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They're not really stupid... DomA Send a noteboard - 08/12/2010 01:00:20 AM
They belong to an arrogant and near all powerful organization that's shaped them from youth so they would see the world from their narrow perspective.

An important thing is that the Tower doesn't recruit much. They let women come to the Tower to be tested. It goes without saying that most of these women who decide to go get tested isn't fundamentally opposed to the the ways and worldview of Tar Valon. They wish to join that organization. All of them but "wilders", who have no choice and are found and trained by the Tower. That's why the rest of the Tower dislikes wilders so much. Unlike them, they never dreamed of joining the Tower, this was pushed on them, and many don't have the right frame of mind to think the way the other AS do. This is what happens with Nynaeve. She didn't come admiring the WT, she came hating it and seeing flaws upon flaws in sisters like Moiraine. Nynaeve has a very personal vision of what AS should be that she developped around how she sees herself and how she reconcile her personality with becoming a sister. Unlike most she never got the years of training to "reshape" her views. Egwene is more like a sponge - her motto could be "When in Rome, act like the Romans". She did that everywhere she went, though she's becoming more and more critical as she wizen up, and is more open now to questionning her worldviews. Elayne is also more conservative, though her views on AS got influenced a lot by Nynaeve's, and by her role as Queen (she now tends to see the benefits of channellers with the eyes of a Queen rather than an AS. She lost track that the WT must remain neutral and can't favour a nation over the others - she'll no doubt be reminded of this by Egwene soon). The same might have happened to Egwene, had she not gotten separated from Nynaeve so early, but instead it's a mix of Moiraine's independant streak and Siuan's traditionalist and political-minded views that dominates in her, with a remaining streak of TR practical thinking.

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Nynaeve's stupidity and the test for Aes Sedai - 07/12/2010 08:27:05 PM 4138 Views
Just like all women. - 07/12/2010 09:15:12 PM 1095 Views
Way to totally misunderstand the chapter - 07/12/2010 09:39:08 PM 1563 Views
I second this - 07/12/2010 10:10:24 PM 1267 Views
your bold is stuck. *NM* - 07/12/2010 10:21:22 PM 542 Views
He BOLDLY seconded it... *NM* - 08/12/2010 03:04:33 PM 512 Views
which is quite excellent. I was just leting him know *NM* - 08/12/2010 03:28:24 PM 417 Views
I think that statement says it all. - 07/12/2010 10:19:50 PM 1312 Views
Thanks. That's exactly what I think. - 08/12/2010 08:29:28 AM 1179 Views
+1, well said *NM* - 08/12/2010 11:19:29 AM 477 Views
Agrees *NM* - 09/12/2010 03:27:53 PM 872 Views
Yes, the OP totally whiffed here. Nyn couldn't remember.. - 11/12/2010 01:50:11 AM 1092 Views
On the whole, the test is innappropriate IMO - 07/12/2010 09:40:08 PM 1391 Views
I agree with this entirely *NM* - 07/12/2010 10:07:52 PM 473 Views
very well said *NM* - 07/12/2010 10:23:06 PM 424 Views
It's kind of a chicken and egg thing - 07/12/2010 11:13:19 PM 1055 Views
Re: It's kind of a chicken and egg thing - 08/12/2010 12:37:20 AM 1338 Views
nice post - 08/12/2010 09:20:02 AM 1159 Views
Isn't it implied - 08/12/2010 02:16:58 PM 928 Views
no they were students together - 08/12/2010 05:33:17 PM 878 Views
No, Lanfear was older than Lews - 08/12/2010 07:21:45 PM 1093 Views
Where on earth did you get that from? - 08/12/2010 08:41:16 PM 1021 Views
Re: Where on earth did you get that from? - 09/12/2010 10:27:20 AM 1043 Views
Re: Where on earth did you get that from? - 09/12/2010 03:56:32 PM 1113 Views
I always got the impression that they were together for quiet some time - 09/12/2010 04:34:23 PM 1061 Views
I think skill with Saidar is easy enough to judge as it's a simple matter to see the skill - 08/12/2010 05:37:27 PM 964 Views
I think the greens should have been on Nynaeve's side as well - 08/12/2010 06:18:16 PM 1081 Views
Problem is they are Aes Sedai and thus more likley to be political rather than rational! *NM* - 08/12/2010 08:52:00 PM 775 Views
too f'n true *NM* - 09/12/2010 12:17:58 AM 485 Views
Re: nice post - 09/12/2010 01:23:50 PM 1154 Views
On the matter of strength - 09/12/2010 08:51:36 PM 977 Views
Re: On the matter of strength - 10/12/2010 10:38:42 AM 981 Views
The test is stupid and it was about time someone pointed it out - 07/12/2010 10:29:38 PM 995 Views
Channeling under duress IS necessary for ALL Aes Sedai - 05/01/2011 12:04:53 AM 1090 Views
Well - 07/12/2010 11:03:38 PM 1025 Views
Status is not an end in itself. *NM* - 07/12/2010 11:52:37 PM 493 Views
They're not really stupid... - 08/12/2010 01:00:20 AM 1051 Views
They're constantly outsmarted by a teenage girl that has spent most of her life in a damn farm. - 08/12/2010 10:32:50 AM 1039 Views
yeah because that's so realistic - 08/12/2010 12:17:29 PM 988 Views
Egwene had everything handed to her on a silver platter. - 08/12/2010 11:50:17 PM 967 Views
Bah... - 09/12/2010 10:56:24 AM 1082 Views
Nope, the Sitters were always stupid - 09/12/2010 12:37:05 PM 1020 Views
cause being rural automatically makes you dumb?..... *NM* - 09/12/2010 05:34:11 PM 559 Views
It makes you uneducated - 09/12/2010 05:46:49 PM 931 Views
You are not only wrong in your call, - 08/12/2010 04:39:44 AM 1253 Views
Re: You are not only wrong in your call, - 08/12/2010 09:13:37 AM 1281 Views
if that is the purpose of the test - 08/12/2010 01:34:45 PM 984 Views
minor disagreement - 08/12/2010 05:27:51 PM 1051 Views
Yes, but you can be not-panicked and not calm of body - 08/12/2010 06:38:56 PM 872 Views
not really the same thing as what the AS are getting at though - 08/12/2010 09:02:05 PM 1529 Views
that's retarded, imo - 09/12/2010 12:21:27 AM 1014 Views
About Elaida... - 09/12/2010 12:29:21 PM 979 Views
...no wonder the Aes Sedai are floundering - 09/12/2010 01:43:42 PM 784 Views
Oh it's totally stupid! - 09/12/2010 04:37:14 PM 1030 Views
No I know why she took the job. I just don't understand why she got it - 09/12/2010 04:52:34 PM 975 Views
I think Elaida just smarmed up at the right time, Morgase was very young then - 09/12/2010 05:52:29 PM 1017 Views
hmm. curse smarming, then *NM* - 09/12/2010 07:47:26 PM 421 Views
As I recall... - 10/12/2010 05:18:25 AM 1000 Views
Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 08/12/2010 06:48:50 PM 1028 Views
I think it has already been established that the purpose of the test is to ensure that - 08/12/2010 09:59:18 PM 782 Views
Yeah, but how does that work? - 08/12/2010 10:24:35 PM 934 Views
Somewhere in the sub-conscious they know what they're doing is important to them. - 09/12/2010 12:20:47 AM 1043 Views
Even so, it wouldn't work. - 09/12/2010 03:32:55 AM 966 Views
Another headless chicken example. - 09/12/2010 12:30:02 AM 946 Views
the headless chicken is just such a lovely metaphor for panic *NM* - 09/12/2010 04:48:11 AM 430 Views
Re: Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 09/12/2010 12:07:15 PM 1040 Views
Re: Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 10/12/2010 05:32:27 AM 1098 Views
The main difference - 10/12/2010 05:50:43 AM 961 Views
I'm not sure I agree. - 08/12/2010 12:17:12 PM 1046 Views
You seem to have no grasp of the difference between "politic" and "right" - 09/12/2010 02:59:50 AM 1089 Views
I hate it when I love you just a little *NM* - 09/12/2010 04:46:57 AM 456 Views
Re: You seem to have no grasp of the difference between "politic" and "right" - 09/12/2010 09:26:21 AM 1005 Views
That's not the dilema - 09/12/2010 05:23:19 PM 1184 Views
That's not what it's really about - 10/12/2010 05:44:12 AM 935 Views
The paralells are not obvious to me... - 15/12/2010 11:42:51 AM 1039 Views
More like - 15/12/2010 01:26:40 PM 944 Views

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