Any bronies (meaning MLP fans who are male)?

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Gia_B said:
My first reaction upon seeing this thread was to cheer like Fluttershy. Yay.

I walked into a Wawa a few days ago and saw a man with a Rainbow Dash T-shits. Needless to say, I was excited. I sat there for a good ten minutes trying to think of something clever to say. By the time I decided to ask him if Rarity has designed his shirt, he had already left. Anybody know what lesson I learned about friendship from that so I can write a letter to the princess?

Coincidentally, this is what I’m wearing right now: cafepress.com/mf/58434073/elements-of-harmony_tshirt#sizechart
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Dear Princess Celestia,

I lost an opportunity today to make a new friend. But I still feel I learned a lesson about friendship. If you see somepony who could be a new friend, don’t be afraid to offer them your friendship. Just walk up to them and say “I like your shirt, and I know what it means”…or whatever is more relevant to the situation.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
Yeah but to think MLP influence would reach all the way here. I’m just honestly perplexed cuz I’m immune to it. 😛
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I think men of my generation are just starved for something wholesome and when they find something that is wholesome and genuinely entertaining, they latch onto it with such a fervor.

It’s the same thing that I feel is driving my generation back to the faith.

I loved Jesus before I loved ponies, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many will love ponies before eventually loving Jesus.
 
BlueEyedLady said:
Go to YouTube and type in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Watch any one of the 50 or so episodes that come up and then you’ll have your answer. (Though for your first episode I would recommend staying away from the ‘Cutie Mark Crusaders’ episodes. There are only a few of them.)
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What’s wrong with the Cutie Mark Crusaders? 😦
 
MPat said:
Well, there must be some way to use it for apologetics (or cathecesis)… For example, Spike’s “speech” in the episode “Dragon Quest” (“No! It’s just a defenseless egg, like I was! And I’m not gonna let you hurt it!” - mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Transcripts/Dragon_Quest) is almost asking to be used against the pro-abortion argument discussed in the thread forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=615185… And it should be possible to use the last episode of season two (mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Transcripts/A_Canterlot_Wedding_-_Part_2) as a “teaching aid” to explain annulments…
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“Feeling Pinkie Keen” was all I was thinking about while reading Fides et Ratio. Pinkie even screams out “You have to take a leap of faith!”
 
blase6 said:
I watched a few episodes and discovered I am immune to this strange disease of “Bronyism”, but I know others have not been as fortunate…Those who hold a grudge against this show…They eventually fall to the disease…However, those who are indifferent to the show…They are immune to its captivating effects…
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May God have mercy on your soul.
 
I’m going to go out on a limb and say I am the biggest brony on this thread . I have watched all the episodes from seasons 1 and 2 at least three times (and some I’ve seen about twenty times) and I’m in the process of doing that with Season 3. I’ve already seen the “Apple Family Reunion” episode 5 times because I have a perpetual crush on Applejack. 🤷 Oh, and check out the username 😉

Just for the record, if there is anyone here who discourages watching it, think again. The show practically teaches Jesus without using his name (“Preach the gospel, and when necessary, use words!” -St. Francis of Assisi). The show teaches wonderful morals, it’s beautifully animated, and is delightfully innocent. Remember; “Unless you change and become like children, you will never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven” Matthew 18:3.
 
Brony4life said:
I’m going to go out on a limb and say I am the biggest brony on this thread . I have watched all the episodes from seasons 1 and 2 at least three times (and some I’ve seen about twenty times) and I’m in the process of doing that with Season 3. I’ve already seen the “Apple Family Reunion” episode 5 times because I have a perpetual crush on Applejack. 🤷 Oh, and check out the username 😉

Just for the record, if there is anyone here who discourages watching it, think again. The show practically teaches Jesus without using his name (“Preach the gospel, and when necessary, use words!” -St. Francis of Assisi). The show teaches wonderful morals, it’s beautifully animated, and is delightfully innocent. Remember; “Unless you change and become like children, you will never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven” Matthew 18:3.
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That is impressive! I tip my hat to you.
 
Last Saturday another PonyCon was done here in the Philippines, which I think is already the third in a year. I wasn’t able to attend the con though (I planned to but got busy…)
 
so, did anyone catch the season finaly. it blew me out of the water, even considering i personly felt season 3 was kinda lack-luster.

i also love how they deconstructed destiny. i always thought the concept of cutie marks was kinda weird; that every child had a specific role in life with no deviation. the mane cast doing what they believe they were destined, even if they were miserable and horrible at it all because “its what my cutie mark is telling me”. good lesson
 
I_R said:
so, did anyone catch the season finaly. it blew me out of the water, even considering i personly felt season 3 was kinda lack-luster.

i also love how they deconstructed destiny. i always thought the concept of cutie marks was kinda weird; that every child had a specific role in life with no deviation. the mane cast doing what they believe they were destined, even if they were miserable and horrible at it all because “its what my cutie mark is telling me”. good lesson
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Well, that is one way to look at it. On the other hand, sometimes vocation (I’d say vocation is what corresponds to cutie-mark in real world, but, of course, “vocation” wouldn’t fit in the song as well as “destiny”) seems to be given without abilities that would be assumed to be required. For example, that might have happened to St. Joseph of Cupertino or St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney (not that they got no “compensation”). Though maybe that is not extreme enough… Perhaps, if St. Joseph of Cupertino ended up in Cistersian order instead of Franciscan, then the result might have been close to Pinkie Pie running the farm… 🙂 (At first I planned to use Dominicans as the example, but they would clearly fit Twilight Sparkle’s vocation too clearly and she didn’t “participate” in the confusion…)

Also, the matter of Twilight becoming a princess… Wouldn’t it seem somewhat close to Holy Orders…? 🙂 Especially given that some have complained that it gives her “godlike powers”… Of course, Holy Orders give not just “godlike”, but “Godlike” powers (like the power to remit sins). Not that they make deacons, priests and bishops look “overpowered”… 🙂

Finally, the controversies about Twilight becoming a princess have reminded me of things that happen in “Traditional Catholicism” subforum… I guess there will be “Traditionalist Bronies”… 🙂 Perhaps Hasbro will take example from “Summorum Pontificum” and establish both “Ordinary Form” and “Extraordinary Form” of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”…? 🙂 Or are the comic books already “MLP:FiM EF”…? 🙂
 
you are right, i was mostly thinking about the simplified kid’s show portrayal of destiny or vocations. obviously they get cutie marks in what they are good at and love to do, but i feel that them getting them so young is not that good of a thing to portray; maybe if they got them in adolescenes instead. but this episode did send a good message of missplaced vocations, if one is not good at something or doesnt like it they why do it just because you “think” its ment for you.

also, on a random note on the comics; they are a bit darker then what i would expect, but still entertaining. (queen crystales kills a cat)
 
The fact that I am the 200th poster on this thread makes me wonder if maybe St. Malachy was right after all.
 
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