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Why didn't anyone warn me that the final boss of philosophy was a total schizophrenic?
I don't mean this in so far as Heidegger himself being a schizo, but his philosophy when repeated to laymen will make one be perceived as a total schizophrenic lunatic.
I expected to be a polymath master wielding the ability to learn anything when I set out with philosophy 5 years ago, but instead I am a rambling buffoon to anyone outside of the field with zero usefulness to any societal practical aspect of "the world".
I thought I would be like Thales, who employed his knowledge from philosophy to create a monopoly in farming to make himself rich solely out of spite. I thought I could be like Machiavelli who marketed himself as essential to the most powerful princes of Italy.
Instead I got a small hermit who cares neither for economics nor politics nor anything of the sort.
I have become absolutely useless to the world and my benefit from all this is that I have a truer/higher sense of Being.
This is infinitely worse than before ever having started out on this endeavor.
I learned Laitn, Greek and improved my French as a German and English speaker for this. I've spent countless hours and surely thousands of euros on books just to be worse off than I was before.
I am more fit for a monastery now than for a job, yet I am in a time that does not lend itself to monastic life as the Byzantines for example had.

I still read, watch films, make music, but solely because I don't know what else to do. I don't derive any pleasure or worse purpose from it.

If there is one advice I can give to anyone just starting out with "Philosophy", it's this:
Treat it as a hobby and let a useful degree, job and environment make life "easy" for you. Don't try to learn how to stand on your own two feet; instead follow any rules and guidance as best you can and let life live for you.

>nam primum, si facta mihi revocare liceret, non coepisse fuit; coepta expugnare secundum est.

>bout time we had one of these

Post your three favorite philosophers, have people try to guess your personality.
>Spinoza
>Kierkegaard
>Jacques Ellul