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You are assuming you would have full knowledge of what was happening. LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 11/10/2010 04:08:50 PM

If I am presented with a choice of 1)everyone and everything dies and 2) by following a certain leader there is a chance for survival of me and others, then the choice to me would be obvious. I would be great-full for the chance, and both respect and like the leader for at least giving me that. Do you really think that you wouldn't?


Any one of us would be a peasant, most likely, at best we'd be lucky enough to be born into a noble family. Either way, like most of randland, we'd think the DO just planned to remake the world and we'd still be existing within his new little hell for us. We would not know that everything/everyone ceases to exist.

Then you'd have to be in a position where you'd know what was going on truthfully in the first place. Due to the lack of press in Randland, news travels on rumor and it's most likely to be that you do not have an accurate appraisal of events.

it's "Grateful".

Lastly, you're assuming there'd be a POINT to you following the Dragon Reborn. What're you going to do, coop some barrels for him? What if you were born a shoemaker, or a baker? What if you're merely a clumsy merchant's guard?

You're extrapolating what you would do with full and accurate knowledge of all events on the people of randland, most of which are powerless against events and have NO idea what's really going on. given the technology levels, it would be almost impossible for rand to "PR" enough to make up for the lack of information being given and people would still have to be wiling to trust that information!!!

It's like you're the FBI getting on the ass of a tribe in the Congo for thinking white man means nothing but trouble.
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Rand needs a publicist - 11/10/2010 11:56:26 AM 1091 Views
You really don't understand? Or it just upsets you since he's a "good guy"? - 11/10/2010 12:50:55 PM 676 Views
The people of Randland need him - 11/10/2010 01:26:48 PM 583 Views
He's not hated. He is feared because of the inevitable destruction salvation will bring. - 11/10/2010 02:18:30 PM 584 Views
particularly since most of them are totally powerless. - 11/10/2010 03:17:49 PM 481 Views
It makes sense to fear the times and the DO; The Dragon Reborn less so - 11/10/2010 03:18:56 PM 476 Views
their previous "rescue" broke the world anyways. - 11/10/2010 03:24:09 PM 480 Views
The previous "rescue" saved the world but at great cost - 11/10/2010 03:39:18 PM 526 Views
And where do you see people (other than dark friends and politicals) denying that? - 11/10/2010 03:49:27 PM 490 Views
If the people don't know what is at stake, then he needs to tell them - 11/10/2010 04:49:58 PM 519 Views
why will the people believe a crazy man over everyone else they know? - 11/10/2010 05:08:14 PM 462 Views
yes, and it's still a reason to FEAR the dragon reborn. - 11/10/2010 03:56:32 PM 498 Views
That always bugged me. Some males killed entire CITIES - 11/10/2010 05:44:50 PM 546 Views
but he wouldn't have done it without being tainted... - 11/10/2010 05:49:46 PM 512 Views
To err is human. To blame it on someone else is even MORE human. *NM* - 11/10/2010 05:53:43 PM 240 Views
Re: Rand needs a publicist - 11/10/2010 03:15:15 PM 496 Views
It's easy to say that from our side. - 11/10/2010 03:23:05 PM 546 Views
Re: It's easy to say that from our side. - 11/10/2010 04:00:34 PM 543 Views
You are assuming you would have full knowledge of what was happening. - 11/10/2010 04:08:50 PM 480 Views
Re: You are assuming you would have full knowledge of what was happening. - 11/10/2010 04:46:19 PM 526 Views
with what infrastructure? With what TIME? - 11/10/2010 05:06:43 PM 487 Views
Gleeman - 11/10/2010 06:24:24 PM 565 Views
that is incredibly impractical - 11/10/2010 07:35:06 PM 449 Views
Gleeman would be the most effective way to spread any message in Randland - 11/10/2010 08:18:38 PM 618 Views
it would be the most effective. That does not mean it's practically effective. - 11/10/2010 08:59:59 PM 474 Views
Gleeman and Peddlars are the most likely means of transporting information in Randland - 11/10/2010 09:25:39 PM 534 Views
No. - 11/10/2010 09:35:37 PM 509 Views
Mmm I think using Asha'man and AS would be counter productive - 11/10/2010 09:39:05 PM 454 Views
I wouldn't think that they would necessarily proclaim themselves. - 11/10/2010 10:15:27 PM 482 Views
When the FS and AS not even knowing this information don't ya think it's pointless? - 11/10/2010 05:58:54 PM 468 Views
If they don't know then informing them would be an important first step in the PR process. *NM* - 11/10/2010 06:28:10 PM 214 Views
why would they believe him? *NM* - 11/10/2010 07:30:08 PM 204 Views
Common Sense, Influence of the Pattern *NM* - 11/10/2010 08:20:29 PM 220 Views
"Common" Sense tells them that Rand is a violent crazy lunatic. - 11/10/2010 08:55:10 PM 473 Views
They followed him when he cleansed Saidin - 11/10/2010 09:41:45 PM 545 Views
"when in close contact" - 11/10/2010 11:13:22 PM 674 Views
The pattern will work on anyone anywhere - 12/10/2010 07:06:49 AM 526 Views
i hadn't read tGS yet, THANKS A LOT. - 12/10/2010 04:39:00 PM 438 Views
Sorry *NM* - 13/10/2010 04:32:47 AM 210 Views
Rand had a publicist - Masema - 11/10/2010 10:06:25 PM 600 Views
ha ha. tru dat. *NM* - 11/10/2010 11:13:53 PM 215 Views
*rofl* *NM* - 12/10/2010 01:21:28 AM 212 Views

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