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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 102 – Still Alive

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Agency, alignment, ascetic resolve, Autonomy, Betrayal, Buddha, character, consciousness, dignity, endurance, endurance poetry, Existentialism, fate, free will, hunger, identity, inner law, inner strength, Integrity, Jesus, Kaliyug, Karma, moral clarity, mythology, philosophical poetry, poverty, Ram, Refusal, refusal to break, rejection, renunciation, resilience, Sacrifice, Selfhood, Shiva, solitude, spiritual defiance, stoicism, suffering, survival, survival ethics, truth, unchosen love, will, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 102 - Still Alive Live in your delusion that I will die-
the more you test me,
the more I’ll become like Ram.
The more pain I swallow,
the more I’ll rise like Shiva. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 95 – Reflection: The Lost Edge

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Agency, character, consequence, deprivation, despair, dignity, direction, discipline, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, failure, fate, grief, hardship, honesty, human condition, hunger, identity, Introspection, loneliness, loss, masculinity, meaning, memory, Moral integrity, mortality, navigation, perseverance, post-trauma, poverty, realism, reckoning, reflection, Refusal, regret, rehabilitation, resilience, resolve, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 95, self-analysis, Selfhood, stoicism, suffering, survival, The Lost Edge, truth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 95 - Reflection: The Lost Edge Back when youth was still on my side,
rejections stung-but I carried a quiet certainty
that my ethics, morals, and character were clean.
I was not wrong.
I told myself: one day a woman would see it, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 – What a Wonderful World

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, bleak clarity, brothel narrative, Capitalism, class consciousness, commodification, confessional poetry, contemporary poetry, death and illness, dignity, emotional deprivation, emotional-austerity, emotional-truth, ethical tension, Ethics, existential literature, first-person narrative, grief, honesty, Human Cost, human worth, Indian English poetry, intimacy without love, late modern poetry, loneliness, loss, masculinity, money and value, moral accounting, moral injury, nihilism resisted, personal philosophy, philosophical poetry, power dynamics, quiet rage, realism, realism-over-romance, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93, silence, social critique, social hypocrisy, solitude, solitude ethics, survivor voice, transactional intimacy, trauma writing, unsentimental writing, value collapse, vulnerability, Wonderful World.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 - What a Wonderful World My mother died two and a half years ago.
My father just suffered a heart attack.
At thirty-seven, single, I felt utterly unable to cope.
When I headed to the brothel, I knew exactly where I was going.
I kept telling myself: They don't give love; they sell what you pay for-and that's all you'll get. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92 – Hunger and Poverty

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, absence-as-presence, accountability, blame, care-without-reward, consent, consequence, deprivation, dignity, emotional-austerity, endurance, ethical-poverty, Ethics, existential-accounting, Existentialism, Human Cost, hunger, hunger-metaphor, Integrity, internal-law, invisibility, Isolation, loneliness, loss, masculinity, moral choice, moral-cost, moral-hunger, negative-space, poverty, quiet-tragedy, Refusal, refusal-politics, refusal-to-consume, restraint, restraint-vs-desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92, RonieDinosaur, scarcity, self-denial, self-governance, silence, society, solitude, starvation, time, unmet-need, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92 – Hunger and Poverty The point is—
a man must eat when it is served.
Yet I carry this blame: I did not eat,
though the world knew my hunger—
those who fed me, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 – The Unpermitted Path

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, agency under pressure, anti-teleology, authenticity, Autonomy, character formation, constraint, dignity, direction, ethical living, existential courage, existential ethics, existential narrative, Existentialism, first-person philosophy, human condition, identity, inner compass, inner discipline, inward clarity, inward journey, lived-truth, modern alienation, modern stoicism, moral seriousness, mythic voice, nonconformity, perseverance, philosophical poetry, poetic philosophy, purity without piety, Refusal, Resistance, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91, self as measure, self-authorship, self-knowledge, self-made values, self-reference, solitude, spiritual without religion, The Unpermitted Path, truth as action, unpermitted freedom, walking as proof, walking metaphor.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 - The Unpermitted Path It calls me-soft, relentless, from the edge-
but I am not allowed to go.
Life never granted that release.
Now the verdict shifts:
I am allowed to go, Read more from here...

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Why Not Me?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment trauma, Agency, attachment, Betrayal, boundaries, consent, desire vs respect, dignity, emotional abandonment, emotional labor, endurance, existential questioning, fairness, friendship breakup, Heartbreak, human condition, incompatibility, inner conflict, Isolation, loneliness, longing, loss, male vulnerability, melancholia, memory, misalignment, moral conflict, moral solitude, patience, philosophical poetry, reflective verse, refusal-to-beg, rejection, restraint, restraint over desire, self-respect, self-withdrawal, shame, silence, slow burn, solitude, time, unanswered questions, unrequited-love, why not me, withdrawal.

Title - Why Not Me? With the heart that called you friend,
I asked you to be my girl.
You said no-straight, no pretend.
What’s a guy supposed to do in this world?
Should I stand there, beg, and plead, Read more from here...

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Defeat’s Quiet Victory

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-hero, anti-victory, Defeat, defiance-without-hope, dignity, endurance, ethical-stance, existential poetry, inner-resistance, Integrity, lived-philosophy, loss-and-continuance, masculine-vulnerability, moral-refusal, persistence, poverty-with-dignity, quiet, quiet defiance, quiet rebellion, refusal-to-conform, resilience, scars, silence, stoicism, survival, victory, walking forward, wounded-strength.

Defeat’s Quiet Victory When so many wounds have been inflicted deep,
how does the wounded still claim victory?
They won the battles, loud and clear,
while he lost the war, year after year.
Yet Ronie is a hard-luck man with style- Read more from here...

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I Did Not Take

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, boundary, consequence, denial, desire, dignity, emotional discipline, Ethics, Integrity, loneliness, loss, masculinity, memory, moral-line, Refusal, regret-without-pity, restraint, self-respect, separation, silence, solitude, Take, time, unchosen, unreciprocated-love, youth.

Title - I Did Not Take She told herself it was no big deal-
to touch a friend with too much fire,
to pour her lust like cheap appeal.
I never urged her, never once.
I held my line. I stood my ground. Read more from here...

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Unscripted Connection

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Alienation, anti-identity, anti-performance, anti-sentimentality, authenticity, Autonomy, character ethics, connection, cultural criticism, dignity, emotional honesty, ethical solitude, existential ethics, existential poetry, femininity critique, gender critique, human condition, human equality, individual conscience, inner freedom, inner steel, Integrity, inwardness, masculinity critique, modern stoicism, moral courage, moral philosophy, moral weight, nonconformity, philosophical poetry, post-identity thought, post-romanticism, power dynamics, Psychological realism, quiet defiance, raw-voice, Refusal, refusal of roles, Resistance, Selfhood, sincerity, social conditioning, social masks, social scripts, truth seeking, uncompromising voice, unlearning, Unscripted, unscripted self.

Title - Unscripted Connection Sweetheart-my softy, my doll-
there is a difference.
Show me the “woman”
in your heart,
and I turn away- Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 77 – Eligible

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, accountability, Agency, austerity, authorship, Autonomy, awareness, becoming, boundaries, Choice, clarity, consciousness, dignity, discipline, Eligible, embodiment, endurance, existence, honesty, identity, independence, individuation, Integrity, inwardness, Isolation, lucidity, masculinity, Materialism, Metacognition, nonconformity, perseverance, Position, presence, reality, Refusal, rejection, Resistance, resolve, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 77, Selfhood, selfknowledge, selfrule, silence, solitude, Sovereignty, stance, Transcendence, Value, worth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 77 - Eligible First there was grief-
then humiliation, shame, depression.
Then the mind began to question:
Why did this happen?
Why only with me? Read more from here...

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