Recently I pointed out how spontaneity undermines self-absorption, how the leap of faith allowing individuals the illusion their perceptions define truth is undone when obsessive self-reflection is abandoned.
This is why fundamentalists detest spontaneity, declaring its manifestations "unnatural."
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