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Discipline

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Autonomy, balance, character, clarity, Continuity, determination, discipline, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, force, gravity, grit, identity, individuality, inner strength, Introspection, literary manifesto, Manifesto, masculinity, mental toughness, minimalism, modern-poetry, movement, philosophy, prose poetry, psychological discipline, realism, Refusal, refusal to bow, resilience, Resistance, resolve, responsibility, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-command, self-definition, Self-mastery, solitude, stoicism, struggle, Walking, weight, will.

Discipline This is my entire job profile-poor thing.
Alone, I probed the wound: what happened, why-
tears soaked my own shoulder.
Yet I scorned the sniffle as childish
for a man forged in character. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115 – Stubborn

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: absence of witnesses, anti-romanticism, anti-sentimental poetry, austerity, dignity without reward, disciplined suffering, endurance ethic, ethical clarity, ethical endurance, existence without applause, existential cadence, existential labor, existential poetry, existential realism, existential solitude, identity through action, inner contract, inner silence, inward resistance, inward sovereignty, moral discipline, moral posture, moral stubbornness, persistence, persistence as meaning, persistence over meaning, philosophical endurance, philosophical minimalism, philosophical restraint, procedural existence, procedural faith, refusal of spectacle, refusal to kneel, resilience, resilience without consolation, restraint in language, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115, self-contained identity, self-definition, silence, silent defiance, solitude, stoicism, Stubborn, stubbornness, survival ethic, survival without hope, walking as metaphor, walking forward.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 115 - Stubborn When courage, bravery, and luck surrender,
and even character offers no choice,
my spirit lifts the heart,
teaching it to feel alive-even in the stubborn dark.
I cling to the act of walking, Read more from here...

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Bravery, Courage, and Alignment

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: alignment, anti-sedation, authenticity, Autonomy, Bravery, clarity, consciousness, Courage, Defiance, endurance, Existentialism, identity, inner-coherence, lived-truth, mental-discipline, nonconformity, personal-manifesto, philosophical poetry, psychological-fortitude, resilience, Resistance, self-authorship, self-definition, self-possession, strength-under-pressure.

Title – Bravery, Courage, and Alignment Bravery is inbuilt, by default.
Courage is forged through necessity.
I needed neither to be human.
I am not shutting down defense mechanisms,
nor defending them like some poor creature Read more from here...

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I Am Me

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, anti-enlightenment theater, anti-illusion, anti-mysticism, character over belief, clarity without comfort, consciousness, emotional discipline, Existential identity, existential resilience, humanism, inner jurisdiction, inner strength, Integrity, moral autonomy, non-theistic philosophy, personal responsibility, philosophical realism, psychological sovereignty, self-authorship, self-definition, self-knowledge, stoic realism, walking forward.

Title – I Am Me I am not this, not that, not even that either.
Look closely: necessity has forced me to become everything,
testing the depths of this nothingness.
I am all of the above-and still nothing at all.
Life did not choose isolation for decades; Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 0 – Where Would Ronie be?

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: appeal, applause, Arjuna, Arjuna reference, burden of existence, character study, colder, cool, cosmic indifference, dark poetry, death, death symbolism, distance, emotional isolation, emotional resilience, emotional weight, entire, existential crisis, existential defiance, existential poetry, experiment, footprint, grief, habit, hero archetype inversion, house, human struggle, identity crisis, Indian mythology, inner conflict, inner journey, inner strength, introspective poem, king, larger, life as a sentence, literary poem, loneliness, male loneliness, MaleLoneliness, masculine grief, masculinity, mental endurance, metaphysical poem, modern myth, mortality, mythic imagery, mythic realism, nihilism, personal mythology, philosophical poem, poetic monologue, poetic narrative, poetic philosophy, poetic storytelling, poetic symbolism, problem, psychological depth, psychological poem, resilience, Ronie, Ronie Dinosaur, rules, self-definition, self-reflection, Shiva, Shiva reference, silent endurance, slave, snake, spiritual emptiness, spiritual fire, stoic masculinity, stoicism, style, suffering, suffering narrative, surrender, survival, unbearable, walking symbolism, warrior spirit, worshipper, zeros.

Ronie Dinosaur walks alone-
not from necessity,
but from habit
and from style.
He moves down streets
where some girl might pause Read more from here...

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