But I want to say there was a discussion between Rand and someone--Lan, I think--about how his choices aren't really choices at all. The whole point being that they most certainly are choices, and that it's the content of their character which forces them to act in a certain way, not the Pattern.
Yeah, Tam told Rand that even if he can't choose what he has to do, he can choose why he does it.
Rand would never have gone over to the DO but to fight him as Dark Rand vs Light Rand made a gigantic and vital difference not only to his psyche but also to the entire world.
He was always going to fight and try to defeat the DO but now he has chosen why he will do it which leads to the how.
Rand is the Great Serpent
- 08/02/2011 04:21:32 AM
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Yeah, that seems logical, funny to see rand bite himself in the ass :p *NM*
- 08/02/2011 06:31:44 AM
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I want to reply and say that's not exactly how I picture it, but I don't want to be dirty. *NM*
- 08/02/2011 06:50:17 AM
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That actually seems cosmically plausible - but I really hope this is not the case 
- 08/02/2011 03:27:29 PM
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- 08/02/2011 03:27:29 PM
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But that has always been the case. I am astounded that it isn't recognized more often...
- 08/02/2011 03:58:24 PM
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This. There's a reason one of his archetypes is the Fisher King. *NM*
- 08/02/2011 07:00:05 PM
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The issue is that the Fisher King story is about the Land, not the People
- 08/02/2011 08:02:24 PM
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None of this is contradicted by what I have posited
- 08/02/2011 09:16:48 PM
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But the chess analogy is what I'm seeing - the Dragon is necessary in degree not in total.
- 09/02/2011 02:42:15 PM
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The Fisher King is not a messianic myth.
- 08/02/2011 10:07:44 PM
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Fisher King title and legends are connected to the Messianic mythos
- 09/02/2011 09:47:14 PM
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The disciples, not Jesus, were the "fishers of men." EDITED.
- 09/02/2011 10:08:24 PM
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Yeah, you're right about the fish - I was reaching (and typed too fast to think)
- 10/02/2011 05:30:29 PM
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(and typed too fast to think)
- 10/02/2011 05:30:29 PM
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Re: But that has always been the case. I am astounded that it isn't recognized more often...
- 09/02/2011 07:47:14 AM
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You two are like a married couple without the benefit of the makeup sex.
- 09/02/2011 09:30:10 AM
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Huh? No. You are so off it's not even funny.
- 09/02/2011 03:16:05 AM
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Looks like somebody hasn't read The Gathering Storm.
- 09/02/2011 06:17:55 AM
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- 09/02/2011 06:17:55 AM
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Re: Looks like somebody hasn't read The Gathering Storm.
- 09/02/2011 06:20:21 AM
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- 09/02/2011 06:20:21 AM
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Atop Dragonmount, for one...
- 09/02/2011 07:36:56 AM
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I'm exhausted, so I may be misremembering.
- 09/02/2011 09:27:18 AM
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That was Tam.
- 09/02/2011 05:09:45 PM
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That is a key difference.
- 09/02/2011 06:38:24 PM
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You sound like Ishamael 
- 09/02/2011 02:38:52 PM
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- 09/02/2011 02:38:52 PM
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Re: You sound like Ishamael
- 09/02/2011 03:17:58 PM
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- 09/02/2011 03:17:58 PM
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I'm definitely not confusing this with the real world roflmao
- 09/02/2011 03:54:04 PM
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Re: I'm definitely not confusing this with the real world roflmao
- 09/02/2011 06:10:01 PM
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Seems to me that you're confused.
- 09/02/2011 08:27:06 PM
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The amount of elitism on this board would be depressing if it weren't so damned funny.
- 09/02/2011 09:18:13 PM
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What depresses me...
- 09/02/2011 11:23:13 PM
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I, personally, like it. It makes sense for the Dragon to be an incarnation of the Serpent.
- 09/02/2011 11:39:28 PM
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