Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

29 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Don't chop their balls off before they have dropped!

Normally that would be correct.

But I have been genuinely shocked at how badly the whole conformity topic has been handled on this forum.

Apparently 4 hrs of explanation was not enough.

[Salvijus]

Carl has a point. Every example in this thread can be done in a non conformist way. It's not the activity itself but the reason by which you perform that activity that determines its category. You might aswell make a list of everything that exists. 

Edited Saturday at 09:56 AM by Salvijus

[Wilhelm44]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Christians demonizing demons is conformity.

So called intellectuals smugly denying and ridiculing any possibility of supernatural phenomena.

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

34 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Normally that would be correct.

But I have been genuinely shocked at how badly the whole conformity topic has been handled on this forum.

Apparently 4 hrs of explanation was not enough.

Haha yeah, that was my exact thought right as I posted 'hmmm, but the video was pretty long and thorough. Maybe attention span problems' 

Which, to be quite negative, is a legitimate point. I am quite shocked at many people's inability to deal with long format... Anything. So maybe 4hrs wasn't the issue - absorption was 🥹

[Staples]

Speaking of Faberge.

70,000 pounds worth of conformity.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

14 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

Carl has a point. Every example in this thread can be done in a non conformist way. It's not the activity itself but the reason by which you perform that activity that determines its category. You might aswell make a list of everything that exists. 

I think this was touched on early in the thread (or possibly another, and also a blog post) clarifying the conditions that make something 'mindless' or 'thoughtless' groupthink type conformity. And when one chooses to conform consciously as a legitimate solution or personal preference.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

That toxic freak Clavicular is peak conformity.

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

But I have been genuinely shocked at how badly the whole conformity topic has been handled on this forum.

Apparently 4 hrs of explanation was not enough.

Then you might also take that as feedback on how to improve future communications, instead of totally offloading responsibility into the audience.

[UnbornTao]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Avocados are highly overrated fruit.

Avocados don't care. I personally don't like them that much. Guacamole is great, though.

Greater than the sum of its parts

Edited Saturday at 04:19 PM by UnbornTao

[Jannes]

8 hours ago, Vali2003 said:

Very specific training just means gradually introducing more barefoot activity, no? 

You can walk barefoot no problem but you wont change your feet by introducing jogging. 

If you run barefoot on concrete, the adaptation will be that your foot will built an arch over the middle foot and stiffen up. Thats neither good for your feet nor for your knees as it takes the cushioning away. You could maybe specifically train your middle foot but if that really fixes running idk. 

[Terell Kirby]

The belief and subsequent avoidance of death is conformity. All ideas about death and mortality are picked up from social cues-at least in my experience 

[Human Mint]

11 hours ago, Vali2003 said:

@UnbornTao It depends on the state your feet are in. The problem is, if your feet are weak then it would be a bad idea to just start running with barefoot shoes. 

Some people have such strong feet — and the tensegrity network that results from that — that they can run marathons without shoes altogether.

This guy, for example, won the Olympics 1960 barefooted. 

It’s quite a complicated issue, honestly, because the feet are not isolated. Through fascia, they connect to your glutes. However, if this fascial connection is weak, your feet will be weak and you’ll need cushioned shoes which try to ‘replace’ this connection. This only makes the glutes connection weaker over time, though and so all sorts of problems will appear. 

Anyways, sorry for the rant. I’d recommend slowly transitioning to barefoot shoes — there are a couple ones that look decent. If you don’t like them, I’d pick shoes that have a flat sole and low heel. 

 

It is not too complicated if you are a runner. If you only walk then it is not big deal. If you live in the big city where the whole ground is pavement you need shoes with big ass suspension when you run or your tendond are going to scream in pain.

If you have lots of area with earth as the ground then you're built to run over that shit without much problem.

I always made fun of thesd kind of shoes, until I moved to the middle of a metropolis and started a jogging habit. The pain never goes away and you need these shoes.

Right now I am on vacations and back in my small hometown which is connected to nature everywhere. I run there even harder and my feet feel delicious.

Edited Saturday at 12:58 PM by Human Mint

[SimpleGuy]

11 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

This is a conformist shoe:

https://www.trailspace.com/gear/vibram/fivefingers-classic/

You can say that anything is conformity. But those shoes are probably better than any other shoes for health

[Vali2003]

1 hour ago, Human Mint said:

It is not too complicated if you are a runner. If you only walk then it is not big deal. If you live in the big city where the whole ground is pavement you need shoes with big ass suspension when you run or your tendond are going to scream in pain.

If you have lots of area with earth as the ground then you're built to run over that shit without much problem.

I always made fun of thesd kind of shoes, until I moved to the middle of a metropolis and started a jogging habit. The pain never goes away and you need these shoes.

Right now I am on vacations and back in my small hometown which is connected to nature everywhere. I run there even harder and my feet feel delicious.

Not everyone’s bodies are the same. I can run on pavement without cushioned shoes without problems. It depends how your body distributes the force — which depends on how tense your fascia tensegrity network is.  

Edited Saturday at 01:49 PM by Vali2003

[Vali2003]

1 hour ago, Jannes said:

You can walk barefoot no problem but you wont change your feet by introducing jogging. 

If you run barefoot on concrete, the adaptation will be that your foot will built an arch over the middle foot and stiffen up. Thats neither good for your feet nor for your knees as it takes the cushioning away. You could maybe specifically train your middle foot but if that really fixes running idk. 

Yes you should start jogging on soft surfaces like sand, and then transition to harder ones. Concrete is the final boss. 

[Rigel]

1 hour ago, Human Mint said:

It is not too complicated if you are a runner. If you only walk then it is not big deal. If you live in the big city where the whole ground is pavement you need shoes with big ass suspension when you run or your tendond are going to scream in pain.

This is false. I’ve been going barefoot on pavement for years & my feet & legs are healthier than they’ve ever been. I run a lot on pavement too. You just need to be smart about progressive transition if you are starting from a weak place.

edit: It’s not just the feet & legs. It percolates all the way up the kinetic chain. People have no idea how bad most shoes are. I think bottom line is you need no cushion, enough space to spread the toes(clenching those flip flops is horrible), and no heel. Notice that removes 99+% of shoes.

Edited Saturday at 02:02 PM by Rigel

[MuadDib]

Parmesan cheese is conformity.
 

 

Casu Martzu is not conformity.

[Opulence]

The worst example of conformity is green smoothie and the vegan all fruit diets.

[SimpleGuy]

@Leo Gura What do you think about compatibilism? Because I see no better attitude to life when free will doesn`t exist.

[Terell Kirby]

Dry January