Philosophy is widely recognized as "...a search for the underlying causes and principles of reality" or "...a system of motivating beliefs, concepts or principles." Religions can virtually all be classified under one of the broad philosophical beliefs (even though the believers of a particular religion may disagree with the philosophical belief in which that particular religion resides, since belief in a religion often leads to eschewing any adherance to anything, including philosophy, that is greater than the religion itself).

I offer my philosophical pillars of life below, perhaps best summed up in the sixth item:

I've found over the years that few people really want to find reality. They just want to believe what they believe and have others believe it, too. Few people also believe in anything remotely similar to what is written above. I'd like to find people who do—and a society that values knowledge rather than belief.