Sorry, I thought you were making a point. I didn't realize you were tossing out irrelevant examples.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 25/03/2010 03:02:32 AM
is totally not bombastic at all. Let me start by saying that no matter how much you wrote on it, I made NO assertion about Lanfear. Thank you for that measured response...
The points that you pick apart (Lanfear, old weaves) are just examples. As to channeling, when you know much less about something than other people, it helps sometimes to learn what they are capable of. The current AS don't know much about what the AoL AS could do, and just knowing about those things might give them some ideas on things to research and try.
They were stupid examples, and Nynaeve and Elayne had a better understanding of what Moghedian and co were capable of, because they could actually access the ability that made them capable! Give some examples that are not completely ridiculous, of what she could tell them that is both useful and from which they can actually work out something they can do about it?The points that you pick apart (Lanfear, old weaves) are just examples. As to channeling, when you know much less about something than other people, it helps sometimes to learn what they are capable of. The current AS don't know much about what the AoL AS could do, and just knowing about those things might give them some ideas on things to research and try.
If Birgitte were a common soldier back then (an NCO or what have you), then why did a Forsaken talk to her? Or single her out for retribution? She must have done something to warrant that attention. And, she might have heard something - when a country like Iran (just an example) shuts down its telecommunications systems and something big is going on in the country, reporters listen to the words of any old person on the street.
Because that would be CURRENT and RELEVANT information! It is going on now, not 3,000 years ago. Oh, wait, that was just an example, right? You are not REALLY talking about Iran, and so you should not be criticized for making an irrelevant digression. What POSSIBLE good could they extrapolate from knowledge of what a Forsaken did in a completely different world, a totally different setting in which they have no context for understanding her actions or her agenda, concerning a man who has been dead for 3,000 years? They would learn how she WOULD HAVE laid a trap, for LTT if he were still alive, and living in an AoL-comparable society. That knowledge would be about as useful to them as it would be for a medieval person to understand the political tactics Al Gore used to try to steal the 2000 election. Way to go. If the middle ages SUDDENLY turned into 20th century USA, they might know how to go about blocking a lawsuit to recount the votes from a couple of counties. It tells them nothing of how Al Gore will try to hunt them down in the middle ages with his magical superpowers that the people from the 20th century would not understand.Why do they listen to these unimportant "nobodies" when they're not military personnel or government figures? Because when you have no idea what's going on, even the ramblings of a "nobody" are very useful. Because otherwise, you don't even have that clue as to what might be going on.
Birgitte doesn't know anything? Thanks for that info! Obviously with your inside knowledge of the series, you should just spare us all the waiting and start revealing who killed Asmo, how Rand might beat the DO, and whether Mat makes it to the end with both eyes...
Well, I'm a bit up on you, so shut up and sit down when I point out that you are wrong. Or else try to draw some sort of relevant comparisons if you are going to keep trying to use that method of argument. How is the fact of Birgitte's ignorance akin to those other issues? If you are ineptly attempting sarcasm to suggest that I am wrong about Birgitte's lack of knowledge, well, I'm not. She herself says she was only a common soldier, and there has been absolutely nothing in the books to indicate otherwise. If your sarcasm is meant to convey that I am simply repeating the obvious, you seem to be the one thick enough to require multiple repititions, since your whole idea here is based on the errant notion that she knows something.
Cannoli
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Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
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22/03/2010 12:42:03 AM
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A good point.
22/03/2010 01:05:55 AM
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Re: A good point but...
22/03/2010 04:28:38 PM
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I don't think she knows everything, dude
22/03/2010 11:09:21 PM
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It's all trivia
24/03/2010 10:48:15 PM
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I see that your reply
25/03/2010 01:12:25 AM
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Sorry, I thought you were making a point. I didn't realize you were tossing out irrelevant examples.
25/03/2010 03:02:32 AM
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And yet you're still here, still typing, and still rude. Thanks, "teach"
25/03/2010 10:21:23 AM
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It's obvious by now that the WoT characters are far dumber than your average WoT reader. *NM*
22/03/2010 05:24:08 PM
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Would she know all that, though?
24/03/2010 10:17:54 PM
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Re: Would she know all that, though?
25/03/2010 01:16:38 AM
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Not even the Forsaken all know what a binder is, so why should she?
25/03/2010 02:43:44 AM
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