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7/7/2025, 4:15:19 AM
1. That honestly depends on if it is your time and right to help them. If you're helping them because you feel it makes you the star of their show, then it is never a good time to help. If you are at sea, and you are on a boat, and other men around you are in the water, you can only carry so many men that the boat will allow. However, pulling one man out will ultimately cause the rest to seek refuge as well, and the worst swimmers will capsize you.
2. Truth simply is, and cannot not be. There are a myriad of facets acting simultaneously. Alcohol is always alcohol, yet each chemistry uses alcohol in the lab their own way. Without a hint of subjectivity, life is denied free will and thus the Great Work without meaning. I see things paradoxically, the Prima Materia exists as people can mentally recognize it's existence or even speculate something to exist on that magnitude. However, the individual cannot exist without the spark of the Prima Materia as it is all. Then again, what is one? One is one, one can mean all or one can be singular. The definition of one itself is in favor of this paradoxical approach.
3. I generally see this in a light that similar in nature to a mighty tree in a woods. The tree is great and magnificent, it's branches scrape heaven, it's roots touch hell. It provides food and shelter for so many plants and animals. However, even a tree so mighty will one day succumb to rot, decay, damage, and more. It's trunk now home to a score of insects eating their way within. The largest tree in the forest is biologically recognized as the "mother tree" and carries information over centuries. When it is cut down, the mother tree releases all its stored nutrients to the surrounding saplings and other trees. Some trees require the destruction of fire for their reproduction
2. Truth simply is, and cannot not be. There are a myriad of facets acting simultaneously. Alcohol is always alcohol, yet each chemistry uses alcohol in the lab their own way. Without a hint of subjectivity, life is denied free will and thus the Great Work without meaning. I see things paradoxically, the Prima Materia exists as people can mentally recognize it's existence or even speculate something to exist on that magnitude. However, the individual cannot exist without the spark of the Prima Materia as it is all. Then again, what is one? One is one, one can mean all or one can be singular. The definition of one itself is in favor of this paradoxical approach.
3. I generally see this in a light that similar in nature to a mighty tree in a woods. The tree is great and magnificent, it's branches scrape heaven, it's roots touch hell. It provides food and shelter for so many plants and animals. However, even a tree so mighty will one day succumb to rot, decay, damage, and more. It's trunk now home to a score of insects eating their way within. The largest tree in the forest is biologically recognized as the "mother tree" and carries information over centuries. When it is cut down, the mother tree releases all its stored nutrients to the surrounding saplings and other trees. Some trees require the destruction of fire for their reproduction
6/21/2025, 8:31:02 AM
Anyone who claims Bulgarian is any easy Slavic language is lying to you
They say this because it has no cases, but it has other shit that is just as bad, or actually worse
You see, every verb is conjugated for person, number, tense, voice, mood, aspect, evidentiality, and gender (male, female, or neuter)
Bulgarian retains the aorist tense from proto-indo-european, which is also found very rarely in Georgian and Armenian, and also in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit
The aorist tense indicates and action that took place once at a specific time in the past but given it's unfamiliar to basically any other living language, it's difficult to get used to
It also has the future-in-the-past tense (and a perfect variation of it) for actions that occured in the past, but after the time at which some other event being discussed occured. Why would you need this?
Even more painful, Bulgarian also has a grammatical feature called "evidentiality" that I mentioned earlier.
This is where verbs are additionally changed according to how it is that you know the action in the sentence occured
There are 4 categories of evidentials:
The indicative (I know the action the verb describes took place because I saw it happen myself)
The inferential (I didn't see it happen, but I saw other evidence that convinces me that it happened)
The renarrative (somebody else told me it happened, and they witnessed it first hand)
The dubiative (somebody else told me it happened, and that person heard it from someone else, and so on)
So - in Bulgarian you cannot ever simply say "the man kicked the ball", or "the dog ate the bone".
You MUST modify the verb every time you speak to explain your source of knowledge
This makes writing fiction in Bulgarian weird... what form or the evidential should the narrator use???
But yeah, all of these features combined, you have hundreds of potential forms for each verb
Maybe not all of them are used, but still, possible to make. It is a nightmare
They say this because it has no cases, but it has other shit that is just as bad, or actually worse
You see, every verb is conjugated for person, number, tense, voice, mood, aspect, evidentiality, and gender (male, female, or neuter)
Bulgarian retains the aorist tense from proto-indo-european, which is also found very rarely in Georgian and Armenian, and also in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit
The aorist tense indicates and action that took place once at a specific time in the past but given it's unfamiliar to basically any other living language, it's difficult to get used to
It also has the future-in-the-past tense (and a perfect variation of it) for actions that occured in the past, but after the time at which some other event being discussed occured. Why would you need this?
Even more painful, Bulgarian also has a grammatical feature called "evidentiality" that I mentioned earlier.
This is where verbs are additionally changed according to how it is that you know the action in the sentence occured
There are 4 categories of evidentials:
The indicative (I know the action the verb describes took place because I saw it happen myself)
The inferential (I didn't see it happen, but I saw other evidence that convinces me that it happened)
The renarrative (somebody else told me it happened, and they witnessed it first hand)
The dubiative (somebody else told me it happened, and that person heard it from someone else, and so on)
So - in Bulgarian you cannot ever simply say "the man kicked the ball", or "the dog ate the bone".
You MUST modify the verb every time you speak to explain your source of knowledge
This makes writing fiction in Bulgarian weird... what form or the evidential should the narrator use???
But yeah, all of these features combined, you have hundreds of potential forms for each verb
Maybe not all of them are used, but still, possible to make. It is a nightmare
4/26/2025, 3:42:50 PM
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