embodiment – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs – Poems by Ronie Dinosaur

First-Order Truth Is a Process

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-nihilism, anti-romanticism, authenticity, character, clarity under pressure, clarity-over-hope, collapse, consciousness, discipline, disciplined life, embodiment, endurance, ethical realism, existential maintenance, existential philosophy, existential realism, first-order truth, first-order truth as practice, human condition, identity critique, inner discipline, Integrity, long-form philosophy, maintenance of self, meaning without promise, mind and body, modern existentialism, moral clarity, perseverance, personal philosophy, philosophical poetry, philosophical stance, post-collapse, post-Dostoevsky, practice, Process, process ethics, psychological resilience, refusal of consolation, rejection of validation, resilience, resistance to decay, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur, Self-mastery, stoicism, truth without illusion.

Ronie Dinosaur — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

First-Order Truth Is a Process Dostoevsky captures the collapse in Notes from Underground.
I am documenting the operating system that runs after the collapse.
Ronie Dinosaur walks with thoughts-
leaving literal footsteps on the ground.
That is a man who refused both collapse and consolation. Read more from here...

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Health

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, anti-sentimentality, austerity, Autonomy, bodily-integrity, character, clarity, deprivation, dignity, discipline, discipline over hope, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existential poverty, Existentialism, grounding, hardship, health, human condition, Human Cost, infrastructure, limits, mental-resilience, minimalism, modern-poetry, moral stamina, necessity, non-negotiables, perseverance, philosophy, poverty, prerequisite, prose poetry, realism, reality-based ethics, Refusal, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-command, self-honesty, stoicism, survival, survival ethics, truthfulness, walking forward.

Health No status, no money, no love—
no wild fantasy to run loose
and soothe the wound poverty carved.
When nothing remains—no luck, no family,
no status, no money, no love— Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 – Private Law

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, authority, Autonomy, awareness, character, Coherence, consciousness, Courage, depth, discipline, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, individuality, Integrity, Isolation, law, lawfulness, lucidity, motion, necessity, nihilism, nonconformity, obligation, originality, persistence, philosophy, pilgrimage, Private Law, realism, Refusal, Resistance, resolve, responsibility, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80, Selfhood, selfrule, seriousness, severity, solitude, stoicism, survival, Walking.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 - Private Law He walks because the sentence is life-
no appeal, no parole, no applause.
Flesh drags heavy,
the horizon burned out long ago,
yet the stride refuses surrender. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 – Why Live?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Asceticism, austerity, Autonomy, awareness, character, clarity, cognition, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, Ethics, existence, Existentialism, Integrity, Isolation, lucidity, Meaninglessness, minimalism, motion, necessity, nihilism, obligation, persistence, philosophy, realism, Refusal, repetition, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, rigor, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79, selfexamination, Selfhood, severity, silence, solitude, stoicism, structure, survival, Walking, Why Live, wisdom, work.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 79 - Why Live? Bring it yourself,
Cook it yourself,
Eat it yourself,
Then praise it yourself,
Wash up and go to sleep. 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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Proof

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, aftermath, Agency, austerity, clarity, consciousness, discipline, embodiment, endurance, Integrity, Isolation, persistence, proof, realism, record, recurrence, Refusal, Resistance, resolve, Selfhood, survival, testimony, trauma, witness.

Title - Proof I kept torturing myself-
a revenge for which
I did not allow myself to live,
or to ask for the right to be human.
What happened, happened. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 59 – Oven in a Restaurant

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, consent, Control, desire, embodiment, eroticism, gaze, heat, hunger, identity, Intimacy., loneliness, longing, masculinity, metaphor, Oven, patience, power, Restaurant, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 59, Selfhood, silence, solitude, tension, vulnerability, waiting.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 59 - Oven in a Restaurant You have an oven, dear-
a full restaurant blazing in your skin.
Let me book a table for one,
candlelit, corner booth,
where the air thickens with spice. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 51 – Abnormally Extreme Performance Disorder

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Abnormally Extreme Performance Disorder, addiction-recovery, Alienation, Asceticism, austerity, Autonomy, character, embodiment, endurance, exploitation, extreme-discipline, family-dynamics, Integrity, Isolation, lived-truth, moral-hypocrisy, performance, rehabilitation, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 51, Sacrifice, self-sovereignty, silence, solitude, suffering, survival, work-ethic.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 51 - Abnormally Extreme Performance Disorder At thirty, my bank balance matched
those overseas engineers-
yet not one rupee spent
to birth or feed the business.
From home I built it: Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48 – Physical Exercise

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-comfort, Asceticism, awareness, bodily-intelligence, clarity, consciousness, discipline, Effort, embodiment, endurance, entropy-control, fatigue, Physical Exercise, pragmatism, realism, Resistance, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48, routine, self-command, self-maintenance, self-regulation, sobriety, survival, vigilance, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 48 - Physical Exercise Why, all of a sudden,
am I holding back from an early goodbye,
bracing myself to keep the house from collapsing?
For over two decades I pondered this-
and it was always my consciousness Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 47 – Nutrition

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: austerity, bodily-integrity, clarity, collapse, Courage, Defiance, despair, discipline, duty, embodiment, entropy, Existentialism, grit, identity, mortality, nihilism, Nutrition, philosophy-in-practice, raw-voice, realism, resilience, resolve, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 47, self-repair, self-sovereignty, stoicism, survival.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 47 - Nutrition A sound mind dwells in a sound body.
Yet if the body fails and falls,
what good is any mind at all?
This useless brain has let this flesh be disrespected,
never the reverse. Read more from here...

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