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I'm an only child, and I live with my mom and dad. They both like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I don't think they love it as much as I do, but they did like the episodes I showed them (especially A Canterlot Wedding Parts 1 and 2, and The Crystal Empire Parts 1 and 2). I've also talked to them about why I love the show so much, and they're supportive of me, and think it's good that I like MLP. 

4 of my best friends at school also love the show. I'm very blessed to have friends and family who are not only understanding, but like the show too. I know that many people don't have that. 

If anyone, family or otherwise, ever tries to make you feel bad about liking MLP, just don't listen to them. It's not your fault if they choose to be close minded and judgmental about this.

I love this, it is very beautiful. It has excellent imagery, and an interesting theme. If I may ask, what inspired you to write this?

I wonder if Prince Blueblood is ever going to make a second appearance in the show. If I understand correctly, this was the only episode he was in, unless he was in another episode that I don't remember. 

I love this episode so much. I've probably re-watched it more than any other season 3 episode so far. It was a very inspirational and heartwarming episode. I can relate to it in the sense that one of the biggest obstacles in my life right now is fear: fear that I won't do well in school, fear that something bad will happen to me, etc. I often avoid fear, or problems in general. This episode reminded me that I can't do that. Until I face my fears, they won't go away.

It also brings me back to the days of when I was a young child, and when I would have nightmares. I've felt how Scootaloo did in the "here branches branches" scene so many times. 

Overall, this was a wonderful episode. They all are.

I read through the MLP Forums Official Resource Map, and I like it. If I may offer a suggestion, I think you should link to this topic in that post as well. As a new member, it was fairly easy for me to find most of the information that I needed, but I could not find an explanation for what the different forum topic activity icons like "hot" and "cool" meant since the thread explaining it was not pinned. 

I loved this episode. Something very interesting that a friend of mine pointed out to me that I didn't notice myself is that those two comets flying over the barn at both the beginning and the end of the episode might symbolize Applejack's parents. My friend told me that Lauren Faust had wanted to hint at the fact that her parents were dead, but didn't want to just outright say that in the show, because that would be too sad for a show intended to be appropriate for all ages. 

I recently finished reading A Separate Peace, which I absolutely loved. Next I will begin reading The Scarlet Pimpernel. Both of these books are required reading for my Advanced English 10 class. After this we have a choice between reading A Brave New World and another book I don't remember, and then Lord of the Flies. In first semester we read Julius Caesar and To Kill a Mockingbird.

I haven't done much reading for several years, but reading these books for school that I really like inspires me to read more books on my own. 

Here are my results. I've been typing longer than I can remember. I love writing, and typing is a fast and comfortable way to do that, so through years of experience typing things on the internet, I have been able to improve my typing speed. However, the highest I ever remember getting was in the 120-130 range, and that was through intense effort. Some people are able to get up to over 200 WPM. Maybe if I practice enough, I can get up that high someday. 

I also want to be a computer programmer, so I'm glad that I can type sufficiently fast. That will help me a ton.

I don't have a single favorite video game of all time, but I have two. Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, and Croc 2.

I just love those games. I remember I started playing Croc 2 before I even knew how to read. I didn't beat either game until several years later. 

Other than that, I like The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (I don't own this one yet, but I played it a bit at a friend's house a long time ago), League of Legends, Minecraft, and Roblox. 

I haven't played most of those games, other than Roblox, League of Legends, and Minecraft, in awhile. I also really liked the games Advance Wars: Black Hole Rising, and Advance Wars: Dual Strike.

Welcome welcome welcome!

 

Glad to have you with us! You just made your first friend Message me any time and enjoy the forums

Thanks! I will.

 

Common sense rules the day here. Treat people nicely and exhibit some decency, and there's nothing to worry about. There's not much you need to know beyond that as far as rules are concerned.

 

Was the link you followed in regards to our movie night/new episode livestream? We do those every Friday starting at 4 PM, EST. We'd love to have you there too.

 

If there's anything you'd like to know, shoot me a message or drop a comment on my profile. I'll be glad to help in any way I can.

That sounds good to me. Yeah, that was where I found the link. Those sound like fun, I'll make sure to stop by next Friday. And, thanks, I'll let you know if I have anymore questions. 

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone.

Hi everyone

 

I am into science and biology pretty much. So understanding parasitology comes pretty easily to me but applying it to ponies can be a bit confusing at times

 

So changelings "feed" off "love" somehow. But what does "feed" mean in this sort of relationship? Are they actually eating it like food? Or is it just making them more powerful?

 

Perhaps what I am asking is this. Could a changeling live without feeding off a ponies love. Or would it die without love?

I was thinking about this earlier when I replied to someone's topic about whether or not Queen Chrysalis and the changelings could be reformed like Discord was. 

In my opinion, they don't need to feed off of love. I believe that it is a choice. The thing is, love is what binds a society together. If no one cares about each other or themselves, it would be impossible to form an organized society. Everyone would just be off doing their own thing. Banding together for survival requires some form of agreement to work together, and if the changelings are capable of that, then surely it is possible for them to truly love others. 

Here's an analogy that I thought of earlier. Someone who lives in the city and is able to buy food at supermarkets does not need to go out into the wilderness everyday and hunt deer. If someone chooses to do so, they are unnecessarily killing deer when they could just be buying their food at the store. So, those people would not need to kill the deer to survive, but they would do so anyway. (This is not a statement against people who like to go out and hunt. This is a hypothetical example involving someone who does nothing to get food other than hunt, when they would not need to do so for survival.) 

In the same way, the changelings could be choosing to feed off of love, because they want to, when they really do not need to for survival. 

See, the funny part is it would give us even more work to do, in the long run. If we allowed every single person who ever reports something to have the ability to see their reports' result, and then encourage them to submit their complaints or concerns about it to the staff, we would quite literally have hundreds of tickets every single week, from just those. We'd have to hire several dozen staff members to even attempt to deal with the inane amounts of tickets that would be flooding us. We're already flooded with tickets, usually technical ones, this sort of thing would ultimately drive the staff insane xD

 

I see what you're trying to get at, but the way the report system works now is just fine. You report something, and the staff use the judgement they were hired for to deal or not deal with it.

Yeah, I see what you mean. I made my post on the assumption that most people wouldn't really be worried about it enough to send in a support ticket, but if you say they would (which you would know, being an admin), then I agree that my idea wouldn't work. 

For me, I have this thing where I feel like I just absolutely cannot cry around anyone else, but when I'm alone I can display as much emotion as I want. I've teared up many times when watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic alone, but there weren't as many times where I would just cry. 

Sometimes I can just be in a really bad mood, either for a day, or a few days, or longer. Or, I might just be feeling unhappy, or stressed out, or otherwise upset about something. Watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic helps me to release these feelings and be happy, which has often resulted in me tearing up or crying from joy, from relief, of being free of whatever had been weighing me down in my mind. 

All episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic evoke positive emotions in me, but certain episodes stand out in my mind as affecting me the most. At these certain parts, or even just at any time in certain episodes I remember crying:

-Cutie Mark Chronicles

-Princess Cadence and Shining Armor defeating Queen Chrysalis in A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2

-The Crystal Fair song in The Crystal Empire, Part 1

-The light and love in the crystal ponies defeating King Sombra in The Crystal Empire, Part 2

-The Smile Song in A Friend in Deed

-BBBFF song

There's probably way more. Watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has been such a healing experience for me on so many occasions. Being able to release fear, tension, anxiety, anger, hatred, and to just be happy, joyful, and free has a profoundly positive impact on my life.

I think it would be a good idea to implement a report feedback system. There should a page containing a list of every report ever made by anyone, that could only be viewed by that particular user, moderators, and administrators. This way, users would be able to see the status of their reports, and find out whether or not their report was correct. 

Immediately upon sending the report, it would appear in the user's list marked as "pending." When a staff member reviewed the report, if action was taken, the report would then be marked as "action taken" in the user's report history. If not, it would be marked as "no action taken." 

Unless there is already a system in place for moderators to mark whether or not they took action from a report, there could be a check box that they would check before closing the report that would mark whether or not they took action.

This way, the report feedback system would not give the moderators extra work to do, and it would help users to be able to report more accurately. If they didn't understand why their report resulted in no action being taken, they could send in a report ticket about it. For convenience, perhaps in an entry for a report in a user's report history that did not result in action being taken, it could say something like:

"No action was taken. If you do not understand why, please click here to send in a support ticket." (The word "here" would be the name of a hyperlink to the support ticket page.)

I like it, you did a good job. I can't even draw anything close to that, with a mouse or anything else really. I don't know why, but as long as I can remember about all I've been able to draw are goofy looking stick figures, let alone ponies. Maybe I'll learn how someday, though. That would be cool.

My favorite TV shows other than My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic are probably:

Pawn Stars

American Pickers

Doctor Who*

various UFO shows*

(* denotes stuff I rarely watch. I used to watch Doctor Who a ton, but in the waiting time between seasons 6 and 7 I just kind of forgot about it. I really should get back into that show, though, it's excellent.)

The question OP poses is very interesting in my opinion. The thing is, Superman is just invincible, aside from kryptonite, and I don't think there's any way around that in terms of physical attacks. 

However, I don't know whether or not superman is invincible in his mind. If Princess Celestia knows magic that she can use to affect someone's mind, then maybe that would do something. 

Otherwise, maybe she could just magically make kryptonite appear. 

On the other hand, superman couldn't really do anything. If he tried to like punch or something Celestia could just easily teleport away. So, I honestly think Celestia would win. Basically since Celestia is magical I just don't know what kind of constraints there are on her abilities.

Of course, not that they would fight in the first place. They're both good guys. 

This reminds me of an episode of Doctor Who about the ood, a race of beings that were all controlled by a single consciousness. If I understand correctly in that episode the single brain that controlled all of the ood was being tampered with, making the ood evil. 
 
Perhaps Queen Chrysalis and the changelings are of a similar nature. The changelings don't really seem to have individualized consciousnesses. It is possible that they all had free will and chose to delight in the destruction of love and joy, but that seems fairly unlikely. Queen Chrysalis might be the consciousness controlling all of the changelings. If she were reformed, perhaps all of the changelings would be reformed along with her.
 
Or, maybe it's not something that extreme. Queen Chrysalis and the changelings remind me of a queen bee and worker bees. Perhaps she gave birth to all of the changelings (it would be possible since it seems that alicorns have lived for well over a thousand years). Since she is their mother, it would make sense that they acted like she did, whether or not she literally forced them to. If she were reformed, the changelings might change their mind. If their leader is no longer telling them to hurt others, what choice do they have? They could dissolve into chaos, or continue to have the leader they are familiar with, and change the way they live in the world. 
 
I honestly don't believe that Queen Chrysalis and the changelings are only capable of hate. Every intelligent being should have free will. However, it would be a lot more difficult to reform Chrysalis than it was to reform Discord. As Harmonic Revelations said in reply to this thread, Discord is different, because he does not have an inherent  reason to be evil. I do not believe that anyone has an inherent reason to be either good or evil, as anyone who has the necessary mental capabilities and is not constrained by internal and/or external forces has free will. However, the very way of life Chrysalis and the changelings have gotten themselves into is squarely pitted against everything the mane 6, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor, and all of Equestria stand for: love and light. Therefore, while it would not be impossible to reform them, it would be very difficult to do so.

Of course! It's motherbuckin' G.I Joe and Transformers! Talk about awesomeness! 

 

 

 

 

...Well, if you like the old-school 80's cartoons, I guess you should. 

Yeah, G.I. Joe and Transformers are just plain cool. 

I don't mind what decade a movie, TV show, etc. was made in. Fairly recently I've gotten into the old black and white movies, so if I made a list of my favorite movies they could range from the 50s to the 21st century. I also like that 50s spiderman cartoon that the memes came from. 

So, I'll probably check those shows out sometime if I can find them online.

I don't get the Hub channel, so I've just been watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on the internet. I don't know much about other Hub shows, but if any of you guys really like one of them I'll probably check it out. 

Self-explanatory.

 

I'll watch something like G.I Joe or Transformers (G1) when it's on. 

 

That's pretty much it. I never got into watching anything else. 

 

How 'bout you?

How much do you like those shows? Should I check them out?

I will list the ponies I voted for.

Favorite Main Pony: Fluttershy (However, I love all of them)

Favorite Secondary Characters: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Big Macintosh, Cheerilee, Granny Smith, Mayor, Pegasus Royal Guard, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Trixie.

Favorite Tertiary Background Characters: Snips and Snails. 

I honestly love all three of them for different reasons, so I can't vote for only one of them. I informally vote for all three (since the poll only lets you choose one option). 

Princess Celestia seems to be the wisest and most knowledgeable out of the three. It's inspiring to see how she treats other ponies in the show. It makes me happy to see that just because someone is in a position of great power, doesn't mean that they have to act like they're better than everyone else, or hurt anyone, etc. Maybe one day all of the presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, etc in the real world will learn how to be like that too. 

Princess Luna is good and wise like the other two princesses, but still has a lot to learn. Season 3 episodes one and two are the first episodes in which she is not depicted in a situation where she is doing something wrong or learning from her previous wrongs. So, to me, the implication is that she is on the right path, but she is still learning. Anyone can easily relate to this, we are all like Princess Luna in the sense that we all have conflicts in life, internal and/or external, and we need to learn how to deal with them so we can set ourselves on the right path.

Princess Cadence is the youngest out of the three, but she is wise and good as are the other two princesses. I love how her special ability is to spread love and joy to other ponies using her magic. It makes sense that she is the "Crystal Princess," the one who rescued the crystal heart from King Sombra, allowing the crystal ponies to charge the crystal heart with the light and love within themselves, defeating King Sombra for good. 

I loved this episode. It just goes to show that everyone, no matter who they are or what they have done, has the same opportunity as everyone else to make the choice to do what is right. 

It also gives an interesting insight into Discord's background. Perhaps he used his powers for evil because, when he was growing up, no one ever accepted him as a friend. That would explain why he became bitter and used his powers to try to turn Equestria upside down, and why he tried to break up the mane 6's friendship. 

Discord has never seemed like any of the other antagonists to me, though now he does remind me of Nightmare Moon. Nightmare Moon really was just Princess Luna, when she had chosen to go down the path of darkness instead of light. Discord seems to have made a similar choice. 

Queen Chrysalis and King Sombra seem to be a different kind of antagonist. They seem to be far more evil and hateful than either Nightmare Moon or Discord. Discord never seemed like he wanted to murder or destroy, because everything he did seemed more like a very mean prank taken way too far. Therefore, I don't know if Queen Chrysalis will ever be reformed in a future episode. As for King Sombra, unless he turned back into shadow, I'm pretty sure he's dead. 

Discord has an interesting personality, and it's great that he can now join the good guys so that I can truly say that I like him. In the past, despite his interesting personality and humorous attitude, I couldn't like his character, because of what he did to Equestria, and because he tried to break up the mane 6's friendship. 

The show has had a huge impact on my life, and to explain that more effectively I am providing relevant details from my personal life in this post. Some of the topics I discuss in this post are inappropriate for younger children, so if you are a younger child (under 14) or would be offended by such things, please discontinue reading this. I have double checked the rules to make sure that nothing in this post breaks the rules.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has helped me to completely change the way I look at the world, and continues to help me to this day to overcome problems in my life, or even just to cheer me up when I'm feeling sad.

I think I started watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in 2011, towards the end of the summer vacation before 9th grade. I was 14 years old. I remember one of my friends from the internet convinced me to watch it one day. At first, I thought the show would be "girly" and "stupid," but for reasons that I do not understand in terms of the frame of mind I had back then, I gave the show a chance. I remember I was very interested in the show by the time I finished season 1 episode 1, and absolutely hooked by the time I finished season 1 episode 2. 

Before I knew it, I would spend hours watching through the episodes. I absolutely loved them. You see, I had begun to learn more about the world at the age of 14. I have very loving and kind parents - I am so thankful for them, because they are the ones who taught me how to be kind to others. They sheltered me a lot until I was around 13, which I didn't like very much at the time, but in retrospect their sheltering had allowed me to live in a time of peace, a world of innocence, I was able to have a childhood. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how blessed I was to have the opportunity to have a childhood. In fact, as I grew older I began to realize how blessed I was to have things I had always taken for granted: a house, a loving family, good friends, a largely good/peaceful school experience throughout my life, and more. 

I turned 13 years old on December 8th, 2009. Soon after this, my dad began to shelter me less. He allowed me to watch some R rated movies (not most of them, though), which introduced me to the concepts of hatred and violence that I had never really been fully aware of before. Eventually, I gained a stronger interest in the world outside the spectrum of my life experience, which led to me watching the news. My parents didn't let me watch the news when I was a young child - I don't think they started letting me watch it by myself until I was around 14 years old, maybe 13, I don't remember. 

When I turned 14, my dad continued to shelter me less. I was able to watch more R rated movies, but there were still a few particular movies he would not allow me to watch. By this time I had also had more experience with the internet, including the fact that I learned that there are horrible and evil things readily accessible. I used to look at violent things on the internet just for shock value, to make myself feel grown up, and as the result of a misguided curiosity. I had also discovered pornographic materials on the internet at the age of 12, which I got into more at the age of 13. I never intentionally viewed any child pornography - no matter how curious I was to see the inappropriate things on the internet, I always knew that child pornography was evil, and I never looked at it. 

This was all happening at a time of early transition for me, from childhood through adolescence into adulthood. I began to care more about the opposite gender (for me, females), I developed insecurities, things not to be unexpected from one who began to enter puberty. The world suddenly became a lot more complicated. In the face of the new, unhappy ideas, concepts, events from fictional movies or real news, I suddenly was not happy like I was in my childhood state of innocence. I did not understand how to properly handle this information that I was receiving of my own free will after years of living in a blissful state of innocence. I began to become angry at the world. This resulted in me occasionally treating other people at school in a negative, angry manner. I began to view the world as a horrible place, filled with nothing but hatred, pain, and fear. I questioned my lifelong Christian perspective on the concept of God. This, combined with my guilt due to my newfound interest in human sexuality, began to write dark chapters in my life for the first time.

Now, moving onward in time, returning to the day my online friend had convinced me to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The show had a profoundly positive impact on me, moving me at my very core, inviting the very essence of my existence to awake to a glorious dawn. I loved (and continue to love) everything about the show: its characters, its art, its music, its stories. The show moves me, all the way from the harmonious beauty of Equestria down to the personalities of its vibrant characters, all the way down to the subtle chords of background music carefully placed throughout the episodes. The show began to extinguish the fires of fear and anger I had kindled within myself. I was once again happy. Slowly, over a long period of time, a process that continues today, my very core beliefs about the world and my place in it were monumentally shifted in a positive manner.

Firstly, I must thank my parents. If it were not for the way that they raised me, I do not believe I would have been able to be the person I am today. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic may still have helped me, but it would have been much more difficult for it to have the profound effect it has had on me if I did not have my parents' ways of raising me with love and kindness to draw from. This is not to say that I never got in trouble. They love me, which includes taking necessary parental action to teach me that all actions have consequences, positive or negative, or anywhere in between. However, they have never once beat me or abused me in any way, and they never will, and for that, along with many other things in my life that I have recognized to be great blessings, I thank them. 

Now, to explain how the show has moved me at my very core. When I started watching the show, I was looking at the world in the wrong way. I was looking at the world in a very negative, angry, hateful way, which resulted in me treating others negatively sometimes, as well as being unhappy. The absolute love in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic inspired me to kindle that love within my own heart, that love, that fire of friendship. I remembered that the news is not representative of the world. The news often lacks a very important piece: human love and kindness. It often focuses instead on the horror in the world. I began to understand that even though there is great evil in the world, there is great love, and the only way to undo and erase evil is through love. My previous response to the evil in the world was hatred and anger, which was only leading me down the path towards the object of my hatred. A spiritual irony resulting from misdirected energy. I began to direct my energy, my thoughts, my life in a positive direction. Instead of responding to tragedies, violence, and hatred in the world with hatred of my own, I decided to respond with love. How does one respond with love? The answer to this question can vary from person to person, but for me it has been a determination to be happy, and to help others to be happy. I may not be able to rescue hostages taken by murderous terrorists on the other side of the world, but allowing the awareness of such events to suck the life and happiness from my soul would only make the world a shade darker by negatively effecting my life experience and the life experience of those within close social vicinity to myself. I decided that instead of letting such things control my life, I would take control of my life. I would be happy. I would open my eyes to the happiness in the world that is around me everyday: my parents, my friends, human kindness, nature, the world. There is so much more to the world than fear and hatred. When I feel particularly oppressed by negative events in the world, whether or not they happened to me in my personal life, it always helps me to remember the bigger picture. No matter how sad I felt at any given moment, somewhere in the world there was a person hugging someone else. A person feeling absolutely joyful. Two people getting married. Two parents looking at their newborn child for the first time. A family laughing together while watching a movie. All around the world, millions of people are experiencing the love and joy in life every second. In the face of that fact, whatever would be bothering me at the moment would suddenly loosen its hold on me, my happiness no longer being constrained. Yes, there are also millions of people around the world experiencing sadness, fear, hatred, pain, or grief at this moment. However, from my personal experiences, every happy moment is so much more powerful than a sad one. When I am feeling unhappy, in retrospect I feel like I had been looking at the world through a drinking straw. This drinking straw was composed of my fears, insecurities, and hatreds. Looking at the world while allowing myself to be constrained by them is practically impossible. Eventually, I realize I must cast that drinking straw far away, and open both of my eyes fully to the world around me. Then, and only then, can I make a positive impact on the world. I can only help add joy to the world by being joyful myself. I can only love others if I love myself. I must live the change I wish to see. Through this, I can leave the world a slightly better place than it was before I entered it. We all can, just by smiling at a friend, doing a favor for someone, being there for people when they are gripped by unhappiness. I am not saying that everyone in the world who is unhappy right now is unhappy through their own free will. Horrible things can happen to people. Those people are not looking through drinking straws as I was, they are having to deal with very difficult situations. However, the realization that I have come to is that me looking through a drinking straw will not help those people. Even if I did not get the opportunity to help people in very bad situations (which I have), I can still contribute to the love in the world by being happy, and helping those around me to be happy. 

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has helped me to do this on so many occasions, and continues to do so today. The show's lively, vibrant colors, beautiful artwork, lovable characters and charming humor warms my heart even on the coldest of days. On a deeper level, the show reminds me of what I described in the above paragraph about how responding to hatred in the world with hatred of my own will not make the world a better place. The acts of kindness the characters show one another, the lessons they learn, inspire me to go into the world with these virtues in my heart. Then, and only then, I can live the change I wish to see.

Now, at the age of 16 and in the 10th grade, I can think back about how much the show has helped me in the past, and continues to do so today. The show has inspired me to be more tolerant. I used to instantly judge anything I thought was "girly" or "stupid." Now, I try not to do that anymore. There is nothing wrong with a male, regardless of his sexual orientation, age, etc, to love My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. There is nothing wrong with a female, regardless of her sexual orientation, age, etc to love Transformers. "Gender roles" in society attempt to dictate what certain people of certain genders should like or do, and if someone chooses not to conform, they can be attacked with accusations of being a homosexual, when the act of liking a TV show has nothing to do with sexual orientation anyway. I also became tolerant of homosexuality in general. I used to think there was something wrong with it, when I was a younger child, but now I know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality. Heterosexual, homosexual, male, female, black, white, we are all living beings. "No matter what our differences, we're all ponies." I remember back in 9th grade, a few of my friends also got into the show. I remember there was a guy in one of my classes who I used to argue with all the time. When I continued to get more into My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I realized one day that my previous annoyance and anger that would cloud my heart in the past when I talked to him was gone. From that day onward, he and I were able to become friends. He was one of the people who had gotten into the show also. I felt inspired to treat others with patience and kindness. I viewed the world as a wonderful place in which bad things happened sometimes, instead of the other way around. Because, truly, the world is a wonderful place. The number of acts of kindness shown between people throughout the ages outnumber the stars in the sky, whether or not they ended up in history books or news programs. We all have free will, and we can all choose to direct it in a positive manner. 

Now, this is not to say that I never get angry, or feel hatred, or say something mean. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has still changed my very core outlook on life in a positive manner, regardless of the fact that some days, even now, I forget that, and focus on the negative. However, thanks to the show, it is much easier for me to avoid negative ways of thinking, and it has become much easier for me to recognize past behaviors and attitudes in myself that were of a negative nature, and to avoid chaining them to myself once again. Thanks to my parents' love and kindness, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and other things, I have begun to learn how to hold the world in a loving heart. We all make mistakes, but it doesn't matter how many mistakes someone has made. What matters is whether or not they wish to learn from them, and change their thoughts, words, and actions in a positive manner.

Earlier in this post, I mentioned that when I was 14 years old I questioned my Christian faith. I used to respond to this issue with anger and hatred, but the positive impact My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has on me has helped me to not become stressed out and angry about religion as much as I used to. I am no longer a Christian, because I have some disagreements with certain Christian beliefs, but I do believe in God. My spiritual beliefs arise from my studies of near death experiences, my own experiences with the otherworldly, and my family's experience with the otherworldly. I do not subscribe to any particular religion. My spiritual beliefs are basically that the purpose of life is to love others, to help others. The greatest things we can do are sometimes things that seem to be the most simple acts of kindness and unselfishness. I also believe in reincarnation, and I believe that we are all eternal souls. I do not believe in hell as found in many religions, and I do not believe that God judges anyone. I believe that people judge themselves, however, they should not do so. I could go into much greater depth about my spiritual beliefs, but that would be beyond the scope of this post. If you do want to learn more about my spiritual beliefs, please feel free to send me a message, and I will gladly talk to you about it. I often find spiritual inspiration in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic through the love and kindness the characters show one another, the lessons the characters learn, through the beauty of their world and their music.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has also greatly increased my love and appreciation for the beautiful aspects of nature. I used to utterly resent going outside, doing nothing but complain about the temperature, or being afraid of bugs and bees, etc. Now, I love being outside, but preferably in mild temperatures in which I can comfortably view the nature around me. I also love the rain very much. I love trees, the sky, the grass, the animals. It is all so beautiful and wonderful, and it is all free. It is right outside my door. All I have to do is enter into the world with open eyes and a loving heart. 

I hope that, one day, I will get the chance to thank the creators of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic for making such a wonderful, beautiful, inspirational show that has changed my life in such a monumentally positive way.

I am very happy to see that several other people who have replied to this topic have also been positively affected by My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

The Elements of Harmony live within us all. Fluttershy: Kindness, Rarity: Generosity, Applejack: Honesty, Pinkie Pie: Laughter, Rainbow Dash: Loyalty, Twilight Sparkle: Magic, the magic of friendship, that spark of life and love within us all. They all represent different aspects of a loving heart that we can all choose to have toward ourselves, others, and the world.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has changed my life. It has resurfaced the ideals of love, kindness, patience, and tolerance that my parents taught me when I was a young child, that I had buried underneath my fear, anger, and hatred. I now treasure these ideals, and they are the lanterns on the path of life that only require positively guided free will to chase away the shadows of fear and hatred. As Princess Cadence said, "The Crystal Heart has returned. Use the light and love within you to ensure that King Sombra does not." The Crystal Heart is the life and love within us all. It does not need to be returned: it is already here. All we must do is choose to use it to overcome the fear and hatred we bury within ourselves at different points in our lives, and continue overcoming it, until one day fear and hatred will leave our hearts and never return. 

Hey there, SCS, and welcome to the forums. I'm RKA. Hope you'll have a nice time 'round here. :3

Thank you! Nice to meet you, RKA. I definitely will have a nice time here.