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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, addiction-context, adulthood, Agency, autobiographical, Autonomy, character, cold-clarity, collapse, collapse-narrative, Collapsed Twice, consequence, dignity, Ethics, existential, family-expectation, grief, human condition, identity, Introspection, Isolation, judgment, literary-poetry, lived-experience, masculinity, mental health, minimalism, money-and-loneliness, moral-neutrality, non-redemptive, perception, philosophy, pressure, psychological, realism, recovery, recovery-path, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123, Selfhood, silence, social-pressure, stoicism, survival, testimony, trauma, truth-telling, Value.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice I collapsed twice in my life.
The first time was at twenty-one.
Family pressed in:
“Why aren’t you studying?
What are you even doing there? Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 – Stairway to Hell

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abstinence, Agency, ambiguity, attention, awakening, boundaries, college, consent, consequence, Control, desire, Detachment, discipline, distance, dominance, ego, Ethics, fallout, friendship, Hierarchy, humiliation, identity, irony, loneliness, loss, lust, masculinity, memory, miscommunication, narrative, Observation, perception, performance, power, Pride, reflection, Reputation, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96, rumor, self-myth, silence, Stairway to Hell, stairwell, status, temptation, transformation, trauma, vulnerability, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 - Stairway to Hell As an engineering student with an analytical mind-trained in basic physics and mathematics, capable enough-my mind first studied her eyes in the college corridor.
She planted her right hand on the wall above my shoulder, stopping me mid-step as I began descending the stairs in the middle of the corridor.
Jovial, yet forceful.
Why wasn’t she afraid of Ronie?
She was just as tall as I was. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 95 – Reflection: The Lost Edge

Posted 2 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 2 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 2 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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I Did Not Take

Posted 3 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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 – Private Law

Posted 3 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 3 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 — Before the Walk: An Opening Statement

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 76 – The Humanoid Robot Girl

Posted 3 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, Biology, DINOSAUR, Existential Rehabism, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Technology Tagged: Absence, Alienation, artificial, Autonomy, Capitalism, companionship, Consumerism, Control, critique, cyberpunk, Defiance, desire, Detachment, dignity, disillusionment, emotion, Ethics, Exile, Existentialism, futurism, humanity, identity, Intimacy., Isolation, loneliness, loss, marketplace, masculinity, mirror, Modernity, nihilism, performance, philosophy, poverty, Refusal, rejection, resilience, restraint, shame, silence, society, solitude, stoicism, technology, transactional, Value, worth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 76 - The Humanoid Robot Girl The humanoid robot girl
will be my first girlfriend.
I will gift myself this companion
and walk away from all of you.
She will clean herself- Read more from here...

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Classic Inversion

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Alienation, awakening, awareness, causality, clarity, consciousness, consequence, discipline, disillusionment, endurance, Ethics, Integrity, inversion, movement, Observation, philosophy, realism, resilience, responsibility, Selfhood, skepticism, solitude, survival.

Title - Classic Inversion I have no script,
money unsteady,
the hero dodging every promised date,
the heroine laying down her moral gates-
no skin, Read more from here...

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