Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Nemra]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Everything but God is illogical if you look at it deep enough.

My observations are also leading to the conclusion that things are illogical.

For example, it's illogical to think of oneself as someone who experiences stuff while living with others.

Another example is that human life has been going on for a long time, as if people continuously are born into this dimension, then die and are born as another thing in this dimension, treating this universe as some fixed place.

TBH, seeing through the illogicality of those two examples is not easy to handle, because your sense of self has been built on them for a long time.

The thought that nothing happened to anyone but me shocks me to the core.

Edited 20 hours ago by Nemra

[Thought Art]

 

[integral]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Which is why I am here.

You have taken the concept of conformity and turned it into useless slop, suitable for feeding the hogs of academic philosophy.

lmfaoooOOOOo 

Elton John by choice conformed to social norms because of social pressures

So this is not unconscious social conformity identity alignment, but he did conform to a system.

To conform is to shape into, to adapt to, to be formed by.

The childs mind is shaped by a million factors: social, genetic, environmental, sickness, gravity... cows farting... chicken growth hormons...

The child conformed to the push and pull of systems its entangled in.

Most of does system are not social/cultural.

So conformity happens in many domains, This is holism and practical.

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In the latest blog and videos conformity is used specifically in the social domain to explain the mass hallucination and consumerist regurgitation of ideas. 

[Rafael Thundercat]

@Leo Gura you said :

"

Note: I want to warn you seriously about this notion of eliminating capitalism or the market system. I strongly disagree with Peter Joseph that markets or capitalism can be eliminated. This is a fantasy. It is not going to happen. Not at all! So do not get the wrong idea that just because I recommended Peter Joseph that I endorse eliminating capitalism and markets. I don't have time right now to explain why this will not work."

I would love to know from you when possible, why will not work. Because I also intuit it will not work and I see a lot of people in my circle of friends that support the ideia of ending capitalism. If is a fantasy is for sure something we need to understand.

[AerisVahnEphelia]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Do you understand that the words "based", "chad", "boomer", "zoomer", "rizz" are only used out of conformity? That's the only reason you know those words.

Anyways. You guys contemplate conformity more. I am not happy seeing all this confusion over such easy idea.

Contemplate.

I invented the notion of aura maxxing

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Wim Hoff works to some degree, but it is crazy overhyped and conformist.

I don't think it is overhyped, imo it's the quickest sober way to change your state of consciousness, reconnect with your body and ground yourself. It reboots my energy after intense intellectual activity and after working out reduces my soreness noticeably for the next morning. It helps me a lot to recover after I'm sick, specially on colds and fevers. It works great before meditation or yoga. I've also shared the technique with 4 people and everyone has experienced very positive results to the point of 3 doing it regularly. 

Maybe it's different for others, but for me Wim Hoff breathing is super effective, if you only have 15min it's the best technique you can do out there. Effective always and it makes you feel very very nice. 

I'm open to try other techniques that work better and I'm unaware of, because if that is the case I'm missing on a lot and I'm willing to seriously try them out.

[integral]

57 minutes ago, Davino said:

I'm open to try other techniques that work better and I'm unaware of, because if that is the case I'm missing on a lot and I'm willing to seriously try them out.

The biggest impact is the tone of your thoughts, and the tone of your inner voice and the tempo of your inner voice.

Right now you're reading this and you're reading it with a specific tone of voice, but you could choose any other tone of voice and rhythm and it would have a vastly different effect on your physiology.

Try reading while rhyming in a kind of child's game, or reading it whimsically as if to exaggerate the lows and highs for every word, or reading it with a loving tone of voice like a feminine voice. You could change your inner voice to be a womans voice.

There are a lot of studies where they analyzed people's inner voice, and they found that there's a huge correlation between inner voice and anxiety, level stress level levels, and the quality of the person's life.

And the thing is, this is fully controllable.

You could impersonate a highly loving, caring, gentle woman's voice, and you use only that as your inner voice to do all of your thinking contemplation or reading or daily operations.

Also, the rhythm of your inner voice place a huge role, if you start off with a whimsical rhythm, you quickly find that you'll enter into a play state and your whole physiology will change into a play physiology and it allows you to enter into the zone much easier.

Your inner voice directly correlates to how fluently you enter into the zone.

This is where mantras are actually useful, a mantra has a specific energy. If I say the word. "My love" internally, it invokes the vagus nerve and warms the solar plexus with good feelings. It's similar to the inner smile, simply smile internally, and you could feel it changing your physiology. There's also the word "control" which facilitates a pause for about 10 seconds, and then you could repeat that word to facilitate another pause and another resenting. Each of these words has an energy that directly affects a physiological response because there's associations you're making to all of these things.

All of your inner words, tempo are directly associated with your physiology.

And it could all be designed where you self explorer the correct tempo and we have operating and then you simply practised it until it becomes your default network.

You could read in "slow motion", it's all an act. But your body makes it real.

Edited 21 hours ago by integral

[mmKay]

Eating with cutlery. Hate those things. Team hands 👇

[r0ckyreed]

@Leo Gura I had a discussion about conformity with my friend and we came to the conclusion that something is conformity if you didn’t spend time thinking through it yourself and having your own authentic motivation. For instance, you do Wim Hof breathing because you find it beneficial vs. doing it because people say it’s good for you. I remember playing trumpet out of conformity because my dad and friend did it. But it eventually became something that I authentically loved. So something that starts off as conformity could end in finding an interest I would’ve never discovered.

[Terell Kirby]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Calling it conformity does not mean it doesn't work.

Spiritual pragmatism- most religions and New Age paths are grounded in this.

What works is conflated with what is True. It’s takes a highly non conformist mind to be able to make this distinction.

How can something that works for human flourishing and well being be false? Does not compute for most human minds

[Ponder]

1 hour ago, Terell Kirby said:

Spiritual pragmatism- most religions and New Age paths are grounded in this.

What works is conflated with what is True. It’s takes a highly non conformist mind to be able to make this distinction.

How can something that works for human flourishing and well being be false? Does not compute for most human minds

I would argue for some form of pragmatism for most humans. 

Most humans simply aren't intelligent (spiritually or otherwise) to uncover the Truth in this lifetime, so they may as well do what's best for their 'happiness,' even if it isn't ultimately true. 

[Yimpa]

[Davino]

@integral Thanks for taking the time to explain it. Definitely interesting and the first experiments show some potential. It kinda reminds me of how my inner voice changes depending on the language I speak. 

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, mmKay said:

Eating with cutlery. Hate those things. Team hands 👇

Hands is so conformist.

An autonomous man eats with his feet.

Edited 18 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

5 hours ago, integral said:

Elton John by choice conformed to social norms because of social pressures

So this is not unconscious social conformity identity alignment, but he did conform to a system.

Dude, are you for real??

You guys have the weirdest twisted notions of what conformity is.

I don't even know what to say to you.

I talked about Conformity for 4 fucking hours, gave you 500 examples, multiple blog posts, and apparently still no one gets it.

Edited 18 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Dude, are you for real??

You guys have the weirdest twisted notions of what conformity is.

I don't even know what to say to you.

I talked about Conformity for 4 fucking hours, gave you 500 examples, and apparently still no one gets it.

Here are all the notes that I took from the 4 hour long video.

 

[Leo Gura]

29 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

I am waiting for someone to post a screenshot with butt-hole sunbathing highlighted.

[Leo Gura]

5 hours ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

Contemplate.

I invented the notion of aura maxxing

And I invented the notion of DickMaxxing™.

[Davino]

3 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I am waiting for someone to post a screenshot with butt-hole sunbathing highlighted.

Okay, that was hella funny

[Basman]

2 hours ago, mmKay said:

Eating with cutlery. Hate those things. Team hands 👇

I used to fantasize that I was a kind of predator when eating meat as a kid. I would try eat it with just my mouth but my mom wouldn't let me (she's conformist). 

My mind still sometimes go there when I eat my chicken wings.