February 10
I didn't sleep very well—I woke up in the middle of the night from a dream where I was being chased by angry men who wanted to hurt me because I liked Aric, and when I first woke, not only was I disoriented, but I was tangled up in my blanket and thought I was trapped, so I rolled over and that only made it worse, then I fell out of bed.
Once I got untangled, I didn't want to get right back in bed, because I knew I wouldn't be able to fall back asleep; I'd just be lying there hyper-alert. I needed to walk it off (back at home I might have flown it off) before I could curl up and relax again.
So I pushed open the door, quietly, so I wouldn't wake up Peggy. The hallway lights are always on, and I had to blink away the brightness until my eyes adjusted.
I just walked up and down the halls for a while. It was kind of eerie; my hoofsteps echoed up and down the silent hallway. Normally, there were all sorts of noises that kind of covered them up, but the dorm was silent: everyone was asleep. Everyone but me.
Instead of going all the way to the ground floor, I pushed open the door to the outside walkway between wings. For some reason, it's called Pebble Beach. It's got a stone covering, so that's where the 'pebble' part comes from, but it's not very beachy. There isn't any water near it.
I sat on the walkway for a bit, looking at the sleeping campus. It wasn't totally empty; there were a couple people walking in front of Hoben Hall, and I saw a car drive up Academy Street, but there wasn't anybody near me.
For maybe ten minutes, I surveyed the campus, and then I yawned and fluttered my wings. The last of the nightmare was gone, and it was time I got back to bed.
When I got up again, I went for my usual morning trot, followed by a quick flight just around campus, then I got ready for class and went to breakfast.
We got our tests back in climate science class, and I got a B. That annoyed me; I thought the professor was being unfair. Just because I can't remember Latin doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing! I thought about coming in on Friday with a super-condensed tuft of cloud, and dropping it in his coffee cup when he wasn't looking. It'd freeze solid.
That would be mean, though. Besides, Cloud Climber was always whacking our hooves when we got them wrong in weather class. She said we'd never get proper weather jobs if we called clouds things like 'white fluffies' and 'grey gloomies.'
So that wasn't a very good start to the day, but at least I had John Locke's wisdom to cheer me up. He was so smart! I'd been a little concerned with Thomas Aquinas and Rene Descartes, thinking that maybe they'd somehow gotten philosophy wrong—or worse, maybe we ponies were doing it wrong. But now I saw that they had just had wrong philosophy and John Locke was fixing it.
The teacher discussed his ideas about the separation of powers, which she said were an important concept to the founders of America. I wasn't entirely convinced that was true, because while we do have councils and assemblies and mayors and so forth, that's just so that Princess Celestia doesn't have to do so much work. If we had to wait for her say-so on everything we did, nothing would ever get done, and she probably wouldn't even have time to raise the sun. But the humans didn't have anyone like that, so I guess it made sense for them.
Before Equestrian class, I ran into Peggy, and remembered I was supposed to ask her if she wanted to go to the SCA event this weekend.
She said that she couldn't, because it was Valentine's Day, and she had plans.
I didn't know what that was, so she explained it to me, and it sounded a lot like Hearts and Hooves Day.
I asked her if her plans were with her boyfriend, and she nodded. He'd rented a hotel room with a hot tub and she had bought new underwear from Victoria's Secret that she probably wouldn't be wearing for very long. She wanted to know if we had similar customs.
So I told her about Hearts and Hooves Day, which is a little bit later in the year to encourage foals. I told her it would be about a moon and a half after Winter Wrap-Up. We compared calendars, and decided that Hearts and Hooves Day would fall at the beginning of May. She told me that I ought to celebrate it with Aric, and I thought that was a fine idea. Something to look forward to!
Then I had to rush off to Equestrian class.
We pretended that we were going around trying to buy things from pony shops. That took a while; people in class weren't used to haggling over prices. There are a few big markets where you don't, but mostly you do. There is a certain art to it, and it was very difficult to explain, so we did a lot of practicing. It was important to get it right, 'cause otherwise you might insult the salespony, and also pay too much for what you got.
That reminded me that I still hadn't gotten my mane and tail trimmed, so I asked Meghan and Lisa and Becky where to go to do it, and Meghan said that her salon had a stylist who would love to do a pony's hair and we'd go right after class and be back in time for dinner, and she'd take care of everything for me.
She didn't have a car, but she said she could get one with Uber. I thought that was a person, but it turned out it was a thing her phone did. She pushed the screen some, and then said that we could watch on her telephone where the car was, and see a picture of the driver.
So we did—we sat in the lounge at the front of the dorm, and pretty soon a bright red car pulled into the parking lot, and we got in.
The driver looked a bit surprised to see me, but he didn't say anything, just tapped his map a couple of times and then drove us to the salon.
Well, she was right. I caused quite a scene when I came in, and pretty soon there were several of the girls fawning over me. They helped me up into this amazing chair that could rise up from the floor and recline back, and they gave me a special blanket that would keep stray hairs out of my coat.
I had to wait for the stylist; she was finishing with another woman, so while I was waiting, one of the younger girls washed my mane.
They were a little less certain what to do with my tail; they had to re-arrange a few things so that they could wash it. As clever as it was, the chair wasn't designed with ponies in mind.
Then the stylist came over and trimmed up my mane and tail—she said that she had horses, so she knew exactly what to do.
When they were finishing up, Meghan ordered another Uber, and then we all sat and chatted for a bit. The woman who had horses said that she knew how to trim hooves, too, but she didn't do that at the spa. She gave me a little card with her name (Maura, which is a very pretty name) and told me to call her whenever I wanted to make an appointment.
The nice thing about going to a salon is I always feel like a princess after all the pampering, and it just feels different to have my mane trimmed, even though it's pretty much the same as when I went in, only shorter. And it was good to know that there was someone in town who could trim my hooves if that needed to be done.
I got to dinner a bit late, but not too late. Sean wanted to know if I was ever going to watch any more Star Trek movies with him, and I said that I would, but only if we could watch them in Christine's room because I liked sitting on her papasan, and he said that was fine and asked what I was doing tonight.
I knew what I wanted to be doing, so I told him that I wasn't sure, and he said that he would be at her room all night, and I could stop by as long as it was before ten, or give them a call.
He wasn't home again. Sara was, though, and she said that he was working—he worked late several nights a week. She didn't know when he'd be back, either; she said that sometimes he came back at midnight and other times not until later—she didn't know exactly when, because she was usually in bed by midnight.
I thought about asking if I could just sleep in his bed, but thought that might be a bit too forward, and I also wasn't sure what Sara thought about us being together, so I flew back to campus and watched a short Star Trek episode with Sean and Christine. She told him again that he was cheating, that he didn't want to show me Star Trek V because that would be a huge disappointment, and he said it was just too late in the evening to watch a whole movie.
I didn't mind—I was comfy in the papasan, and watching the episode was a nice distraction for all the other things that had been going through my head.
If you think someone else is philosophizing wrong, you're doing it wrong.
More seriously, where does Silver's line of thought come from? Philosophy as a science (for lack of a better word) is all about pretty meta and subjective stuff; opinions with delusions of grandeur, or headcanon for reality. By its very nature, there's not really a way to do it "wrong". Right?
Or am I doing it wrong?
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Also, this chapter has 1616 words. This pleases me for some reason.
Locke, weird how a man so heavyly influenced by the bible is used a a basis for lay republics...
And now we need her to mett a Hubert to have a qui propos!
7100514
You know, I wonder if the ponies simply never had an Enlightenment like we did. Perhaps their Rome never fell, even, and they never had a period like our Dark Ages.
I know back in ancient Greece it was very much illegal to argue solipsism, though I don't know if that was the case in ancient Rome.
Who did you mean by "he"? Grammatically, one would have to assume Sean, but it's clear upon reading further that that isn't the case. Aric, perhaps? Please fix that sentence.
Y'know, recently I started thinking about the whole thing with us humans and weather and why seeing Silver manipulate it might bother us, and I came upon something: Weather is one of the few things in this world that is still "bigger" than us. Humanity has learned to split the atom; our telescopes have seen incredible sights in the far-distant depths of space, and our microscopes have seen the tiniest forms of life. We can see and talk in real-time to someone literally on the other side of the world. We can level an entire mountain, clear an entire valley, and build a massive city within the span of a decade.
But there's not a single practical thing we can do to keep rain from falling on that city. We have satellites that track the weather, we have complex computer programs that can measure it, and we have decades of knowledge to draw upon to predict it, but nothing we have can actually change it; it's still a wild aspect of nature to us. Seeing a pony just come along and haul a cloud around like it's no big deal, and knowing without a doubt that not only do they change their own weather regularly, but that they've built an industry around it... it's a little bit like the time when you figured out that those presents that Santa Claus brought you actually just came from the store like everything else in your home. Something mystical has been reduced to something mundane. I can only imagine that watching Luna change the night skies of Equestria might reduce a few people to gibbering wrecks.
Eh, that's just my take on it, anyway. It's not like I'm a philosopher or something.
7100643 I'm okay with it. It shows that Aric is so much on her mind that for her, the pronoun could only refer to one person. Distraught people often have imperfect grammar.
Aww. No more Robert Frost poems?
I hope that whatever she's thinking of doing works out. But you know the old adage "The best laid plans of mice and men."
7100643
I disagree. I immediately knew who "He" was from the context of the story, and I felt it worked.
I just hope she does better in the Equestrian class's tests. I hear those can be tricky for a native speaker.
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Arguably, you could do it wrong. Certain logical fallacy's and appeals to emotion/popularity come to mind. Some of Richard Dawkins', stuff, for instance, makes me want to ask how the heck he ever passed grade 8, let alone get into university.
7100670 can't we seed clouds to make it rain?
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Do you mean to say that Christian doctrine naturally leads to tyranny, intolerance, and general misery in the world?
Keep in mind that the first people in Europe to speak out against slavery were Christians, not secularists, and backed up their thinking with their theology. The pattern repeated itself in the USA later on. John Locke himself was influenced by Baptists who argued for freedom of religion. University's and hospitals were founded, in large part, by religious tradition.
I wonder what episodes of Star Trek Silver is getting to watch. There's a few really thought-provoking ones that bring up issues that might be of huge interest to her as an alien on Earth.
Or ones that might hit home particularly hard - I remember one episode of DS9 about changelings infiltrating Starfleet, which had the moral that fear of changelings infiltrating and how they'd react to it was probably more damaging than anything the changelings could actually do. As fiction goes, that's got to have a lot of resonance for her...
7100529 the word you're needing there is secular, not "lay" as in layperson. Layperson has nothing to do with a person's faith.
Also, I echo LittleKhan here in admitting surprise over your surprise. When Republicanism was revived long after Rome fell, it was Protestants in the Low Countries who did it, and we have quite a bit of their theological writing--in fact, the Dutch Revolt against the rule of Kings was the setting of the birth of Arminianism, one of the main flavors of Protestant theology. If anything, Christendom was better suited for republicanism. Machiavelli grouses at least a few times that Christians are good citizens but political liabilities to a true prince who makes efficient use of force. In America, we VASTLY overstate the influence of the Christian faith on the founding fathers, but it is true that a few of them had theological training and that they represented a plurality of theological viewpoints (without including Jefferson's, because to be honest with you they were bullshit and he wasn't really a Christian and wouldn't have claimed to be if you pressed him) from Episcopalian to Dutch Reformed. It's easy to find some of the backbone of early American traditions of self-governance in small elections held in and supported by the local church in the earliest colonies, and in the church-elections of Baptists and others.
7100804 Dawkins is a brilliant scientist. He is a fourth-rate philosopher at best. Eye-rollers, that's what his books outside of the strict purview of science have been (and he would argue, of course he would, that nothing was outside of the purview of biology)
7097641 Yes and no, and it depends on when. It's easier to find references to God as "father" in the OT, before the later developments that Jesus would encounter in his own day.
7100514 First, philosophy isn't a science and never will be, whatever Dawkins would like to think.
Secondly, you can totally do it wrong. You do it wrong by being intellectually dishonest, for one, which means you ignore the great conversation or even use it as your own words. You do a disservice to the pursuit of wisdom when you turn speculation into disaster or twist it into something it is not. Heidegger did that. Read up on Heidegger and the Nazis. Hitler did it when he warped (albeit easily, because he wasn't 100% wrong) Nietzche into a horrifying machine of death. Or, and sorry to do three nazis in a row, but one of the defenses at Nuremburg involved at least one officer invoking Kant's category imperative. Basically, that following orders was behavior worthy of being a maxim in of itself, as it would be chaotic and undoubtedly a worse world if men did not.
But Kant and even Nietzche didn't mean that you should sign your life to the whims of a death machine. As much as I hate him, Nietzche would have probably suicide bomb'd the Wolf's Den long before Operation Valkyrie in a blind and probably syphilitic rage. Two of Heidegger's fellow existentialists ended up fighting for France and the Maquis.
So yeah, you can do it wrong. You do it wrong when you're dishonest with others, but mostly when you're dishonest with yourself.
Not to interrupt politics and religion chat, but:
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Wouldn't it be awkward if it turned out that to Aric all this snuggling is completely plutonic? He may have done his research about pony friendships and / or had a large dog as a child. I hope I'm wrong but we have yet to hear much about how he feels about her beyond liking cuddling with her.
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I think it has to do largely with what I suggested a few posts ago. I'm not sure Equestria has religion in the way we do--and similarly doesn't have philosophy like we do. Based on Silver Glow's entries on the matter, it sounds much more like she's treating all schools of philosophical thought as continuous, rather than saying things that might be in disagreement with one another.
It's like math: you might take math, understand addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, find fractions confusing, and then have a firm grasp on basic algebra. All of these things are 'real' and 'true', even if you don't understand them equally--and I think Silver is treating philosophy in the same way.
7100805 It's still an "iffy" science at best, and one of the substances used in the process (silver iodide) is potentially harmful.
Has he ever actually been named or seen by Silver? It seems just a little odd if she hasn't, although she seems to have her valentines well sorted out.
7100643
I'd say that as the story is supposed to be a journal entry it doesn't necessarily have to follow normal rules or even make sense, my diaries certainly don't. As it is the story is probably more correct than is should be and there are some questions exactly how and when some entries were written.
*stares at the paper*
*stares a little more and clicks the pen with her tongue for a few moments, then sighs*
Silver entering the Salon probably looked like the situation that would come about if my two girls were unexpectedly being gifted with a life-sized Princess Celestia in all her plushy, glittery glory. Squealing and dropping everything for the pretty pony.
7100830
And I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that all those christians waited until after the enlightenment came along to decide their religion didn't support slavery after all.
Some further thoughts on the same theme...
If the christians on this page would like to avoid faith bashing, then can they in turn please remember that christian history is full of christians that had horse apples for brains, and something worse for their sense of ethics - many of whom were actually in charge of various churches and were able to do vast harm in the name of church, faith, and god. And before anyone takes a deep breath to cry "No true Scotsman!" kindly remember that if they can misinterpret christianity, then you can too, and you have no more right than they to say with certainty what christianity is and isn't.
The fact is that at the time christians represented the vast 90%+ of the population - which meant christians were also shouting down the abolitionists and buying slaves and selling slaves and shipping them in horrible conditions and hunting down and hanging them when they escaped. And for decades their faith, church, and bible didn't stop them doing a damn bit of it.
7100830 Nope! That it is weird that state build upon the idea of separating religious matter from state matter are taking source in the bible.
If she did go to sleep in his bed, Aric would have been in for an interesting surprise when he got home lol. Heh, the look on his face would be great to see.
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Oh, I'm not saying that nothing bad ever came from religious people. There's plenty of evil to be found there. I'm just saying that it's not all bad.
As to Christians & slavery. Slavery is in the Bible. When Noah landed the arc, he got drunk & made an idiot of himself. One of his children (Ham, IIRC) mocked him. To punish him, God condemned him & his children to be slaves forever. Slavery is right -God said so.
Witchcraft is real. The Bible says so & it says they should be killed.
That being said, Quakers were some of the 1st to publicly speak out against slavery & many were active in the Underground Railroad.
As to Hearts & Hooves Day, if it is in Spring, it has to be after Winter Wrap Up (March 21, ("3 months of Winter")) & before Magical Mystery Cure (June 12 or 13. Princess Twilight starts June 19 & the 1st EQ Girls movie has to be between those 2 events) School in EQ is probably early August to early May (Because One Bad Apple seems to be after school is out for the Summer.) So, no later than Mother's Day on Earth.
7100881 I blame google on that one, I had the doubt when writting my comment this morning.
Anyway, I am not surprised the idea came from a religious person. I find it weird that text saying things should be like this because god said so (with quote from the bible as support) are used to base republic that separate religious matter from state matter.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Surprise doesn't have anything to do here.
7101761 that's kinda understandable.
With Christendom, it's an old problem. Christianity went from rogue cult to state religion, and a lot of Christians who were okay with that later came to resent it as the greatest mistake.
Biblical support for separation of church and state... I could find some, but it's not really about that. It's all stuff that has to do with a believers proper relationship with earthly authority (honor the emperor).
7101708 It's never all bad. Bad things ignore borders. But so does the good stuff.
Fortunately!
7101354
Granted, a personal journal would not have perfect grammar, and I've let quite a few errors slide. But assuming that the entire journal entry was written in one go, then she would have at least used the name instead of hiding the fact that she had switched topics.
However, I will concede that this is ultimately the author's decision.
7100952
I hope you are right.
7100514
She's thinking of it as a hard science. Incidentally, that's the same thing I thought when I took philosophy class.
I thought the same about English, but my senior seminar professor had different opinions. She actually marked the thesis of one of my papers 'wrong.'
I had very little respect for that teacher, even though she is a well-known poet.
Because it's an even composite number composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together?
7100529
Locke, weird how a man so heavily influenced by the bible is used a a basis for lay republics...
Well, even Jesus said "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's." So I think the idea of the separation of church and state has been around for a while.
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7100543
I think that the period around the HWE pageant could be considered at the very least their fall or Rome. We don't really have much of a history of the ponies, though. I'd guess that after the events of the pageant, they spent at least a little time expending all their efforts into rebuilding their civilization, and didn't have much in the way of moving forward for some time; I would think it wasn't until they'd secured enough resources to live comfortably that they'd be able to move forward again. But it's hard to say for sure.
7100643
Aric.
7100728
Poetry classes are Tuesday and Thursday, so those are the poem days.
7100797
Luckily (for her), she doesn't have to take them. I can say in all honesty that'd I'd probably do very badly taking a test in a ESL class. I don't even know all the parts of speech in English, something I only discovered when I took French class. That was reinforced in Latin class, where things like tense were rather vital.
7100670
You are absolutely correct. That's why it bothered Lisa so much, although she didn't say it so eloquently.
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Regardless of how effective it is, we still need to have appropriate clouds in place first. No clouds = no rain.
7100804
I agree. I'm not that well-versed in philosophy, so I can't think of any particular examples (haven't read Dawkins), but I can imagine all sorts of ways to do it wrong.
7100850
That's still a bit undecided. I have had a few suggestions from friends, and I'm open to more.
Some of it will depend on what episodes I watch/have watched, and since I don't have Netflix, that's a bit of an issue.
7100940
I was thinking the same thing. Part of the reason why I picked May 1, in fact.
7100952
That would make Silver Glow a very sad pony for sure.
7101006
It absolutely doesn't have religion like we do (IMHO, it can't), and I doubt it has philosophy in the same way, either. For the ponies, I almost think that philosophy and politics would be very similar. I think that their philosophy would be concerned with them finding their place in the society at large, and less so about the 'self.' Not to suggest that they don't have a concept of individuality; the cutie marks suggest that they have a very strong sense of it.
7101354
Nope.
7101471
Yes, just like that. Poor SIlver Glow.
7101748
It also says that you shouldn't wear clothes made out of blended fabric (Lev 19:19), and anyone who curses his mother or father should be killed (Lev 20:9).
Leviticus has a lot of weird laws.
If the holiday originated as a way to get ponies to knock boots (so to speak), and if the pony year is the same as the human year, the first part of May would be most practical. That way, most foals are born right after Winter Wrap-Up (and thus Silver's mention earlier about how most ponies are born in the spring).
7101812
Very true. It's actually still weird to me to think of how many people in different countries are reading this story.
7100670
I'm not sure if Luna really does manipulate the stars. Canonically, we know that her moon radiates darkness. So when the moon rises and the sun sets, aren't the stars simply seen not because they're placed there, but because their faint lights can now come through?
7141828
The impression I got was that a major part of the reason Luna turned into Nightmare Moon was because ponies just slept through, and thus didn;t appreciate, the nights she put a lot of effort in in making beautiful, which sounds like it's implying she moved and arranged the stars as well. I'm not quite sure what you mean about the moon radiating darkness?
7179146 The "radiating darkness" part comes from one of the season 4 opener (I think. Anyway, it's the one with Discord's thorny tentacle plants).
In the scene, the sun and the moon are both stuck in the sky, with blue day-time sky around the sun, purplish night-time sky around the moon.
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7179146
I'm just now really starting to read into these comments so I'm a little late to the game, but at this point it's pretty safe to say that Luna doesn't move the stars. It was getting harder to argue that was the case even as early as season two when we'd seen Celestia raise the sun (and Discord raise/lower both the sun and moon) while the stars remained stationary. By the time season four was over we'd seen four separate characters raise and/or lower the sun or moon several times, and in every single instance the stars remained exactly where they were even as the sun/moon were moving across the sky. And each time they show it, the attempts to justify it become far more difficult to defend without some seriously iffy reasoning.
For example, when Celestia raised the sun in Twilight's flashback during season one without moving the stars, one could try to make the argument that only Luna could do it. Or alternatively, that perhaps they only adjust the stars when raising the moon and bringing the night. Yet in the season four premiere we see Luna both raise and lower the moon while the stars remain completely stationary, bringing it to three cases of characters moving them (Celestia, Luna, and Discord) with the same lack of change to the stars. And because it was done by Luna and consisted of both raising and lowering the moon, both the argument that it has to be Luna or that it depends on whether they're raising or lowering the moon were invalidated. Then we see Twilight both raise and lower the sun and moon in the season four finale, bringing it to four characters with the same results.
When every different character shown performing the act (Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Discord) all do the same thing with the same results in several different situations, you really have to start stretching logic and grasping at straws to argue that it actually does work that way, and that the consistent portrayals to the contrary across multiple seasons, characters, and situations are just because of special circumstances.
I think that Silver Glow would do well to talk to someone like Rarity or some other fashion pony about the role of adornment, which seems to be a constant between humans and ponies. Even though ponies don't use routinely clothing except strictly necessary, they do seem to recognise the value of adding to one's natural appearance on occasion.
Wow, she's cranky when she doesn't sleep well
Well I know at least one pony who's doing philosophy all wrong. Can't really judge the rest, though
Ah, the paradox of lingerie
Lucky!
Ah yes, how did that go again? All the uneven numbers are bad, or something like that?
7893482
Yes, although to me it seems that oftentimes their idea of adornment isn't quite the same as ours. I mean, for one, they don't really bother to worry about 'covering' like we do. And half-dressed seems to be an okay costume for Nightmare Night (although some ponies do go more all-out, so many it's just a matter of personality).
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She kinda is. Luckily it doesn't happen too much.
Silver Glow doesn't quite understand the point of philosophy.
Silver Glow also doesn't quite understand the point of lingerie.
You can bet that Meghan checked before she made the spa appointment.
Yeah, I think that's the idea. Not sure where the first fits in; maybe it's like prime numbers where one is its own special case.
Oh crap, one of those nights.... poor pony, why I no able to hug her and tell her everything will be fine!!!!!
"Then I heard this odd chanting that sounded like it was coming from two human mares 'One, two, Freddy's coming for you....'"
Now there is a story I'd love to see, Freddy vs Luna
Having ponies around opens up SO many more options for collage pranking.....
Of course not, to many ponies would be busy dying of cuteness overdose if you if that.
Wow she REALLY has no idea how this philosophy thing works.. like.. at all.
Besides if anything, Ponies have the right idea in their outlook more then we seem to.
Another oddity between humans and Ponies, our overall distrust of absolute authority (Except for those seeking to HOLD said authority), versus how perfectly natural it is for ponies. Since they lucked out and got a nigh-immortal, incredibly patient, wise, and omnibenevolent demigoddess like Celestia who actually should have that much power and uses it right. Not controlling her little ponies, but protecting and guiding them.
"Well, there are bridles and saddles that we wear sometimes to spice things up a bit......."
Ohhh that is so damn hard to get used to, but kind of fun once you get the hang of it.
As I said before, I can see places fighting to become the most attractive to ponies rather quickly, both for the novelty, and all the added perks. Like being able to brushie brushie ponies.
Give it time, I'm sure one that is is in R&D testing right now.
Though I don't think the two quite match, since horses don't really care about how it looks and it's more utilitarian, ponies might actually want things styled.
Bow-chicka-wow-wow
Just a little.....
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Odd numbers suck, Multiples of 5 REALLY freaking suck, and 1 is still overall in the 'sucks' category, but is held as the best of the worst, since it's issues are less it being actively bad or doing stupid stuff, then simply being plodding and tedious for long stretches.
There's also the SF Debris guide for spotting a bad trek movie. "You know you are in a bad Trek Movie when the characters start singing, the one exception is TMP, because the singing would detract from the boredom."
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I bet Luna would wreck Freddy's shit.
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I know. They could do the most amazing things.
I bet that's what lots of weatherponies call them when their bosses aren't around.
No, not really.
I think it might be more accurate to say that they have a more unified outlook. Whether it's right or wrong is more a matter of philosophy.
I think that if they had a series of bad leaders, or at least mediocre leaders, they probably wouldn't be as trusting of the ponies in charge. But with Princess Celestia's record, why wouldn't they assume that in general, the rulers knew what they were doing?
Why do ponies wear those, anyways? I mean, I can maybe see the saddles having some practical origin, but there really isn't one for bridles and halters.
I'd be so lost
Yeah, that's really an upside, especially since the ponies don't mind being brushed, petted, etc.
I wouldn't doubt it. While Kalamazoo probably wouldn't see enough pony traffic for a while to justify it, places like New York City might, and a spa that was pony-friendly could always attract clientele.
That's true, although people do style horses' manes and tails for shows and whatnot, regardless of what the horse thinks about it.
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Bonus fact: tail extensions are a real thing.
I never really understood Star Trek 1. It went on and on and on and on and on and on and on, and I think at one point they encountered a giant garbage bag.
Gross.
Tbh I've begun to skim every time his name comes up.
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Given the magnitude of this story, I’ve gotten lots of comments from readers on what they skip--what parts of the story they don’t like. You’re not the only one who isn’t particularly taken by her relationship with Aric.