Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[LoneWonderer]

black friday and lines in front of apple store on new iphone release day

 

[Daniel Balan]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Bro, that's why you gotta play Chess 960. It's chess minus all conformity. Give it a try.

No, thanks. I've quit chess 2 months ago when my favorite streamer Daniel Naroditsky, an Russian born American grand master killed himself because of chess and because he was bullied non stop by a piece of shit former world champion, Vladimir Kramnik. This game is shit in every iteration, It is vile and full of ego and devilry. 

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

This game is shit in every iteration, It is vile and full of ego and devilry.

That's just the culture, not the game itself. Why should one asshole ruin an entire game?

Edited yesterday at 06:38 AM by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

That's just the culture, not the game itself.

The culture is very toxic. In a way, boxing or MMA is more respectful and more honourable than chess. Chess is full of ego, delusions of grandeur and hatred. 

[Leo Gura]

16 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

Chess is full of ego, delusions of grandeur and hatred.

Sure, but you can skip all the culture and just play online against an AI or human player.

Consuming chess culture is completely optional.

Edited yesterday at 06:55 AM by Leo Gura

[mmKay]

My ex-bizz partner had this Croatian local guide/friend who would come knocking on our door at 7AM, let himself in, cook some breakfast eggs from our fridge , ingest our supplements and proceed to giggle while intensely watching multi-hour-long YT videos of AI chess playing against each other, on our living room sofa. 

He went to the barber together with my other friend and he didn't bring his wallet. My friend refused to pay for him so the barber just let him go with a free  cut lmfao 

Now that's some nonconformist Alien Consciousness right there. 

🗣️ Shoutout to Goran for showing us around Split 

Edited 22 hours ago by mmKay

[Leo Gura]

28 minutes ago, mmKay said:

My ex-bizz partner had this Croatian local guide/friend who would come knocking on our door at 7AM, let himself in, cook some breakfast eggs from our fridge , ingest our supplements and proceed to giggle while intensely watching multi-hour-long YT videos of AI chess playing against each other, on our living room sofa

Wtf did I just read?

Edited 22 hours ago by mmKay

[mmKay]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

Wtf did I just read?

Bro had 0 approach anxiety, he'd speak to every single girl in the bus, bar or checkout queue. No hesitation. Insane. 

But his energy was off ofc so results were not there

Edited 23 hours ago by mmKay

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, mmKay said:

Bro had 0 approach anxiety, he'd speak to every single girl in the bus, bar or checkout queue. No hesitation. Insane. 

But his energy was off ofc so results were not there

I knew a pickup guy exactly like that and he was a national chess master.

Edited 23 hours ago by Leo Gura

[TimStr]

Hating on mondays and looking forward to weekends, that's some conformist shit.

Generally, the whole attitude of relating to work in western society in general is full of conformity.

Edited 19 hours ago by TimStr

[Leo Gura]

10 minutes ago, TimStr said:

looking forward to weekends,

That makes sense.

What is conformist is working M-F.

[AION]

14 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

Notice how most of these people are physically unattractive. 

If you have an individualistic bias, it will seem paradoxical to you that they are doing even more harm to themselves; but if you see individuality as an illusion, whose the signified is actually the reproduction of larger-scale structures (like an ant and the intelligence of the anthill), of collective subjects one might say from a more directly Marxist point of view, you understand that they are only reproducing what they think they must do, what they think they deserve.

Before, I would have thought of a cope like "If I hurt myself now it will benefit me later because I'm ugly, so I have to be particularly careful"—a kind of (paranoid) projective functioning—but in fact that doesn't work, because projection implies a rational will on an individual level, which isn't the case here since these people aren't any happier--on the contrary-- and deep down they know it's antisocial; this doesn't suggest they might receive an increase in love from the group in exchange for certain efforts, criterias that are met.

They were simply bullied, labeled as worthless at an early age, and reproduce the collective will regarding their individuality, which dictates that they deserve a certain amount of love, of survival on some form.

Hence the intuitively skeptical stance of Marxists towards personal development, and particularly the New Age movement, because it is a vehicle for authoritarianism; and what lies behind authoritarian logic is the mental conditioning to function (again, we are herd animals, our pseudo-individuality actually reflects structures and in particularly human social/collective ones, even if it's repressed) within a world of social classes, specifically in a socially disadvantaged position.

For exemple typically there is something extremely suspicious about taking "psychedelics for self-medication."

Firstly because it doesn't work—the whole "people changing their personality/life after a trip" thing is in my opinion a load of bullshit and basically doesn't exist; i don't believe it a minute—and secondly because it's an authoritarian way of thinking that is to say which is part of the greater belief of being socially disadvantaged.

"I'm going to become a better person by ingesting a vasoconstrictive violent hallucinogen." The same goes for believing that reading crappy self-help books is going to change your life.

The more honest you are with yourself and the more you learn about human psychology, the more you realize that the only thing that truly and substantially improves a person's "quality" in the long run is their social conditions; as a survivalist and a collective being (from a non-dual perspective, I wouldn't even make that distinction).

If tomorrow I put you in a strict bourgeois family you will become the ideal son-in-law much, MUCH faster than with any self-help book, psychedelic, or any other tool.

Why? Because humans REFLECT STRUCTURES

 

I should start a thread about this to develop and tidy it up.

 

Children have higher level of mirror neurons so they are more suggestable to conforming. Healthy. humans have a lot of mirror neurons too. And if you hang out long enough with a certain type of people you become it. That is why they say you are the average of the 5 people you hang out with. So we all conform subconsciously. This thread has perverted the notion of conformity. Conforming to the perverted concept of conformity has becoming conformity. It is so sad. 

Edited 18 hours ago by AION

[Schizophonia]

handspinners 

[mmKay]

Wearing V-necks. I wear V-napes.


No, don't post the crotch cleavage

Edited 16 hours ago by mmKay

[CARDOZZO]

How much showering is conformity? Here in Brazil we shower 2x day. 

I heard that Europeans hate showering. 

[Leo Gura]

17 minutes ago, mmKay said:

No, don't post the crotch cleavage

I'm rocking that ass cleavage, baby.

[Wilhelm44]

Ridiculing everything that's New Age.

[UnbornTao]

16 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

It seems as though mathematics has a simpler and more straightforward notion of "proof" than a lot of subject areas that all mathematicians more or less adhere to.

Yeah.

Edited 15 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Schizophonia]

4 hours ago, AION said:

Children have higher level of mirror neurons so they are more suggestable to conforming. Healthy. humans have a lot of mirror neurons too. And if you hang out long enough with a certain type of people you become it. That is why they say you are the average of the 5 people you hang out with. So we all conform subconsciously. This thread has perverted the notion of conformity. Conforming to the perverted concept of conformity has becoming conformity. It is so sad. 

"Mirror neurons" specifically refer to empathy.

Even if you're the worst psychopath you'll still feel close (I'm using this term for the sake of non-duality) to the five people you spend the most time with because they become your language.

If you only know kebabs, the kebab language (the name "kebab," the smell, the taste, the linguistics of the ingredients themselves; in a "fractal model," you could say—always the same story—) it will make you become kebab; your world will revolve around the kebab.

The question is—and this is where the issue of "conformity" might lead us—whether there's a form of language inherent to human beings, such as Chomsky's idea. by extension Lévi-Strauss, Heidegger and the more or less naturalist guys like that (I'm citing those I know); or not as the postmoderns think.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Schizophonia

[Thought Art]

I’m so non-conformist I don’t even want this skin on me