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When inquired upon why we perform philosophy and a number of statements regarding, I came up with the following response:  

Philosophy is, in fact, a very useful and practiceable aspect of life. It is the primary means by which we are enabled to preceptually understand and react to our world. Ethics establish our personal guidelines of morality, epistemology helps us to analyze and comprehend the essence of the world around us, and metaphysics either give us the hope of an afterlife or inspire us to make the most of our lives on earth. Considering these and alternative relevant rationale, philosophy may even be considered one of the most important aspects of our lives. Some go as far as to make it their religion, which is literally defined by Google's dictionary as a "pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance." Obviously, philosophy is extremely useful for direction, instruction, and the perpetual acquisition of wisdom.

Upon immediate glance of the second inquiry, I hastily assumed that there exist useless actions in this world. Then, upon analyzing even the most trivial of activity, I discovered there to be use in all action, however frivolous. Scratching your nose relieves an itch, shifting your position in a seat increases your personal comfort, without breathing you would not live and without blinking you would reach a state of great discomfort. Another holdback of mine was the assumption that an activity had to be beneficial in order to be useful. Destruction is utilized to remove, to discourage, to eliminate. Overindulgence may be used for gaining weight. Laziness may be used to degrade your societal standing. In final examination, all activity has use. Whether leading to benefit or loss, world alteration or relatively insignificant change, when meticulously examined, I wholeheartedly disagree with the statement.

I do not completely understand what is being asked in the following question. "No philosophy in the world can change our life." Is this referring to the hypothetical impact of an absence of philosophy or the questionable statement that philosophy is incapable of evoking change. I will accordingly respond to both, respectively. The total lack of philosophy would be similar to a universal vacancy of government. Direction would be scarce, morality would be nonexistent. Good and evil would have no distinction and all would be in the petrifying state of utmost chaos. Action would have no meaning, thought no purpose. All would be disorderly and very much out of control. To answer the question, if this is the intended interpretation, I wholeheartedly agree that a life without philosophy would be very different from the life in which we exist.

If the second interpretation is the intended, I will start off with saying that my above argument should suffice already for my response. If a world without philosophy would differ so dramatically, it is only logical that the existence of philosophy does indeed make a noticeable difference. Philosophy must be capable of changing our lives if a life without it would be utterly unrecognizable.

Designed the humans that we are, philosophy is inevitable in our spirits and minds. We have an insatiable desire to learn and to understand, to explicate and to justify, to improve and to ameliorate. Philosophy is the prime method of such mentality, one that even if we were all completely mentally restarted, we would undoubtedly return to. Even if we were not conscious of it, it would still exist. It is the science of morality and rights and wrongs are inseperably bound into the fabrics of our lives. The conscious in all of us serves to prove such a point. There is no escaping philosophy if you are born human.

I am gradually learning that much of philosophy is variant. My response may be very different from everyone else's or it may be very much the same. Perhaps we all have a different understanding of the concept. All I have written is technically of hypothesis, not proven fact, yet I believe it and so it must be proven to me by faith. I cannot support such abstract claims with solid evidence, the two just do not connect. Psychology is capable of such. Sociology is capable of such. But philosophy is not confined to any of those subject matters, it is so much more, the invisible binding that holds all ethics, notions of existence, and cogniscience of spirituality in place. It is all a matter of belief, which differs from individual to individual, but in the end, philosophy is the highest ruling truth in the mind of man. Incredible.

Which is, on top of the rest of the day, most likely why I'm so burnt out right now. I don't have a lot to offer tonight. Philosophy class is fun and interesting and pleasantly liberated and entirely subjective, but it demands a lot of mental effort. Spiritual effort as well, which is why I feel comfortable basing a lot of my other philosophy works upon my faith in Christ. The two just go hand in hand, which is what led me to believe that philosophy is the threshold overlap of the mind and the spirit.

On the walk home from school today, which is when I do a lot of my serious emotional thinking and philosophical pondering, I came up with an idea as to the boundaries at which the mind, the body, and the spirit are all connected. These are all singular relationships, one-to-one, and are as follows:

Mind-Spirit: Philosophy

Body-Spirit: Sex

Mind-Body: Art

Mind+Body-Spirit: Worship

Mind+Spirit-Body: Work

Mind-Body+Spirit: Education (especially unsure of this one)

But yeah.. just a thought, but it kinda makes sense. I don't know how to express it, but I feel like those are the spots at which the entities overlap and the selected concepts serve as the thresholds to the doors between the parts of our existence.

I think these are the parts of our soul. Our soul is the composition of the rest of our being.

Our thoughts originate from our mind. Our actions originate from our body. Our abilities, will, and personality originate from our spirit, or "heart." Our soul is the rest combined. Our soul is who we are. The rest is what we are.

I don't know how much of this is valid. It's just a thought. A ponder, if you will.

Food for thought.

I'm so glad God will be able to completely clarify it all in heaven. Then we'll be able to attain complete peace of mind by means of a one of a kind undeniable certainty. 

...so this must be what philosophy does to you.