Those who say Philosophy is nothing but speculation or semantics or is useless, are usually are the same ones who make the most Philosophical claims; most of them being unjustified nonetheless. These types are also the ones who are most ignorant of any History of Philosophy.

These types show their impetuousness in the sheer fact of their ignorance of a truth; that all we hold to, whether religious, political, scientific or ideological in nature, has a philosophical underlying stratum of prior commitments, as well as philosophical implications.

So please, for the love of the Triune God, pick up a intro to philosophy book before making capricious comments and conclusion such as these. You'll not only look and sound a lot smarter, but you'll actually be ALOT smarter; which is much better than expressing a

shallow, snobbish and vain intelectualism with no actual substanstce to it.