but possible the dumbest poster ever, akin to some form of debilitating plague. I'm surprised that people don't start bleeding from their eyes or spontaneously combusting from being in the same forum as you, let alone being subjected to what you have termed 'an argument'.

With civilities out of the way, let's get down to business .



This is an interesting premise. Given that the test is the quintessence of stupidity, failure to adhere to its strictures can only be called a sign of intelligence. However, if we go by your assumption that failure to adhere to those strictures is stupidity, then we come to the paradoxical conclusion that intellect is stupidity. Which leads us to the conclusion that the White Tower is probably a new ministry in 1984. Or that one of our premises is wrong.



Aside from anything else, I really hope that nobody is convinced by an argument that essentially goes "after she had her memory erased, she failed to remember to...".

Now people may wonder what's the point of giving instructions to someone who will invariably forget them, but the answer, as already mentioned, is that the test is the quintessence of stupidity.



Any argument that is based on the alleged intellect of the Sitters of the Hall is destined for ridicule. Need I remind you that no less than one book ago, Egwene met with the highest White Sisters (the Ajah allegedly dedicated to reason and logic) and completely wowed them by a conversation that goes as follows:

SITTERS: How would you deal with the Dragon Reborn?
EGWENE: I would have sent a delegation of Aes Sedai.
SITTERS: We tried that.
EGWENE: Mine wouldn't be sent by a Red Amyrlin, therefore everything would have worked out fine.
SITTERS: Light! Your competence and ability to reason is so far above us! Akin to that of fainting goats, or an especially moronic snail!

Of course, the two issues may be related. Given that the capacity for rational thought is antithetical to the Tests, nobody actually qualified for the White Ajah has been raised in millennia.



Yes, the higher purpose of staying expressionless. I mean, human lives are one thing, but if an Aes Sedai shows an expression she might get wrinkles or something, ruining that ageless look. Priorities people!



At least she'd run. A "proper" Aes Sedai would be very slowly walking to help.

No, bar that. Helping either of them is not actually part of their duties, and in fact a flaw that can be abused by what you have decided to call reasoning, so what 'true Aes Sedai' would do if they learned that Cyndane endangering Rand would be to perhaps help him, assuming they achieved the greater consensus, and supposing it did not interfere with their walking slowly and their expressionlessness.

And you call that an exploitable weakness, but what is the alternative? I could wipe out the entire White Tower with nothing more than minor Illusion. create an illusory arch or star over a cliff, maybe have a ghostly voice say "the way back will come only once, be steadfast," and there goes the entire White Tower off the cliff. People who haven't paid attention may think that I'm joking, that I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. The Aes Sedai perceive the cliff, they perceive that this is a stupid idea, but none of them would be there if they hadn't consistently demonstrated the ability to ignore reason and everything they perceive as evidence of the real world in order to throw themselves into that arch. They would throw themselves off that cliff, because the only other alternative is that they never came out of those testing ter'angreal. This is the simple fact. I couldn't make it up if I tried.



That's because you hold the same idea of an ideal channeler as Mazrim Taim. The ideal for a channeler is someone who doesn't care if anything or anyone is destroyed so long as it doesn't interfere with their ability to control magical forces of devastation at will.

EDIT: Incidentally, I assume this is another one of your parody posts relating to Cannoli's previous topic. You don't really believe this, do you?