Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[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 11 hours ago 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 11 hours ago 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.

[Basman]

42 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.

I had the idea once of "convergent inventions", where different human groups completely detached from each other geographically and culturally invent the exact same things, like the spear, the bow, fires, etc. as well as concepts like slavery, war, money, kingship, etc. Things that are so common sense that you don't need cross pollination to spread the idea. 

I don't think it is particularly groundbreaking or that original, but I've never heard of something like this before from anyone else. 

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, Happy Lizard said:

except for demonization of sugar

Sugar has been way over-demonized in the Green health world. People talk about it like poison.

Moderate sugar is fine.

See, even when I say that, someone reading that will be shocked. "But Leo! How could you?! I thought you were so conscious! I am so dissappointed in you! Leo is a fraud!"

Edited 10 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Happy Lizard]

@Leo Gura My idea is that there has to be a middle of the road kind of position to some of what can be labeled as conformity, for example using English as the most common language to communicate is conformity, but then you have to start somewhere to solve the problem before you can chose not to conform. Thats why I said what I think you are pointing at is more abstractly the function of how each thing in the list becomes a buzz that people follow blindly and then it becomes a given, not the validity of the thing itself.

Edited 10 hours ago by Happy Lizard

[Zen LaCroix]

7 hours 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.

Leo you're continuously suprised by how underdeveloped your audience is 

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, Happy Lizard said:

for example using English as the most common language to communicate is conformity,

Of course society requires certain basic conformist building blocks to function. Language is one example. Laws against murder and rape is another.

That is fine. That's not the problematic kind of conformity.

Make sure you guys understand that I am NOT asking you to demonize basic social building blocks when I speak of conformity.

I am half-expecting someone to take a shit on the dinner table and then say, "But Leo said to not be conformist!"

Edited 10 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

wtf @Map Porn blogpost - Australia in the turd bucket there.

[Leo Gura]

@Natasha Tori Maru Congrats on winning the kangaroo lottery.

[Miguel1]

17 minutes ago, Zen LaCroix said:

Leo you're continuously suprised by how underdeveloped your audience is 

Haha. Even I am constantly surprised despite being much less developed than Leo. Just imagine how disappointed he is.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

One of the checks I run through my head with the conformity topic - is this performative to the social domain? Is this an attempt to communicate status or hierarchy? Usually you'll be able to discern the context of the topic that way.

Conformity in the existential sense is very different.

[mmKay]

 

 

This is real non-comformist body building 

[Jannes]

1 hour 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.

Create a movie "world" with linear time where you can freely skip to different POVs. No matter the combination, it ends up as an interesting movie. You can rewatch it and take different POVs as well so you get many different perspectives. 

Kind of like Sims in a way when I think about it but optimized to create an actually interesting plot all around. And I think of 2D instead of 3D.

[VioleGrace]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

I am half-expecting someone to take a shit on the dinner table and then say, "But Leo said to not be conformist!"

I am crying hahaha 

[VioleGrace]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

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

But how can you know what is conformity and what really come from yourself ? 
Hard to do right ? 

Spoiler did'nt watch your video yet