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Oh ok, then I misunderstood. Yes, I can agree with the context thing. But it also doesn't make sense in a lot of cases.I don't really care about the tier, I think the desperation for the higher tier is pointless, it's an arbitrary title, and especially if the book isn't being properly used, the tiering is pointless.
I don't believe you read anything about what I said, because if you had, you would just then reply with "This is about simple rules".
You're just imagining a version of me and arguing that, which is not my responsibility
I wouldn't ever use Official Buddhism for Wukong, I didn't use it last time, nor would I use it this time, no. What I'm arguing is phenomena that was know at the time being dismissed, while we use phenomena we know now even if it's not in books, series or novels.
The standard assumptions we have are not universal and do not fit all cases. They must be dynamic, as dynamic as fiction is. What I have spoken about, besides when I addressed that one person who said that Buddhism would be 1-A, is what is in the book and what it means from a 15th-16th century Middle Kingdom author.
But you are quite wrong there, they are in the novel, however, assuming they are just words without meaning or context to them is dishonest.
You cannot say Sumeru is "just a mountain" and not take into account they're talking about Sumeru as understood at the time, which was as big as what I said above.
What I said about Sumeru has nothing to do with the novel being 1-A, I'm providing context.
Sun Wukong carried Mount Sumeru on his back. With it being the axis of the Universe that doesn't even make sense.
He was running around carrying the axis of the entire Universe on his back, which all the layers of Heaven are built on, and the layers above them.
Clearly, Mount Sumeru in that situation wasn't really Mount Sumeru. Why would some random demon have the power to summon it?