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I am wondering what you guys think about this episode. I know my personal bias is rather strong, but I want to know the average perception of it. Idk if people see the religious connection, or if people would get offended. Studies I know suggest if you are American or 3rd world country or worse and notice the connection you have a higher chance of getting offended. So i was curious how offensive it is. I only started watching Gumball today from The Shell(saw an ep review, it looked cool, and I like colors and shapeshifters in general, and I am not the most open person irl somewhat antisocial so I thought maybe I could relate to penny slightly, but I am sure I don't lol) up to this episode so far, and I love the show so far, its definitely more quickly paced then Steven Universe and packs in some associative material, but then some jokes eh idk, like gross humor is meh, I know why people can laugh from the discomfort though but eh. Anyways back on topic. What do you think about the moral of the story at the end just bluntly said? I think its an emotional argument, but also it helps share perspective and mine is limited from being sorta tunnel-vision-ey and not very social. So I just was wondering about common thoughts about it. Um, religious background would be nice too for the context to be more well understood for me.

*pats myself on the back* Practicing logic came in handy, for once lol. Also you gave an answer that wasn't a yes or no though lol.

Are they called Sky Stinger?

Prayers are subconsciously superstitious, and are not grounded in reality, even if consciously they are not superstitious. But did you ever notice a spoon can scoop more peanutbutter or mayo out of a jar than a butterknife, with less mess? Yet if you do it you get reprimanded for it being anti-traditional, 'not the way things are done' abnormal etc. Now whats the basis for that? Fear of deviation, fear of being considered weird, fear of offending family. Its similar, no one wants to offend god right, and superstition is usually traditional. But thats somewhat tangential. So, does prayer have a physical basis? Psychology dictates it feels good, and physics dictates it does nothing and makes you feel good for inaction then. Its a coping mechanism for not over-extending resources to everyone unfortunate when it means going out of your way to do so, so it can be a healthy response since it avoids over extending your time and resources til you cannot even handle yourself. But its so common sometimes it throws away something you could have done, which is why its bad, plus its in inaccurate activity to begin with. But, I wonder what an atheistic version of prayer would be like. Anywho, if you pray your chance to go to heaven goes up, some would say. And if you don't, your chance of going to hell goes up some would say. Tell me that isn't superstitious. Its plain operant conditioning on social behavior, infinite bad vs infinite good, do this, don't do this. Its superstition in a more existential sense, and for example, why a good luck charm? Some people believe in demons or witches, such as in some cultures they wear an evil eye to prevent witches from harming them. Similarly people pray to prevent the devil demons or hell. Its the same thing.

First we need to define superstition su·per·sti·tion ˌso͞opərˈstiSH(ə)n/ noun excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. "he dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition" synonyms: unfounded belief, credulity, fallacy, delusion, illusion; More a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief. plural noun: superstitions "she touched her locket for luck, a superstition she had had since childhood" synonyms: myth, belief, old wives' tale; More So basically anything not physically rationed and evidenced for a belief is superstitious. That means thinking demons are real, thinking angels are real, thinking certain activities bring out bad demons such as an Ouija board, thinking god hears prayers, thinking god exists and made everything. If you find a different definition and disagree with the one above feel free to share. But its basically, if its not grounded in reality, and it promotes or demotes certain activities (the job of the frontal cortex) then its superstition (also, allowing the logical part of the brain to be dictated by fear, and emotion. Thus its an enemy against logic.)

I am too impatient to find the precise study when in another topic that didn't end up going well for me so lets assume for now its not superstitious then build on arguments for why it is or is not, if you don't mind discussion.

The devil is an example of a negative superstition. Also studies show the religious tend to be more superstitious. http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/study-religious-people-struggle-to-understand-the-physical-world

Was the pony not in season 5, and in season 6?

I think it did but couldn't find it so its possible I misrecalled it. I know if you meditate a fraction of it is counted towards sleep though. Also in particular I thought what i read suggested it had a similar neural pathway, but I cannot seem to find it. Oh well this is curious http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-neuroscientist-group-daydreaming-brain-social.html And this keeps getting mentioned alot so probably relevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network#Function

http://www.livescience.com/8392-superstitions-bring-real-luck-study-reveals.html

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ff/0a/46/ff0a461421390ff6ab07d2bc4146ed27.jpg http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/health/religion-lifespan-health/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/ But http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22356306 Basically https://mlpforums.com/topic/145365-why-do-so-many-people-hate-religion/page-9#entry4751513 For instance also, the Westboro Baptist Church. If Christianity was so wholesome why did that spawn from it? Superstitious thinking begets superstitious thinking. Superstition allows irrational fear, and irrational problem solving, which in turn leads to an irrational violence. If the world is founded on religious utopia, afterwards it would be destroyed by the superstitious thoughts they harbor. Its as simple as riots occurring form a sports game. Thats where the future leads for religion. When you analyze whether something is or is not moral to do, you need to look at every step into the future. Not preserve your faith now, but, make better decisions for the future. Pacifists can, and have become killers. Christians went from preaching peace to the romans, to massacring thousands in crusades. You say, Jesus spoke peace did he not? If you analyze the bible, that was a complete fucking 180. Jealous god, kill people for as little as worshiping the stars, likes displaying his brute strength: SUDDENLY a moment to challenge the greater forces of Samaria and the Romans, now is the time to display my strength! By, preaching peace so they do not kill me like I would have killed them had we outnumbered them. Then we kill them after rising through the lower class, the ones we prey on, just like how they give the most frequently in america, yet also get scammed the most. Lack of education promotes religion, and it has for thousands of years, and thats why Christianity survives. Studies I have shared before easily show the correlation. But everyone wishes the lie were true. The bible is a flat earth book, and has math errors. I have dissuaded literally everything of it through links and articles and arguments and explanations. Honestly, how do you respond? Do you want to ignore it? Deny it because god is 'obvious' thus I am 'obvious'ly incorrect? Do you lie to protect your sudden doubt so you do not get social responsibility for suddenly becoming an atheist? Do you deny science, deny it had math errors or is a flat earth book? Deny the valid arguments I made about them preaching peace? Why? I know how good the lie can be. Heaven, eternal peace, god, eternal safety and comfort. Except its not, it doesn't, it hasn't, it can't. The only half reasonable ones are those who know their religion is wrong but practice it anyways. Be it an atheistic interpretation, I mean sure the bible had wisdom, for some socially manipulative barbarians, they sort of do have some elements in common with the art of war, such as deception and solidarity and discipline (stonings being frequent and all). So thats just what they were, war mongers. But to be fair, they had reason. You see how muslims are causing the rapes to triple from not even having half the population muslim, that means like, how much more rapes do a muslim do compared to the Swedish? Thats what happens when you let groups mingle, thats why they loved genocide, and discipline. Or, they probably knew, what they did to egypt and rome, would also occur to them if they let an inferior group play martyr and preacher to the uneducated masses. Just like why Islam is the fastest growing religion to date. Its because of poverty. Now, just like the ouroboros, the symbol of circular logic, your abrahamic religion is eating itself. Eat: symbolism is to kill and replace. In metaphorical fiction, anyways. Muslims and Christians are Abrahamic. So it fits. You are what you eat, when you have circular logic. Adieu.

Jesus who asked for disciples to sell all their things, takes expensive oil and gets his feet soaked in it when it could go to the poor (feet some scholars say is euphemism for genitalia in the bible). Surely a sinless man, who curses fig trees because they don't bare fruit, because. A person who says he doesn't heal all the lepers because they wouldn't learn not to get leprosy if he just cured them all the time. And yeah actually, his crucifixion does not fall in line with historical roman crucifixion. Alot of the plot in that story doesn't make sense. Plus tell me how much women found Jesus' tomb, because each reiteration of it differs. But the bible isn't contradicting, it was magic, wooo~.

I'm sure they'll get a lot of the holiday money.

One pony two pony red pony blue pony. Are they a wonderbolt?

Making logical fallacies. People defend their fallacies because to defend those is to defend their feels is to defend themselves. But I don't like making logical fallacies, its ridiculous, and when I make them sometimes I am like *sigh, analyzes, corrects, possibly googles*.

Yeah... But she got ketchup on her face eating those burgers you shared, and food flung everywhere from her ferocity of consumption. Perhaps, because she does take her position rather seriously. Also it might be like she lives in perpetual denial like some people. People who get offended at the thought of them being something they cannot stand, so they immediately deny it on a subconscious level, then agree with the emotion because it sounds ridiculous to consider. Almost like how christians react when you share biblical inconsistencies/math errors after saying the bible is flawless. Immediate denial.

Eye strain. Man why is no hobby right to just funnel a few hours into lol.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-benefits-of-daydreaming-170189213/Nifty but not what I was looking for ... Another one suggests it improves attention like I thought. But I thought I read before it shares circuits in common with REM when we sleep which aids brain repair/health at night.

Trying to find where I read it

Another thing I just remembered, brain healing processes are associated to the imagination or daydreaming processes, a pretty solid indicator if you ask me.

Because of reading being symbols, and fiction's diversity there may be some skill transferal if you do know what to note and what to look for to note but it won't be direct skill transfer it'll be indirect. You might learn how to read them faster, but you won't just suddenly get skill towards it for no reason. But being able to speed read, if I had to figure out what it transfers to more specifically, it'd be quality of reading the information the opponent has, but reading is more disconnected it'd be more tangential. Like, how does playing tetris improve cod skills? Its sorta hard to figure out. If anything I may be overthinking it and the stress reduction from reading may have a larger impact on gameplay than speed-reading itself. But it should improve visual attentiveness for sure, along with visual processing speed. But because its not directly related to coordination it is likely going to be a fraction of the transfer unless I mix activities. But imagination/thought speed improvement also generally helps planning in response to new information as well because you can go over a strategy faster and more correctly. But not as good as if you received coaching for instance. Like, an athlete can be better in other sports than the common person even if they have not tried it before and would theoretically be even. I am sort of going for something like that but with the brain. In which case I should exercise more for more fluid intelligence. But um, if you speed-read mystery novels or a novel where its two intelligent minds trying to best each other then it'd probably transfer more, or if it involves someone who can point out what information a person gives and make an accurate deduction from it. It'd help you prime your mind more for such a thing as SC2 in those contexts, than say a romance thing, though romance involves understanding people too so maybe it still helps some. Its really hard to say, but I would say if you wanted to improve at a specific game, with speed-reading, it'd have to be fanfiction involving the game or a typed out coaching-type article. But even then it may get technical, and not help unless you memorize it, for a game like sc2, but for a team game it'd probably help with the basics. Also with the cod game half the time I was using pistol only like that. Getting the first kills were hard and I think whilst doing that the best I did was like 10 kills 21 deaths. With aim assists off on console. Best way to improve in an individual game is to play it, best way to improve in multiple games is to play them (coaching too) and best way to improve the brain is to be physically fit and mentally fit. And I just think this is a good exercise, most of this comment is speculation or approximation.

I am somewhat paranoid about declining mental health after poor sleep and social stress essentially gave me a breakdown which effected me for a couple years. So I am basically doing it to avoid dementia and similar things in late adulthood and because I think it'd be good to have a more efficient brain and such. Also I am curious about skills carrying over into other games or such. I have done alot of research into the brain in correlation to videogames, through googling studies. Also looked up some about reading. Sometimes I theorize over what sort of complex games would yield the most benefits. Each game helps different areas typically though. But yeah if you think faster and gather information faster all decisions will be more efficient which can lead to more opportunities sometimes perhaps. Similar to confidence. But being near-sighted, and avoiding glasses use at it causes the visual cortex to become less efficient (despite helping people live longer) instead I would exercise my contrast vision playing fps games and turning down the brightness alot and then even wearing sunglasses on top of that, while on a treadmill and changing the sensitivity between minimum and maximum in a cod game before. Haven't gotten the treadmill in us lately though, being being physically healthy helps the brain too. And because of my split interests I am not pro level at any game despite having plenty of spare time, but this is I think probably the most information per second at top tiers and helps the visual cortex so may transfer to other areas more readily. Because I notice pros in a game learn new nuances in their games faster than casuals. This is due to experience of course so they know how to optimize it faster and have the habit of optimizing somewhat. So its not like if a new dlc character for a fighting game occurs they suddenly have to learn from scratch, they utilize similar behaviors and mechanics to learn faster from more correctly approximating their ranges of skills and the uses of them. But long story short, you need the attentiveness in order to notice how to optimize anyways, and know the limits of each mechanic or ability etc. So I am not sure also, if learning alot of games, or mastering one is better, but I don't keep up regularly with my split interests but. Sorta rambling, but pros at reading for instance read 1,000 wpm. Thats 3x faster than what I am currently doing, 4-5x faster than the average. When I look at the data in a SC2 study for how often pros respond to new information, its 40 times a minute max, with people just starting to try and get good get 20 maximum. Granted sc2 has alot of data at once, and it involves planning in response to new information not just being a robot, and muscle memory through repetition ensures they go through the process faster. But, theres more range to improve with speed reading being 3x for me, rather than +33% give or take for me in sc2, and I already learned the roles of the units and such for the most part. Reading fiction also has alot more diverse content, which makes it less rigorous, but the variability in word use and contexts etc because theres a much higher ceiling on variation than even sc2 has, I figure it preps the mind to respond to various information faster, but half of this is me considering it now. I think its far simpler, like sc2 has a training program that can indirectly be used to exercise the 20-40 a minute number (PACs, perception action cycles) at higher than that, and in that game it can lag because it generates a new game state every half a second, and the games have recording for replays so too much goes on it starts to lag loading each state even with an ok desktop (1500$ desktop from a year ago, I tried value buys too). But this program can prolly run fine on a basic laptop, and it has a potentially higher quantity of exercising that PAC stuff than sc2 can. Granted its far less standardized or organized and its not even competitive, how would that work lol, so it snot one mind vs another mind exactly. But reading also reduces stress, when competitive games increase it. Also it helps empathy, so it might promote better comprehension of opponents anyways if you wanted to mindgame or predict. So I think its easier to get into, can do it for longer without as much issues (like from stress or RSI, repetitive stress injury), the mind has to prepare for a greater diversity of cognitive stimuli if you imagine it at once as well. It just seems like its a higher potential brain status increase. Also if you wanted you could probably read a fiction thats intentionally an exercise in imagination with it.