existential ethics – Read Poems aka Dinosaurs

The Birthday Cake

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, Agency, birthday, Birthday Cake, cake metaphor, Choice, confessional poetry, consent, contemporary voice, cultural specificity, desire and refusal, emotional discipline, ethical restraint, existential ethics, extended metaphor, fragility, guilt without blame, hunger, intimacy without possession, Intimacy., longing, loss, memory, minimalist ethics, modern lyric, naming as violence, narrative poem, non-consumption, philosophical poetry, quiet defiance, Reciprocity, recognition, recognition without ownership, refusal to explain, relational power, restraint, restraint over catharsis, self-possession, silence as agency, silence speaks, symbolic object, trust the reader, unresolved tension, unspoken language, vulnerability, withholding meaning.

Title - The Birthday Cake Part I - The Crime of Questioning Like a criminal wiping fingerprints from the scene,
if you are still asking yourself
was it right or wrong,
was it a mistake, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 – The Unpermitted Path

Posted 2 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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Absolute Poverty

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absolute, absolute poverty, agency without faith, anti-romantic realism, anti-sentimentality, courage without hope, existential ethics, existential minimalism, human dignity, human resilience, identity and pride, inner resolve, inward courage, Isolation, moral clarity, ontological poverty, philosophical poetry, post-faith reflection, poverty, quiet defiance, rejection of charity, Selfhood, silence and strength, solitude, spiritual emptiness, truth-without-consolation, witness writing.

Title - Absolute Poverty Ronie is utterly poor-
I possess nothing, absolutely nothing.
You can at least ask;
something might come.
I lack even a bowl to beg with. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 87 – What is Peace?

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-dogma, anti-romanticism, balance-over-justice, belief-systems, birth-without-consent, chaos-prevention, clarity-as-risk, clarity-over-comfort, cognitive-independence, consent, Detachment, determinism, existential ethics, existential-dilemma, existential-motion, Existentialism, fear-based-morality, freedom, guilt-culture, human condition, intellectual-honesty, internal-sequencing, irony, justice-vs-balance, lucidity, minimalism, moral-construction, moral-obligation, noise, non-conscious-universe, non-nihilism, non-performative-thought, Observation, peace, peace-questioned, philosophical poetry, philosophical-witness, power-structures, quiet-cruelty, religion-as-control, responsibility, restraint, silence, social-order, social-reality, solitude, surveillance-god, walking forward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 87 - What is Peace? Philosophically, this sits at the fault line between existentialism and social reality.
Existentialism says: you are free, therefore responsible.
Society says: you are responsible, therefore guilty.
Neither asks whether you wanted to be here.
Consent is quietly skipped, and then morality begins its lecture. Read more from here...

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Unscripted Connection

Posted 3 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 54 – Before and After

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology Tagged: AI authority, Alienation, authenticity, authorship, Before and After, character, commodification, consent and value, epistemic power, existential ethics, feminism-adjacent critique, gender conditioning, Intimacy., loneliness, love versus transaction, masculinity, modern relationships, moral economy, Negotiation, originality, philosophical poetry, power dynamics, Refusal, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 54, social contracts, social validation, truth without currency.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 54 - Before and After A woman is taught
that everything must happen before.
She must listen to the herder,
bend to his wants,
and in the same breath Read more from here...

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