Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[enchanted]

4 hours ago, Nemra said:

@enchanted, in this forum, we haven't been using the word "conformity" to refer to accepting rules to abide by.

@Nemra what if I don't want to conform to this forum?

And don't gaslight me with this "in this forum BS", you aren't an authority

Edited yesterday at 02:38 AM by enchanted

[Nemra]

@enchanted, use the word however you like, but be careful misconstruing what I say.

[enchanted]

4 hours ago, Nemra said:

@enchanted, use the word however you like, but be careful misconstruing what I say.

How did I misconstruct what you said? I think you just didn't like what I said and so you called it a misconstruction.

Edited yesterday at 12:12 PM by enchanted

[Nemra]

36 minutes ago, enchanted said:

How did I misconstruct what you said? I think you just didn't like what I said and then you called it a misconstruction

It's your responsibility to pay attention how words are being used.

Conforming to rules to communicate differs from conforming for social acceptance or falling into groupthink. We have used "conformity" primarily to denote the latter.

Edited yesterday at 12:46 PM by Nemra

[Human Mint]

17 hours ago, Nemra said:

@enchanted, in this forum, we haven't been using the word "conformity" to refer to accepting rules to abide by.

The word "conformity" is not of this forum.

You either get what the word points to or you don't.

[Human Mint]

14 hours ago, enchanted said:

@Nemra what if I don't want to conform to this forum?

And don't gaslight me with this "in this forum BS", you aren't an authority

Can you conform to rules but not be a conformist? Think about it.

You're twisting words, but in doing so you aren't understanding much. If a word can have any meaning you want that's slop. Slop = noise.

Edited yesterday at 03:52 PM by Human Mint

[Nemra]

51 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

The word "conformity" is not of this forum.

You either get what the word points to or you don't.

I know, but it is used here to refer to epistemic outsourcing. I was using the word in that sense.

I can also use the word to mean agreeing on rules that we should follow for a specific purpose.

Edited yesterday at 04:27 PM by Nemra

[Human Mint]

40 minutes ago, Nemra said:

I can also use the word to mean agreeing on rules that we should follow for a specific purpose.

As long as you're precise you don't run into much problem. What matters is how much you can grasp, how much changes you.

Also a single word doesn't make the cut in the majority of cases. You need a thousand of different words to produce a single insight most of the times. Conformity is one of those words. As long as no one makes the effort to understand, the insight lies dormant. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Abiding to rules is a prerequisite for a lot of things in life. A lot of people are confomist zombies precisely because they don't care about rules. But to see that you need the example. You get it from life obviously.

Also not every rule is the same. There is a rule to believe only in a Christian God and there is a rule of freedom of religion.

Edited yesterday at 05:09 PM by Human Mint

[Human Mint]

Ultimately you want to conform to none other than yourself.