(Note: Dropping High 1-A+ for now and will be focusing on just BDE for the Galaxy Cauldron) I got permission to make this staff thread so that the staff can evaluate this CRT for BDE for the Galaxy Cauldron. The original thread is here. As this is a staff thread, non-staff please refrain from...
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Time to debunk this. Btw I will treat Sailor Moon with Aristotle in mind and not Plato.
"The Galaxy Cauldron is the literal heart and center of the entire Sailor Moon Cosmology. It is a structure located at the center of the galaxy which produces Star Seeds and Sailor Crystals which become everything in the verse. Living beings, Celestial objects, Power, Light, Universes, Higher Dimensions and the entire Cosmos itself are all are given form from a Star Seed that comes from the Cauldron"
Unfortunately this is not true. The eye test and the nature of the sailor moon universe implies every galaxy has its own cauldron, and the scans provided refer to everything created in the milky way, but do not state anything about the nature of the cauldron beyond this.
"While the text mentions, 'Galaxy', the scope of the Galaxy Cauldron expands to the entire Cosmology, and not just the galaxy. For example, Pharaoh 90 is a being from an Alternate Universe, yet he still originated in the Galaxy Cauldron which is located in the Main Universe."
No pharaoh 90 is from the tau star system which is a 4-a structure as it's named. The "alternate dimension" is a figure of speech. Additionally, this structure does not have a star seed.
"The Cauldron gives birth to Star Seeds. These Star Seeds are concepts which give form to everything in reality. It is directly stated the forms are nothing but "fleeting shadows" compared to the quality of Star Seeds and Sailor Crystals. In that scene Sailor Galaxia mocks Sailor Moon for caring about the physical bodies of her friends when the Sailor Crystals have true power and are indestructible.
Within the Galaxy Cauldron, Star Seeds exist in their most Complete and Perfect state, their true essence unclouded by the imperfections of material form. This is similar to Plato’s allegory of the cave, in which the world we perceive is likened to a shadows on a cave wall and the true forms. Just as the shadows in the cave are dim reflections of the higher reality, the individual incarnations of Star Seeds are incomplete manifestations of their Perfected Archetypes within the Cauldron. The Cauldron functions, in this sense, like Plato’s World of Forms: a Metaphysical origin point where the true nature of all things resides.
Star Seeds are treated and shown as being superior and more fundamental than the physical forms they create. They are the True Essence."
This is not even close to Plato's allegory. All I see is the star seeds being brought back to the cauldron, but they can be destroyed, knocked off, and taken out of someone's body, physically manipulated, stuff like this.
"Inside the Cauldron, all things were one. Regardless of whether they were people, spirits, Gods, planets, or incorporeal beings, all things are were one. And when they return to the Cauldron they become apart of it once more. The Cauldron is essentially a purely conceptual realm made of unactualized possibility and potential"
no it isn't, it's just the equivalent of the Big Bang as a high-end, the phrase "originating as one" is a figure of speech that encapsules the origin of a good part of the Sailor Moon universe, but it shouldn't be taken literally.
"3. Not reachable by lower states of existence
To enter the Cauldron, one must first be erased from existence. They are erased from all of history: past, present, and future. Then they are dissolved and lost in its oceans.
When Mamoru fell into the Cauldron, he was erased from History and so was his daughter was erased as well. This is not simple chain reaction because of Causality. Earlier in the Arc, Mamoru was already erased from existence by Sailor Galaxia. Neither his daughter or his future self were immediately affected. Sailor Moon Characters have Acausality, and the Cauldron ignores it entirely.
More evidence that the Cauldron is also not adhered to the flow of time is Death Phantom. Death Phantom is a character that was defeated in the future, but he already returned to the Cauldron when Sailor Moon reached it in the past. Essentially speaking, one cannot exist anywhere in reality, the Future, Past or Present and in the Cauldron at the same time. The Cauldron is independent of all time and location of the lower reality. It follows its own set of logic that supersedes the lower reality.
To enter the Cauldron you must be erased and become one with it, achieving and maintaining a Perfected state of existence, a Perfect Form. To leave the Cauldron you must either be reincarnated and given a new history, or be regenerated (High-Godly) into a lower form. The power to do so also coming from the Cauldron."
The cauldron is the maintainer of the milky way galaxy, but please always read the statements with a grain of salt. If it's placed in the middle of the galaxy, then logic dictates it mostly has jurisdiction over said galaxy and a bit more. However, since galaxies and solar systems are so big, it is generally acceptable to use big words to describe them. Therefore, I generally throw out most of these statements.
the cauldron can't be more than 3-C or 3-B, low 2-c at best lol