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The Walker in the Forest

Posted 4 weeks ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology Tagged: Absence, acceptance, Archetype, character, consciousness, Core, Courage, Detachment, Dissolution, emptiness, endurance, Enough, Existentialism, Footsteps, forest, godlessness, healing, hope, identity, ignition, Integrity, Karma, legend, Literature, masculinity, mirror, motion, myth, Neutrality, nothingness, permanence, philosophy, poetry, poverty, reality, Residue, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, Self-Reliance, silence, solitude, spine, stoicism, structure, tenderness, transformation, truth, Walking, weight, wisdom.

The Walker in the Forest Part I - I Did Not Have God A man can be neglected
before he understands
he has been insulted.
A man pushed far enough into helplessness Read more from here...

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Health

Posted 2 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 – The Unsold Man

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anger, anti-compromise, character, College Life, Defiance, detention, dignity, discipline, endurance, Existentialism, extinction metaphor, failure, fate, first-love, hunger, inner flame, Integrity, intent, labor, loneliness, man, masculine identity, Moral Spine., nonconformity, Outsider, personal mythology, poverty, Pride, rebellion, Refusal, refusal to kneel, rehabilitation, rejection, resilience, restraint, road narrative, Ronie Dinosaur, self-authorship, self-respect, silence, solitude, stoicism, strength, survival, The Unsold Man, truth, unreciprocated-love, Unsold, unsold soul, upright man, walking alone.

Ronie Dinosaur (The Unsold Man) (Verse 1) I loved at first sight, got laughed at by noon,
turned the pain into iron, forged muscle from ruin.
College crowned me king, girls kept my seat warm,
but the one who held my heart said, “No, that’s not the form.” Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 102 – Still Alive

Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Agency, alignment, ascetic resolve, Autonomy, Betrayal, Buddha, character, consciousness, dignity, endurance, endurance poetry, Existentialism, fate, free will, hunger, identity, inner law, inner strength, Integrity, Jesus, Kaliyug, Karma, moral clarity, mythology, philosophical poetry, poverty, Ram, Refusal, refusal to break, rejection, renunciation, resilience, Sacrifice, Selfhood, Shiva, solitude, spiritual defiance, stoicism, suffering, survival, survival ethics, truth, unchosen love, will, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 102 - Still Alive Live in your delusion that I will die-
the more you test me,
the more I’ll become like Ram.
The more pain I swallow,
the more I’ll rise like Shiva. 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 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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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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Education Is Poverty

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abstraction, abundance, access, Autonomy, awareness, cognitive bias, consciousness, critical thinking, Detachment, education, enlightenment, epistemology, evidence, Experience, ignorance, impermanence, inequality, information overload, inquiry, intellect, Introspection, knowledge economy, learning, logic, mental poverty, mindset, minimalism, Modernity, Observation, Paradox, perception, philosophy, poverty, rationalism, realism, reduction, reflection, scarcity, self-illumination, self-knowledge, Self-Reliance, simplicity, social critique, systems, thought, truth, uncertainty, wisdom.

Title - Education Is Poverty I study now
what I observe—
an original witness,
conclusions my evidence.
Poverty, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 – The Snakes Are Awake

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, aesthetic rigor, AI, Alienation, artificial intelligence, Chapter 85, cognitive dissonance, confession, contemporary poetry, cultural-critique, Detachment, digital judgment, emotional honesty, emotional intensity, erotic economy, Existentialism, human condition, human desire, hyper-awareness, hyperrealism, Introspection, jungle metaphor, literary realism, loneliness, longing, male perspective, masculinity, mirror, misogyny, modern despair, mortality, narrative poem, nihilism, philosophical poetry, poverty, Psychological realism, raw truth, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85, self-reflection, Selfhood, shame, snakes, social alienation, social critique, social hierarchy, societal expectation, suffering, symbolic imagery, The Snakes Are Awake, transactional relationships, urban isolation, vulnerability, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 85 - The Snakes Are Awake Awake-
snakes awake.
Job theirs:
coiled in jungle dark,
hidden behind girl-ears, 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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