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If you've studied a little philosophy, has it proven itself worthy of all the things you thought it would be!? Has it given you insight into life, or just troubled you at night!? Where did it lead you and was its path what you expected!? ThanksWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: With every question that is answered there has been more questions asked!. Unexpectadley I am enjoying the journey more than the results!. It is all so fascinating and has joyfully kept me quite distracted and out of the troublemaking drama mode!. SO, yes, it has been good to me!. :)Www@QuestionHome@Com This was not the path I expected!. Philosophy has taken me further than I ever dream possible!. -I never knew that thought and action could be so perfectly intertwined!. Now I know!. -I never knew that it was possible to integrate emotion and reason to closely!. Now I know!. -I never knew that assumptions held dear to your heart could exist beyond day-to-day notice, yet be summoned up to be challenged and, possibly, falsified!. Now I know!. -I never knew that there could be an objective basis for action and morality without reference to a "higher power!." Now I know!. And, as I've proven to myself over the years, knowing was more than half the battle!.Www@QuestionHome@Com 1) I have 2) There's no way to tell, as I don't have anything to judge my current self against!. 3) Potentially, but I could just as easily be wrong!. 4) No 5) It led me to a path of contempt for patch-work system-building style society has constructed!. It's left me much more intelligent, but less passionate!. And it's left me with the tools I need to convey my point of view properly and convincingly!. I'm decidedly un-Pu'!. In that respect I lost my innocence and naivete to it!. How do you value such intangibles against hypotheticals anyway!? Is it even possible!? A / (!?A) = +A or -A!? Not a good formula!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. It has given me a different perspective on life!. At the beginning it troubled me at night, but that is a necessary step in order to grow!. It helps to make life so much more interesting!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Short answer: 1!. Yes 2!. Both 3!. Closer to God, myself and others 4!. Not always, but close!.Www@QuestionHome@Com LOts of times!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |