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It hasn't really. It's just a show that I like. I suppose it gives me something to get up for on Saturdays.

What keeps you guys drug free? What inspires you to just say no or just walk away? Or even better, if you wish to share, if you were using, what inspired you to stop? What gave you the strength to break the habit?

So one day an ex-friend of mine walked into my house with a bag of blue pills. "What are those?", I asked. "Not a clue.", he said. "What do they do?", I asked. "Not sure.", he responded. Then I told him, "Well grab some chair bro. We'll figure this out together."

Just a little backstory on who I was.

I finally stopped when I OD'd on cocaine. I was very dizzy and was tingling all over. My friend had the sense to take me too the hospital. They took my blood pressure. 212/125. That's high enough to suffer organ damage and puts you at severe risk for a heart attack. Scared the living shit out of me. I was 19 years old.

Got out of the hospital after about 36 hours. Being in there gave me time to reflect upon my life. I had barely graduated high school as a C student, when I could have easily been valedictorian, and had pretty much just been a burnout since then. I was a miserable pile of shit, and that needed to change. So I got drug counseling, got clean, seperated myself from my old friends (I tried to help them but they wouldn't listen. The guy I told you about with the pills is dead now.), and signed up for a trade program. I'm a union carpenter now, with a beautiful wife and a child on the way. Life is going well for me now.

Other than my own willpower, I can attibute my succes to a close friend of mine that I made while I was getting clean. He was in the same boat. He introduced me to Odinism/Asatru/whatever you want to call it. They had a small but thriving community in the county where I lived at the time, and they welcomed me with open arms. They supported me through my struggle and gave me a new faith to help me through.

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Don't do drugs, kids.

I have always been fascinated with how history has often repeated it's mistakes over and over. If every grand mind in the forum got together, maybe we can change this, do something good for the world as a whole. This could all start with a few simple questions. What in your eyes is a perfect world, a utopia? 

 

 Brought to you by Equestria's newest philosopher, Tranquil Claw

 

I'm thinking of starting a daily question for the forum to answer and discuss. Should I do this?

 I'll let you decide. 

Utopia does not, and can not exist. There will always be room for improvement in society and governance. My preferance would be a minimalist government with a free market economy.

I'll take the middle seat so that I can have two. Barack Obama and Kaisar Willhelm II.

I know its a strong thing to ask on people but I want to find out the average badassness of a brony

Smoking is one of the most badass things you can do it so badass you even risk your life if you do it !

Since haters say bronies are not badass I want to proof that wrong by calculating the average badassness of a brony .smoking is a part of my experiment because smoking is very badass I want to know that you smoke or not (I do not support smoking I'm only doing a expiriment )

I quit smoking about a year ago when I bought my mouth fedora. I love that thing.

Stopped reading at wants to get rid of Trixie. Definetly not a child who sent it, but they do have plebian taste.

He would have told me that you have strayed from the path that the Allfather has set for you, and probably challenge me to hólmganga.

I got to 2:38 and said "Okay, I'm done with this shit."

If you call all bronies autists, then you ain't any part of us. Also, http://prntscr.com/8sobz4

The video is called "Is My Little Pony a Bad Influence?", but it hardly talks about it.

He doesn't say all bronies are autists, just a very loud minority.

If the fact that this guy is subscribed to Stefan Molyneux wasn't bad enough the way he tries to twist this show into an ultranatonalist haven is just stupid. They did have native Americans very clearly represented. But according to this guy if they don't have it more then once then they clearly don't support forms of multiculturalism. And to claim that the various pony species are different nations is really stretching it. Whilst yes there are differences most of these are due to their powers. They all speak the same language and they don't seem to make much of such minor differences (wouldn't it be cool if we all did that?). Not to mention it's especially disgusting that he thinks the native Americans shouldn't be acknowledged. Topped off by the fact he used autism as an insult this video further shows the idiocy of the far-right. 

Stupid, yes. But it would also serve the purpose that I had mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMDVx08hOuY

I found this video just a while ago. It can explain the appeal to them in terms that they can understand. You should all check it out.