Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[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 December 7, 2025 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 December 7, 2025 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.

[Davino]

16 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

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

You have a tough job teaching us, a bunch of conformist chimpanzees.

But you know, at least we try, unless you poke what we conform to

[Leo Gura]

I dare you guys to invent one new idea in your mind that no one has ever thought before.

Just so you see what true original thinking is.

Notice how little originality is in your mind.

Edited December 7, 2025 by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I dare you guys to invent one new idea in your mind that no one has ever thought before.

Just so you see what true original thinking is.

Notice how little originality is in your mind.

What about my new political spectrum, that is 100% original and without any influences from others. You have never seen something like that from someone else. 

[Leo Gura]

18 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

What about my new political spectrum, that is 100% original and without any influences from others. You have never seen something like that from someone else. 

Good, good. Keep thinking new ideas.

[Leo Gura]

I wonder how many of you will dress up as Waldo next Halloween?

But Leo! I've always loved Waldo! My body my choice! Leo, what's wrong about Waldo?

Edited December 7, 2025 by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

12 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Good, good. Keep thinking new ideas.

I wrote you a new post on my thread about the political compass, please read it and try to counter the argument I made there.

[Happy Lizard]

@Leo Gura I can see where each of the example you gave about green health kinda makes sense, except for demonization of sugar, do you mean to point at the function of just how everything on the list became a buzz thing that people started to accept without any thinking? Because thats the common denominator between all the things you list that I can see. 

conformity is thinking or taking action blindly based on buzz without reflecting on the belief in solitude, away form outside influences. That’s my contemplation of what conformity is.