And Schopenhauer was a spoiled trust fund kid.

Definitely he was. Because of this he had enough time and money to be a great philosopher.

Take a look at Schopenhauer. He was wealthy. He never worked for survival. He had enough time to read, study and write. He's truly a philosopher (not just philosophy professor as many).

We live in a time where work to make money takes good part of our daily time. More than before. No time to read enough books or to research or to write.

What are you trying to get out of doing philosophy? What do you hope to achieve by it?

Philosophy

Faith is a belief in something that either is not or can not be easily proven. There are approximately 7.8 million scientists in the world familiar with complex theorems and formulas with access to priceless machines and laboratories to prove it. There are 7.6 billion people in the world. That means only 0.01 of the world population CAN directly prove anything we are told to be facts. — Outlander

Prove facts have to do with methods not number of people.

White Album

Why can we understand why as "why"?

1. If an object is material, then it is divisible
2. My mind is not divisible
3. Therefore my mind is not material — Bartricks

2. Mind is divisible. Indeed, it is divided in millions of connection between neurons. Destroy one connection and you are destroying one part of mind.

From Terry Pinkard's book: German Philosophy 1760-1860

The distinction between “things-in-themselves” and “noumena” is tricky. The former are the things that are the unknowable sources of our sensible intuitions; the latter are concepts of the world as intelligible to reason alone, apart from any experience, and a rerepresentations of certain “wholes” or supersensible objects that traditional metaphysics thought could be grasped by reason alone. As such, noumena function as limiting concepts, as reminders and cautions about the impossibility of extending rational accounts of the world in ways that contradict the conditions under which those accounts can be given.