Germian

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Germian
Germic
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Pronunciation[germiʃ]
Created byJeppesper
Date2022
SettingGermanic languages
Indo-European
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Germian (Germic IPA: /germiʃ/) is a conlang created by Jeppesper beginning in 2022, germ stands for it being based of off Germanic languages. It could be considered an engineered language since it is constructed to be regular, simple, recognizable, lack grammatical gender and gender differentiation of nouns/pronouns. The conlang is mainly based on English, German, Dutch and Swedish, but it has to smaller extends also been influenced by Afrikaans, Danish, Norwegian, Yiddish, West-frisian, Luxembourgish and Icelandic.

Qualities

Alignment Neutral alignment
Type Analytical
Tonal No
Genders None
Nouns decline according to Case

Number

Definiteness

Verbs conjugate according to Tense

Aspect

Adjectives decline according to Comparision
100% Phonetic alphabet
100% Consistent noun & adjective declensions
100% Consistent verb conjugations
0% Noun/Pronoun gender differentiation
+ Swadesh inclusive
+ GSRD inclusive

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labio-dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Labio-velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d k g
Fricative f v s z ʃ h
Approximant j w
Trill r
Lateral app. l
Clusters ks kw

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
High
Near-high ɪ ʏ ʊ
High-mid
Mid
Low-mid ɛ ɔ
Near-low
Low a ɑː
Diphthongs ɛ͡ɪ a͡ɪ a͡ʊ ɔ͡ɪ ɔ͡ʊ

Orthography

Alphabet

Letter Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Sound /a/ /b/ /ʃ/ /d/ /ɛ/ /f/ /g/ /h/ /ɪ/ /j/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /ɔ/ /p/ /kw/ /r/ /s/ /t/ /ʊ/ /v/ /w/ /ks/ /ʏ/ /z/
Name /a/ /beː/ /ʃeː/ /deː/ /ɛ/ /ɛf/ /geː/ /hoː/ /ɪ/ /jɛɪ/ /kɛɪ/ /ɛl/ /ɛm/ /ɛn/ /ɔ/ /peː/ /kwuː/ /ɛr/ /ɛs/ /teː/ /ʊ/ /vɛɪ/ /wʏn/ /ɛks/ /ʏ/ /zɛt/

Digraphs & Diphthongs

Digraphs & Diphthongs Aa aa Ee ee Ii ii Oo oo Uu uu Yy yy Ng ng Ai ai Ei ei Oi oi Au au Ou ou
Sound /ɑː/ /eː/ /iː/ /oː/ /uː/ /yː/ /ŋ/ /a͡ɪ/ /ɛ͡ɪ/ /ɔ͡ɪ/ /a͡ʊ/ /ɔ͡ʊ/
Name lang a lang e lang i lang o lang u lang y /ɛŋ/ /a͡ɪ/ /ɛ͡ɪ/ /ɔ͡ɪ/ /a͡ʊ/ /ɔ͡ʊ/

Phonotactics

There are no silent letters.

There is no phonemic reduced vowel sound like english's /ə/.

Double consonants (that aren't part of a digraph) are pronounced with a syllable break:

Example: bb = /b.b/


The first 2 vowels that are viable as a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are the ones that will be pronounced as such:

Example: aii = /a͡ɪ.ɪ/

Example: eei = /eː.ɪ/

Not like: aii = /a.iː/

Not like: eei = /ɛ.ɛ͡ɪ/


Vowel digraph/diphthong pairs and single vowels that directly preceeds/follows a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are pronounced with a syllable break inbetween them:

Example: aaeiou = /ɑː.ɛ͡ɪ.ɔ͡ʊ/

Example: eaa = /ɛ.ɑː/

Example: aio = /a͡ɪ.ɔ/

Example: aaa = /ɑː.a/


Vowels following each other that are not part of a vowel digraph/diphthong pair are not pronounced with a syllable break inbetween them:

Example: ia = /ɪa/

Example: iea = /ɪɛa/

Example: aioe = /a͡ɪ.ɔɛ/

Grammar

Syntax

SVO (subject–verb–object)

Descriptive examples:

Example: Jaik1 hav2 ain3 kat4. ⇄ I1 have2 a3 cat4.

Example: Jaik1 siien4 nite3 et5. ⇄ I1 do2 not3 see4 it5.

Example: Ain1 roud2 rous3. ⇄ A1 red2 rose3.

Example: Vat1 wilte4 duu3 dun5 6? ⇄ What1 do2 you3 want4 to5 do6?

Example: Vii1 brauke2 gouen3 in4 de5 morgen6. ⇄ We1 usually2 walk3 in4 the5 morning6.

Example: Siien4 du2 et5 nite3? ⇄ Do1 you (s.)2 not3 see4 it5?

Vocabulary

-

Noun declenations

Case articles and number

Example Singular Plural
Nominative:

definite article

de kat de kates
Nominative:

indefinite article

ain kat (vleere) kates
Genitive:

definite article

de katese de kateses
Genitive:

indefinite article

ain katese (vleere) kateses
Vocabulary

ain ⇄ a/an (singular indefinite article)

de ⇄ the (definite article)

kat ⇄ cat

vleere ⇄ several (plural indefinite "article")

Verb conjugations

Infinitive/Imperative:

sainen ⇄ to be

Simple Progressive Perfect Imperfect
Present sain ⇄ am/is/are saine ⇄ being hasain ⇄ have/has been
Past saind ⇄ was/were sainde ⇄ was/were being hadsain ⇄ had been
Future vil sain ⇄ will be vil saine ⇄ will become vil hasain ⇄ will have been
Conditional skalde hasain ⇄ would have been skalde sain ⇄ would be
Infinitive/Imperative:

dunen ⇄ to do

Simple Progressive Perfect Imperfect
Present dun ⇄ do dune ⇄ doing hadun ⇄ have/has done
Past dund ⇄ did dunde ⇄ was/were doing haddun ⇄ had done
Future vil dun ⇄ will do vil dune ⇄ will be doing vil hadun ⇄ will have done
Conditional skalde hadun ⇄ would have done skalde dun ⇄ would do
Infinitive/Imperative:

haven ⇄ to have

Simple Progressive Perfect Imperfect
Present hav ⇄ have have ⇄ having hahav ⇄ have/has had
Past havd ⇄ had havde ⇄ was/were having hadhav ⇄ had had
Future vil hav ⇄ will have vil have ⇄ will be having vil hahav ⇄ will have had
Conditional skalde hahav ⇄ would have had skalde hav ⇄ would have
Modal auxiliary verbs
berhauce ⇄ need
brauke ⇄ brukar (SE)/usually do
burt ⇄ ought
durfo ⇄ may/permitted to/allowed to/få (SE)/dürf (DE)
kan ⇄ can/to be able
kaunde ⇄ could
moug ⇄ might
must ⇄ must
skal ⇄ shall
skalde ⇄ would
taure ⇄ dare
vil ⇄ will/going to
wilte ⇄ want
Verb suffixes

-en ⇄ (making-verb)

Example (Making-verb) Progressive Example phrase Example phrase
vit ⇄ white viten ⇄ whiten vite ⇄ whitening viten de tands ⇄ whiten the teeth de vite of de tands ⇄ the whitening of the teeth

rii- ⇄ (repeat)

un- ⇄ (deprive)

ike-- ⇄ (negate)

Example (repeat) (deprive) (negate)
vit ⇄ white riiviten ⇄ rewhiten unviten ⇄ unwhiten ike-vit ⇄ non-white

Adjective comparison

-er ⇄ (comparative)

-est ⇄ (superlative)

Example Positive/Negative Comparative Superlative
Adjective groos grooser groosest

Example: Et sain groos. ⇄ It is big.

Example: Et sain grooser dan dat. ⇄ It is larger than that.

Example: Et sain (de) groosest. ⇄ It is the largest.

Example: Et sain klain. ⇄ It is small.

Example: Et sain klainer dan dat. ⇄ It is smaller than that.

Example: Et sain (de) klainest. ⇄ It is the smallest.

Example: Et sain fiiler dan dat. ⇄ It is more than that.

Example: Et sain klimer dan dat. ⇄ It is less than that.

Example: Jaik wilte meer. ⇄ I want (even) more.

Example: Jaik wilte haven vleere. ⇄ I want to have several ones.

Vocabulary

dan ⇄ than

dat ⇄ that

de ⇄ the

et ⇄ it

fiil ⇄ many/much/a lot

groos ⇄ big

hav ⇄ have

jaik ⇄ I

klain ⇄ small

klim ⇄ little meer ⇄ even more/additional

sain ⇄ am/is/are

vleere ⇄ several

wilte ⇄ want

Adjective suffix

-ic ⇄ (making-adjective)/(having qualities of)

Example gold ⇄ gold hund ⇄ dog
-ic goldic hundic

Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns Nominative Possesive Reflexive
1st person jaik ⇄ I

vii ⇄ we

jaikse ⇄ my/mine

viise ⇄ our/ours

jaikself ⇄ myself

viiselfs ⇄ ourselves

2nd person duu ⇄ you (s.)

juu ⇄ you (pl.)

duuse ⇄ your/yours (s.)

juuse ⇄ you/yours (pl.)

duuself ⇄ yourself (s.)

juuselfs ⇄ yourselves (pl.)

3rd person xiin ⇄ they/this one (s. proximate./former. standard)

diin ⇄ they/that one (s. obviative./post-former.)

et ⇄ it

dei ⇄ they (pl.)

xiinse ⇄ theirs (s.)

diinse ⇄ theirs (s.)

etse ⇄ its

deise ⇄ theirs (pl.)

xiinself ⇄ themself (s.)

diinself ⇄ themself (s.)

etself ⇄ itself

deiselfs ⇄ themselves (pl.)

4th person eim ⇄ one eimse ⇄ one's eimself ⇄ oneself

Numerals

Ordinal numbers are marked by adding the suffix "-ce" to a number.

Fractions are marked by adding the suffix "-deel" to a number (exeption for "helft ⇄ half").

Capitalization

Capital letters are used for the first word of a sentence and for proper nouns.

The proper nouns in Germian are exclusively: personal names, place names, marketed titles and organization names.

Dictionary

Phrases

Jaik heiten... ⇄ My name is... jaik ⇄ I heiten ⇄ to be referred to as/heter (SE)/heiße (DE)
Vat sain duuse name? ⇄ What is your name? name ⇄ name Spraten duu... ⇄ Do you speak...
Jaik spraten nite... ⇄ I don't speak... Jaik verctond nite. ⇄ I don't understand. Veir sain de toilet? ⇄ Where is the toilet?
Vur sain duu?/Vur sain et? ⇄ How are you?/How is it?/How is it going? Sain duu okee/ok? ⇄ Are you okay? Sain et okee/ok? ⇄ Is it going okay?
okee/ok ⇄ okay/ok jaa ⇄ yes nei ⇄ no
njei ⇄ (yes/no)/well jee ⇄ yeah naa ⇄ nah
maince ⇄ maybe natuurlic ⇄ of course kain problem ⇄ no problem
antswer ⇄ answer genau/exakt/presiic/korekt/ret ⇄ exactly/precisely/correct/right inkorekt/falc ⇄ incorrect/false/wrong
tangke ⇄ thanks tangke duu/juu (s./pl.) ⇄ thank you fiil tangke ⇄ thank you very much
stop! ⇄ stop! help ⇄ help akta! ⇄ look out!
sori ⇄ sorry sploristop ⇄ sorry, but please lets stop/end this pardon ⇄ excuse me
spliifst ⇄ please ckol ⇄ cheers grelsing ⇄ greeting
haloo ⇄ hello hae ⇄ hi hei ⇄ hey
dae ⇄ good day/bye/dag (NE) guutein ⇄ have a good one/goodbye cau ⇄ bye
adjoo ⇄ adieu ferwel ⇄ farewell sees vii ⇄ see you/see you later
wilkom ⇄ welcome/you're welcome moost wilkom ⇄ most welcome/you are most welcome guut morgen ⇄ good morning
guut daag ⇄ good day guut naftermiddaag ⇄ good afternoon guut aufend ⇄ good evening
guut nact ⇄ good night jaik eliibe duu ⇄ I love you Vur fiil sain dit? ⇄ How much is this?

Swadesh+

  1. I ⇄ jaik
  2. we ⇄ vii
  3. you (singular) ⇄ duu
  4. you (plural) ⇄ juu
  5. they (singular proximate) ⇄ xiin
  6. they (singular obviative) ⇄ diin
  7. they (plural) ⇄ dei
  8. this ⇄ dit
  9. that ⇄ dat
  10. here ⇄ heir
  11. there ⇄ daar
  12. who ⇄ viim
  13. whose ⇄ viis
  14. what ⇄ vat
  15. why ⇄ vatfuur
  16. which ⇄ velke
  17. where ⇄ veir
  18. when ⇄ van
  19. how ⇄ vur
  20. what kind of/what something's like ⇄ vurvat
  21. not ⇄ nite
  22. all ⇄ al
  23. none, no, not any ⇄ kain
  24. many ⇄ fiil
  25. few ⇄ veenig
  26. some ⇄ somige
  27. other ⇄ aader
  28. one ⇄ ein
  29. two ⇄ tvei
  30. three ⇄ drii
  31. four ⇄ fiir
  32. five ⇄ faif
  33. big ⇄ groos
  34. small ⇄ klain
  35. long ⇄ lang
  36. short ⇄ kort
  37. wide ⇄ breid
  38. narrow ⇄ smaal
  39. thick ⇄ dik
  40. thin ⇄ dun
  41. heavy ⇄ cveer
  42. light ⇄ leict
  43. female ⇄ femlin
  44. male ⇄ manske
  45. androgyne ⇄ wenle
  46. gender-neutral ⇄ nukjon (nutrei-kjon)
  47. genderless ⇄ zukjon (zunte-kjon)
  48. cultural gender ⇄ qukjon (qultural-kjon)
  49. inter(-sex/-gender) ⇄ jinen(-sec/-kjon)
  50. endo(-sex/cisgender) ⇄ ine(-sec/-kjon)
  51. trans(-sexual/-gender) ⇄ tverc(-sec/-kjon)
  52. diverse/variating/queer ⇄ veirai
  53. human ⇄ huumas
  54. child/youngling ⇄ kind
  55. child/progeny ⇄ cinder
  56. spouse/martial partner ⇄ jaing (extension of "jaik")
  57. parent ⇄ elter
  58. animal ⇄ diir
  59. fish ⇄ fic
  60. bird ⇄ fogel
  61. dog ⇄ hund
  62. louse ⇄ laus
  63. snake ⇄ clang
  64. worm ⇄ wurm
  65. nature ⇄ natuur
  66. tree ⇄ trai
  67. forest ⇄ skoog
  68. stick ⇄ stape
  69. fruit ⇄ fruut
  70. seed ⇄ saed
  71. leaf ⇄ lauv
  72. root ⇄ wrootcel
  73. bark (of a tree) ⇄ bark
  74. flower ⇄ blom
  75. grass ⇄ grais
  76. rope ⇄ roup
  77. body ⇄ bodi
  78. organ ⇄ organ
  79. skin ⇄ skind
  80. leather ⇄ leder
  81. scale ⇄ sqeil
  82. meat ⇄ flec
  83. blood ⇄ blut
  84. bone ⇄ boun
  85. fat (noun) ⇄ feit
  86. grease ⇄ greis
  87. mucle ⇄ muskel
  88. guts ⇄ darm
  89. heart ⇄ hart
  90. brain ⇄ breihin
  91. liver ⇄ leever
  92. egg ⇄ eig
  93. horn ⇄ horn
  94. stinger ⇄ stakel
  95. antenna ⇄ anten
  96. tail ⇄ stvan
  97. feather ⇄ veder
  98. hair ⇄ har
  99. fur ⇄ fel
  100. head ⇄ hovd
  101. face ⇄ sicte
  102. ear ⇄ oor
  103. eye ⇄ ooge
  104. nose ⇄ noose
  105. snout ⇄ snuut
  106. mouth ⇄ mund
  107. beard ⇄ bard
  108. mustasch ⇄ mustac
  109. lip ⇄ lip
  110. tooth ⇄ tand
  111. tongue ⇄ tunge
  112. foot ⇄ fut
  113. leg ⇄ leg
  114. knee ⇄ knii
  115. hand ⇄ hand
  116. finger ⇄ finger
  117. nail (body part) ⇄ nagel
  118. wing ⇄ ving
  119. belly ⇄ belai
  120. stomach ⇄ maage
  121. neck ⇄ hals
  122. nape ⇄ nek
  123. throat ⇄ keel
  124. back ⇄ rug
  125. breast/boob ⇄ brost
  126. chest ⇄ cest
  127. ass/butt ⇄ bump
  128. anus ⇄ anus
  129. urethra ⇄ uretra
  130. vagina ⇄ vagin
  131. vagina (juvenile) ⇄ vip
  132. clitoris ⇄ klitoris
  133. womb ⇄ wuum
  134. ovary ⇄ oovery
  135. ovum ⇄ oovum
  136. penis ⇄ peenis
  137. penis (juvenile) ⇄ pik
  138. scrotum/ballsack ⇄ skrung
  139. male genitals ⇄ prung
  140. glans ⇄ gleiskel
  141. testicle ⇄ testikel
  142. sperm ⇄ sperm
  143. to drink ⇄ dringken
  144. to eat ⇄ spiitsen
  145. to nibble ⇄ knibelen
  146. to bite ⇄ baiten
  147. to suck ⇄ saugen
  148. to spit ⇄ speiten
  149. to vomit ⇄ sparfen
  150. to blow ⇄ blousen
  151. to breathe ⇄ andemen
  152. to laugh ⇄ lahen
  153. to see ⇄ siien
  154. to hear ⇄ hooren
  155. to know ⇄ visten
  156. to think ⇄ tengken
  157. to smell ⇄ raukten
  158. to taste ⇄ spruufen
  159. to feel (emotionally) ⇄ kenden
  160. to feel (physicaly) ⇄ fuulen
  161. to touch ⇄ rooren
  162. to sense ⇄ sensen
  163. to fear ⇄ frangsten
  164. to sleep ⇄ slaapen
  165. to live ⇄ leven
  166. to die ⇄ cdurden
  167. to kill ⇄ douden
  168. to fight (combat) ⇄ straiden
  169. to fight (struggle) ⇄ kempen
  170. to hunt ⇄ jakten
  171. to hit ⇄ slaagen
  172. to cut ⇄ cneiden
  173. to chop ⇄ haken
  174. to stab ⇄ staben
  175. to share ⇄ deelen
  176. to split ⇄ spliten
  177. to scratch ⇄ skrapsen
  178. to dig ⇄ graven
  179. to swim ⇄ swimen
  180. to fly ⇄ fliigen
  181. to walk/go ⇄ gouen
  182. to come ⇄ komen
  183. to lie (lay) ⇄ leegen
  184. to sit ⇄ siten
  185. to stand ⇄ standen
  186. to turn (intransitive) ⇄ dreiden
  187. to rise ⇄ staigen
  188. to fall ⇄ falen
  189. to give ⇄ geeven
  190. to take ⇄ neimen
  191. to hold ⇄ halden
  192. to squeeze ⇄ sqeesen
  193. to rub ⇄ ruben
  194. to wash ⇄ vasen
  195. to wipe ⇄ drooken
  196. to pull ⇄ pulen
  197. to push ⇄ druken
  198. to throw ⇄ troiven
  199. to catch ⇄ fangen
  200. to tie ⇄ binden
  201. to sew ⇄ snaien
  202. to count ⇄ reekenen
  203. to say ⇄ saagen
  204. to sing ⇄ singen
  205. to play ⇄ spleien
  206. to float ⇄ flouten
  207. to sink ⇄ zingken
  208. to flow ⇄ flouen
  209. to swell ⇄ svelen
  210. to freeze ⇄ friisen
  211. to burn ⇄ branden
  212. fire ⇄ fiier
  213. sun ⇄ son
  214. star ⇄ ster
  215. earth ⇄ erd
  216. moon ⇄ mon
  217. salt ⇄ salt
  218. stone ⇄ steen
  219. dust ⇄ stov
  220. gravel ⇄ graus
  221. boulder ⇄ boulder
  222. ash ⇄ ask
  223. mountain ⇄ berg
  224. hill ⇄ houvel
  225. sand ⇄ sand
  226. road ⇄ veig
  227. water ⇄ vaater
  228. drop ⇄ drop
  229. rain ⇄ regen
  230. river ⇄ flusd
  231. lake ⇄ see
  232. sea ⇄ haav
  233. waterstream ⇄ vaaterstroum
  234. waterfall ⇄ vaaterfal
  235. snow ⇄ snee
  236. ice ⇄ ais
  237. fog ⇄ neevel
  238. mist ⇄ mist
  239. tsunami ⇄ tsunaami
  240. air ⇄ luft
  241. cloud ⇄ woln
  242. sky ⇄ himel
  243. wind ⇄ wind
  244. smoke ⇄ rook
  245. disaster ⇄ katastrof
  246. color ⇄ kolur
  247. paint ⇄ farb
  248. red ⇄ roud
  249. orange ⇄ oranc
  250. yellow ⇄ gelu
  251. lime ⇄ laim
  252. green ⇄ grun
  253. turquoise ⇄ turkois
  254. cyan ⇄ cyan
  255. azure ⇄ azor
  256. blue ⇄ blo
  257. purple ⇄ prila
  258. magenta ⇄ magent
  259. cerise ⇄ ceri
  260. white ⇄ vit
  261. gray ⇄ gro
  262. black ⇄ svart
  263. brown (dark orange colors) ⇄ brun
  264. pink (pale red, magenta, cerise) ⇄ rooz
  265. beige ⇄ beic
  266. light ⇄ lict
  267. hazy ⇄ hazi
  268. dark ⇄ dunkel
  269. night ⇄ nact
  270. day ⇄ daag
  271. year ⇄ jaur
  272. warm ⇄ varm
  273. cold ⇄ kald
  274. full ⇄ fol
  275. empty ⇄ lemtom
  276. new ⇄ nue
  277. old ⇄ old
  278. good ⇄ guut
  279. bad ⇄ slect
  280. ripe/mature ⇄ raif
  281. rotten ⇄ rotnen
  282. clean ⇄ crein
  283. dirty ⇄ smotsic
  284. straight ⇄ strak
  285. bent ⇄ bougd
  286. round ⇄ rund
  287. sharp (as a knife) ⇄ cerp
  288. dull (as a knife) ⇄ dulp
  289. smooth ⇄ glat
  290. ragged ⇄ rugd
  291. wet ⇄ vnot
  292. dry ⇄ drog
  293. near ⇄ neer
  294. far ⇄ faar
  295. right ⇄ rect
  296. left ⇄ lingks
  297. center ⇄ centraal
  298. north ⇄ nord
  299. south ⇄ saud
  300. east ⇄ oust
  301. west ⇄ vest
  302. at ⇄ aton
  303. in ⇄ in
  304. with ⇄ mit
  305. and ⇄ end
  306. if ⇄ ifals
  307. because ⇄ soodat
  308. name ⇄ name
  309. correct/right ⇄ korekt/ret
  310. incorrect/false/wrong ⇄ inkorekt/falc

Wordlists

Culture

Cultural philosophy

(Stoicism + Buddhism + Absurdism + Individual reflection)

Stance on higher power

1. Does not believe in any higher power(s).

2. Everything can be explained by science, only our knowledge is limited.

3. Instead of following a faith, one follows philosophy and a just lifestyle:

If there is any higher power(s) and they're just, then you will be rewarded by your virtuous acts.

If there is any higher power(s) and they're unjust, then you shouldn't want to follow them anyways.

If there is no higher power(s), then your virtuous acts will live on in the memory of your loved ones.


Stance on life, death and time

1. There is most probably nothing after death, since every idea of what we think as an afterlife is just our wishful thinking that we have no basis for believing in.


2. Existence has no inherent meaning, because life is a fact not a meaning. Life doesn't "lack" meaning because there was never room for meaning to begin with.


3. Humans have an inherent need for meaning in a universe were meaning is irrelevant, this is absurd. We either tend to make a leap of faith to something abstract and irrational or turn to physical escape or destruction to escape this absurdity, but one ought to embrace the absurdity instead,


4. ... one should not, however, reject life nor turn to faith when facing this crippling reality. One should instead accept this fact and still rejoice in life and its small things despite or because of their "lack of" meaning, because the fact of these things existing ought to be enough. Or if you will, may the joy and appreciation of "meaninglessness" be an act of rebellion.


5. Death is not the opposite of life, but an innate preconditioned part of it. Death is not something to fear, avoid, lament or hate. Death is outside our control, our view of death is our responsibility, and we can learn to accept it as a part of life, as neither good nor bad. Grief is of course important when experiencing death, and it ought to be practiced in a healthy way.


6. "Memento mori" - "Remember that one [has to] die" works as a reminder of one's mortality and inevitable death. It gives one perspective on life to value one's time since one has been given time in the first place.


7. "Protect time like your money". Value your time and don't waste any time in the day on the trivial and vain. Don't waste time worrying on problems one can't do anything about, instead one ought to be responsible and to take care of problems one can do something about.


8. Practice remembering and cherishing things and experiences more than regretting and mourning the end of them.


9. One ought to approach life with a positive attitude, choosing to look on things positively is a sufficient choice you make every day to reach a realistic state of happiness.


Stance on ego and identity

1. Ego death refers to the release of self-identification and self-esteem, as well as the need to guard it from harm and the tendency to see the world through the lens of our imagined identities. People who define themselves by e.g. their political inclinations, social standing, skill set, or overall perception of physical attractiveness, often engage with the world as members of these groups and defend these abstractions as they defend themselves. It is a falsehood to associate one's self-entity with these things, as they are external to us and do not require our attachment. Our true selves are the perceptions of our senses, feelings, thoughts, and ability to judge, choose, and have willpower. The real you is the one who experiences, makes decisions and is persuaded of certain things, while everything else is not a fundamental aspect of who you are.

We are entities with thoughts and opinions that we associate with ourselves, these associations of ourselves with our thoughts and opinions creates our identities. These identities may help convey information but are actually external to us. As our existence is just a conscience of physical experience, we should cease creating self-images from these identities that we think of ourselves as in our thoughts. By eliminating outside notions and assumptions about who we believe ourselves to be, we can better understand ourselves and eliminate the false sense of who we think we are in our thoughts. It is only our thoughts that can affect our serenity, but they are also just memories and imagination, they are not real experiences in the moment, they are in fact just sensory input that we have the control over.


2. To reach the full and true potential of your intellect, you ought to unblock your survival from fear, pleasure from regret, willpower from shame, love from grief, truth from lies, insight from illusion and pure conscience of experience from worldly desires.


Disciplines/Principles/Practices

1. Only virtue is good, only vice is bad, everything else is indifferent. Virtue is sufficient for happiness.

Practice and strive for the 4 stoic virtues: Justice, wisdom, temperance and courage. Avoid the 4 vices: Injustice, foolishness, intemperance and cowardice.

Wisdom means being able to tell what's right and what's wrong without prejudice, approaching everything logically and calmy and understand what is to be chosen or avoided. Justice means to always be fair and do the right thing even when something is wrong. Courage is to do the right thing even if you feel like it can be harmful for you, facing challenges and struggles without complaint, applying wisdom to things we fear. Temperance is the willpower for volontary self-restraint and moderation to things we are attracted to and ought not to be gluttoned.


2. After the first impression, interpretation of reality, and emotional analysis of an event, one should not go for the emotional response, one should instead make a rational analysis and then a rational response.


3. Anger is an emotion that erodes the fabric of who we are. Thus, one ought to learn how to control it, a way to do this is to remember: "It isn't potent (manly) to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore more potent (manlier)." and that "One's anger is more likely to do more harm than how much someone is wrong".


4. Follow The Three Stoic Disciplines of Desire, Action and Assent


5. Practice mindfulness, meditation and seek nature to find tranquility and clarity.


6. Follow the 5 Buddhist precepts as a form of standard behavior: Don't abuse words, don't abuse senses, don't intoxicate, don't take what is not given and don't kill.


7. Acknowledge, appreciate, respect and value: Nature and life, others' humanity and diversity, community and individuality, learning new things, experiences and change.


8. Practice responsibility and kindness, avoid laziness and cruelty


9. Always remember to be responsible and to mindfully organize these 7 things when one is lost: self, health, environment, relationships, work, interests and experiences.


10. One ought to follow a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) style, also called Giraffe language, to reach the most efficient, optimal and rational conclusion. Explain the situation/problem, explain how it affects, explain what is needed, and give suggestions how to compromise.

Prosoponyms

Constructed Germian personal names (all unisex)

Example texts

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