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Chapter 37 – Life Taught Me Restraint

Posted 1 month ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Achievement, Agency, agency-withholding, articulation, attachment, avoidance, boundaries, cognitive dissonance, communication, confession, consent, consequence, desire, emotional labor, Ethics, Existentialism, failure modes, honesty, identity, Intimacy., Isolation, learning, loneliness, loss, masculinity, Mastery, memory, moral discipline, optimization, overfitting, permission, phenomenology, power dynamics, procedural grief, Reciprocity, recognition, regret, repression, restraint, self-accountability, self-authorship, self-erasure, silence, social norms, speech acts, time, translation, unmet-need, unspoken, vulnerability.

Chapter 37 - Life Taught Me Restraint Life Taught Me Restraint - Part I Restraint became my native tongue;
desire learned to speak only in silence.
I hid the wanting so well
even I forgot its shape. Read more from here...

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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 16 – The Fourth Woman

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, AnimalisticMetaphor, bray, buffalo, character, character flaw, CharacterFlaw, Chimpanzee, cow, donkey, EmotionalLabour, EqualityDebate, ExistentialIsolation, FeministCritique, fourth kind, Gender Equality, Gorilla, license, livestock, MaleHumiliation, MasculineIdentity, Monkey, PhilosophicalApotheosis, PlatonicIdeal, power, power flaw, PrimalNeed, Reciprocity, RelationalPower, SelfContempt, SelfSabotage, TheFourthWoman, TransactionalLove, UnclaimedLove, Worthlessness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 16 - The Fourth Woman Days turned to weeks,
weeks to months,
months swallowed by years-
look at what’s become of me.
Here, behenchod, there’s no one left. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 15 – Metacognition

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Ronie Dinosaur - Chapter 15: Metacognition My mind is trying to solve my own mind
and still can’t name the crime-
what for, what’s the big deal.
I have walked the entire distance
from blank confusion Read more from here...

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