Gregorio, philosopher

At the last Friday before Christmas holidays we went to Figueres to an event called: Jornada de Filosofia. There comes students at the same age as us to talk about philosophies, particulary about the idea of progress. Some days before we also watched a movie which talked about this topic.

I must recognize: it was bored. I expected more from this day. We went there in the morning, divide us in different groups and begin to talk. Or we supposed to do. Nearly nobody said anything, I was lucky because I was in the same group with two friends of mine from Figueres.

Later there was a debate, then on student of each school read a self written text and all of them were very long and seemed more a history class like a philosophies text.

Finally there came Gregorio. Albert, our philosophies teacher introduce him and then Gregoria begun to talk and talk and talk and talk.

Sure, it was interesting, otherwise we had already talked a lot of hours about the same topic.

Some interesting points were when he talked about Epicurus, a famous philosopher which quotes has been discovered recently on a wall of a city which was constructed centuries late. Here is one of his quotes: He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

Another comparison, from Gregorio, which I remember was the similiarity from humans with Titanic. He said that the whole history is like the ship and their wisdom is like the part you can see from an iceberg. But the other, enormous part we don't see is all the knowledge and the progress we need to do still. This is a disturbing image from humanity, but maybe it's the right.