Ok - thank you smile emoticon It 'clicked in' last night' that
   Philosophy generally seems to be development of Critical
   thinking skills and not much else. Not that it's a bad thing
   necessarily: But Critical Thinking skills isn't all to life. It
   helps to sort out bullshit but then there ought to be _some_
   happiness beyond the bullshit that we all know is there anyway,
   with or without critical thinking skills tongue emoticon == That
   would be excellent. It would bring Academic philosophy back
   into-the-fold, because in the everyday usage, "someone's
   Philosophy" is their wisdom about life - something lived. ==