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roachboy: Thanks for your input; it gives me some things to think about.
Ustwo: I think what you are describing is actually the Internet forum, not philosophy per se.
In philosophical thinking and discourse, one is supposed to disagree and detract from other ideas. This is how philosophy develops. If everyone agreed with one another, our minds would be akin to the Classical Greek's. How weird would that be?
If you trace the "great" philosophers, you will note that they both borrow from and disagree with their predecessors. Some outright disagree.
I wouldn't call philosophy mental masturbation; it's more of an orgy. I would consider neither a bad thing.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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