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Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web-
@thatonepony Just to point it out, there's a lot of things I hate. You can't just choose to not hate something, it's not a choice. I do try to tolerate as much as I can, though.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:06:05 UTC from web -
@thatonepony Honestly, I think that the "Love and Tolerance" ideal is, in a way, nonsense. If you really love someone, you're not going to just tolerate any and everything blindly. I'm not going to "love and tolerate" the guy who pulled a knife on my best friend. At my best, I may still "love" the knife-guy and wish he would find a better way of life, but I sure as sugar am not going to "tolerate" his crap. And if someone I loved took up a self-destructive habit (drugs, cutting, whatever) I'm not going to just tolerate their downfall. I think "Love and Tolerance" is a grand idea, and I do try to live by it - but to a reasonable degree. You can't live in any way whatsoever - hateful, loving, anything in between - without giving it thought and consideration first, and constantly. #MyTwoBits
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:06:32 UTC from web-
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:07:28 UTC from web
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@thatonepony That's what I meant. Too tired to write about it in any length, but I agree with @fpevohf. He summed up my thoughts on it rather well.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:09:29 UTC from web -
@thatonepony there are many things I've grown to tolerate much much since ponies, and there a quite a few things that I like that I would always have hated beforehand, notably the electronic remixes of pony songs. I sure as anypony else have certain things I "hate" I just don't act on it like I would have a while back
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:09:30 UTC from web -
@thatonepony @purplephish20 Just beware, that post of mine is a grammatical atrocity
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:10:30 UTC from web -
@thatonepony I see what you mean. I do my best, but to be fair I was trying to before discovering MLP:FiM. I'd say that anger, itself, is an emotion and therefore neutral, and that it's what you do with it that matters. That said, I had an anger problem for most of my life. I'd finally gotten into therapy for it, and had been for about three months before stumbling upon Equestria. And for a couple of months before that, my at-the-time soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend was trying to get me to get help, and getting me at least a little bit introduced to some good sources for it.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:16:01 UTC from web -
@thatonepony @redbacksigil Exactly what redback said, he just had better grammar than me
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:21:20 UTC from web -
@thatonepony I think it also helped by giving me something to distract myself with in the wake of my breakup. :p The first 3 weeks or month or so, I read all then-current 12 books in "The Dresden Files" series.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:26:53 UTC from web -
@thatonepony I still need to get my buddy's copy of "Ghost Story." Also, he has my copy of "John Dies at the End," but that's irrelevant to Dresden.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:30:14 UTC from web -
@thatonepony Ooh, yes, I very nearly bought those books but my group has dissolved and I haven't found a new one. :(
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:36:58 UTC from web -
@thatonepony Also, "John Dies..." is amazing. It's like Kevin Smith directing H. P. Lovecraft.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:37:26 UTC from web -
@thatonepony It was actually surprisingly scary - largely because it focused on genuine fright and not gore or shock.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:47:37 UTC from web-
@fpevohf If you like stories that are low on gore but high on scare, check out anything by HP Lovecraft. His language is a bit archaic, but he is fantastic.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:56:03 UTC from web-
@redbacksigil Indeed! I have. I almost drove off of an unlit backroad once when I thought I saw the Dunwich Horror one night.
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:58:04 UTC from web-
@fpevohf You saw the Dunwich Horror? You mean you saw the film, or the Horror itself?
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 19:50:44 UTC from web-
@redbacksigil The Horror itself. I had just read the story (under the light of a ceiling fan which had a habit of shaking the bulbs loose and causing the light to flicker, no less) and I was driving to work on a particularly windy moonlit night. The street had no lamps, and as I passed a large tree I saw something large out of the corner of my eye on top of a small mound. The first thing my mind leapt to was "The Dunwich Horror," and a few outrageously fast heartbeats later I realized it was just a Dumpster. XD
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 20:11:17 UTC from web-
@fpevohf LOL, pretty cool! Was it shouting "FATHER! FATHER! YOG-SOTHOTH! YOOOG SOTHOOOOOTH!"?
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 22:40:27 UTC from web
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@thatonepony Well, I'd hate to spoil anything. . . <.<
Sunday, 11-Dec-11 17:50:08 UTC from web
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