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An Argument

Why the body keeps arguing back

Nature gives the desire; reason sets the measure; refusal does not erase nature.


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Why the body keeps arguing back

A modern person often wants the body to become silent. He wants it to cooperate with his plans, adjust to his identity, obey his calendar, extend his desires, and remain available whenever he asks. If the body interrupts him with hunger, fatigue, sexual difference, illness, aging, weakness, or death, he is tempted to experience that interruption as an insult. The body has answered back, and he resents the answer.