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That's not what it's really about guttering flame Send a noteboard - 10/12/2010 05:44:12 AM

Like other posters you are distracted by the illusions of the test and allow them to defeat you. You need to channel 100 weaves while they throw everything from dying babies to your tortured spouse at you. Where's the moral dilemma? Its not real! Weave your stuff and gain the shawl and then go out into the real world and be moral. Its not about status or rank or morality. Its about being intelligent enough to not allow a ter'angreal to stop you from weaving a hundred weaves just because it pulls at your heartstrings. And that is why Nynaeve is a failure... Because she's too dense to dissociate herself from a fake test and a real life test of her character. And that's the benefit of the test, its cuts out all the idiots who can't just walk to a star without cracking up because there's a weave of Fire and Air showing their dead lover.


I'm sure that's what they tell each other it's about, but both this test and the test for Accepted have a common theme, two main components that define them: Shame and Secrecy.

The real-world parallels are obvious.
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Re: Where on earth did you get that from? - 09/12/2010 10:27:20 AM 1462 Views
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Re: nice post - 09/12/2010 01:23:50 PM 1573 Views
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Re: You are not only wrong in your call, - 08/12/2010 09:13:37 AM 1688 Views
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minor disagreement - 08/12/2010 05:27:51 PM 1455 Views
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not really the same thing as what the AS are getting at though - 08/12/2010 09:02:05 PM 1930 Views
that's retarded, imo - 09/12/2010 12:21:27 AM 1474 Views
About Elaida... - 09/12/2010 12:29:21 PM 1456 Views
...no wonder the Aes Sedai are floundering - 09/12/2010 01:43:42 PM 1178 Views
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hmm. curse smarming, then *NM* - 09/12/2010 07:47:26 PM 596 Views
As I recall... - 10/12/2010 05:18:25 AM 1384 Views
Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 08/12/2010 06:48:50 PM 1428 Views
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Another headless chicken example. - 09/12/2010 12:30:02 AM 1331 Views
the headless chicken is just such a lovely metaphor for panic *NM* - 09/12/2010 04:48:11 AM 607 Views
Re: Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 09/12/2010 12:07:15 PM 1402 Views
Re: Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 10/12/2010 05:32:27 AM 1505 Views
The main difference - 10/12/2010 05:50:43 AM 1371 Views
I'm not sure I agree. - 08/12/2010 12:17:12 PM 1446 Views
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I hate it when I love you just a little *NM* - 09/12/2010 04:46:57 AM 640 Views
Re: You seem to have no grasp of the difference between "politic" and "right" - 09/12/2010 09:26:21 AM 1407 Views
That's not the dilema - 09/12/2010 05:23:19 PM 1589 Views
That's not what it's really about - 10/12/2010 05:44:12 AM 1321 Views
The paralells are not obvious to me... - 15/12/2010 11:42:51 AM 1402 Views
More like - 15/12/2010 01:26:40 PM 1320 Views

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