The Psychology Of Traps
By Leo Gura - July 8, 2025 | 2 Comments
250+ traps of life to avoid
Maxiwrong says: I’ve known myself to be in a big trap with every new food I ate and every new drink I drank except for a certain tea, hemp seeds, Greek coffee, raw broccoli, and it turns out that this doesn’t need fixing, that my diet’s the way I should be eating and drinking, that all those deli meats, bread rolls, bread and sandwiches was a mistake big time, that it took 7 months for me to understand this, furthermore I’m plant-based, & I don’t think any of it needs to change. I also fell in the trap of beliefs that don’t work, and norms that don’t work, as it turns out society only cares about normies and they couldn’t care less if you’re weird, they couldn’t care less about the trouble you’re in, their wisdom’s simple, they get it from a set of guidelines from their Church, what they call wisdom, I think true wisdom derives from not being a fool in the first place, pseudo-wisdom’s a trap, as getting in all kinds of trouble to become wise makes you a fool, if you don’t know this by now, I think you’ll remain a fool for a long time. My wisdom just comes from books, and books on my phone, the internet and my experiences in good things, which is also simple, I get my wisdom from Kierkegaard and his strange religion, all this is modern wisdom, as a result I only follow modern philosophy.
Maxiwrong says: If I do this properly I’ll think the way Leo Gura wants me to think, but what about the way I want to think? What I want is to avoid traps no doubt, I want to be the type who’s peaceful, likeable, but I guess that won’t happen, people are wrecking my life, as the simplistic solutions can’t possibly work, the solution isn’t to find more complicated solutions, it’s to avoid making it an issue, working internally, isn’t that how “reality” works?, I feel wrong as I was made to feel wrong all my life, but I know I’m right, I think this is the way things should be, it shouldn’t lead to pessimism and it should be in such ways that people take this stuff on board, I talk of freedom and the cost of freedom, implying I have that right, but nobody accepts this, “do what you want” is a dirty word and what it means is to do what you want, e.g. I want some pizza therefore I bloody eat pizza, the traps are external solutions to problems as I learned from Leo Gura about fake growth and real growth, I even made changing my life a non-issue but I think I should make other things a concern, nothing gives me a real, genuinely better life, a changed life isn’t a better life, it’s just different, being different doesn’t solve problems, ordinary wisdom is still wisdom, as for all that my life isn’t a bloody paradise, different flavors of the flavor of terror, which smells like a stink, I’m under terror and it’s in Australia, the doctors are terrible and they don’t please people, fuck you!, you should be nice and should be pleasing people, you fucking punks! Everyone’s a fucking punk, as in my own country they’re punks and I don’t hate this country, I hate the conditions I’m under and pressure to follow a bullshit moral code and disbelieve shit I already believe, if I believed what people want me to believe it wouldn’t be a belief, that’s not obvious, but it would lead to changing a belief and not sticking to it, I don’t want people to think I’m admirable, I want to be a public disgrace by not having strong beliefs, being a loser for Leo Gura and being fucking human.