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No, thats the whole point.

Philosophy is the very essence of 'sense'!

Philosophy is 'original critical thought';

Critical Thinking Mini Lessons

http://www.skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons.html

Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducHare.htm

As opposed to the 'scholastic';

"..."philosophologists", a term coined by Robert Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Lila") to denote people who study other people's philosophy but cannot do philosophy themselves. He also says that most people who consider themselves philosophers are actually philosophologists. The difference between a philosopher and a philosophologist is like the difference between an art and aesthetics; one does and the other studies what the other does and theorizes about it."

Spend 15 minutes reading the introductory statements in Ayn Rand's "Philosophy: Who Needs It" and you'll have a crystal clear idea of the answer to your question.

WhY? This website explains why (and how, if you read that far.) On the first page is explains why everyone needs to examine what his/her own philosophy is, or risk having a "mutt" (my word).

http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/

If a philosopher has examined his own philosophy and rid it of its contradictions, and if he wants to be understood, he can easily make himself understood.

Yes! Try this link and tell me if it did!

What Is The Meaning Of Life?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98vi-Ypgdg&feature...

Ask if religion makes sense. Does Catholicism make as much sense as Judaism? Or as the Hale-Bopp suicide cult?

There are as many different types of philosophy as there are people. How can they all make sense or all not make sense?

It's just thinking about things. Like thinking really deep. So deep Adele can't roll in it. It can be pretty cool actually, so in some cases it really makes sence.

Only if you can see past the mysteries in most of their teaching. If you get the mystery, then it makes a lot of sense. If you never get the mysteries, then you will remain in the dark

How does anything make sense?

Starting with simple things, sensual things like taste:

What makes one food tastier than another?

We have five (known) elements of taste perception:

1) Salty,

2) Sour,

3) Bitter,

4) Sweet,

5) Umami (savoury).

Any food you taste has relative amounts of these elements.. Some foods are very bitter or sour; other foods are very sweet!

Experiments have shown that the variety of diet a pregnant mother consumes actually effects the perception of tastes of the unborn baby.

So the tastes you have create a range of experiences that constitute your notion of bitter or sour.

If you get a very small amount of battery acid on your tongue, that will redefine how you think of sour (although i wouldn't advise it from personal experience).

That matrix of experience is how you judge new foods. If a food's sweetness goes way beyond your normal range, you may not like it. However, if you grew up eating allot of sweet foods, you may enjoy such foods. Also, your genetics plays a part e.g., how many receptors on your tongue there are for bitter flavours.

Thus, there are 2 things going on: genetics and pre-existing psychological perceptions (memory).

Let's take another example: marriage.

Marriage is an entirely artificial psychological construction. Nobody is married any more than anybody is Christian or Muslim. The idea is non-the-less imbedded. Therefore, that makes sense depends upon the ideas you identify with. We call these 'subjective ideas' meaning ideas not based upon facts and actuality. Subjective ideas become part of our reality: reality is made up of objective and subjective ideas. Objective ideas are ideas derived from actuality and fact; subjective ideas are the product of speculation, inference, analysis, reasoning etc.

In court for instance, often there is not the evidence to convict somebody of a crime; non the less, people are convicted based upon subjective inference and deduction. Meaning is given to subjectivity because reason falls within norms. For instance, far fewer women who murder are convicted compared to men. Subjectively, it is considered less likely, and women can always suggest they were the victims of spouse abuse. If a husband said he killed his wife because she had battered him over and over for months, that might not be believed even if it were true.

So, norms for such matters are set in society just as the norms for taste are set.

What the hell is philosophy anyway?

Science is a branch of philosophy: science is the attempt to objectively disprove theories via experimentation.

Philosophy is an attempt to discover limitations in psychological tradition via observation of the psyche in action. Some people say that philosophy means lover of wisdom, but that is not quite accurate. The word Sophos in Greek is a borrowing of the Hebrew word "Sof" which means 'boundaries, limitations". We are all aware of the line Clint Eastwood uses in the second Dirty Harry movie: "A mans got to know his limitations". The first element in the word philosophy is 'philo', which most laymen think of as meaning " to like or love", but the origin of the word means "going towards/into, to approach". Later, this meaning became 'what one is drawn towards, i.e., what one desires'. Therefore, it would be more accurate to say that philosophy means "to approach (observe) one's limitations"..

Most people will look for solutions to problems rather than seek the source of the problem. Philosophy is the process of observing the cause without seeking solution. Philosophy is a kind of aimless observation or observation that is not due to wanting. Normally the means are set by the ends: in philosophy, the end is just to look at the limitations for the sake of looking i.e., just like there is joy in just exploring somewhere new without really seeking to reach a destination.