And without a structure, how much damage can any individual do?
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 11/11/2009 08:40:53 AM
Historians can tell you that the world is messy. Everything is flawed. Until the Wheel stops turning every economic system will prosper then fail, as will every type of state. Notice I did not say every economic theory!
My point is that of course the oaths are flawed, just as all the other regulating factors on channelers in the WOT are. I don't especially think that a bunch of free market channelers would play fairly with the rest of the kids. Unhindered by structure (as bad as a structure as the ones here are), you'd end up with very powerful channelers becoming something akin to the Forsaken.
My point is that of course the oaths are flawed, just as all the other regulating factors on channelers in the WOT are. I don't especially think that a bunch of free market channelers would play fairly with the rest of the kids. Unhindered by structure (as bad as a structure as the ones here are), you'd end up with very powerful channelers becoming something akin to the Forsaken.
And what did all the Forsaken do as soon as they were released into the world? Seek out a structure to use as their power base! Powerful structures HELP evil individuals, who use such things to exert their will on greater numbers. Sure, a bad channeler is bad news, but better he has no support than a group of moderate or indifferent channelers doing his bidding! If a Forskane-like channeler arises, odds are equally good that heroic individuals can match him. Kill the bad individual and you end his reign. A bad organization, however, can replace its leader and keep going.
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
/Miscellaneous: A better ending to the Tower struggle?
- 11/11/2009 03:30:40 AM
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Personal aside re: Egwene
- 11/11/2009 04:08:46 AM
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Re: Personal aside re: Egwene
- 11/11/2009 04:29:58 AM
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Nuclear weapons were only deployed when ONE country had them. Never since.
- 11/11/2009 06:15:23 AM
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The World is messy
- 11/11/2009 06:42:16 AM
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And without a structure, how much damage can any individual do?
- 11/11/2009 08:40:53 AM
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I must say...
- 11/11/2009 06:00:18 AM
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You're being absurd!
- 11/11/2009 07:44:06 AM
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Rhuidean?
- 11/11/2009 08:05:43 AM
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Re: Rhuidean?
- 11/11/2009 08:42:37 AM
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I think that Cannoli is the Man, but...
- 13/11/2009 02:30:03 PM
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Channelers making ter'angreal for ordinary people to use (a common AoL practice, BTW) is insane? *NM*
- 13/11/2009 03:51:33 PM
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If I recall correctly- those were the last of the 'true' Aes Sedai.
- 11/11/2009 06:02:38 PM
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Actually the BWB or RJ said no AoL Aes Sedai survived the Breaking.
- 12/11/2009 02:32:36 AM
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Technically, the Breaking ended when the last Male AS died, so female AS could survive past it *NM*
- 12/11/2009 03:42:01 PM
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That could be true but I seem to recall it being said/implied that they were tasked with their duty
- 12/11/2009 11:29:33 PM
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The thing is ...
- 11/11/2009 06:05:58 AM
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Agree and Disagree
- 11/11/2009 06:30:54 AM
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We can hope... but I honestly don't see it happening. It's complicated.
- 11/11/2009 06:47:27 AM
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Why don't you point to the place where I am prescribing a course of action for the immediate future?
- 11/11/2009 08:03:07 AM
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It wouldn's work in the westlands
- 11/11/2009 01:13:54 PM
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Well, hopefully there would be people to stop her, just like in the real world. *NM*
- 12/11/2009 02:58:54 AM
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Anyone passing the Accepted Test must believe in a WT supremacy,
- 11/11/2009 01:45:25 PM
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Re: Anyone passing the Accepted Test must believe in a WT supremacy,
- 12/11/2009 02:57:55 AM
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So, what you're saying is that Aes Sedai should actually live up to their name?
- 11/11/2009 05:33:50 PM
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