Ding Ding Ding! Let Round One Begin!!!!

Okay, it's time to stir up the hornets' nest! How and why is syncopation bad? Music has a direct effect on the brain, so, what are the effects of syncopated music? And while we're at it, what are the effects on the brain that listening to the musical "Wicked" causes?

Join the debate

http://aestheticsforum.blogspot.com/2010/04/ding-ding-ding-let-round-one-begin.html

Crazy Idea

Hey everybody! I just got this crazy idea of a weird way of putting a story together. I will start by writing a sentence, and then you can add to it by continuing in the comment section. Here it goes:

The grey hills steamed with a mist: not a dull, dreary one, but one as if it were going off to war.

Enormous Controversy

Pope John Paul II. After some research, I discovered a few things about him that I did NOT know. Read for yourself. It sounds as if he was a man with good intentions, but wasn't very well rooted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II

So...you wanted a post?

How about this question for discussion: Is it possible to read The Lord of the Rings too many times?

The Difference Between Following and Reading?

Have you noticed that on average there are about twice as many hits on the reaction "didn't read it" than there are on the others combined? I suppose that means what is being written isn't worth writing? We need some fresh material on here. I am currently hindered as to the amount of time I can spend writing posts, so someone else will have to do it. :-)

Myers-Briggs or the Four Temperaments?

Myers-Briggs seems to be the dominant personality theory out there. But is it really much more than an elaboration on the Four Temperaments? Perhaps MB is just an attempt to make the Four Temperaments fit as a personality indicator (remember that the Four Temperaments are separate from personality)?

Christian Films

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Everest Films

Everest Films is a group that "...started with a simple desire: to save our present culture from destroying itself, and to win souls for Christ."

Please take my Poll on Elves and Gender Issues!

And please also post evidence for it in the comments to this post.

A Strange Theory

Do any of you think that perhaps Tolkien intended the Silmarillion to be a sort of fictional "extension" to Genesis (it would be between the Fall and Abraham)?