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Sorcery

Posted 2 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 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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 55 – Point of View

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anti-heroism, anti-mysticism, anti-validation, authenticity, authorship, character, class and power, coherence versus character, epistemic authority, existential walk, Integrity, invisibility, lived-philosophy, loneliness, modern alienation, moral responsibility, non-performative ethics, outsider philosophy, philosophical prose-poetry, Point of View, Refusal, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 55, secular humanism, solitude, truth without spectacle, witnessless action.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 55 - Point of View I will not reply directly to any comments.
Go ask the machine
what I have written.
Only when I hold value in your eyes-
no longer just the underdog- Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53 – The Tough Gets Going

Posted 3 months ago under Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology Tagged: aging, AI and humanity, anti-romanticism, authenticity, character, depression, endurance, Existentialism, failure, invisibility, loneliness, masculinity, Meaninglessness, modern alienation, nihilism, philosophical poetry, Refusal, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53, self-verification, social value, solitude, The Tough Gets Going, time, truth, unchosen integrity.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 53 - The Tough Gets Going When the going gets tough,
the tough gets going.
After time has stripped everything bare-
possessions, people, illusions-
that’s when, in the thick of depression, Read more from here...

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