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Sorcery

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, ambiguity, autobiographical fiction, body language, boundaries, character, confession, consent, desire, dignity, discipline, disillusionment, emotional labor, first-order truth, Heartbreak, Intimacy., Kaliyug myth, longing, loss, masculinity, modern alienation, Modernity, moral economy, mythic voice, peacock metaphor, power dynamics, Pride, Psychological realism, Purity, Refusal, rejection, restraint, restraint ethics, romantic idealism, Ronie Dinosaur, self-respect, Selfhood, solitude, Sorcery, stoicism, swan metaphor, symbolism, transformation, unrequited-love, vulnerability, will.

Sorcery I came back having lost-so who has ever come back having won?
I lived by my own will; this is not called losing.
I became Ronie to the whole world-from five-year-old children to everyone at the table, at the door, or on the floor.
In return for the love I gave the boy within me, I could not gather love from a girl for myself.
The generosity of my spirit, my character in action, my golden intent-and yet my desire proved fruitless. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 – Canteen, First Year

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absolute Zero, Betrayal, burden, Canteen, character, Childhood Scars, College Life, Courage, desire, devotion, discipline, emotional intelligence, Empty Stadium, Exile, Existentialism, fate, First Year, first-love, first-order truth, Ghosting, Gnosticism, Heartbreak, Inner Artist, Integrity, intent, loneliness, masculinity, memory, Penance, philosophy, Reconciliation, recovery, Redemption, rehab, resilience, respect, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117, self-punishment, self-worth, Silent Gaze, Social Contract, solitude, Sovereignty, stoicism, substance abuse, survival, The Ledger, The Void, The Walk, trauma, truth, vulnerability.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 - Canteen, First Year So I stood in the canteen,
first-year,
the angriest young man on campus.
Armor on the outside,
an artist locked within. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 – Extreme Sports

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Anti-consumerism, Asceticism, authenticity, character, closure, Contemporary India, darkness, dignity, discipline, Divine union, Exile, Extreme Sports, Famine of the heart, finality, first-order truth, Heroism, honor, Human needs, identity, Integrity, Isolation, legend, loneliness, masculinity, Modern monk, Moving on, mythic, philosophical-fiction, Psychological study, Ram and Sita, raw truth, resilience, Roaring, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111, Sacrifice, Self-Reliance, Shiva and Parvati, silence, Social commentary, soul, Spiritual hunger, stoicism, survival, The dinosaur., The mirror, The path, Transcendence, truth seeking, Unbowed, Walking.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 - Extreme Sports When even character cannot clear the path,
the spirit directs.
Better the slow famine of the upright heart
than the quick feast of a bent knee.
Let others gorge on counterfeit warmth; Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 105 — They Have Won

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alignment, Betrayal, Bloody but Unbowed, character, City of Absence, Clean Intent, cremation-ground, Dark Night of the Soul, dignity, Empty Bed, Existentialism, first-order truth, Ghost, Grave, Gutter-Stoic, Hero’s Journey, humiliation, injustice, Institutionalized, Integrity, Internal Victory, Interrogated Intent, Invictus, Isolation, loneliness, Loud Intent, male vulnerability, Martyrdom, modern-poetry, Moral Spine., Polite Murder, raw emotion, recovery, Refusing to Kneel, rehab, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 105, Scapegoat, sobriety, Social Death, Special One, survival, The Abyss, They, They Have Won, trauma, Unbowed, Used, William Ernest Henley, won.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 105 - They Have Won They have won.
Everyone.
Those who never knew me dragged me into the gutter-
blamed me, discarded me, murdered me,
then tossed me into rehab. Read more from here...

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Quantum

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Betrayal, character, Choice, Coherence, consciousness, contemporary poetry, ethical critique, ethical endurance, existential, first-order truth, honesty, Human nature, Introspection, life lessons, life philosophy, lived-experience, metaphoric poetry, modern society, moral philosophy, observational poetry, opportunism, performative behavior, personal integrity, personal sovereignty, philosophy, power dynamics, resilience, self-accountability, self-reflection, societal critique.

Title – Quantum The world flaunts trophies bright-
achievements, gold, titles won in fight
by climbing on backs, stepping over the fallen-
and calls it greatness, loud and swollen.
It is not. Read more from here...

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The Caged Bird Sings – Ronie Dinosaur Philosophy

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: action-before-thought, authenticity, character, clarity-over-hope, courage-without-reward, depression-and-motion, discipline, existential stance, Existentialism, first-order truth, human condition, identity, inner witness, lived-philosophy, nihilism-with-discipline, non-duality, observer-and-actor, pain-as-teacher, philosophical poetry, refusal-of-illusion, Ronie Dinosaur Philosophy, self-knowledge, solitude, stoic-ethics, truth-without-consolation, walking philosophy.

Title - The Caged Bird Sings Action precedes thought
in the hour of true necessity.
Self-knowledge arrives in me
not as collected wisdom,
but as raw encounter- Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 70 – The Door

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, absence as erasure, attachment fracture, cultural metaphor, dignity through withdrawal, door, door metaphor, emotional labor, emotional neglect, excuses, existential separation, eyes, first-order truth, friendship betrayal, grief without closure, invisibility, lived disappointment, loss of witness, moral, moral projection, politics, quiet departure, relational asymmetry, relational realism, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 70, self-erasure, social replacement, The Door, unreciprocated bonds, unshared memory, walking away.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 70 - The Door Those who didn’t value the salt in my tears,
a little smile on my face would have killed their ghosts out of fear.
Maybe I was just standing at the door.
The door was open-
and I had to understand what for: Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 68 – Misunderstanding

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, anger legitimacy, awakening, betrayal awareness, boundary formation, character under pressure, emotional clarity, existential confrontation, first-order truth, gaslighting, grief process, interpersonal deception, lived-truth, manipulation exposed, misunderstanding, moral paralysis, non-romantic realism, power dynamics, psychological violence, recovery without fantasy, refusal of denial, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 68, Self-Doubt, silence as complicity, trauma recognition, walking away.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 68 - Misunderstanding You don’t understand a thing.
This didn’t “just happen.”
You blame me.
You doubt me.
She lies straight to your face- Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 66 – Volume Button

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-identity, anti-institutional, anti-romanticism, authenticity, consciousness without ground, disillusionment, epistemic anger, existential record, Existentialism, experiential truth, first-order truth, lived-philosophy, non-dualism, outsider consciousness, philosophical memoir, philosophical realism, post-human ethics, radical honesty, raw philosophy, Refusal, rejection of roles, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 66, self-sovereignty, solitude, uncompromising stance, Volume Button.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 66 - Volume Button I am not selling capsules or pills for immortality.
I am doing my job.
I am a philosopher.
I do not want a volume button for my roar.
If you find me boring, feel free to leave. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter – 64 – Poor Girl Syndrome

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Bacchi, class divide, contemporary literature, emotional economics, existential testimony, female survival strategies, first-order truth, Gareeb, gender dynamics, human dignity, intimacy and power, invisibility, lived-experience, masculine-vulnerability, moral asymmetry, non-romanticized poverty, Poor Girl, Poor Girl Syndrome, poverty psychology, power imbalance, Psychological realism, resentment and restraint, respect and desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter - 64, scarcity mindset, social conditioning, social hierarchy, survival ethics, Syndrome, transactional love, trust deficit.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter - 64 - Poor Girl Syndrome The classic Saleem–Anarkali,
gareeb ki bacchi syndrome-
Why respect me so much
when maybe you only want
my body? Read more from here...

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