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

[polymath257]

Ignoring that those things are themselves products of philosophy, you didn't have a single thought..at all, while you did that?  You made no inferences, you acted out on no value system, and..I guess, learned nothing whatsoever?

I disagree. Chemistry,physics, geology, etc, are NOT products of philosophy. They are their own independent subjects. Saying they are all part of philosophy is like saying they are all part of physics.

The point is that not all organized thinking counts as philosophy. And not all organized thinking arises from philosophy. Often, philosophers comment about that they *think* those in other subjects are doing, but the comments of philosophers usually have little to do with the actual subject.

I think you're setting yourself up in an impossible and wildly unrepresentative dilemma.  I think..especially here, in the context of this forum "philosophy" as a pejorative is used as a term for some specific view that is understandably shit on - but it's a ludicrous baby/bathwater situation that isn't at all representative of what you actually do, who you actually are, and where your interests lie.  At the bottom of it all, just as a human being, you're patently incapable of not "doing philosophy".  We think about things, and can't even help but do so.  There's no off button.

Not all thought is philosophy.