Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Elliott]

The speed at which we do things; walk, talk,, eat. Why don't we run everywhere and SCREAM AT EACHOTHER!

prepared food: cooking

 

clocks and calendars

 

Peeing standing up, with toilet

Edited 1 hour ago by Elliott

[AtmanIsBrahman]

Thinking your career is "good"

Having a dream job (unless it's something highly innovative)

Academic writing

Citations

Christmas

The way people nod and smile while talking 

 

 

[Human Mint]

• Not contemplating equations laws and taking them as facts without questioning.

[UnbornTao]

Wanting to feel special.

And how much of that underlies the search for nonconformity?

[Terell Kirby]

Common everyday greetings:

• good morning
• good evening
• have a good day
• have a good night

 

[cle103]

Saying the N word, not saying the N word 

Appropriate and inappropriate slurs in general. 

[Human Mint]

The particular culture of any group of friends.

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Wanting to feel special.

NO!

That is an internal need. Internal needs are not conformity.

Being horny and hungry is not confirmity. You generate that.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[Kid A]

1 hour ago, Human Mint said:

Adoring The Beatles is the biggest conformity

They have given me some of the best moments in my life while laying on the beach, and Tomorrow never knows is as good as taking a mushroom. 
Conformity sure can be amazing!

[Schizophonia]

9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

NO!

That is an internal need. Internal needs are not conformity.

Being horny and hungry is not confirmity. You generate that.

Actually from a non dual pov everything is conformity.

Why are you playing the "hunger game"

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

Actually from a non dual pov everything is conformity.

Why are you playing the "hunger game"

You guys are starting to annoy me.

[Vibes]

I don't think anyone said the obvious and pervasive one: having kids is conformity, for most people.

Edited 1 hour ago by Vibes

[Elliott]

12 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

Actually from a non dual pov everything is conformity.

Why are you playing the "hunger game"

'Conformity' is just conceptual at the meta level, we're talking about conformity at the human level.

Edited 1 hour ago by Elliott

[bazera]

• TikTok trends
• Decorating New Year tree
• Costumes / clothes of christian priests from different hierarchies
• Fashion industry
• Playing soccer in school (my dad forced me to join soccer classes in childhood because every parent around us wanted their children to play soccer and be involved in soccer in some ways)
• Singing national anthem before sporting event begins

Oh god, conformity is everywhere. It's like a set of templates that we just choose and follow / act on mechanically. I've always had some dirty feeling when I participated in an activity that I understood was just conformity, but I didn't label them as such.

But if I participate more or less consciously, for example decorate a new year tree with my family but in the background I know the act itself is meaningless and conformist, but my intention is being with my family and appreciating and loving those moments with them while they last, the activity itself loses that dirty feeling because I know why I'm doing it. I guess that isn't conformity anymore.

[integral]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You guys are starting to annoy me.

They're making these mistakes because conformity is a pattern synonymous with many other words.

• A person unconsciously conforms to society.
• A person unconsciously is shaped by genetics.

• Quote

  1. System: Both are vast, external systems (Culture / Genome).
  2. Lack of Agency: The individual has no conscious choice or control over the initial programming.
  3. Result: The individual is shaped into a specific form (beliefs/behavior in the cultural case; biological traits/predispositions in the genetic case) that is in accordance with the system's requirements.

The similarities between these two things are endless. There are very few difference between them because it's a very similar pattern applied. 

The only difference between these words is that if you conform a society, you have the potential to change and with genetics you don't.

 

 

[Leo Gura]

Maybe you'll learn conformity if I conform a broom to your skull.

[Salvijus]

Driving on the right side of the road is conformist. 

[Eskilon]

Leo Gura is conformity

Geo Lura is the original thinker

[CARDOZZO]

After contemplating the hell out of this episode, I got that being limited by your life story is one of the marks of conformity.

Your past is a distortion/illusion that keeps you addicted to being yourself.

Contemplate: Is it possible to live without a life story? Is it possible to generate different kinds of life stories? is it cheating? is it a lie?

[Human Mint]

1 hour ago, Kid A said:

They have given me some of the best moments in my life while laying on the beach, and Tomorrow never knows is as good as taking a mushroom. 
Conformity sure can be amazing!

I said adoring, not enjoying. Everyone talks about The Beatles, is all about and around The Beatles, t-shirts, cups about Beatles, dozens of documentaries about The Beatles, having CDs of them even when you listen through modern devices just because "how dare you throw a CD of The Beatles!". 

Edited 29 minutes ago by Human Mint