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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 – Canteen, First Year

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 - Canteen, First Year So I stood in the canteen,
first-year,
the angriest young man on campus.
Armor on the outside,
an artist locked within. 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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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114 — This Is My Curse

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, anti-sentimental poetry, curse, dignity without reward, emotional-starvation, endurance, endurance over hope, ethical persistence, existential dignity, existential labor, existential poetry, existential realism, human condition, identity and meaning, intellectual suffering, internal exile, inward discipline, inward exile, inward violence, loneliness, memory and failure, modern existentialism, moral solitude, moral struggle, persistence, personal myth, philosophical melancholy, philosophical poem, philosophical voice, post-romantic realism, poverty of affection, refusal to kneel, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114, self-accounting, self-awareness, self-examination, self-tyranny, silence, solitude, spiritual austerity, stoicism, suffering without spectacle, survival ethic, survival without consolation, truth seeking, unrequited-love, walking as metaphor, witness-less life.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 114 — This Is My Curse Those bitter moments-
injustice, inequality, cruelty aimed straight at my heart-
I want to forget them.
But I must remember them,
again and again, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 113 – The Weight of My Efforts

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Agency, Autonomy, character, constancy, dharma, dignity, discipline, Efforts, emotional-austerity, endurance, ethical-stance, existential weight, hunger, identity, Indian Philosophy, inner conflict, Integrity, inward journey, loneliness, masculinity, moral conviction, moral-cost, mythic symbolism, nonconformity, permanence, personal mythology, philosophy, power dynamics, principles, Ram, Ravana, Refusal, refusal to bargain, rejection, resolve, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 113, Sacrifice, self-examination, Self-mastery, self-respect, Selfhood, silence, solitude, spiritual endurance, stoicism, truth, weight, will, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 113 - The Weight of My Efforts At first glance, it might seem
I am a hungry man, his meal denied him-
unwise, easily fooled.
But read again, hear my words deeper:
I was right, with pure intent and character, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 – Extreme Sports

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Anti-consumerism, Asceticism, authenticity, character, closure, Contemporary India, darkness, dignity, discipline, Divine union, Exile, Extreme Sports, Famine of the heart, finality, first-order truth, Heroism, honor, Human needs, identity, Integrity, Isolation, legend, loneliness, masculinity, Modern monk, Moving on, mythic, philosophical-fiction, Psychological study, Ram and Sita, raw truth, resilience, Roaring, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111, Sacrifice, Self-Reliance, Shiva and Parvati, silence, Social commentary, soul, Spiritual hunger, stoicism, survival, The dinosaur., The mirror, The path, Transcendence, truth seeking, Unbowed, Walking.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 - Extreme Sports When even character cannot clear the path,
the spirit directs.
Better the slow famine of the upright heart
than the quick feast of a bent knee.
Let others gorge on counterfeit warmth; Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110 – Die Hungry Rather Than Kneel

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction, Betrayal, bitterness, Bodybuilding, Boxer, Caretaking, Choice, Corona, Die Hungry, dignity, emotional-starvation, Engineering dropout, Father-son relationship, Financial success, Forging strength, grief, Hard work, Heart attack, honor, identity, Integrity, Iron character, Isolation, kneel, Lockdown, loneliness, longing, masculinity, Memories, Millionaire, Mother’s death, Names, No compromise, Nursing, Online dating, persistence, Poverty of soul, Pride, Public humiliation, purpose, raw, recovery, Redemption, rehab, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110, Rust, Sacrifice, Scams, School rejection, Self-made, self-respect, sobriety, Social status, solitude, stoicism, success, survival, The past, The price of love, Thirty-seven, trauma, truth, Unfiltered, unrequited-love, walking alone, wealth, work-ethic.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110 - Die Hungry Rather Than Kneel I was starving for affection-
simple human touch,
not just flesh-
when I considered paying a woman for sex.
It was the morning after my father’s heart attack, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109 – The Anti-Thesis

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: ambiguity, Betrayal, bitterness, Brokenness, closure, college romance, coming-of-age, confrontation, devotion, ego, Emotional baggage, Emotional manipulation, Empty seats, Fear of commitment, gaslighting, Ghosting, growth, healing, Heartbreak, Hidden pain, identity, Intimacy., loneliness, Loss of innocence, masculinity, memory, Moving on, nostalgia, obsession, Perspective, poetry, power dynamics, reflection, regret, Reputation, resentment, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109, Rumors, self-destruction, silence, Social status, stoicism, symbolism, The Anti-Thesis, The past, Toxic relationships, truth, unrequited-love, Unspoken words, vulnerability, yearning, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 - The Unpermitted Path

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109 – The Anti-Thesis It wasn’t that I failed to win you,
or that I lacked permission-
you had already written the letter yourself,
granting full access to raw lust,
to be taken without hesitation. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 108 – The Gift I Never Unwrapped

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 108 – The Gift I Never Unwrapped After giving you so much love,
after caring so deeply,
after orbiting you like a satellite,
after never once demanding you from yourself-
I kept you safe, like a gift saved for the perfect moment, Read more from here...

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Hymn to Ronie Dinosaur

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Hymn to Ronie Dinosaur Verse 1 In a life monstrous, vast, and cruel beyond measure,
I’ve climbed Himalayan heights, plunged to trench’s dark treasure.
Wrong place, wrong time-life’s brutal lesson taught,
Power, money, status fade; innocence dearly bought. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 102 – Still Alive

Posted 5 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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