Yes, but you can be not-panicked and not calm of body
LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 08/12/2010 06:38:56 PM
Take for instance the Void when rand is fighting with a sword. He is entirely calm, despite the fact someone is trying to skewer him (I count someone trying to kill you as a stressful situation). However he is a flood movement.
If someone is clearly showing panic, like running around like a kicked chicken, then yes, that belies a lack of calm in the mind. But going "jee, I'm going to RUN to that person bleeding profusely on the floor across the room instead of WALK" is not being MORE calm. The assumption that to be calm of body means you are not being calm in mind, in any scenario, gives no credit to the fact that, sometimes, speed is precisely what is needed! Some stressful scenarios REQUIRE action, and quickly! It's not like Nynaeve saw a chicken get its head cut off for dinner and started running around the room frantically trying to heal it. She acted in total accordance to the scenarios presented to her.
Calm is not a state of body in this test, calm is being MEASURED as a state of body in this test, and a state of body that doesn't even mean the individual is calm!! Walking doesn't mean your calm. Walking means your emotions are in check or you're shell shocked. You can be walking and totally unable to channel due to the mental stress you are under. Not to say that if you're walking, you're plainly NOT calming. Only that walking does not mean someone IS calm.
It's an inaccurate parameter for a misleading measurement of calmn. If they are calm enough to channel the weaves correctly, then they are calm enough to be effective.
Honestly, demanding anything else is damned hypocritical! For such a "Serene/calm" group of people, they sure are spastics!! Last thing I want is a physically calm surgeon if my carotid blows!! I want a mentally calm but physically quick and effective surgeon.
As you pointed out in Nynaeve's case, she did not panic, she took initiative. Well sometimes that requires a speed faster than a walk!! That doesn't mean you're panicking about something!
EDIT: I am assuming your definition of "Calm of body" includes things like running, rapid movement, etc... because that is what the Aes Sedai are using. If, however, you mean that someone who is not calm of body is jerky, erratic, uncontrolled, etc...etc... in their movements, then I agree with you. That still means their test is stupid though
If someone is clearly showing panic, like running around like a kicked chicken, then yes, that belies a lack of calm in the mind. But going "jee, I'm going to RUN to that person bleeding profusely on the floor across the room instead of WALK" is not being MORE calm. The assumption that to be calm of body means you are not being calm in mind, in any scenario, gives no credit to the fact that, sometimes, speed is precisely what is needed! Some stressful scenarios REQUIRE action, and quickly! It's not like Nynaeve saw a chicken get its head cut off for dinner and started running around the room frantically trying to heal it. She acted in total accordance to the scenarios presented to her.
Calm is not a state of body in this test, calm is being MEASURED as a state of body in this test, and a state of body that doesn't even mean the individual is calm!! Walking doesn't mean your calm. Walking means your emotions are in check or you're shell shocked. You can be walking and totally unable to channel due to the mental stress you are under. Not to say that if you're walking, you're plainly NOT calming. Only that walking does not mean someone IS calm.
It's an inaccurate parameter for a misleading measurement of calmn. If they are calm enough to channel the weaves correctly, then they are calm enough to be effective.
Honestly, demanding anything else is damned hypocritical! For such a "Serene/calm" group of people, they sure are spastics!! Last thing I want is a physically calm surgeon if my carotid blows!! I want a mentally calm but physically quick and effective surgeon.
As you pointed out in Nynaeve's case, she did not panic, she took initiative. Well sometimes that requires a speed faster than a walk!! That doesn't mean you're panicking about something!
EDIT: I am assuming your definition of "Calm of body" includes things like running, rapid movement, etc... because that is what the Aes Sedai are using. If, however, you mean that someone who is not calm of body is jerky, erratic, uncontrolled, etc...etc... in their movements, then I agree with you. That still means their test is stupid though
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This message last edited by LadyLorraine on 08/12/2010 at 06:40:42 PM
Nynaeve's stupidity and the test for Aes Sedai
- 07/12/2010 08:27:05 PM
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Way to totally misunderstand the chapter
- 07/12/2010 09:39:08 PM
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I second this
- 07/12/2010 10:10:24 PM
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your bold is stuck. *NM*
- 07/12/2010 10:21:22 PM
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*NM*
On the whole, the test is innappropriate IMO
- 07/12/2010 09:40:08 PM
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nice post
- 08/12/2010 09:20:02 AM
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Isn't it implied
- 08/12/2010 02:16:58 PM
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no they were students together
- 08/12/2010 05:33:17 PM
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No, Lanfear was older than Lews
- 08/12/2010 07:21:45 PM
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Where on earth did you get that from?
- 08/12/2010 08:41:16 PM
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Re: Where on earth did you get that from?
- 09/12/2010 10:27:20 AM
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Re: Where on earth did you get that from?
- 09/12/2010 03:56:32 PM
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I always got the impression that they were together for quiet some time
- 09/12/2010 04:34:23 PM
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Re: I always got the impression that they were together for quiet some time
- 09/12/2010 05:43:40 PM
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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
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I think the greens should have been on Nynaeve's side as well
- 08/12/2010 06:18:16 PM
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Problem is they are Aes Sedai and thus more likley to be political rather than rational! *NM*
- 08/12/2010 08:52:00 PM
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Re: nice post
- 09/12/2010 01:23:50 PM
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On the matter of strength
- 09/12/2010 08:51:36 PM
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Strength was "prized" in the AoL ... but lack of strength was not a negative
- 12/12/2010 01:41:08 AM
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Yes. How dare she not conform with every other fucking mindless stupid WT Aes Sedai *NM*
- 07/12/2010 11:36:52 PM
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Status is not an end in itself. *NM*
- 07/12/2010 11:52:37 PM
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They're not really stupid...
- 08/12/2010 01:00:20 AM
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Not saying they are. It's just that most AS that we've come across
- 08/12/2010 02:20:05 AM
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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
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Bah...
- 09/12/2010 10:56:24 AM
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I did not say all Aes Sedai are stupid, I said all WT Aes Sedai are stupid.
- 10/12/2010 09:19:52 AM
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You are not only wrong in your call,
- 08/12/2010 04:39:44 AM
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Re: You are not only wrong in your call,
- 08/12/2010 09:13:37 AM
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if that is the purpose of the test
- 08/12/2010 01:34:45 PM
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minor disagreement
- 08/12/2010 05:27:51 PM
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Yes, but you can be not-panicked and not calm of body
- 08/12/2010 06:38:56 PM
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not really the same thing as what the AS are getting at though
- 08/12/2010 09:02:05 PM
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that's retarded, imo
- 09/12/2010 12:21:27 AM
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Oh it's totally stupid!
- 09/12/2010 04:37:14 PM
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No I know why she took the job. I just don't understand why she got it
- 09/12/2010 04:52:34 PM
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I think Elaida just smarmed up at the right time, Morgase was very young then
- 09/12/2010 05:52:29 PM
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Oh. Well, I'm sorry then.
- 08/12/2010 06:48:50 PM
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I think it has already been established that the purpose of the test is to ensure that
- 08/12/2010 09:59:18 PM
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Yeah, but how does that work?
- 08/12/2010 10:24:35 PM
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Somewhere in the sub-conscious they know what they're doing is important to them.
- 09/12/2010 12:20:47 AM
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Even so, it wouldn't work.
- 09/12/2010 03:32:55 AM
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I think if this thread has established anything it's that the test is severely flawed. *NM*
- 09/12/2010 09:24:48 PM
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Another headless chicken example.
- 09/12/2010 12:30:02 AM
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the headless chicken is just such a lovely metaphor for panic *NM*
- 09/12/2010 04:48:11 AM
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*NM*
- 09/12/2010 04:48:11 AM
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Re: Oh. Well, I'm sorry then.
- 09/12/2010 12:07:15 PM
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You seem to have no grasp of the difference between "politic" and "right"
- 09/12/2010 02:59:50 AM
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Re: You seem to have no grasp of the difference between "politic" and "right"
- 09/12/2010 09:26:21 AM
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That's not the dilema
- 09/12/2010 05:23:19 PM
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One of those few times where I completely agree with Cannoli. Give over Sidious. You're wrong.
- 09/12/2010 09:55:20 PM
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That's not what it's really about
- 10/12/2010 05:44:12 AM
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This test, even by its usual abysmal standards, was idiotic. It bordered on being evil.
- 09/12/2010 03:46:31 AM
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Re: This test, even by its usual abysmal standards, was idiotic. It bordered on being evil.
- 09/12/2010 09:40:09 AM
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Re: This test, even by its usual abysmal standards, was idiotic. It bordered on being evil.
- 09/12/2010 02:04:02 PM
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Re: This test, even by its usual abysmal standards, was idiotic. It bordered on being evil.
- 09/12/2010 11:26:40 AM
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One of those few times where I completely agree with fionwe1987. Give over Sidious. You're wrong.
- 10/12/2010 03:53:25 PM
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