Insult Yourself and Get Nasty

[emjay]

I didn't even finish my philosophy course...

Generally, philosophy is an overrated and esoteric mental excessive with the occasional joy of engaging in a little verbal jousting. If you don't take it with a grain of salt or yourself too seriously it adds a little spice to life. Kind of like beer snobbery,...its still just beer.

Yeah, I hear ya. Philosophy is all about asking questions, but whether those questions are useful or even valid is another matter entirely... ie it's about trying to find the right questions. By taking a simple thing and breaking it down into the sum of its parts (or trying to) it's always possible that it's a red herring that lands you in a quagmire of abstractions and new definitions that has little bearing on the essence of whatever you started with (and that would be the part that makes it esoteric). And if something leads to paradoxes then it's possible that it wasn't the right question to begin with. So philosophy is a mindfield really... one where it's always possible to 'not see the forest for the trees' (but always hoping that you can ). The same things can be said of Psychology, at least in my reductionistic approach to it, but unfortunately it goes hand in hand with an overanalytical mind. At the end of the day sometimes I wish I didn't 'meta analyse' everything, because it can be detrimental to just living in the moment, but it's just my nature and not something I can easily dial back.

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I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure it will clear up in due course.