I’d care if Taosim actually mattered in this series
When they fight a vampire by shining the cross, do they have to tell you "this is because the crucifix, which Christ died upon, is a holy symbol", or do you just kind of understand that because you have a cultural understanding of vampires?
Because Kanji can have completely different meanings depending on context etc
because Kanji's have multiple meanings in real life
Sure. And why do you think these ideas are represented by the same symbol? What overlap might they have that lead to this being assumed? Perhaps a Taoist one, where breath is the flow of life and energy?
Fire can also mean calamity, dirt can mean territory, etc.
Like, you in particular are very close to getting it. Can you see how "dirt" and "territory" might have conceptual overlap, or "fire" and "calamity"?
It's my fucking fault if my message isn't clear.
I disagree, mostly in that I kind of unironically believe a lot of battleboarders are genuinely dumber than average in a way that's kind of hard to overcome through text. I'm basically just here to piss around (well, moreso to reconfirm what I'm about to say). I think you in particular might have cognitive flexibility but (as implied earlier) I think someone like Xhom might just be genuinely retarded. I don't know if this is because battleboarding attracts unusually low IQ people in particular or if the average person is also just really bad at understanding and adapting to ideas but simply doesn't get a chance to show it, but this is what my experience has been.
More specifically, I don't think there's a way to eg. convince VSBWiki that Superman isn't "Multiverse level". Maybe you could through a bunch of appeals to emotion and memes, but I don't think you could actually logically convince them otherwise any more than Ken Ham could be argued into supporting evolution. I think, physically, their brains are simply worse. Coincidentally, I think this also tends to explain why people who are "bad at battleboarding" tend to also just be conservative and stupid in general.