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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Artist vs Man, Branded Useless, College Memories, coming-of-age, Confessional, Consent Culture, desire, Disconnection, emotional intelligence, Emotional Void, Four Years of College, Fragmented Love, Heartbreak, Helipad Metaphor, High Character, Hourglass, Human Connection, identity, Integrity, Interior Monologue, Intimacy., justice, Literary Grit, Lust Train, Lust vs Love, Male Consent, male vulnerability, masculinity, Mirroring, Misfired, Misunderstood Men, Modern Dating, modern-poetry, Narrative Poetry, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, Psychological Warfare, raw emotion, rejection, Resonance., respect, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-knowledge, Self-Reflexive, Sexual Ethics, The Artist’s Voice, The Long Game, trauma.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired I was afraid-
how do I cup her face in my hands
and whisper, Stay quiet. 
Let me admire what I have.
She pressed closer. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 – The Unpermitted Path

Posted 5 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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Why Did She Humiliate Me?

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: animal-metaphor, anti-romance, biology, desire, Existentialism, Human nature, humiliation, hunger, Innocence, Intimacy., jungle-symbolism, loss, masculinity, modern-epic, mythic-poetry, philosophy, power, psychology, regret, restraint, self-knowledge, sexual-politics, tenderness, tragic-realism, unmet-love.

Title – Why Did She Humiliate Me? Why did she humiliate me so?
That heart-breaking woman laid me low.
To learn what happened, who he truly was,
he walked into the jungle, just because-
and lingered long in thought’s unyielding shade Read more from here...

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Education Is Poverty

Posted 6 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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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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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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