Recent content by GanShi

Drugs are bad. Drugs are good. These two statements can be easily and immediately supported. The fact that this is true is central to the issue of regulation. If there were a clear leaning one way or the other, the question of what should be regulated and in what manner would be much easier to...

It has been years since I have visited this forum vis a vis one avatar or another. Looking over the present, active topics, I wonder and would like to know: Are current subscribers still interested in discussions revolving around philosophical and metaphysical texts and their subsequent...

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It is a different situation depending on the genre of music. Some musicians can sustain a profitable life through album sales, but this is not the case with genres like extreme metal bands - they simply aren't popular enough to garner a reasonable amount of money through record sales...

i think the premise is flawed. The logic falters due to equivocation of the definitional terms. I can understand "Forgiving" as Pardoning a Wrongdoing. "Justice," however, is not considered "Reward." - Justice is levying a proper response to a given action so as to maintain or instill a...

This discussion seems to have quickly devolved to a standard, what-metal-band-do-you-like-and-is-your-opinion-valid exchange; but the original question is still a vaild one: Is there a reason that music has always existed in the developed mind and does it have a purpose? There are myriad...

It seems that there are two questions pervading this disucssion: 1. Should movies be rated in some way 2. Are any of the rating systems currently in place capable of meaningful categorization While the question of whether movies should be rated seems, for most intents ane purposes, to be...