A woman philosopher

It is great having a girl friend philosopher. I met her in tagged.com. I am amazed, knowing her as a philo student. I asked her number and we met. I know some female philosophers, but knowing a Filipina who studied philosophy, she is first one I knew. We might have different philosophies in life but we have the same way of thinking. I never had a girl classmate in philosophy in college.

Worthy and I am comfortable talking to such a philo student. We can talk about weird things. Only us who can appreciate each other's "weirdness". Only us who can understand the way things are being thought. A logical reasoning. Thinking of fallacious conclusion. I am not telling that non-philo students do not think logically. It's just that we have same world, in which and why we can understand each other. To make it clear, an engineer can talk to his co-engineer, regarding their own terminologies, so to us. I am not telling too that non-philo students cannot understand a philo student's thought. Off course they can. Philosophy is just using common sense. I am little bit proud here, but that is the truth.

Little or almost none have the inclination to study philosophy now a days. It is like Latin, a dead language. However, philo subjects are being taught to all colleges and universities. Logic and ethics for instance.

At 18 BC, there we sat and drank. I am always asking her if she is okay. since I can see in her face that she is hiding something and she seems doubting me. It was our first meeting, it is natural. Another thing, why I am asking her, if she's okay, is that I don't want her to be bored. So to break the silence, I instantly asked her if she loves watching movies. "Yes", she said. It was the start of opening herself to me. She shares me some tricks she learned from movies. She wanted me to watch the movie, "Village of the Damned". I was so fascinated with that trick she told me. She calls it, "brick wall". She practice that trick in her own style. She said, she can erase some of her memories about people she met. I am quite suspicious with the trick. It is because it is natural that somenone could not remember all happenings, experiences, things and peoples in his mind. As for me I can remember if there is someone or something which will make me remember. But to her, she can purposely erase some of her memories. At first, it doesn't make sense to me, but I am mystify with the trick. I thought of that as selective amnesia.

I asked myself, why. Why does she have to do the trick? This question was answered when that night passed. Days past and I have learned alot about her. I ask her to teach me the trick. I have searched in the net about the "Village of the Damned". I found out that the trick was made to block the external forces not to enter into the subject's mind. It is like a firewall in the PC to block viruses. For her, she uses the "brick wall" in order of erase memories recorded in her memory. When that memory is rejected it cannot enter again, is block. The trick is also a way of making the mind blank. I do not know yet the whole process but this is the idea. I might be posting it here when she taught me. There are many positive ways a person can be helped with this trick.

She is the first one I met that uses that kind of trick. I thank her for letting me feel the aura and the world of philosophy, again. The world of the mind, of ideas, of knowldge, of wisdom. What amaze me the most is that she wasn't able to brick wall me. Why? Because a person does not only have a mind, but also has a heart. 

She is an amazing girl.