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I have questions about it like.
What is kabbalah?, and how does it scale or where do we scale it ?.
And is it really beyond tiring or tier 0?
 
I have questions about it like.
What is kabbalah?
Kabbalah is jewish mysticism.
and how does it scale or where do we scale it ?.
And is it really beyond tiring or tier 0?
Ayin is above the tiering system ye, by extension Ein Sof asw.
I though we don't scale it or somethin, also how do we apply it on a verse?.
Since alot of fictional worlds have it or reference it directly but they never reached tier 0 in this wiki
Apply critical thinking I guess.
 
I though we don't scale it or somethin, also how do we apply it on a verse?.
Since alot of fictional worlds have it or reference it directly but they never reached tier 0 in this wiki
You apply what has been shown in the series, nothing more nothing less. It doesn't matter what tier Kabbalah "could" reach on this wiki (As people have stated already, we don't scale real life religion), the only thing that matters is what the series in question has demonstrated.
 
You apply what has been shown in the series, nothing more nothing less. It doesn't matter what tier Kabbalah "could" reach on this wiki (As people have stated already, we don't scale real life religion), the only thing that matters is what the series in question has demonstrated.
I mean we do apply real life theories, philosophies, and ect. Is this becuz of public domain, that we don't apply it here?
 
I mean we do apply real life theories, philosophies, and ect. Is this becuz of public domain, that we don't apply it here?
We don't. You won't get anything based on mentions of "platonism", "monad", "string theory" and whatever sci-fi or philosophical buzzword exist. What matters is feats given WITHIN the series. A series explaining that its concept exists within a realm beyond space and time, with reality being nothing more than a shadow of said realm is different from another series describing its concepts as "platonic". One gives actual information from which you can scale it, the other is a meaningless buzzword, where you're not even sure wether or not the author actually understand what the **** hes writing. Definitions, feats, context, cosmology, thats what matters and thats what the series has to provide.

We do not powerscale real life religion for the pretty self explanatory reason of "People believe and practise those religions and you're running on nonexistent ice if you try to quantify the literal belief of salvation that is capital G God on a silly powerscaling site".
 
We don't. You won't get anything based on mentions of "platonism", "monad", "string theory"
Didn't DC already did that with the sphere of gods?
One gives actual information from which you can scale it, the other is a meaningless buzzword, where you're not even sure wether or not the author actually understand what the **** hes writing. Definitions, feats, context, cosmology, thats what matters and thats what the series has to provide.
That actually depends. Why would the author write something they don’t understand? And even if we assume they did, wouldn’t that just be DOTA, since we already know what that ‘buzzword’ means? We don’t need to wait for the author to explain or acknowledge it.”

We do not powerscale real life religion for the pretty self explanatory reason of "People believe and practise those religions and you're running on nonexistent ice if you try to quantify the literal belief of salvation that is capital G God on a silly powerscaling site".
Except I’m not trying to argue why we don’t powerscale religions.

My whole issue was with the Kabbalah idea and how we handle it if it gets referenced in any fictional verse by an author.

The same goes for other philosophical or religious concepts—whether it’s Kabbalah, Nirvana, Brahman, etc.—and how we should treat them in the wiki if they’re mentioned in a verse.
 
Didn't DC already did that with the sphere of gods?
Ye but they also have a fully shown ****** cosmology
That actually depends. Why would the author write something they don’t understand?
Because they can and because they will. If you don't understand how Einstein figured out E=mc² doesn't mean you can't use his end formula in your piece of fiction.
And even if we assume they did, wouldn’t that just be DOTA, since we already know what that ‘buzzword’ means? We don’t need to wait for the author to explain or acknowledge it.”
Nah, in many cases people genuinely think they understand something only for that to not work. For example, there's still people, including authors, who confuse mathematical dimensions and dimensions in the sense of universes, so when they hear 4-D they think different universe or make something wacky which doesn't fit our definition of it. Bringing up platonic concepts - the author may understand them at a surface level but not see how they would apply cosmologically.
Except I’m not trying to argue why we don’t powerscale religions.

My whole issue was with the Kabbalah idea and how we handle it if it gets referenced in any fictional verse by an author.
Well, yet again, we don't scale it. If he clearly demonstrates some cosmological aspect of the kabbalah in the verse then you scale that part. Otherwise, we don't know how much attention was paid to the writings and if they were analyzed to the extent that a powerscaler did.
Author intent is everything. If the author saw the Christian God in books, that doesn't mean he also understood all the complex philosophocal discussion surrounding him, instead there's a far higher chance he sees God as the creator of the universe and that's that. Same goes for all other concepts.
The same goes for other philosophical or religious concepts—whether it’s Kabbalah, Nirvana, Brahman, etc.—and how we should treat them in the wiki if they’re mentioned in a verse.
We just don't. When we start 'using' them we end up with people trying to scale Gojo Satoru to 1-A. Until the author shows exactly what he took from those books for his fiction we do not touch upon them. We're analyzing the media, not the idea that inspired the media. If there's a 1930s skyscraper and someone, inspired by it, built a skyscraper in the modern age, tell me - will you be able to fully understand the modern skyscraper's structure by looking at the old one? No. You won't, because construction standards have changed drastically since then.
 
We just don't. When we start 'using' them we end up with people trying to scale Gojo Satoru to 1-A. Until the author shows exactly what he took from those books for his fiction we do not touch upon them. We're analyzing the media, not the idea that inspired the media. If there's a 1930s skyscraper and someone, inspired by it, built a skyscraper in the modern age, tell me - will you be able to fully understand the modern skyscraper's structure by looking at the old one? No. You won't, because construction standards have changed drastically since then.
You're really nitpicking the questions. He obviously means to say that if a verse applies something like universals in the cosmology properly for instance, would that not be scaled? The answer is no, it would be scaled.
 
You're really nitpicking the questions. He obviously means to say that if a verse applies something like universals in the cosmology properly for instance, would that not be scaled? The answer is no, it would be scaled.
if they are accurately portrayed, they would be scaled. If they are namedropped, then no.
 
Nah, in many cases people genuinely think they understand something only for that to not work. For example, there's still people, including authors, who confuse mathematical dimensions and dimensions in the sense of universes, so when they hear 4-D they think different universe or make something wacky which doesn't fit our definition of it.
TBF, the higher dimensions stuff are hard to comprehend for new beginners.
Also, most authors refer to dimensions as alternative worlds, rather than spatial one except notable amount.

And even thoese who make "something wacky" you can't tell if they were trying to refer to the spatial dimensions, or something else.

Bringing up platonic concepts - the author may understand them at a surface level but not see how they would apply cosmologically.
I mean, some—if not most—authors sleep on powerscaling or don’t know where their characters or their verse actually scale, or how powerful it is. But that doesn’t mean we should just dismiss the feats and throw everything off.
Well, yet again, we don't scale it. If he clearly demonstrates some cosmological aspect of the kabbalah in the verse then you scale that part. Otherwise, we don't know how much attention was paid to the writings and if they were analyzed to the extent that a powerscaler did.
I mean, how much demonstration would we need?
If the author(s) say their multiverse works under the Many-Worlds Interpretation or Schrödinger’s cat 🐈 theory, do we then add an infinite-dimensional ♾️ state space to the verse?”
Author intent is everything. If the author saw the Christian God in books, that doesn't mean he also understood all the complex philosophocal discussion surrounding him, instead there's a far higher chance he sees God as the creator of the universe and that's that. Same goes for all other concepts.
I agree with the God analogy, but the problem is that every verse that uses the Kabbalah idea tends to apply it to the Christian or Jewish God in their work, which makes it really hard for me to grasp.
Or maybe the author understands some of these serious philosophical discussions
If there's a 1930s skyscraper and someone, inspired by it, built a skyscraper in the modern age, tell me - will you be able to fully understand the modern skyscraper's structure by looking at the old one? No. You won't, because construction standards have changed drastically since then.
The skyscraper analogy doesn’t work here, since we can’t prove that what the author referenced is very different from what they actually wrote—except by the reference itself.
Still, I would be able to understand some parts of the new one, depending on how much resemblance or similarity there is between the two.
 
If the author(s) say their multiverse works under the Many-Worlds Interpretation or Schrödinger’s cat 🐈 theory, do we then add an infinite-dimensional ♾️ state space to the verse?”
You'd need to prove the worlds branch because of quantum superposition to posit an infinite dimensional hilbert space.
 
Didn't DC already did that with the sphere of gods?
Even as someone with 0 knowledge on comics, I can assure you that DC has far more than randomly name dropped philosophical theorems applied to their cosmology.
That actually depends. Why would the author write something they don’t understand? And even if we assume they did, wouldn’t that just be DOTA, since we already know what that ‘buzzword’ means? We don’t need to wait for the author to explain or acknowledge it.”
It doesn't depend at all. If the author calls this awesome spear weapon Gungnir and does nothing else with it, you don't get to assign that weapon every of Mythology Gungnirs properties. The author named the weapon that way because its most likely just a cool name. You simply do not get to add things in the absence of evidence
Except I’m not trying to argue why we don’t powerscale religions.

My whole issue was with the Kabbalah idea and how we handle it if it gets referenced in any fictional verse by an author.

The same goes for other philosophical or religious concepts—whether it’s Kabbalah, Nirvana, Brahman, etc.—and how we should treat them in the wiki if they’re mentioned in a verse.
Assigning a tiering to religious ideas is textbook powerscaling, you don't get around that, thus we don't do it,

We handle it the same way everyday, everway. What has been demonstrated.
 
The many world interptations already suggest that
Fiction doesn't need to be 1:1 with MWI even if it name drops it. Which is why what I've stated is required, or, the namedrop would suffice if the verse is known for incoporating quantum physics and similar stuff within it.
 
Fiction doesn't need to be 1:1 with MWI even if it name drops it. Which is why what I've stated is required, or, the namedrop would suffice if the verse is known for incoporating quantum physics and similar stuff within it.
MWI is literally the first theory that argues for multiple possibilities via quantum mechanics, as that is the core idea of the theory
 
MWI is literally the first theory that argues for multiple possibilities via quantum mechanics, as that is the core idea of the theory
You asserted the same thing once more without contending to what I said. I don't use vsbw forums often anyway so if you wish to discuss this we can do it in vc on cord, my username there is the same as the name on this site(scrollergnl).
 
You asserted the same thing once more without contending to what I said. I don't use vsbw forums often anyway so if you wish to discuss this we can do it in vc on cord, my username there is the same as the name on this site(scrollergnl).
I don’t do VC, since im typing from my Potato 🥔 PC set 🖥 and don't have mic even lol.

Also im no really trying to start debate, i was just merely asking—trying to figure out why we can't use the namedrop of philosphies in this site.
 
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I have questions about it like.
What is kabbalah?, and how does it scale or where do we scale it ?.
And is it really beyond tiring or tier 0?
Reading the further discussion, it seems your question is mostly how far we take namesdrop.

And well, that depends on how much the verse elaborates on what the buzzword or reference means here.

For example, we don't automatically assume "Nirvana" or "Buddhahood" in all fictional verses is tier 0 because some verses, or well most, show it as more so some place/world or an evolution into something stronger rather than the real life definition of those words.

Same applies to most other things, unless of course, the buzzword is WAYYY too specific to extrapolate to anything other than it's traditional definition in real life.

Like the word "platonic" doesn't just mean concepts in the theory of forms, it has many meanings. Often more so, there is also the case where the English translation uses the term "platonic concept" due to a lack of other words that could fit. Like a pure concept could also be called platonic concept in contrast to a negative/demonic concept.

Cases of the latter tho, like when it's wayyyy too specific to equate to anything else but the irl definition, is when the verse uses the words in certain context. Like let's say the narrator is talking about MWI and then mentions Schrodinger's Cat (example: "Worlds are branching endlessly, so there isn't just one of "us", there are many, endless even. But not all of them are alive nor dead. It's like a Schrodinger's Cat, you can only be perceived dead in anothet world line when an external person verifies to as dead indeed.")

Stuff regarding philosophy, though, is mostly prone to fall under the first case, rather than the second, as the latter mostly applies to more "scienfic" terms. Like we ain't gonna assume a Universe is not the same as the irl definition of a universe in some fictional verses unless the verse gives us valid reasons to assume otherwise.

But we're also not gonna assume Nirvana is always tier 0 in all verses. They have to prove they're referring to specifically the irl definition of it word to word. And when it involves big tiers or broken abilities, we almost always treat the buzzword as in the first case.
 
Reading the further discussion, it seems your question is mostly how far we take namesdrop.

And well, that depends on how much the verse elaborates on what the buzzword or reference means here.

For example, we don't automatically assume "Nirvana" or "Buddhahood" in all fictional verses is tier 0 because some verses, or well most, show it as more so some place/world or an evolution into something stronger rather than the real life definition of those words.

Same applies to most other things, unless of course, the buzzword is WAYYY too specific to extrapolate to anything other than it's traditional definition in real life.

Like the word "platonic" doesn't just mean concepts in the theory of forms, it has many meanings. Often more so, there is also the case where the English translation uses the term "platonic concept" due to a lack of other words that could fit. Like a pure concept could also be called platonic concept in contrast to a negative/demonic concept.
I see 👀, thank you. But would the Kabbalah fit into the first elaboration category?
I mean, Do the author(s) use it in the same way they use Nirvana?
Cases of the latter tho, like when it's wayyyy too specific to equate to anything else but the irl definition, is when the verse uses the words in certain context. Like let's say the narrator is talking about MWI and then mentions Schrodinger's Cat (example: "Worlds are branching endlessly, so there isn't just one of "us", there are many, endless even. But not all of them are alive nor dead. It's like a Schrodinger's Cat, you can only be perceived dead in anothet world line when an external person verifies to as dead indeed.")

Stuff regarding philosophy, though, is mostly prone to fall under the first case, rather than the second, as the latter mostly applies to more "scienfic" terms. Like we ain't gonna assume a Universe is not the same as the irl definition of a universe in some fictional verses unless the verse gives us valid reasons to assume otherwise.

But we're also not gonna assume Nirvana is always tier 0 in all verses. They have to prove they're referring to specifically the irl definition of it word to word. And when it involves big tiers or broken abilities, we almost always treat the buzzword as in the first case.
Mind if I ask why the latter category is applied more to scientific concepts rather than to religious or philosophical ones?
 
I see 👀, thank you. But would the Kabbalah fit into the first elaboration category?
I mean, Do the author(s) use it in the same way they use Nirvana?
Not sure. I haven't encountered many serves that use Kabalah in some way, or even in any way at that, but that may just be due to me only reading certain genre of novels.

I thino verses like Dies Irae and SMT had the concept of Kabalah if I'm not wrong, but they mixed it with other concepts too, so it wasn't exactly the same as the irl version.
Mind if I ask why the latter category is applied more to scientific concepts rather than to religious or philosophical ones?
Mostly because scientic concepts are far less prone to extrapolation, or at least a high degree of extrapolation, unlike philosophical and religious concepts.

Like for example, in your every day isekai novel, there's always that "holy Church" based off Christianity that worship a single "god", but most of the times it's nothing even close to the irl version of what's believed as "God" in Christianity.

But scientic concepts are less prone to extrapolation and what I like to call the "fantasy effect" (in that fantasy novels tend to have a completely different version of irl religious and philosophical concepts, mostly because the authors try to avoid any sort of religious backlash) because you need to do less research on it as compared to philosophical concepts. Like if I ask someone what's easier to understand, the definition of a "Universe" or, let's say, what "Helgian's Infinity" is, most if not all would say the prior.

Scientific theories are mostly also based on some sort of proof, whether in theory or physical proof, so it's harder to extrapolate into something else compared to some philosopher's yapping from a few hundred years ago lol

Or at least, that's what I think.
 
Not sure. I haven't encountered many serves that use Kabalah in some way, or even in any way at that, but that may just be due to me only reading certain genre of novels.

I thino verses like Dies Irae and SMT had the concept of Kabalah if I'm not wrong, but they mixed it with other concepts too, so it wasn't exactly the same as the irl version.

Mostly because scientic concepts are far less prone to extrapolation, or at least a high degree of extrapolation, unlike philosophical and religious concepts.

Like for example, in your every day isekai novel, there's always that "holy Church" based off Christianity that worship a single "god", but most of the times it's nothing even close to the irl version of what's believed as "God" in Christianity.

But scientic concepts are less prone to extrapolation and what I like to call the "fantasy effect" (in that fantasy novels tend to have a completely different version of irl religious and philosophical concepts, mostly because the authors try to avoid any sort of religious backlash) because you need to do less research on it as compared to philosophical concepts. Like if I ask someone what's easier to understand, the definition of a "Universe" or, let's say, what "Helgian's Infinity" is, most if not all would say the prior.

Scientific theories are mostly also based on some sort of proof, whether in theory or physical proof, so it's harder to extrapolate into something else compared to some philosopher's yapping from a few hundred years ago lol

Or at least, that's what I think.thank you i think now.
I think im starting to get it know, Thank you again 🙏.
 
Reading the further discussion, it seems your question is mostly how far we take namesdrop.

And well, that depends on how much the verse elaborates on what the buzzword or reference means here.

For example, we don't automatically assume "Nirvana" or "Buddhahood" in all fictional verses is tier 0 because some verses, or well most, show it as more so some place/world or an evolution into something stronger rather than the real life definition of those words.

Same applies to most other things, unless of course, the buzzword is WAYYY too specific to extrapolate to anything other than it's traditional definition in real life.

Like the word "platonic" doesn't just mean concepts in the theory of forms, it has many meanings. Often more so, there is also the case where the English translation uses the term "platonic concept" due to a lack of other words that could fit. Like a pure concept could also be called platonic concept in contrast to a negative/demonic concept.

Cases of the latter tho, like when it's wayyyy too specific to equate to anything else but the irl definition, is when the verse uses the words in certain context. Like let's say the narrator is talking about MWI and then mentions Schrodinger's Cat (example: "Worlds are branching endlessly, so there isn't just one of "us", there are many, endless even. But not all of them are alive nor dead. It's like a Schrodinger's Cat, you can only be perceived dead in anothet world line when an external person verifies to as dead indeed.")

Stuff regarding philosophy, though, is mostly prone to fall under the first case, rather than the second, as the latter mostly applies to more "scienfic" terms. Like we ain't gonna assume a Universe is not the same as the irl definition of a universe in some fictional verses unless the verse gives us valid reasons to assume otherwise.

But we're also not gonna assume Nirvana is always tier 0 in all verses. They have to prove they're referring to specifically the irl definition of it word to word. And when it involves big tiers or broken abilities, we almost always treat the buzzword as in the first case.
Um, hello. Sorry for asking too late again, but do scientific name-drops need to be accurately portrayed or directly referenced to be accepted in scaling
 
Um, hello. Sorry for asking too late again,
You can always ask questions on my or others' message wall btw. Just click on the user's name below their pfp and then again on the name on the box that appears (if you're on pc).
but do scientific name-drops need to be accurately portrayed or directly referenced to be accepted in scaling
Accurately portrayed.

Though if it's directly namesdroped, then it doesn't have to be as "accurate" as word to word definition. But that's only assuming the name dropped is VERY specific and only found in the scientific theory in question.
 
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