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I know, I know... a bunch of people told it 100 times already wink .
Let's not try to proove how wrong I was, please...

@ mega: I'm just a simple engineer trying to pretend she can be as wise as a philosopher

Now, let's either return to the thread topic or simply end this discussion. For a good start I can tell you my story...

It started for me with two things:
1) Bon Jovi and Guns'N'Roses (yeah, laugh, but try to live in a small town in a communist country where all you can do is either buy mainstream music or listen to mainstream music on radio/tv) - nevertheless these two bands opened my eyes on the 'heavy' music
2) this metal 'show' on the regional radio station, aired at 7:10 am Sunday morning
It REALLY was hard without any other contact with the metal scene to get your hands and ears on anything. Not even any kid at my primary school was into metal.

It got better after 1989 when the country opened and any kind of music began to flood local private stores. And then I could really get into metal.

i don't believe wisdom is the right word to describe a philosopher...they think too much and dont take enough action, there is no balance to their lifestyle. knowledgeable...clever, maybe. not wise. there is no compassion or action the the philosopher's lifestyle. he deals with abstractions that do not matter. i'm actually torn, because i realize that most western philosophy is impractical, and i believe eastern thought such as taoism represents a more appropriate way to live life than, for example, cartesianism, but i love both... i wonder if it's possible to be both sage and philosopher, academic and wise man? i doubt it - the two are often opposites...

anyways i first got into heavier music in sophomore year of high school through slayer, metallica, and SOAD and slipknot sweatdrop

hrmm. dad was always a metallica fan, and my grandmother always played grateful dead, godsmack, ect ect. in the tattoo shop. My mother was into fleetwood mac... who I still appreciate as a matter of fact.



but I was always attracted to music and found out what I liked rather early on.