[Serious] Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?

[Disagreeable]

However if you're just studying it for personal enrichment, I'd say it's no more nor less worthwhile than anything else.  It doesn't lend itself to a lot of direct application, so it's not a necessary complement to a liberal arts education.

Do you have an opinion on philosophy as a mystical, spiritual or religious practice? (from either a theistic or atheistic view point (because atheists can be any of those 3 things, of course, although they rarely are, perhaps).

Of course it depends on what you mean by philosophy.

The aim to understand how things fit together impersonally, and practice the fitting of things together personally, on a metaphysical level, on an epistemological level and on a phenomenological level. That is, IME and IMV, what philosophy is.

Logic and critical thinking, both useful, aren't ordinarily included under that rubric.

But they ought to be, IMO.

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Thanks for the change of rep BTW... tbh the other one read a bit like a eulogy and I didn't know what to make of it (again down to that difficulty with context I think). I'll change mine for you accordingly

My pleasure. Sometimes impersonal friendship is greater than personal friendship. It all depends. Perhaps one can sometimes have a bit of both. There are plusses and minuses for both.

Context is extremely difficult for me too, at least a lot of the time, but even without getting the context right I think that I can still achieve a harmonic balance of both formality and informality with practice.

Basically, unless I am having fun in a purely humorous or otherwise fun way that is both harmless and mutually enjoyable for all involved: I ought to default to formality. I reckon.

I think that I ought to be formal more often than most. To counteract my lack of common sense.

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