Letter 51: Here.
EDIT: I hope this isn't too preachy.
EDIT2: Restructured that one really long sentence a bit.
Dear Anon,
The Elements of Harmony represent virtues which support a powerful force in our world. It is not the virtues that are flawed, but ponies, and even our perceptions of ponies. Ponies, and I assume humans (given your behavior) all have good inside of them, but sometimes we don't stay true to that good inside of us, or it doesn't show as clearly as we'd like. What the Elements require the most is that we can understand that virtue within our hearts, and we do try to strive for that virtue in our daily loves. It's okay if we can't always manage it, the effort and the light in our hearts are channeled by the Elements toward a goal.
The closer a pony is to that virtue, and the truer they are to it, the more good the Elements of Harmony can do.
The other caveat is, however, a pony usually can't be all of these things at once, and if you should willingly betray one of those virtues (rather than simply fail it), that element will not serve you in the future. When we have friends that are trustworthy, that will stand beside us, that will help us when we are hurt, that will share when we are without, that will make us smile when things are dark, that will shine the light that shows how the world can be just that much better, there is nothing in this world we cannot accomplish. Nothing we can't do. No good that is beyond our reach.
We are ponies, Anon, we aren't perfect, but there is great good in this world that we have done, and will try to continue doing.
Your friend,
Princess CelestiaPS. I'm told 'orbital friendship cannon' is a popular alternative name.
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9879373
It'd be capitalized as a proper noun or a title, in this case it's an emotion which is just a noun. Since it isn't beginning a sentence, it's lowercase.
EDIT: Oh, the spelling. Yeah I'm a silly pone. Thanks!
While to my knowledge (which is none , so don't listen to me) the OFC is , well , an Orbital Cannon that shoot rainbows . The theory that the OFC is in fact just the Elements and not something else is totally plausible and would be great too..
9879387
Usually people write "cannon" instead "canon". Funny if preceded by "head".
Thankfully, that isn't aimed at him. It would be a painful way to go xP
Nah, I don't think it's preachy. I think it's a great example of Celestia effortlessly slipping from snark to loving instructor when the occasion warrants it.
I agree with 9879434, that wasn't preachy at all. It was very well-worded and would be a great explanation to anyone that ever had a shred of doubt about the Elements.
I regret that I have but one star I can give to this story. I can put more here though. πππππ
You do, or you don't. There's no try.
9881005
That is objectively wrong.
9881842
Well, that was slightly modified Yoda citation. Rigorously speaking, of course there is such thing as "try", it just has much lower threshold for what can be called defensible effort than actually doing. For example, buying lottery ticket doesn't qualify as "making million dollars", but qualifies allright as "trying to make million dollars"
i.chzbgr.com/full/6416498688/h09257C7F/
i assume this is to be "Lives"
9882765
Yoda's saying was referring to intentions. You should either intend to do something, and either succeed or fail, or intend not to do something. Doing something halfway, or not putting your full effort into it, then saying you "tried" is not something we should do.
On a completely separate subject, I find the statement "Only the Sith deal in absolutes" to be hilariously paradoxical.
9941091
Well, there're those things that you sooo don't actually want to do, but not doing them also has negative social consequences
9881005
Fact
9941091
So do the Jedi, the lecturers hypocrites.
9879475
... No. It's one thing to be human by making it clear that you, too, have flaws. It is quite another thing to behave diametrically opposed to what virtue you represent. There is a difference.
Huh. That's nice.