#comformity

[shisasan]

Anyone who takes the safe road is as good as dead.

Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

[divinecr0w]

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

U.G. Krishnamurti

[venomousvelvet]

What about the girl gilded in her naivety, holding the fragments of her heart and still telling herself the pieces are worth more than the whole; conformity isn't an insidious decay she'll scream! Bury her beneath December's barren mantle and remember how she looked in the sunlight.

The inner sun always eclipses the artificial lanterns left by visitors who had no intentions of staying.

[kyliaquilor-archive]

The only thing a noncomformist hates more than a comformist is another noncomformist who refuses to conform to the prevailing attitudes of noncomformity

[shisasan]

There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

Bill Hicks

[unabashedlyfuriousenthusiast]

Compassion Over Conformity: Finding Authenticity

In the midst of my despair, I pondered a simple question that a friend of mine had brought up a while ago: "What was your face BEFORE you were born?"

WTF? Last month, around mid-November, as the five-year anniversary of my son’s passing approached, I was subjected to a cruel blow. The irony? The person responsible was a self-proclaimed “church-going” individual. This incident raises a broader question about the potential negative impact of organized religion, a system that sometimes prioritizes conformity over compassion, and how…

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[yoliaz]

Finding yourself (Unconfortable Truths)

"Who you are, what are you : heavy topic to embark on this alone, taking the introspective position of looking at yourself and looking at your life from a bird's eye view.

And no one else can do that : because then they would be projecting heir biases and their own life views onto you and you wouldn't be able to think for yourself, you're just going to take their work for it.

It's not easy because you're admitting to yourself that you have faults, flaws, that you are confusing and contradicting yourself.

Ref : Man's search for himself, Rolo May : picking good friends

Being in solitude, being with themselves and their thoughts in a very raw place is the most terrifying to hallow people. You cannot depend on external entities to complete yourself, you became frustrated because the puzzle is not fitting in order to feel fullfilled : it doesn't give me what i always thought they would give me.

Rolo believed that anxiety influenced our society, the ruler of the people. People are trying so hard not to be weird, to look like a normal human being among all of those human beings.

The opposite of courage is conformity : think about trying to be part of the people, trying to be the everyday person, trying to fit into society mentally. Beacause you don't want to miss out anything when you want to feek what others are felling. When you try and imitate how other people are because you think they have a better anything and everything.

All of these sorts of comformity will make you lose yourself because of trying to set yourself apart and figure out what it is that makes you : You choose to go to the easy route, but actually the more painful route of just comforming and being like everyone else.

finding yourself

Listen to this episode from Uncomfortable Truths on Spotify. In the age of distraction, the single-handedly most difficult task for an indiv