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The commoners thread: Discussing Ultima's "On the Many, Many Incoherences of the Tiering System"
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No I was actually bedridden for a while. Shit was terrible.
I'm back from the sickness dimension, though, so, I guess the fun resumes now.
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Where does the sickness dimension tier on the tiering system?
KingNanaya
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above goku
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which means layers into boundless (lowball)
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heart virus moment
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I agree
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I have no say when it comes to tallies and such, but I do agree with all of Ultima's revisions outside of Tier 0.
As for Tier 0, if you believe in a formal logical system of tiering that is the most sound and consistent it can possibly be, then it is admittedly extremely difficult to argue against Ultima's proposal for Tier 0, I will say.
But, if you don't see limits on indexing and fiction, or perhaps believe in illogical or informal tiering, then you, like me, will be quite reluctant to agree with that tier being the apex of what can be. There's also the hurdle of accepting that the scope of cosmology doesn't actually correlate to Tier 0 anymore. In fact, everything essentially has an equal shot at getting there, jumping past other verses with more expansive natures and ontology. That is a bit much to ask from a site that typically goes with the baseline of interpretation, rather than the apex of interpretation, like what is being suggested.
As for Tier 0, if you believe in a formal logical system of tiering that is the most sound and consistent it can possibly be, then it is admittedly extremely difficult to argue against Ultima's proposal for Tier 0, I will say.
But, if you don't see limits on indexing and fiction, or perhaps believe in illogical or informal tiering, then you, like me, will be quite reluctant to agree with that tier being the apex of what can be. There's also the hurdle of accepting that the scope of cosmology doesn't actually correlate to Tier 0 anymore. In fact, everything essentially has an equal shot at getting there, jumping past other verses with more expansive natures and ontology. That is a bit much to ask from a site that typically goes with the baseline of interpretation, rather than the apex of interpretation, like what is being suggested.
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It doesn't correlate to 1-A either, proof of that is in the assumption that you don't need explicit infinite-dimensional (or higher-dimensional) statements in order to have things that reach the tier. I can understand not wanting to take the position of assuming something is literally omnipotent if it's coming from an otherwise unimpressive verse but the logic isn't all that different. In either instance, you'd be arguing that you first need to prove the existence of something that is inherently lesser than it in order to assume that it is as it's described.
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Urgh, Low 1-A/1-A is quite a bit different in my opinion. I can understand the logic behind what you're saying, but in the case of things ontologically superior to space-time, I think that is objectively provable with descriptions alone. Without even needing to go into the philosophical interpretation or anything of the sort.
If you are conceptually transcendent of space-time down to its foundation, and all context supports that, I don't really think there is interpretation to be had. You just objectively wouldn't be bound in space whatsoever. There is no need to even mention specific orders of dimensionality. They wouldn't apply. This happens across all levels of realness relative to the lower-layer as well. The qualities of lower-worlds simply aren't applicable whatsoever to higher-worlds with higher-qualities.
If you are conceptually transcendent of space-time down to its foundation, and all context supports that, I don't really think there is interpretation to be had. You just objectively wouldn't be bound in space whatsoever. There is no need to even mention specific orders of dimensionality. They wouldn't apply. This happens across all levels of realness relative to the lower-layer as well. The qualities of lower-worlds simply aren't applicable whatsoever to higher-worlds with higher-qualities.
KingNanaya
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Don't give liliminal any idea bruh
Now he's not going to keep quiet about Goku
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Would homestuck be upgraded?
KingNanaya
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yeah. it's a pretty small list though.
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For JTTW, are you sure Dharmakaya should count as 0? As for Lovecraft, I think Az and Yog should just be High 1-A+ with the Supreme Archetype specifically left unknown. I mean I think we have to favor Yog in a specific context but it doesn't seem to be universally agreed within different interpretations.
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I get God from Seekers because it heavily resembles Adi Shankara’s view on an attributeless Brahman. It was accepted that both Brahman are the same and only difference is Brahman with quality is views from the lower world as opposed to the greater one views from a higher perspective.
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Quite sure.
I still do think Yog is legitimately 0, but over the course of the past 3 weeks I've become more indifferent to that. I'm willing to defend it but I can take it or leave it, at the end of the day.
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Honestly, I support you're take on that. I’d agree it's 0.
I don't think Yog is completely separable from the verse especially not with all the confusion as to who the ultimate pinnacle of the verse is. I think being the “Supreme Archetype” is just too ambiguous to be taken seriously and who rules the Ultimate Void seems like a better title.
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Yeah, I always believed in that notion. Though context and references are always a good thing to have.
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Glad you're well now Ultima. Welcome back to powerscaling hfil.
Does the existence of Ainur around Eru's Throne prove an issue for tier 0? Sorry, still not 100% sure on his qualifications.
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I would say High 1-A seems more plausible.
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Probably just High 1-A+.
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I see zero reason, based on the explanations on the page, for it to be tier 0.
It's not complete wholeness/unity. It's not a monad. It's just nothingness, that takes on the shell of all possible character strings.
It's not complete wholeness/unity. It's not a monad. It's just nothingness, that takes on the shell of all possible character strings.
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Tier 0 isn't any form of "transcending all qualities", it's being a monad.
Really, the true form's description sounds more like Ultima's proposed bottom of the tiering system. Making that tier 0 just because it can take on a High 1-A+ form would be quite ludicrous, imo.
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Tier 0 is being a "monad" via transcending all qualities and distinctions, Agnaa. That's like the most basic principle of the tier.
Encompassing all possible character strings across an unlimited amount of worlds and reality layers would be High 1-A+ based on Ultima's tiering system. It'd encompass all qualities, embodying a set of them. Pretty sure he even verbatim states SRE's shell is a good example.
The True Form is the propagating force behind the shell. It is true nonexistence, because it lacks even the set of all qualities and transcends it. Just another way of being a monad.
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It absolutely doesn't qualify. It involves change
It's not an immutable monad with oneness with everything. It's nothingness whose husk is all character strings. It's changeable.
It feels like you're not really grappling with what I'm saying; there's no response there to "Being this nonexistent is what Ultima put at the bottom of the tiering system". You're just saying over and over again "This is just another way of being a monad".
I never once disagreed with it being High 1-A+, no need to rant about that aspect.
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I just recalled that he believes SRE as perfect for High 1-A+. However, I don’t see where it would be 0 at all and it does not fit such notion.
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In my honest opinion, Ein Sof can’t be 0 for pretty obvious reasons.
Atzmus can’t as well since it still has a quality of being “neither” and it’s not encompassing everything as the source of everything.
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The difference between this being the bottom of the tiering system or the top is that this degree of nonexistence is seemingly obtained by effectively transcending the High 1-A+ set of all qualities, rather than just being separate from it all.
I do not think there is any actual causality happening here, either. The narrative of SRE is always just its Shell, which does not correlate to its true state. It can't ever actually refer to its true form due to its inherent nature as some true nonexistence.
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As long as it’s the source for everything including all High 1-A+ sets as well as detach from the entire hierarchy then it can be 0. Though absolute nothingness must be its nature itself and not some sort of quality as right now 0 is argued to be attribute-less though arguments are being made that it’s not a possible thing.
However, like Agnaa stated it must be unchanging and it can’t be reach.
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Ultima and I talked about it; probably not. There's a bunch of stuff indicating that R>F differences (or even God himself) are below/comparable to mathematics. Plus, the Atzmus is established as being a separate thing superior to God, but isn't itself described in monad terms. But he wants to reread everything to be sure.
Hell, from what I'm reading on the page, it's not even established as transcending those writings. Just being separate and nonexistent.
That's going against the text itself, which describes transitions from one state to another. Point to something in the text establishing what you're saying.
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Kinda weird if Amaranth would be 0, if it can be obtain unless it’s established that those who ascend to it were always part of its oneness.
Dharmakaya is still being discussed of whether it truly would count as Monadhood. As for Marvel God, it still needs to be established what this Marvel “Godhead” is suppose to be unless it’s equivalent to Kabbalah’s Ein Sof. Divine Creator and Divine Presence could be 0 since they mirror Adi Shankara’s view on Brahman.
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