Labels:text | font | screenshot | black and white | document OCR: Just like the child who fights for his individuality, we developed tools and ideas to preserve our sense of identity. Weapons, dualistic ideologies, reductionist sciences, and self-righteous religions helped us to stave off nature and feel secure about the permanence of our personhood. Unfortunately for us, the children of gods, it is time to grow up. Long after the "terrible two's," another, more pressing urge than self-promotion strikes the now pubescent child: sex. The quest for intimacy overwhelms any vestige of the need to assert individuality. As any developmental psychologist will affirm, the battle for independence is actually a necessary step to get to this new, sexual stage. One needs to experience separateness before he can strive for union with someone else. As a person moves i ...
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