(...) The Correct dissection of this Topic is actually really easy if you can just think with a (low) Degree of Sensibility 

not much Diffecult for ChessPlayers like us 

I think the thing is to not over focus on openings. I will learn traps in openings, I believe that is important but I try to not focus on it too much, I have a small repitoir for white and black, lopez, sicilian, queens gambit, scandinavian. Knowing how to get into an open, semi-open and flanked game is important for a learning player I believe.

Very small repertoire^^ 

Lopez + Sicilian + QG

well yeah, but their just the one's I know lots of lines for.

ignor my rating because i was 7 when i started to play on chess.com  i have fide 1800 but on chess.com is hard to get to 1800 since i have to lay against some one how will give me 8 points and plays stupid stuff its too boring so istarted to play on chess cube and i have 1900.NOW THE MAIN POINT.memorazing openings is bad but studyin openings is better then traning tactics why you ask here is a example on a live tournament i played the lenningrad dutch a solid opening with litlle theory and we got to a positin i didn't know what to play i mayed a plan after 30 min and it wasn't enough 3 years later i started to play the KID and i discover i could play a plan from that opening in that game the point of studing opening is to learn how to play for the center or on the wings or to sacrifice for faster development

It´s strange that the OP had a FIFA (yes yes I noticed) of more that 2000, but his blitz rating is 1333 and his standard rating is 1500+.

Is a really big gap.

What if you could memorize the openings with only 30 minutes to 1 hour of work a day, would that make it not stupid? Any serious player should surely arm themselves with as many weapons they can?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

Same thing applies to opening theory. When you know the principles and the effects of certain opening moves you know how to respond instead of trying to remember the correct memorised move.

I just started playing chess a few months ago and now I'm working through the Chess players handbook by Howard Staunton with a friend of mine. Currently studying all the King knight openings (1.e4 ... 2. Nf3) and what dirty tricks can happen in these openings. I have a long term goal to study the Catalan and Pirc opening because the ideas and board positions appeal a lot to me. 

IMHO hicetnunc, though i aggree with you re: importance of memorization, but i can't understand your stand defending stupidity of this thread.  Magnus Carlsen remembers thousands of games, bobby introduced chess random fischer... why? the first is to reach his level now, be world champion and the later is to preserve the creativity of this game.  we should not have debated this if we're just being realistic and not let ourselves carried away by our frustrations in losing.

You have this mistaken.  It is:

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day

I like this.

I can agree with most of this, tactics are way more fun than I first thought endgames are more boring than I first thought. Positional chess is more boring than I first thought. Tis life. Basic openings are useful maybe 5-7 moves or so to get to a playable middlegame with useful plans and ideas to learn from. I used to play c4 with no clue as to how to play that opening. Now I play 1. E4 with concrete plans of overloading f7 and crashing down on my opponents kingside