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  1. Bastian

    Me.

    By Bastian,

    Like I said, I went through depression that changed me as a person in the last month. But how much have I changed? What do I think about life nowadays?
    First, and on topic since the debate pit is gone: I don't want to push my lifestyle on anyone.
    Many times I have found myself thinking that I am perfect, that my way to see things is sacred, that the things I do and I don't should be copied by everyone.
    But it's not that way, Im just another human being who became what it is thanks to everything that has happened to him. The things I like and don't are just that, my own likes and dislikes. They can't be better than anyone else's. Imagine me saying that the green colour is better and telling everyone who doesn't think so to screw themselves. Pretty dumb eh?
    And although some may disagree, I want to apply this to everyone. With everyone I mean homophobics, flat eartheners, nazis, etc. What they think is wrong in my opinion, but I can't change the way they see things, they have the right to think whatever they want to think. I won't waste energy trying to tell them otherwise.
    And don't get me wrong. If they make harm I have to act, we can't just sit and watch how nazis take over the world. What I mean is that I won't push my mind into anyone unless it affects me.
    Second, what is my lifestyle? What is it that I won't push on anyone?
    Basically love. Love for your family and friends, love for your enemies. And ultimately, love for myself.
    Love for family and friends, doesn't need much explanation, we see it here every day. 
    Love for your enemies. We're are all human and I believe that as human we can't be anyone but ourselves. I can't be anyone but Bastian for example.
    So I can't blame people for doing mean things, that's who they are. (again, if I get hit I will hit back) The target of this "love" is more about not hating people. If anything, I will feel sad for them. 
    The thief was raised to be a thief, if not, he was raised to be a thief under certain conditions. I can't blame him if he steals my home completely. I don't want to kill them or make them suffer for what they do. I only wish they didn't have to do any of that.
    To summarize, I won't hate anyone and will always forgive. Suffering isn't fixed with more suffering.
    Third, self esteem: I had self esteem, but too much of it. Precisely the excess of self esteem is what made me think that my opinions were golden, what made me hate people and what made me try to push my mindset into others in the debate pit.
    How to fix it? Precisely love. If I have love for everyone then every other feeling is replaced. That way I will emanate the same feeling and hopefully make the world around me a better place.
    So to summarize it all. My life is a battle against excess of self esteem or ego, love being my weapon to fight it. I don't want to be better than anyone, I don't want to be a god or anything sacred. I just want to be me, to live my life, wherever it may lead to. 
  2. Bastian

    New definition of art.

    By Bastian,

    I once thought that art was beauty and nothing more, I was wrong, or so I think.
    Art is not simply something that is beautiful, though art must be beautiful. Art is that thing that takes you out of this world we live in and places you in another one, in the one described in the music or the painting or the book. If you manage that then its beautiful by default.
    Pretty simple but its what I think.
  3. Bastian

    Why an earth pony.

    By Bastian,

    You all know that my OC or ponysona is an earth pony, I was thinking about it yesterday, why is my OC an earth pony when the other two races have such cool abilities?
    I thought of everything, the first that popped to my head was the idea that I wanted to be special so I chose what I thought the less loved race. After that I would constantly be trying to say that I love earth ponies for this and that but in the end its all just an excuse to feel special.
    Another thing that also came to mind was that I don't like earth ponies more, but I can freely choose between all three races without feeling inferior to any, no matter what they're abilities are. That would be caused by the fact that I love myself as I am, so I wouldn't need the ability to fly nor use magic to feel special.
    Those were the main ideas, I still don't know which is the real one though, after all the second explanation could be just an excuse, or perhaps it is the truth.
    So, if we take a look at those people with unicorns and pegasi, are they happy? If you have a unicorn or a pegasus for ponysona, answer please, are you happy? 
    The answer being no could somewhat prove my point, the answer being yes could bring down my theory or perhaps mean that I do like earth ponies more.
    This is all very tangled, if you have an opinion I would love to hear it.
  4. Bastian

    Artists

    By Bastian,

    Artists have always been good, they improve the culture of humanity and of the people that chose to see their art. However, I have seen several problems with them nowadays.
    Lets begin with a simple fact, an artist won't get recognized that easily, in fact, you are either Da Vinci or no one.
    There are people who don't have any kind of skill but most are in the middle and are great at what they do. But no one will look at your work if they don't know you previously, but how will they know you if you just began?
    We can picture what I am saying with, for example, brony musicians. I've seen some who have made a song, posted a pony image for background and there you go: "brony song"
    Why? To generate views of course. Being standalone wouldn't help them so they just decided to make their "art" based on the fandom so that more people would be interested in their work.
    Another problem with brony musicians presicely, I've seen a lot of "being proud for being a brony" or "we are the best" kind of songs. I suppose its either an answer to haters or (though I doubt it) to help these people ashamed of being part of us. If its the former I have a problem with it, because those songs while catchy most of the time are bad and the fact that we don't have to counterattack haters. 
    Our situation isn't (or was, I think society has accepted us at some level) like with gay and black people who have homophobes and racists respectively who are literally attacking them, we only have (or had, I don't know) a couple of minor idiots who are just saying that we're weird or bad or whatever, they ain't attacking us. I don't think we have the right to do those kinds of songs since we don't have real problems which threaten our existence.
    If its the latter then they have a point.
    Another problem, quality.
    With social media and internet giving space for everyone to post their talent some people have aquired a way of letting themselves know more or less, this is a double edge though, since it makes untalented people also able to post their work.
    FiMfiction is proof. I may even be part of the problem I am depicting. 
    Many stories are good, you can't expect them to be as good as a writer like Tolkien but they are still very good. Many more are bad and awful to read. (There was a brony who dedicated to read bad stories lol)
    Making it easier to show your talent has filled the internet with trash is the point.
    I was just speaking my mind about artists nowadays, nothing special. I feel empty in a way though, about this.
    End of the blog.
    You can go away now, or leave a comment if you so want.
    The main topic is over, that's all folks.
    Why are you even reading at this point? 
    I don't want to waste your time any further so I will just stop...
    Here.
  5. Bastian

    Religion

    By Bastian,

    Religion is something as old as cave men, it wasn't as sophisticated but they still had beliefs. Today I will talk about wether religion is good or bad to humanity, taking into account human needs and the outcome of it.
    I will begin saying that Im 100% sure that there is no god nor luck or any kind of things like that and I still belief in some of them.
    The human being has two kinds of needs, physical (say food, water, you get me) and spiritual (knowledge sometimes, religion, etc).
    The human needs to believe in something, it just needs to, without a belief he would be pointless, since those beliefs forge the morale of each one and define who we want to be.
    Religions, like Catholicism, satisfy the need for a belief, they provide something in which to believe, giving certain morale to the human who beliefs in it, thus, a target in life: be as good as the god says to go to heaven.
    It's those things what moves us in life, for some people, being as good as how god says you have to be is the only way to achieve happiness, because then they will feel happy with themselves for doing what they have done.
    It's not all pink though, for the reasons mentioned before is why believers sometimes are agaisnt other groups of people like the LGTBQ comunity, they belief firmly in what god says and do as he says to be happy.
    Then we have the other bad thing, why are Catholics always trying to have more followers? They know that they can manipulate people with the religious needs so they use it to have control over them. 
    So far we have seen bad and good things of religion, now we only have to weight.
    Is it ok to help some people in life with one of the basic needs at the cost of making other people's life a hell? While also controling the followers to do as you want? I don't think so. At the end you could harm all of them.
    But not all religions are bad, we have Buddhism, as Catholicism you would be trying to be as someone else to be happy with yourself, but it isn't trying to have more followers, thus, it's not trying to control people. It doesn't harm any other group either, so it is the perfect religion right? 
    I would have to do a research on it but so far it seems that way. It has less reach though, that would be it's problem. 
    What I do is belief in my own god and in other stuff, those make my morale, if I can everyone should be able to as well right?
    Perhaps, but when we are born we already are assigned a religion, that or we are pushed to one in the future.
    So back to the question: Religion, good or bad?
    It's an answer to one of humanity's necessities, the thing is that we have made it the wrong way and have taught people to hate instead of love, we have instructed the wrong morale in the biggest religions. Big mistake.
    Religion in itself is like the knife, it can hurt and it can help, it all depends in the person behind it. 
  6. Bastian

    Friendship

    By Bastian,

    What is a friend? That person who shares some of your qualities and which you love as family. You can discard everything else.
    What defines a friendship? I think a friendship is defined by pretty much what the above said, doing actions which you would normally do with family with your friends like cheering for something they achieved, crying with them for their pain and always trying to keep them happy, a sad friend isn't a nice thing to have.
    If you have lots of friends but some disagree with each other what would you do? With who would you stick to? Try to remain neutral even though some are against your ideals and the ones of your friends?
    What if those people who are against your ideals are very kind and good overall?
    I don't think they can be, they will be kind perhaps with you because you meet their standards but maybe not so much with others who you may even also consider your friends.
    I said I wanted to become friends with everyone regardless of their politic position or anything else, but I don't think that's what I want anymore.
    Because on top of everything I said above, a friend shares your morale.
    It's hard for me to say it but I stand tall and proud when I say that I won't stand anymore those who support the actual goverment of the US who is making MY life and the ones of more than TEN MILLION people harder, neither those who are against other human beings whith the pitiful excuse of god or any other at all. 
    So yea, if you fit the description above, bye bye.
  7. Bastian

    Happiness.

    By Bastian,

    Where to begin? I think I will just give my definition.
    Happiness, for me is a state of mind, achieved only when you already have everything you want. Once that is completed you can suffer pain in any form, wether it is physical or mental, you will still be happy. Hell! You could even die with a smile!
    My first conflict here would be the fact that Im poor, I lack of internet, food is not always the best and lots of other problems I have. So how did I achieve this state of mind with all of the before mentioned? That's easy to answer. I stopped wanting, or so I thought. I convinced myself that I didn't want anything else, I was happy how I was.
    I later discovered that I indeed wanted other stuff, I wish my economical situation was better for example. How was I happy if I didn't have everything I wanted?
    After thinking for some time I discovered that what I want are physical stuff, so perhaps happiness is achieved not by having everything you want, but to reach a certain state of mind. But which one? And how do you achieve it?
    I was 13 years old when I first became who I am today. Back then I thought that I had full control over my mind, so I just set the happy "on" 
    But is it because I am special that I managed to have such control over my feelings? No, that can't be it. Something must have happened that allowed myself to do it.
    At that age was also when I truly discovered who I was, that mixture of likes and dislikes that defines us. Since then I embraced what I liked and got away from those things I didn't, regardless of public opinion, regardless of the opinions of my family and friends. I accepted myself, something I hadn't done as a kid.
    I think I have it, that state of mind I talked to you about is that one of self-acceptance. I now think that once you accept who you are and are proud to be yourself you can and will be happy.
    Sure, people may have made mistakes in the past but we all do, you just need to learn from them, that's no reason to look down on yourself.
    Regarding psychopaths and other criminals, they can be happy doing what they do as well, that's why they are criminals after all. 
    What about those who had to commit a crime against their will? It isn't their fault, so they shouldn't include those actions that they made because they would have died otherwise when thinking of themselves as a person.
    All lives matter equally so if you took one to save your own you shouldn't look down on yourself either, it is our natural instinct to try to survive no matter the situation.
    I will repeat it, all lives matter equally, take a father and a random guy without family, if you were to decide who lives and who dies you can't take into account how would their deaths affect those who are alive but how it would affect the one who is going to die, after all, we all deserve to live happily ever after.
    This conversation is threading off topic now so I'll stop.
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