The "P" in Philosphy (or at least the lower case "p") stands for Pure unadulterated Horsheshit

After spending the last few days researching and trying to learn more, I found myself rolling my eyes. From the most basic of unproven statements (such as we can't really know anything) to the constant morphing and redefining of words (aren't you just playing devil's advocate) and then the "hard questions" that turn out to be nothing more than wordplay (the liar paradox) I find that philosophy is everything that science tries NOT to be. <br><br>Science is constant morphing of words and phrases that redefined based on new information and ways of understanding the universe and everything in it, but at least in Science we are actually working to find out more about the universe. In philosophy it seems that the goal is to define and redefine the unproven so that we can continue to discuss the question we have been discussing for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. We rehash the same questions and answers and arrive at the same conclusions that we arrived at 1000 years ago. We do not actually learn ANYTHING from philosophy. (this is an exercise in futility and unproven statements.) <br><br>Philosophy is Stable door thinking (My horse has run away. Why did you close the stable door? I closed it in case he comes back.) <br><br>I am not saying everything we have learned about philosophy is worthless. The Stable door can always be closed just in case the horse comes back.<br><br>But we need to be careful not to keep the constant cycle of closing the stable door so that we can keep our eyes on something else. <br><br>I am not saying Horshit is bad. Manure (another word for horse shit) is good for gardens and compost piles. It can be used as a natural fertilizer. It can even be used as a sustainable source of methane. My point is that we need not be so focused on the manure pile that we forget to look around and actually live. <br><br>This is my take on philosophy. I see it as a pile of shit.<br><br>But we can still find worth (or fertilizer) in that pile. As such, when you have a constant "pile" we need to learn to not be so fixated on that pile that we forget to actually look at the world around us. We need to look at the pile long enough to learn something from it, but always keep our eyes on the real world as it actually is and not just the pile of shit that we have created.