Ah yes, the "Jews can kill you with their minds" argument. *NM*
moratcorlm Send a noteboard - 23/01/2011 05:32:23 PM
Provisional calendar for Towers of Midnight: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0ApFWTyzG9G_UdHZCUjQzVGNLeUJyMkUycXkzQlExSFE&output=html
Avienda's viewing and the Fields of Merrilor (spoilers)
28/12/2010 06:21:05 PM
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Indeed...the bleak future makes the Last Battle almost an anti-climax...
28/12/2010 08:20:31 PM
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And yet, the only places of relative peace and shelter right now are Seanchan controlled lands.
29/12/2010 03:21:37 AM
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Those who would give up permanent liberty in exchange for temporary security, deserve neither..
29/12/2010 10:27:35 AM
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Says the person defending monarchies and oligarchies, some of them quite brutal.
29/12/2010 02:12:56 PM
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LoL. What is this "POV trap" that people refer to so often to make a point?
29/12/2010 10:00:11 PM
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Re: LoL. What is this "POV trap" that people refer to so often to make a point?
29/12/2010 10:44:12 PM
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Why do you have this urge to overcomplicate something as simple as personal likes and dislikes?
30/12/2010 10:00:43 AM
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Re: Why do you have this urge to overcomplicate something as simple as personal likes and dislikes?
07/01/2011 05:28:03 PM
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"romantic characteristics"
07/01/2011 06:06:31 AM
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Re: "romantic characteristics"
07/01/2011 05:30:33 PM
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Don't blame the Seanchan, The Aiel made an excuse to start a war.
08/01/2011 09:20:36 AM
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Re: Those who would give up permanent liberty in exchange for temporary security, deserve neither..
29/12/2010 03:06:16 PM
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They are pretty close to evil. Slavery being the big thing, but the crushing social scale is far
31/12/2010 06:45:59 PM
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The Aiel sold slaves to Shara, does that make them evil? No society in Randland is without flaws.
07/01/2011 05:10:32 AM
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you are missing my point
07/01/2011 11:31:11 PM
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No, you're missing the point. Benevolence is irrelevant.
08/01/2011 09:48:51 AM
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Re: No, you're missing the point. Benevolence is irrelevant.
08/01/2011 10:04:18 AM
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Well the Westlands aren't exactly modern Europe or USA either
08/01/2011 11:00:31 AM
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Re: Well the Westlands aren't exactly modern Europe or USA either
09/01/2011 02:08:17 AM
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That's funny, I'd choose modern day China in a second.
09/01/2011 06:37:24 AM
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Hong Kong is not an accurate representation of the rest of Modern China
20/01/2011 04:50:20 PM
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~sigh~ Cosmopolitan China is different than Rural China
21/01/2011 01:00:17 AM
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well there is also the fact that Hong Kong has different "rules" than even other major
21/01/2011 05:38:46 PM
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I'm not just talking about Hong Kong though...
22/01/2011 09:36:20 AM
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I've traveled extensively
22/01/2011 06:02:47 PM
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You've traveled to China extensively?
22/01/2011 07:41:30 PM
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the quesetion you responded too is "would you rather live in Medieval Europe of Modern China
22/01/2011 09:47:24 PM
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Actually, China is changing.
09/01/2011 06:32:58 AM
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true to a point, yet China has been under one form or another of totalitarian rule for
20/01/2011 04:57:37 PM
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So?
21/01/2011 01:20:18 AM
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It's the comparative to the Seanchan empire I'm really getting at here, not saying China isn't
21/01/2011 05:43:56 PM
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I don't even know why China was brought up in the first place ~shrugs~
22/01/2011 10:04:59 AM
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I totally agree with your last point, which is why I think RJ set them up to be the "Evil Empire"
22/01/2011 06:12:46 PM
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They're not entirely evil though, and RJ has written them that way
22/01/2011 08:02:22 PM
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Ah yes, the "Jews can kill you with their minds" argument. *NM*
23/01/2011 05:32:23 PM
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Please. Like anyone else in Randland is really free?
30/12/2010 02:47:27 AM
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Andor is rather progressive... Allowing the common people to speak their minds
31/12/2010 06:35:29 PM
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Re: Andor is rather progressive... Allowing the common people to speak their minds
01/01/2011 12:18:46 AM
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Seanchan is much closer to the Chinese culture. Which has never established democracy
01/01/2011 06:12:10 AM
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Prussia (and with it Germany) would never have changed to democracy if not forced to
01/01/2011 12:23:34 PM
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too easy: they did not have to fight the Shadow, they don't even know shadowspawn really exist as of *NM*
29/12/2010 02:44:18 PM
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It goes beyond the channelers. The Seanchan control the population
31/12/2010 06:00:57 PM
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Re: It goes beyond the channelers. The Seanchan control the population
01/01/2011 10:58:22 PM
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Word, even the Tinkers are gathering and migrating to Seanchan held lands in the south. *NM*
07/01/2011 05:21:09 AM
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You are right, here is a better analogy
03/01/2011 06:23:16 PM
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Even Hitler didn't think Jews could kill people with their minds
03/01/2011 07:22:09 PM
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It depends on Rand's sperm I guess
28/12/2010 08:27:59 PM
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No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
28/12/2010 08:31:27 PM
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Re: No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
28/12/2010 08:50:28 PM
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Re: No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
30/12/2010 03:56:55 PM
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Because the Aiel are savages who have no place in a modern world
28/12/2010 11:15:23 PM
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Re: No, the Seanchan started it, by wanting to conquer the rest of the world...
30/12/2010 04:01:00 PM
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Re: It depends on Rand's sperm I guess
28/12/2010 11:02:34 PM
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VoG = Veins of Gold. The chapter at the end of TGS where Rand becomes balanced. *NM*
29/12/2010 06:56:38 AM
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timeline in the books
29/12/2010 03:34:45 PM
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Re: timeline in the books
29/12/2010 05:29:11 PM
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Re: timeline in the books
31/12/2010 01:18:32 PM
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yes thousands and thousands AFTER hundreds of years. these kids were probably slowing since birth.
03/01/2011 08:19:22 PM
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Re: yes thousands and thousands AFTER hundreds of years.
04/01/2011 12:21:59 PM
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your premise is that first generation applies to anyone but them.
10/01/2011 09:25:02 PM
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From a plot standpoint I very much dislike Avienda's visions as well
20/01/2011 01:39:37 AM
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Problem is, the fate of post-TG Randland depends on the viewing being heeded before TG. *NM*
20/01/2011 10:07:15 AM
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The Light's victory in the Last Battle was already a foregone conclusion
21/01/2011 03:48:54 PM
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