Active Users:441 Time:08/09/2026 10:47:19 PM
Back to Messageboard Post New Thread Search Help Stats Rules
I'm not convinced that it does ranagrande Send a noteboard - 05/09/2009 05:44:10 PM
According to you, is someone asks me to kill someone, and I grab a gun and shoot them down in the street, then I'm blameless, and in your universe would get off because someone else asked me to.
Some societies and situations actually operate the way you just described. Many people were involved, directly or indirectly, in your example crime. The one who incited or hired you to murder was as guilty as you, and would be treated accordingly by most human justice systems if caught. It isn't really relevant though, because those societies and systems, and the lives of the people involved, are all quite superfluous.

I hope you are not a parent because your children will learn that 90% of their actions are inconsequential.
I think that estimate is a little low. I would say that 100% of our actions are inconsequential, in effect, if not in truth. That is, our actions do have consequences (or seem to), but the consequences themselves are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things like time and the universe. Things which, by the way, are superfluous.

It may all sound a bit bleak and fatalistic, and it kind of is, but it's really not. Paradox is fun.

Oh and you don't need to worry. I am not a parent. :P
Reply to message
You know... it feels like the Aes Sedai are pretty superflouous beetnemesis - 02/09/2009 09:48:19 PM 1555 Views
Y'know, the paralells betwen the Aes Sedai in the White Tower... vandevere - 02/09/2009 10:46:29 PM 1061 Views
Well said. Hadn't really thought of it that way before *NM* Bryce - 03/09/2009 12:01:30 AM 624 Views
That is the inspiration for the Aes Sedai that RJ used - I can't find the article, though. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 03/09/2009 02:39:14 PM 1036 Views
When I was reading this I was thinking of the paralells between the white tower and Tashmere - 03/09/2009 02:47:33 AM 1377 Views
And yet the WT has been THE single greatest force for continuity and civilization. NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 03:37:14 AM 1089 Views
Re: And yet the WT has been THE single greatest force for continuity and civilization. Corwin - 03/09/2009 05:46:13 AM 1068 Views
Really? fionwe1987 - 03/09/2009 05:52:38 AM 1034 Views
Re: Really? Corwin - 03/09/2009 06:03:13 AM 1009 Views
So lets add a few more NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 11:42:48 AM 1003 Views
most of these are accounted for above ranagrande - 03/09/2009 02:18:01 PM 1073 Views
Just because we don't know all their names, doesn't mean their effectiveness on the Pattern was less RugbyPlayingAshaman - 03/09/2009 03:19:41 PM 1105 Views
But who did the work? NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 05:37:00 PM 902 Views
While these are good, none of it is because of the White Tower beetnemesis - 03/09/2009 05:43:56 PM 938 Views
So if Elaida didn't order it, it doesn't count? NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 07:29:20 PM 930 Views
Actually I think that's his point ranagrande - 04/09/2009 01:40:37 PM 1062 Views
Spot-on beetnemesis - 04/09/2009 08:56:30 PM 865 Views
Re: Actually I think that's his point NaClH2O - 05/09/2009 03:17:25 AM 919 Views
Re: But who did the work? ranagrande - 04/09/2009 01:32:19 PM 993 Views
Only one point because obviously your mind is made up. NaClH2O - 05/09/2009 06:13:23 AM 1000 Views
well, yeah ranagrande - 05/09/2009 02:33:51 PM 1037 Views
In that case, Rand, Mat, Perrin... all of them are superfluous. fionwe1987 - 05/09/2009 03:03:07 PM 918 Views
Re: In that case, Rand, Mat, Perrin... all of them are superfluous. NaClH2O - 05/09/2009 04:57:44 PM 913 Views
No, fionwe1987 is absolutely right! ranagrande - 05/09/2009 05:13:39 PM 883 Views
I'm glad the real world disagrees with you NaClH2O - 05/09/2009 05:05:50 PM 929 Views
I'm not convinced that it does ranagrande - 05/09/2009 05:44:10 PM 1014 Views
I don't understand your point Sidious - 03/09/2009 04:25:22 PM 952 Views
Re: I don't understand your point Corwin - 03/09/2009 09:09:38 PM 981 Views
Re: I don't understand your point Sidious - 03/09/2009 09:23:53 PM 915 Views
Re: I don't understand your point Corwin - 05/09/2009 09:02:47 AM 1190 Views
Re: I don't understand your point NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 09:49:58 PM 914 Views
I was talking about the WT specifically, and only during recent years. It's Gotta be the Shadow, beetnemesis - 03/09/2009 05:39:11 PM 947 Views
So what you are really saying is that if you ignore over 2/3rds of the AS the rest aren't doing much NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 06:07:23 PM 888 Views
I'm talking about the organization as a whole beetnemesis - 03/09/2009 10:07:37 PM 965 Views
No you are talking about Elaida NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 10:32:59 PM 886 Views
You just made our point... fionwe1987 - 04/09/2009 12:49:44 AM 987 Views
Well, because most of her actions infringe on that "bubble" beetnemesis - 04/09/2009 09:00:52 PM 890 Views
Not at all... fionwe1987 - 04/09/2009 09:23:09 PM 989 Views
WT has been THE single greatest force for stagancy and lack of development. Lohikaarme - 09/09/2009 08:58:58 AM 944 Views
Like I said earlier the AS are superfluous except the ones who aren't superfluous. NaClH2O - 09/09/2009 11:55:47 AM 1034 Views
To a certain extent ajsr1982 - 03/09/2009 11:33:30 AM 1181 Views
Definitely. And Egwene is in denial. beetnemesis - 03/09/2009 05:53:14 PM 950 Views
Some pretty big blanket statements NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 10:24:50 PM 1097 Views
Without the Tower Voscaia Sedai - 03/09/2009 02:05:09 PM 837 Views
Actually, I think Verin is a good metaphor here. nossy - 03/09/2009 07:59:46 PM 897 Views
Agrees with Nossy NaClH2O - 03/09/2009 10:44:06 PM 1206 Views
That's mostly what I was trying to say beetnemesis - 04/09/2009 09:03:52 PM 883 Views
Re: That's mostly what I was trying to say NaClH2O - 05/09/2009 03:33:46 AM 1205 Views
Back to Messageboard Post New Thread Search Help Stats Rules

Reply to Message

Block Quote Paragraph Quote
Formatting
Smiley Codes