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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 4317 Views
Just like all women. - 07/12/2010 09:15:12 PM 1190 Views
Way to totally misunderstand the chapter - 07/12/2010 09:39:08 PM 1670 Views
I second this - 07/12/2010 10:10:24 PM 1359 Views
your bold is stuck. *NM* - 07/12/2010 10:21:22 PM 578 Views
He BOLDLY seconded it... *NM* - 08/12/2010 03:04:33 PM 554 Views
which is quite excellent. I was just leting him know *NM* - 08/12/2010 03:28:24 PM 463 Views
I think that statement says it all. - 07/12/2010 10:19:50 PM 1391 Views
Thanks. That's exactly what I think. - 08/12/2010 08:29:28 AM 1254 Views
+1, well said *NM* - 08/12/2010 11:19:29 AM 515 Views
Agrees *NM* - 09/12/2010 03:27:53 PM 966 Views
Yes, the OP totally whiffed here. Nyn couldn't remember.. - 11/12/2010 01:50:11 AM 1208 Views
On the whole, the test is innappropriate IMO - 07/12/2010 09:40:08 PM 1486 Views
I agree with this entirely *NM* - 07/12/2010 10:07:52 PM 512 Views
very well said *NM* - 07/12/2010 10:23:06 PM 465 Views
It's kind of a chicken and egg thing - 07/12/2010 11:13:19 PM 1136 Views
Re: It's kind of a chicken and egg thing - 08/12/2010 12:37:20 AM 1429 Views
nice post - 08/12/2010 09:20:02 AM 1256 Views
Isn't it implied - 08/12/2010 02:16:58 PM 1021 Views
no they were students together - 08/12/2010 05:33:17 PM 974 Views
No, Lanfear was older than Lews - 08/12/2010 07:21:45 PM 1193 Views
Where on earth did you get that from? - 08/12/2010 08:41:16 PM 1122 Views
Re: Where on earth did you get that from? - 09/12/2010 10:27:20 AM 1126 Views
Re: Where on earth did you get that from? - 09/12/2010 03:56:32 PM 1207 Views
I always got the impression that they were together for quiet some time - 09/12/2010 04:34:23 PM 1156 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 1049 Views
I think the greens should have been on Nynaeve's side as well - 08/12/2010 06:18:16 PM 1173 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 815 Views
too f'n true *NM* - 09/12/2010 12:17:58 AM 522 Views
Re: nice post - 09/12/2010 01:23:50 PM 1230 Views
On the matter of strength - 09/12/2010 08:51:36 PM 1076 Views
Re: On the matter of strength - 10/12/2010 10:38:42 AM 1068 Views
Strength was "prized" in the AoL ... but lack of strength was not a negative - 12/12/2010 01:41:08 AM 1037 Views
The test is stupid and it was about time someone pointed it out - 07/12/2010 10:29:38 PM 1069 Views
Channeling under duress IS necessary for ALL Aes Sedai - 05/01/2011 12:04:53 AM 1193 Views
Well - 07/12/2010 11:03:38 PM 1119 Views
Status is not an end in itself. *NM* - 07/12/2010 11:52:37 PM 534 Views
They're not really stupid... - 08/12/2010 01:00:20 AM 1153 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 1135 Views
yeah because that's so realistic - 08/12/2010 12:17:29 PM 1085 Views
Egwene had everything handed to her on a silver platter. - 08/12/2010 11:50:17 PM 1063 Views
Bah... - 09/12/2010 10:56:24 AM 1173 Views
Nope, the Sitters were always stupid - 09/12/2010 12:37:05 PM 1103 Views
cause being rural automatically makes you dumb?..... *NM* - 09/12/2010 05:34:11 PM 599 Views
It makes you uneducated - 09/12/2010 05:46:49 PM 1033 Views
You are not only wrong in your call, - 08/12/2010 04:39:44 AM 1350 Views
Re: You are not only wrong in your call, - 08/12/2010 09:13:37 AM 1368 Views
if that is the purpose of the test - 08/12/2010 01:34:45 PM 1075 Views
minor disagreement - 08/12/2010 05:27:51 PM 1155 Views
Yes, but you can be not-panicked and not calm of body - 08/12/2010 06:38:56 PM 975 Views
not really the same thing as what the AS are getting at though - 08/12/2010 09:02:05 PM 1626 Views
that's retarded, imo - 09/12/2010 12:21:27 AM 1102 Views
About Elaida... - 09/12/2010 12:29:21 PM 1071 Views
...no wonder the Aes Sedai are floundering - 09/12/2010 01:43:42 PM 879 Views
Oh it's totally stupid! - 09/12/2010 04:37:14 PM 1125 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 1064 Views
I think Elaida just smarmed up at the right time, Morgase was very young then - 09/12/2010 05:52:29 PM 1112 Views
hmm. curse smarming, then *NM* - 09/12/2010 07:47:26 PM 464 Views
As I recall... - 10/12/2010 05:18:25 AM 1094 Views
Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 08/12/2010 06:48:50 PM 1123 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 869 Views
Yeah, but how does that work? - 08/12/2010 10:24:35 PM 1031 Views
Somewhere in the sub-conscious they know what they're doing is important to them. - 09/12/2010 12:20:47 AM 1138 Views
Even so, it wouldn't work. - 09/12/2010 03:32:55 AM 1053 Views
Another headless chicken example. - 09/12/2010 12:30:02 AM 1041 Views
the headless chicken is just such a lovely metaphor for panic *NM* - 09/12/2010 04:48:11 AM 468 Views
Re: Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 09/12/2010 12:07:15 PM 1126 Views
Re: Oh. Well, I'm sorry then. - 10/12/2010 05:32:27 AM 1195 Views
The main difference - 10/12/2010 05:50:43 AM 1057 Views
I'm not sure I agree. - 08/12/2010 12:17:12 PM 1118 Views
You seem to have no grasp of the difference between "politic" and "right" - 09/12/2010 02:59:50 AM 1175 Views
I hate it when I love you just a little *NM* - 09/12/2010 04:46:57 AM 499 Views
Re: You seem to have no grasp of the difference between "politic" and "right" - 09/12/2010 09:26:21 AM 1087 Views
That's not the dilema - 09/12/2010 05:23:19 PM 1281 Views
That's not what it's really about - 10/12/2010 05:44:12 AM 1039 Views
The paralells are not obvious to me... - 15/12/2010 11:42:51 AM 1111 Views
More like - 15/12/2010 01:26:40 PM 1030 Views

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