@LightningBolt
Lol, no fair, I was just gonna edit my post with “except for Lightning Bolt who’s a mare.”
Not a woman, because those are mythological creatures that don’t really exist. Obviously a pony. Like us. Because humans aren’t real, whatever Lyra thinks.
But I meant to include that bit about you being an exception from the beginning, but I forgot, heh.
Also if I were just roleplaying them they’d all be Smarty Pants and I’d be imagining if Celestia would be approving of it and Daring Do characters except maybe not now that I know Daring Do is real that might be kind of weird
Anyways, I just had this typed up:
@LightningBolt
I think it’s all just Pavlovian association.
It’s been shown rather thoroughly in psychology that we act for a reason, then only after does our thinking-brain come up with some excuse or reason completely unrelated to why we actually did it.
When you understand people are just bundles of associations rather than rational actors, a lot of things make a lot more sense. It’s really depressing though and you’d really like to believe you’re the way you are for real
reasons, and you might know a few, but most are probably made up, and the real reasons are just things like “You felt that way” and “You saw the product in a funny commercial so you like it” or “I met him by a floral shop and the flowers made me think of romance so I took him on a date”, or “I like her because her coat is a nice color”.