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funny idea...

Made a new one: Do you see the problem?

Just realized I like not just Luna, but also Octavia a lot, and then found this and thought... Eine kleine Nachtmusik

This might have worked the first 500 years.

My thoughts when looking at this: 1) Hm, somepony is missing. 2) Fluttershy is missing! 3) Ah, there she is.

(by dA onkelscrut)

Yeah, I forgot to check that at first, since there was an author tag in the picture.

Maybe you should put THAT in a spoiler tag. Nevertheless, it raises some interesting philosophical questions. The crew of the Enterprise surely wouldn't have passed quick judgment on those Pinkie Pie copies. After all... is it OK to end their existence just because they seem a bit ... simple? This is really tricky terrain. Many people today have nothing but "fun fun fun fun fun" in their mind. Does that mean they're not really human or worthy life? Can you please link the source? Or is it from a deactivated dA account of the same name?

Ah, I see. Makes sense. Should be fine though for a thread that doesn't have to be open in a tab the whole time. Page length is limited for that reason I guess. My own picture page on the other hand is insane, haha. But it's mostly just for having quick access to all my work. Also, I have a policy that if an animated GIF I make would end up having several MB in size, I either have to reduce that through quality reduction or picture cleanup or not make it at all. Some animated GIFs are practically videos. P.S.: Using "error difusion" for color gradients looked fine to me until I got my TFT. Now I clearly see every dot. ... But still better than "nearest color" mode.

Pretty much everything is a spoiler and at the same time not, especially with a huge fanbase years after the stuff has been broadcast. And then you also have Hasbro/The Hub spoiling things before broadcast, haha. Thanks for reminding me to post some new stuff of mine. School can be tough But everything will be just fine. I won't post all the videos I made since last time. You can just check them out on my channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Dowlphin There's some alarming stuff in there, haha.

If you don't 'very much like to think about it', do just that. Maybe even (privately if advised) talking to someone about it might help. I know, it can be frustrating that our conscious, developed personality makes us think we're already over these things, but it's actually built on it to some degree. Some things we can just live with - no problem - but doing energy practice is like a statement "Hey, I want to do more, go further, faster, heal more". And then the path to walk is usually not in our control. The brain is a neuronal net. Doing a traceback for bugfixing can light up the whole thing, haha. Thanks for the account of your iboga experiences. I considered doing that after ayahuasca for a while, but it seemed way too extreme even for me, and that might be right. I wasn't aware that issues could sabotage iboga to such a degree. Makes me calmer about the whole thing. Now I'm looking for magic in more ordinary places.

Hmm, you say the types of sirens you hear change over time. Maybe that indicates a process. What did you mainly do when you heard the police sirens? Stop practice or ignore it? I think more likely than a story that involved all the sirens/signals mentioned is some kind of trauma in connection to sirens (loud, repetitive, annoying, attention-grabbing sounds) in general. Subconscious stuff is stuff we bury because we can't handle it. Energy practice digs it up. Acceptance without freaking out is a good healing strategy in my opinion. My understanding is that unpleasant symptoms one can experience when having 'too much energy in the head' are not bad per se. They're the very psychological healing process aimed for. The problem is merely when the roots, the grounding, is weak, and that's why focus on the lower centers is often recommended. It will improve one's ability to handle the healing process. This has crystallized based a lot on my own experience. When things get freaky, I try my best to not freak out and instead calmly make a judgment about how much of that I can handle at the time. There is a reason why e.g. sirens occur in your mind. It's not 'random'. The energy finds its way; It is inherently driven by a healing purpose. Often we're just not ready for the degree of healing available. Energy practice is a somewhat forced method and thus not originating from the natural environment. That's why there's a tendency that the current life circumstances will not fully support it. One is disconnected so to speak, ungrounded, 'out there'. And that CAN lead to a degree of healing kicking in that the practitioner themselves cannot steer back from. But usually there will be plenty of warning signs for that. People who 'go crazy' don't do that by accident. Either it will be a process that builds up, or it will be triggered by outer events. If the sirens you hear aren't making you freak out, it means you don't have to worry. This is just my personal recommendation, but you could just as well support the process and only steer back once the intensity begins to destroy your serenity. I say this because during my ayahuasca trips, I was sometimes being confronted with a barrage of madness (at least from my rational mind's standpoint), and any 'sane' person would have recommended I stop whatever I'm doing immediately. But since it was an intended process and I was being taken care of, I (had to) follow it. I lost my mind. I only remember fragments from that time, but there was stuff that was relatively clearly visible, but didn't make any sense to me. I really don't think what I saw was random. There's a very interesting episode in My Little Pony that has parallels to this. It's about how we should accept the nightmares we have, because they are helping us overcome our fears. And if they don't show what we are really afraid of, then it is to avoid too great of a shock. A masking of the real issue. A slow moving towards the root of the problem. I also remember a case here at TTB where someone practiced Kunlun Nei Gung and then began to perceive things and instead of seeing that as part of the healing process, gave those things too much importance and relevance, thought they were 'real', and thus started an elaborate evasion process. This is exactly what I mean by groundedness. If you lack the degree necessary for the healing, you'll think all that stuff is 'real', which created the problem in the first place. (This is also why young children are so vulnerable to this: Their sceptic mind is not well-developed and they might take ridiculous stuff way too serious. They are open to a lot, sensitive, and don't understand many things.) At some point Max mentioned this problem. People learn his stuff, and when issues are being dug up just as he said they would, people might blame the system for being 'evil' or whatever. And people's unrelaxed reactions like that point exactly to the kind of issues they have to overcome. (Just as an example: For a child, it MIGHT already create a traumatic episode if he hears an ambulance drive by while on the TV someone is shouting "They're going to kill us all!". More likely so if he has a good understanding of what killing means, but nobody told them what an ambulance is. Even more so if a fearful mindset has already been imprinted on them.) P.S.: There are a lot of metaphors about this that I could come up with in connection to your avatar picture.

My Little Pony helps me a lot to accept energy at that point, haha. Which in turn gets subconscious issues processed during sleep. Also, there's quite a lot of synchronicity going on here, at least from my perspective. I had this thread on follow without any reply for a very long time, and lately, while I am now beginning to learn music production, my Youtube video-making activity has severely and naturally shifted towards making videos with sirens in it. It's actually kinda funny in a crazy way, and only now I realize it might help the OP to become more accepting of the sirens he hears. Check it out if you like: http://www.youtube.com/user/Dowlphin P.S.: Bonus points if it was Pinkie Pie you heard all the time.

Maybe you're lucky and eventually manage to suppress it, but if it gets more distinct with energetic practice, maybe it's something that's asking for your attention. You probably won't be able to figure out with your rational mind and conscious awareness why it's a police/ambulance siren. I mean, I had all kinds of really freaky stuff during my ayahuasca trip, and it was mostly stuff that was very unsettling for me that somehow resolved things. All very vague, but there seems to be a basic process: You do energy practice as part of your spiritual path and life will in turn supply you with challenges. I have something a bit similar right now. My mind says I shouldn't 'go there' because it's unsettling, but going through it has a positive effect. I guess the question is: How much can you afford to walk that path considering your current life circumstances? If you have to function well at the workplace, naturally you shouldn't risk going nuts for a while, haha.

Last ones for now...

...continued What are they doing up there?

OK, let me update on the stuff I made since my last own-content posting... VIDEOS I also made a very time-consuming pseudo-reverse of the full Dragonshy episode, but it's blocked right now due to a content ID. Gotta figure out how to get it accessible. CAPTION PICTURES (unaltered screenshots!) AniGIFs filesize-improved version in collab with the original author: inspired by someone else who made this scene as a simple rough forward loop: Feeling incomplete? ... !!! FRIENDSHIP POWER ACTIVATED !!!

Making AniGIFs can be an art. It is like supermacro photography. Catching the right perspective, revealing worlds unseen to the regular observer. Or just taking stuff out of context, for the lulz.

While the show contains many animation errors and silimar blunders, here's an example of what makes the animation very good. ... Just a pony talking: