The Psychology Of Conformity -- New Video!

[Kid A]

On 1.11.2025 at 4:01 PM, Twentyfirst said:

Yeah I will never understand how European societies are more developed than the rest of the world. Having a woman naked in a bikini just so weak men can later jerk off to the thought of her is absolute animalism. I try really hard to understand how it's more developed and I just can't see it

You pull out one thing you don’t like about European societies, present your extremely one-sided negative view of that thing, and then that’s supposed to be a good argument for why European societies can’t be more developed than the rest of the world?

Forget that the people there are the ones who answer that they’re most satisfied with their lives of everyone in the whole world when asked, forget that they’re the ones who have their basic needs met to the greatest extent, forget that they have the most well-functioning welfare states, forget that the people there have the most freedom to live their lives as they themselves want: They have women in bikinis that make men horny, EWWWWW, shit societies!!!

[royce]

Thank  you

[Sandroew]

 

[Wilhelm44]

Yay, at the end of the video Leo says he will teach alien consciousness. Can we get a countdown clock for that video release ? This video was great, but i still feel the alien consciousness one will be unmatched.

[Yimpa]

Leo has been conforming to the same freakin’ profile picture since God knows when.

[Beans]

“True value cannot be measured in numbers. If you want to be your own person rather than someone who is merely ‘superior’ to others, you must eliminate numbers from your life.” 
 

[Kid A]

36 minutes ago, Beans said:

“True value cannot be measured in numbers. If you want to be your own person rather than someone who is merely ‘superior’ to others, you must eliminate numbers from your life.” 

This quote is 10/10.

[Davino]

This video is so fucking good. It's giving me value for months and years of contemplation and work, this episode is gold.

 

Thanks for giving a frame of reference, around 37 years old, for achieving Autonomy of Mind. It puts things into perspective for serious fellow travellers of life.

 

I see you better Leo.

 

I like it when you wear a costume because the discussions are often so serious and thoughtful that seeing you dressing funny makes me feel more relaxed and lighthearted. Halloween and Christmas specials are always very near to my heart. 

[Daniel Balan]

@Leo Gura at 3 hours and 5 minutes you say that my atheism is just conformity. I strongly disagree. For me atheism means the lack of religion. I simply do not adhere to any religion. I haven't got that from other humans nor social media or you. I was born an orthodox Christian, I've gone to church every sunday and I prayed everyday, on my own volition till I was 17, then using my own mind I saw how barbaric and ugly those Christians behave towards one another and towards other beings, I saw how church is just a means for Christians to gather and find business and work among themselves. It is all just survival enhancement. I saw how corrupt and rotten the whole fundation of Christianity is, how they preach about love and kindness, yet at home they beat the fuck out of their children with the belt and horse whip. That's when I became an atheist, I dropped in the dustbin this religion, I dropped all the customs and rituals associated with it and become a man without any religion, and I feel so free and unchained now, I feel so light like a bird after throwing in the trash can that burden that is called Christianity. I am the only atheist I know on my county, I never meet another atheist IRL thus far.

I do not adhere to any of the atheist dogma, hell I don't even know what scientific dogma atheists adhere to because I have never been on atheist forums or follow atheists on social media. 

Because I live in a rural village I started to form my own spiritual rituals, such as praying to the earth and nature to keep me alive and protect me from harm, I thank the earth for the food it grows for me when I sow seeds in the spring etc. I became very spiritual and connected to earth and nature. This is not something you ever preached. I tried to understand your spiritual teachings but I failed so I decided to go with the things that I can understand. I can proudly say that when it comes to the things I explained above, that I am not conformist in those endeavours, I can proudly say that I developed those using my very own mind and cognition. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Daniel Balan

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Daniel Balan said:

For me atheism means the lack of religion.

That's not what atheism means. Atheism is the belief that there is no God.

Edited 12 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

That's not what atheism means. Atheism is the belief that there is no God.

I don't see any contradiction with my worldview. There is no bearded old man in the sky that lords over the universe as the Christians believe. There is no human magical otherworldly entity that lords over everything. There isn't some "other" larger than life figure hidden in a plane of existence of its own that controls and shapes the universe at his own whims as the Christians believe. This is pure insanity and atheists are right when they believe that no such god exists. 

As far as your teachings on god go, every instance of when you use the word "god" could be replaced with the word "universe" or "consciousness" or "infinity" and I doubt there is anyone alive that can say that these things don't exist. 

[ryoko]

Atheism is a religion @Daniel Balan

[Leo Gura]

Atheism is not a religion but it is a stubborn worldview/paradigm.

Edited 12 hours ago by Leo Gura

[ryoko]

Here, I imply 

Religion = Blind Belief

It's how I've always made sense of the word.

"Are you religious?" -> "Do you beleive in something you have no clue about?"

Edited 11 hours ago by ryoko

[r0ckyreed]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

That's not what atheism means. Atheism is the belief that there is no God.

No atheist will agree with this definition. They will say you misunderstand atheism because atheism is the disbelief and remaining unconvinced of God. Kinda like if someone says there are aliens, I remain unconvinced but it doesn’t mean I believe there are no aliens. Of course, I disagree because an atheist lives life unconscious of God and thinks others need to prove it to him.

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

No atheist will agree with this definition.

As I said, a stubborn paradigm.

[r0ckyreed]

28 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

As I said, a stubborn paradigm.

I agree. But the steel man of atheism is that atheism in theory is similar to Pyrrhonism. A Pyrrhonians whole philosophy is to suspend judgement.

I remain unconvinced of Alien Awakening and paranormal. Does that mean I believe Alien Awakening and paranormal doesn’t exist? No. It just means I will suspend judgment until I have verified it for myself. It is a logical position to suspend judgment and be skeptical about things I have never experienced.

If you choose to make a video about atheism, you will want to address this objection. Every atheist I talk to doesn’t want to admit that they are in a paradigm. An atheist thinks it is a form of skepticism but it’s a biased form of skepticism.

Edit: Also many atheists will disagree that it’s a worldview because atheism is about just one thing only: A suspension of belief about God. It’s one position on the issue. Of course, for many “atheists” this is wrong because their atheism exists inside of other paradigms such as materialism, naturalism, evidentialism, etc.

Edited 10 hours ago by r0ckyreed

[zurew]

1 hour ago, r0ckyreed said:

No atheist will agree with this definition.

There are depending on what crowd you are in. 

There are atheists who make arguments against the existence of God.

[zurew]

1 hour ago, r0ckyreed said:

It is a logical position to suspend judgment and be skeptical about things I have never experienced.

Generally a good heruistic to go by, but not necessarily applicable in all instances.

There are things that you cant verify in principle, but you still need to take position on - like history and there are other things.

 

 

There are many instances where suspending judgement given the avalaible info can be irrational.

Edited 9 hours ago by zurew

[Rigel]

10 hours ago, r0ckyreed said:

I agree. But the steel man of atheism is that atheism in theory is similar to Pyrrhonism. A Pyrrhonians whole philosophy is to suspend judgement.

I remain unconvinced of Alien Awakening and paranormal. Does that mean I believe Alien Awakening and paranormal doesn’t exist? No. It just means I will suspend judgment until I have verified it for myself. It is a logical position to suspend judgment and be skeptical about things I have never experienced.

That’s not atheism. That’s agnosticism.