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

[emjay]

So pretty much the only way I think I can make things more concise is either to find that elusive perfect sentence that covers all its bases in the shortest/simplest possible form, which granted is always very satisfying if you do find one, or just to be less anticipatory in the first place... which is difficult if you're one, like me, with a tendency to overthink/dwell on things.

That's an interesting observation. I do think the solution is shifting your thinking from an anticipatory position to a conversational position.

By anticipating a question you end up having the conversation alone instead of allowing other people to be inserted into it. (Which really only happens in written exchange; it's harder to anticipate and dominate a realtime face-to-face conversation.)

This means you run the risk of biasing your questions (creating ones that serve your position). So perhaps realizing that your best thinking can only emerge in response to other minds, can help reduce the need for anticipation, and allow for a more natural exchange.

It's mainly the medium for me... ie I know a forum is real time in a sense but in another it's very staggered time, and that time inbetween posts, combined with it being a lot harder to read people in the sense of read their emotional state as you would face to face, bar the odd few emoticons we have at our disposal, just makes it so easy to overthink/misconstrue/dwell on things etc.

A lot of people have often said they think I have Aspergers Syndrome, including someone who used to babysit me when I was young and who's own son has Aspergers... which you could read either as being an authority on the subject but also as potentially biased... I don't know if I do or not, but I do know I have a lot in common with some of my friends that do... such as taking things too literally, obsessing over little details, and having difficulty understanding nuance/context.

Basically, in true, real-time face to face conversation, most of this is not a problem, and in something like Discord where it's more real-time conversation-like than this, but still text chat, it's less of a problem but still, ultimately that's part of why it takes so much out of me to have long conversations here. It's makes me miss days gone where we actually had Skype chats around here... atheist and theist just chatting together on Skype, just a whole different kind of conversation.