clearly. He says there arent absolute goodness and badness but neutral mixtures of goodness and badness. When I give the example of Se-Weol-Ho, he says it is a bad thing. As he agrees, what philosophers do is making simple things complicated, and at the same time, making it difficult for people to understand the simple things. He denies the existence of the absolute truth and it changes respectively according to individuals. I take an example of +(plus) in mathematics. Even though the answers are different according to the numbers which are added, +(plus), itself, doesnt change. At this explanation, he seems to agree with me. Michael, what is the most important thing to you? It is my life. Michael, what if you dont exist? The most important thing to you is yourself. To me, its myself. To our surprise, the only way to make ourselves better is to make others better. He seems to like what I say. We leave his office, telling him to keep in touch with us. Will he do so? We cannot find any cafeterias. We find one but its closed. We sit and take a bite of Kim-Bap at the bench with a wall behind. It is still cold, though. We will say hello to any students while we are looking for bulletin boards. There are a lot of students in front of a building over there. We say hello to three students who stay a little bit away from the rest. It is not easy to lead the conversation due to their English. They know lots of things and so talk much. Before starting a real conversation, they leave for their class. We give them our name cards and tell them to keep in touch with each other through facebook. In the campus, I cant see any departments of science and engineering. The map says they are on our way back home. As we walk in cold winter, two students come out of a building over there, which is a dormitory. After about five-minute walk, they start to climb steep steps. Thats it. I tell Albert to follow them. Panting. There is another campus at the top of the steps. We are looking for bulletin boards when we see the two students coming to us. Cant miss it. They dont know K-Pop, which means the rumor that K-Pop is popular in Europe is untrue. They are majoring in computer science. Its easy to talk with studtents who study in the departments of science and engineering. Its because it is easy for them to verify facts. One of them wants to open his own business in the future. To know what is correctly helps you to be successful and keeps you stay away from danger. If we can keep in touch with each other, it will be a great thing for both of us. They like what I say and tell us they will do so. After putting a few posters in the builing, we return home. On the way, the two studetns are waving us and I wave back them. I feel my throat sore and my lips are dried. From too much talk or strong cold wind?
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:28:23 +0000
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