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Spirituality always comes from the person, TTC is just a book with bunch of Chinese characters and it's kinda worthless until you get the message and it's worthless again. Some crazy people use the bible to exorcise evil out of them teenagers like it's magic but it's also worthless. Everything is less then worthless but humans can give value to everything. They can see beauty in a rock and chisel out a statue. Meaning in the movement of water and the god of the ocean. Spirituality doesn't happen in the physical plane, it was just a rock until you give it meaning. So smaaaaaall

Don't do it, man

The way to grow is to grow with the characters, that's why books were popular. Imagine what you would do if you could simply walk into Mordor or help Sherlock. I think one of the reason why Harry Potter is so popular is because he is so bland as a character what the reader wants to take his place and make his own decisions. Now that we have movies and visual media, we see the characters and we let them move without our help. Identifying with characters makes them likable and makes us see ourselves in them, and if they can grow then so can we. That's why Avatar is more acceptable here then My Little Pony, I made even more random threads about Avatar here and they are not in the Off Topic. We can identify with Aang as a student who is on a spiritual journey but there seems to be a problem when the journey is taken by a cute little purple horse, even when they both have glowing eyes. It's the same show the boys would love if the characters were male, but when they are girls and horses to boot, dormant sexism shows itself. It's even more relatable when it's about normal life but your own ego blinds your eyes, again. DAMN YOU EGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

KENAN AND KEL, ALL THAT, HEY ARNOLD, ANGRY BEAVERS, AS TOLD BY GINGER, REN AND STIMPY, ADVENTURES OF PETE AND PETE, CATDOG, KABLAM Ah! I said end of discussion and you nick me back FIGHT THE PATRIARCHY!!!

My friends, from now on TTB is under control of the Pony Mafia

End of discussion

Let's see, I made a thread in a humorous manner, a humor that you cannot understand, in that thread me and two other posters who picked up the joke started seriously discussing the episode until you derailed it into another trolling thread. It could not be a trolling thread because trolling is making negative remarks in a joking manner and trying to get a reaction. As I can tell, ponies have nothing to do with you and the thread was not aimed at your person either. I have no idea why you would get mad unless you had a traumatizing pony experience in the past, I doubt it but if so, I apologize.

OK WHAT HABDABDA AAAAAAA DID YOU SEE THAT? No, did you see THAT? WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT IS MY LIFE? AAAAAAAAAAAA? HOW DO EVEN WHAT I'm ok with it though

I'll think about it

But I already wrote a wall of text... Ah, let's try it this way http://thetaobums.com/topic/27103-latest-mlp-episode/#entry404952

OH NO, WE'VE BEEN MOVED TO THE OFF TOPIC AGAIN CURSE YOU, MOD SQUAD, YOU'VE FOILED MY PLANS AGAIN BUT I WILL BE BACK IN AUTUMN(I think) THE NEW SEASON OF PONY WILL RISE AND WE SHALL RULE AGAIN!!! and I expected it to be moved to off topic, I'm just goofing Actually know what, that's a good idea. Lot's of people like to review episodes but they give wishy-washy explanations for the morals of the story so something solid would be perfect. Celestia is a great teacher, she send Twilight to Ponyville at the start of the series to teach her the magic of friendship. The experiences Twilight had was like the egg in a bottle parable. Celestia could have sat Twilight down and explained everything about magic and friendship like you guys expect masters to act, but she send her to Ponyville to experience it. Kids don't listen to their parents when they explain stuff but they can live their own life and prevail over obstacles by themselves like a small chick that is strong enough to peck out of the egg. When it grows more it could peck out of the bottle. Celestia let Twilight go because she knew she could do it. I guess MLP gives education that spiritual community could never understand. If you look anywhere, literally, spiritual people are loners. They focus on greater things when nothing else distracts them. You could be eating delicious food now and watching a show or talk with somebody about somethings, instead there is a big focus on how these things are not important. Spirituality happens when detachment happens, money is meaningless, your possessions will be gone after you die or they get stolen, attachment causes suffering. Twilight is you, she wants to study magic and know how the world works. She doesn't care for friends and so Celestia sends her to Ponyville to make some. Enlightenment/Immortality/Golden Body is sought by ONE person. You can do it yourself, living on a mountain and being a hermit. Spiritual person sees beauty in nature and the ugly in society. Hates money, hates rules, hates authority. Sees deep meaning in nature but not in these things. Instead, it makes the spiritual person feel trapped in these things. There is freedom in nature and seeing empty fields where you can run. That's where paradise is, being one with nature but denying things that make one human and other humans. Spiritual person might not be human either, humans can do amazing things together and they stay together. Other five ponies almost represent these things that the spiritual person hates but actually needs. Rarity makes pretty dresses and likes to look good. Looks don't last and precious things like dresses don't either. Attachments cause suffering when you loose them. Spiritual person would not make attachments out of fear of getting hurt, that would be the worst possible thing. No special attachments to special things and not so special person. So many Buddhist monks look the same just with their heads shaved and they're all happy. Getting hurt is part of life and you can expect it for a long time but it might not come, it's just all in your head. Applejack has ties with her family. They are the closest people to you and link to other people. They are even more special then objects, even masters become special people but people are also an attachment. God forbid you meet someone nice and fall in love and get hurt. You have no control over people and that's even scarier, so many things could go wrong, you could even say the wrong thing to them and upset them. No need to be scared. Rainbow Dash has big dreams and she wants to join the Wonderbolts, to do that she needs to be the best flyer ever. This attachment will hurt her if she never accomplishes her dream. There are expectations that Wonderbolts have of her and the ones she has of them, she might not meet them and they might not, too. There are a bunch of old people whining about things they wish they did if they could be young again, they say to the young people to do that and that's a lot of pressure. But living is fun, so whatever she does, she will do more them these guys ever did. Fluttershy is shy, big whoop. Human interaction is scaaaaaaary, don't you wish you could read the mind of the other person talking? That would make things a lot easier and you won't ever offend anyone or say something wrong. Kinda scary when you imagine that everyone cares what you say and remember it. No one cares, and if you want someone to care, you have friends. PINKIEPIEEEEEEEEEEE!!! She likes to party, do funny stuff. and act goofy. Everyone likes her and if you think back to the school days, she might remind you of a class clown you had in your class. That kid who wants to be part of the crowd and so he tries to get everyone's attention. You won't want to be him and Pinkiepie is not like that. Everyone likes her and comes to her. She doesn't have to work hard like the class clown, she lives as hard as she can and has everyone. But you know what? Even if you want to be alone, hate money, and think that the man is bringing you down, you can still become friends with like minded people, it's not a club.

I like how it's a total punch in the face because of all the mangas I've read. In most of these stories I would expect an ending but never get it, they would create a conflict and then just remove it somehow and for an ending we get assurance that the things would stay the same for everyone. For example in Reborn! they have this baby thing going on and this kid is training to become a mafia boss. At the end of the story the baby stays the same and the mafia kid still goes to school. In Ranma 1/2 Ranma tries to remove his curse, got very close to it at the end of the story but doesn't remove it so the things stay the same. MLP could have been like that too, we could have had a final episode where Twilight stays in Ponyville to stay with her friends or have today's episode as a finale. This episode did seem like a finale and many should would have used it as such but this is like looking at what happens after the story ends. There is another season coming up more stuff is going to happen and now that they burned all the bridges they can make a finale to the series that I cannot expect.

BRING AARON BACK, I WANT HIM TO YELL AT ME!!!

Fine, be a taobum then But I talked a bunch of times about the benefits of money, like these aren't obvious

Pepsi is not American enough for this thread, but since I'm Canadian, can somebody pass me some FRENCH fries?

Sorry, can't hear you over this hotdog and coke and/or colla

It's the signal for the start of The Shaman King fight in Russia!!!

Hey look, another American thread Let me formulate my thoughts into a quotable sentence Loading... "Even if it's impossible, you loose the moment you admit defeat" NO MORE QUITTER TALK, nothing is holding you down ROAR

Why the northern star when there's a perfectly fine sun right there?

Writing down an observation What a paaaaaaaaaain, the TV people are already trying to scare everyone with their terrorists and economy and something else. I don't want that stuff to bring me down even if it really does affect me. But then, most of these things happen in the US and I'm not from the US and yet I'm supposed to do something to change the US. Why should I even care about the US, I don't. Yet everywhere I go I have to hear whining about the gun laws and how the politicians far away are so freaking evil. I don't even watch TV anymore, and yet I still hear the same stuff from the USans. The TV brainwashing experiment worked. It's always something like, "We have to do something!" "Should we do something?" Oh wait, I don't, keep walking.

THIS IS URGENT huh, what do you know

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