You have all come up with good points, I will think it over. But it would be hard to change a mindset I have had most of my life. Most people are morally bankrupt in my opinion. Maybe my ideas of morality are too strict and narrow. I dunno. I am quite antisocial so when I meet a few people I like I normally stick with them and feel no need to meet anyone else. So I have not made much of an effort to meet people so my social experiment has very few variables I guess and then I dwell on any negative results I get. Thanks for your feedback I am considering everything you are all saying.
You are really asking for a hoof upside your flank here Setzer. I don't understand how you can say this. Never mind the obvious craziness of this statement, in smaller terms, the only one losing in this scenario is yourself.
Indeed. Luckily, the internet is patient. Yes, this is true, even of most who think they aren't. Probably not, unless you're not being genuine, in which case, see the qualifying clause above. This is good thinking Setzer.
It was good to let this frustration out, thanks for supporting me Manehattenite and Lupr. I have already run all those statements through my head for several years, only now did I type them all out. Feels like I've let go of a lot of tension.
I'm late to the party, yay. I'd like to start by saying that if it wasn't for MLP. I'd still be hanging out on /b/ being the biggest @$$hole I could be just for fun. In June and July, when I first found ponies I didn't care about the message attached to it. Why would I care. Love and Tolerance, that's just stupid. No one in the world follows it why should I. Then I found this forum by accident. I lurked a bit, then I decided to join. I liked it at first, seemed like a cool place. Then I left after 2 weeks, I got bored, the site was full of love and tolerance. I wanted no part of it, so I went back to /b/. For some reason this site was able to get my attention again, I'm glad it did. It caused me to think about my life and the person I was. Over time, I agreed, love and tolerance for all. I follow that now, I love and tolerate everyone possible. Some make it a lot harder then others. A perfect example, the /b/tard at work, I used to have problems with, is now a friend. It happened over time. I'm guessing us both coming from /b/ helped, but I kept that hidden. So he just recently found out. I still hate /b/ and all it's negativeness. Take that above statement however you want. Point is the show made me a better person and I could care less about the label attached to it.
Strictly speaking, there is no group that does not require you to adhere to a certain behavioral code. The government, and by extension, the country, has laws. The religions, the churches of the world, have tenets. Sports, and their fans too, have rituals and behaviors they strictly adhere to. So does bronydom. In each case, some people adhere to the rules and expectations, some do not. People sometimes break laws. People sometimes don't go to that place to watch that game. People sometimes don't pray the 5 times a day they are told they have to. Just the same, some people do not meet our expectations of how we think they should act. Of course, spreading the message of tolerance, if not love, requires one to tolerate all things, which many of us are not doing, but then again, we must remember that we are trying to force a concept on a group of people instead of letting them come themselves. Thus, we pay the price with the image of the community. After all, the most zealous and fanatical members of a group are also the most seen and outgoing, no?
