How do the gods decide among themselves who is most powerful? Etc etc, several examples given.
I feel like there is a chance you are trolling me question asker. You worded your question "perfectly" to get around our "dont ask who could beat who in a fight rule."
The answer is probably very similar to how you and your friends figure out who is best at some things. You all think you, among your friends, is the best at a thing. Over the course of time, if that thing is important to you, you probably end up in scenarios where you must test it vs your friend. One person wins the test, and the other person makes up excuses about why they lost the fight, or the race, or the game. And they decide in their own head, that the other person isnt actually better, they just got lucky that time.
From there, either both parties keep making subconscious excuses for any losses they might have, keeping in their head that they are best at something. Or at some point one party realizes/admits that the other is better at it. Gods arent too different from us. For any question like this, just look at those around you and figure out how people work.
I feel like there is a chance you are trolling me question asker. You worded your question "perfectly" to get around our "dont ask who could beat who in a fight rule."
The answer is probably very similar to how you and your friends figure out who is best at some things. You all think you, among your friends, is the best at a thing. Over the course of time, if that thing is important to you, you probably end up in scenarios where you must test it vs your friend. One person wins the test, and the other person makes up excuses about why they lost the fight, or the race, or the game. And they decide in their own head, that the other person isnt actually better, they just got lucky that time.
From there, either both parties keep making subconscious excuses for any losses they might have, keeping in their head that they are best at something. Or at some point one party realizes/admits that the other is better at it. Gods arent too different from us. For any question like this, just look at those around you and figure out how people work.
They really want to know who would win in a fight
ReplyDeleteOr, you could just tell them to play the gods, have them be petty and silly with their contests ( you know, like the gods are prone to be! ) and let the roll of the dice decide who's best.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that? The random chance of dice has more to say on who'd win than the actual skill of the gods?
That's the point. See, at that level, if you're taking two comparable gods like that and having them compete, it's not really going to be one being better than the other. It's going to be something so meaninglessly small, or random, or pointless, that'll decide who wins.
When you have two guys ( or girls ) who have hit the ceiling of *insert activity X here*, slight shifts in luck are all that's there.
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Until you bring in Magic or Chaos Gods who can mess with luck, and then who even knows what will go on. I'll defer to the Eshu vs Loki post, and say they both win, and everyone around them loses.
Or you can simply accept that there would be no real winner....
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