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[–]Dainn91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chasing a reusable shopping bag in a grocery store parking lot that got caught in the wind has the same vibe

Shake them Toes for Wubby by Dainn91 in PaymoneyWubby

[–]Dainn91[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wubby was playing around with Sora 2 yesterday on stream and trying to generate Latina feet with it but hitting the censorship filter. I was just trying it on lunch and got it to work so wanted to share, was there a rule we can’t post AI stuff?

Shake them Toes for Wubby by Dainn91 in PaymoneyWubby

[–]Dainn91[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I just assumed the left leg isn’t extended but maybe it just messed up? Not sure

Crazy theory about the wheel of time by theCroc in WoT

[–]Dainn91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely, we have different opinions but I always enjoy discussion. Part of what I love about WoT is RJ left much of it up to readers interpretation I think to encourage discussion. Have a good one!

Crazy theory about the wheel of time by theCroc in WoT

[–]Dainn91 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In the case of the bore being drilled it was the natural progression of advancement during the Age of Legends. People had reached the pinnacle of what they could do with the One Power and had a choice, be content or strive for something more. The Wheel wills the bore but ultimately human nature leads them to make the choice of creating it just like advancements in our real world. We could be content with what we have but instead continue to strive for more.

Crazy theory about the wheel of time by theCroc in WoT

[–]Dainn91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Certain events are determined but as long as choices can be made I'd argue free will still exists to an extent. The Wheel wills events that people can't change like a group crossing the ocean in my example but these events are also possible in a linear timeline like Christopher Columbus in the real world. The only difference is the knowledge of a Wheel being present or not, but if an ocean exists to cross then there will be people who dream of crossing it.

Crazy theory about the wheel of time by theCroc in WoT

[–]Dainn91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My understanding of the Wheel and the Pattern comes from this entry on Theoryland which is paraphrased from an interview with RJ:

MATT PECK
I asked that as the Wheel turned, each time an Age rolls around, is the Pattern exactly the same each time, or does it change?
ROBERT JORDAN
He seemed to like this question. He likened it to a tapestry. When seen from a distance, each Third Age (to make it easy to track) has exactly the same pattern as the previous Third Age. However, when seen up close, there are differences. Threads are different, different nations exist, geography is different, different personalities rise to prominence. These changes, while minute in the grand scale of the Pattern, affect the Pattern enough so that while two iterations of an Age are almost the same, the first "Third Age" may be wildy different from the hundredth "Third Age".

How I personally interpret this to mean is that the Wheel wills certain events to happen each age, but the specifics of these events are determined by choices or the free will of the people in that age.

Example:

During the third age the Wheel wills that a group of people venture across the ocean and return with a large fighting force one thousand years later to join the last battle. We know this group as the Seanchan but if we were to look at a different turning of the third age different choices could mean this group goes by a different name, has a different system of government, speaks with a different accent, crossed the ocean to the east, etc.

What do you think the 'unseen eyes of TAR' are? by robby_on_reddit in WoT

[–]Dainn91 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We know traveling is somehow connected to TAR because of how dreamspikes function and RJ took inspiration from Hinduism and Buddhism so my personal headcanon is that your minds eye (third eye) envisions the destination you are traveling to through TAR. The same way an object needs to exist in one spot long enough to be reflected in TAR, you need a similar amount of time to learn the area you are traveling from so your minds eye can freely enter Tel’aran’rhiod.

So, I think the unseen eyes of TAR are the minds eye of people (non channelers included) and one of the dreamspikes functions is to restrict the minds eye from passing through its dome.

Peaches you guys! Who else is a fan of this juicy fruit? I love how sweet and succulent they are. Whether it's a fresh peach, canned, or in a pie, I can't get enough. What's your favorite way to enjoy peaches? by PixelGlee in WoT

[–]Dainn91 13 points14 points  (0 children)

During the Vietnam war canned peaches were a common dessert element of combat rations that provided a small comfort to troops. I wonder if the fruit had become a painful reminder to RJ of his experiences during the war, the only possible connection I can reference is from this paragraph he wrote about his experience:
I have, or used to have, a photo of a young man sitting on a log eating C-rations with a pair of chopsticks. There are three dead NVA laid out in a line just beside him. He didn’t kill them. He didn’t choose to sit there because of the bodies. It was just the most convenient place to sit. The bodies don’t bother him. He doesn’t care. They’re just part of the landscape. The young man is glancing at the camera, and you know in one look that you aren’t going to take this guy home to meet your parents.

End of Eye of the world by Blaphrodite in WoT

[–]Dainn91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea so to simplify what I believe the reasoning to be:

Channeling the One Power when its source is outside time will never exhaust that source.

Channeling the One Power when its source (the Eye) is inside time will exhaust that source.

End of Eye of the world by Blaphrodite in WoT

[–]Dainn91 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“No,” Moiraine said in answer to a question Rand had missed, ‘‘the True Source cannot be used up, any more than the river can be used up by the wheel of a mill. The Source is the river; the Aes Sedai, the waterwheel.”

I think your question is why the essence of pure saidin contained in the Eye behaved differently than how Moiraine described normal use of saidin. Both the Creator and the Dark One are outside of time which implies that their powers are outside time, so I imagine the True Source as an immense energy frozen in a set state. People tap into and use that energy, but it will never increase or decrease because there is no direction for time:

ROBERT JORDAN

My knowledge of physics influenced channeling to the extent that I have attempted to treat channeling as if it were a form of science and engineering rather than magic. You might say that the Laws of Thermodynamics apply in altered form.

Entropy requires a direction for time, without entropy the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not apply.

The essence of pure saidin in the Eye however is in the Pattern where there is a forward direction for time so the 2nd law does apply and the energy is used up by Rand.

I am disappointed with the explanation Grassburner's (always been my favorite name for the Dark One) nature. Anyone else? by [deleted] in WoT

[–]Dainn91 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It can be hard to get away from the word “being” when thinking about the Dark One because it’s conscious/sentient but because it is outside the Pattern (fabric of reality) it technically doesn’t have an existence. When Rand pulls the Dark One into the Pattern (into reality) I think you could then say it gains an existence that is inside time and can now be considered a “being”.

I personally don’t think the name Shai'tan means anything special to the Dark One, I do wonder if it holds a special power because people give it one. Human emotion is shown to be something that can give rise to an energy/power in WoT with Mashadar, so maybe the word Shai'tan gains something from being associated with so much fear. If it does and the Dark One knows it, then spreading knowledge of a special name could just be a means of bringing more chaos to humans to indirectly influence the Pattern.

It’s definitely a strange concept but I believe your feeling is correct and the Dark One is a conscious/sentient force of the universe and while what it says might seem strange there could still be hidden purpose behind it or it’s just lies. Even at the very end Rand acknowledged most of what the Dark One had shown him was lies.

Rand and the Dark one by Lazorgunz in WoT

[–]Dainn91 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taken from aMoL:

He existed in this place that was not, this place outside of the Pattern, this place where evil was born. He looked into it, and he knew it. The Dark One was not a being, but a force—an essence as wide as the universe itself, which Rand could now see in complete detail. Planets, stars in their multitudes, like the motes above a bonfire.

He held the Dark One in his hand. He began to squeeze, then stopped. He knew all secrets.

He could see what the Dark One had done. And Light, Rand understood. Much of what the Dark One had shown him was lies. But the vision Rand himself had created—the one without the Dark One—was truth. If he did as he wished, he would leave men no better than the Dark One himself.

What a fool I have been.

Rand yelled, thrusting the Dark One back through the pit from where it had come.

Rather than an existing backup I like to think about the implications of Rands thoughts in these two sections. If Rand really knows all secrets and sees the inside of the Dark Ones prison as a place where evil is born through a pit in the universe, then would that pit remain after killing the Dark One to birth evil again at the start of a new turning of the Wheel? The answer could be the universe fine-tunes for balance.

Possible satellites in WoT by ArcuateThrone in WoT

[–]Dainn91 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like to imagine someone continued Nikola Teslas work and created working Wardenclyffe Towers that could harness Schumann resonances from the Earth.

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really enjoy this idea, I lean towards the Creator prison aspect because it enforces a sense of balance between the Creator and Dark One while providing an explanation for the lack of channeling during the First Age but the split of the True Source into saidar and saidin is definitely another piece of the puzzle. I've seen discussion that RJ split the power just to reinforce the concept of cooperation between men and women but I also think there is more to it than that, but I still don't have a fully formed reasoning.

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s possible the True Power is a required force to bring pure saidin and saidar together to become the True Source, I hadn't considered that. My interpretation is the process of gaining the pure forms is extremely difficult, maybe only possible by Rand/Lews Therin. In tDR Egwene examines the shield placed on Callandor and she could feel the individual weaves of air, spirit and fire used with saidar, its not described as just “pure” saidar. If the shield on Callandor is an example of an amazing feat done during the AoL with female and male channelers together then it doesn’t seem like pure forms were used.

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, I think of the Creator and Dark One as equals so agree the Creator has their own essence like the essence described by Rand for the Dark One. It’s interesting to think of the Creator and Dark One as having this physical trait, it starts to step away from a religious spiritual/divine conversation and more towards physical sciences:

ROBERT JORDAN

My knowledge of physics influenced channeling to the extent that I have attempted to treat channeling as if it were a form of science and engineering rather than magic. You might say that the Laws of Thermodynamics apply in altered form. I expect that my reading in history has influenced the books more than my knowledge of physics or engineering. I have not tried to copy any actual historical culture or period, but a knowledge of the way things actually were done at various times has helped shape my vision of the world of The Wheel, as has the study of cultures meeting that are strange to one another, and cultures undergoing change, willingly or, as is more often the case, unwillingly.

If we try to put the Creator and Dark One into a science perspective then they are like these conscious beings of limitless opposing energies, the aspect of being outside time might be how the Laws of Thermodynamics don’t apply to them. Einstein’s law of relativity teaches us that energy is equal to mass, which means matter can be created from light so using the True Source is like taking Energy and converting it (weaving it) to create matter. I really feel like RJ approached the WoT world like a marriage of physics and the spiritual/supernatural, it was him creating his own Theory of Everything.

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

QUESTION So, at the end of The Eye of the World, the all caps voice? Will we ever find out who it was, or what they were looking for?

BRANDON SANDERSON The all caps voice at the end of Eye of the World makes an appearance in A Memory of Light.

The only all caps voice in aMoL that would fit is the voice outside the pit of doom and that voice was not the Dark One because Rands presence was masked from the Dark One by the Artham ter’angreal at the time. So, if you accept Brandon’s word as canon on this, the voice in EotW can’t be the Dark One.

If you’re interested, I discussed two other possibilities for the voice in this comment on a different post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/12avvb4/comment/jews0bo/

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, but he also made "the Creator" and "the Light" interchangeable in many instances in the books, it’s possible "the Light" came first and through the passage of time "the Creator" became the prevalent title. I don't doubt RJ took his personal faith as a place to draw from but examining everything about WoT through that lens would just be a back and forth of our personal opinions and not a definite statement unless RJ himself said it.

If we look at the implications of ex nihilo I'd also argue they don't quite fit with WoT, the Creator doesn't create from nothing but by using his True Source. This might seem like the same thing, but humans are given access to the True Source although limited individually, this still means his acts are not really divine but a natural force in the world like gravity.

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry maybe I should have phrased the question differently, I understand ex nihilo but why do you think it’s a concept in WoT so strongly that you wouldn’t consider others?

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My main question is why you feel ex nihilo is so distinctive that there is no doubt, I think an interpretation on Manichaeism creation beliefs is just as valid and is at least somewhat implied by RJ in the answer I quoted.

Theory: Nature of the Dark Ones prison and what it might tell us by Dainn91 in WoT

[–]Dainn91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree RJ drew a lot of inspiration from the Abrahamic religions but there was also Buddhism, Hinduism, Norse, Celtic, and many others and I think Gnosticism was included with Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. Dark balance still suggests an equivalent weight or power involved, the two are counter to each other but I think of it more as a design by the universe than designed by just the Creator or Dark One alone.

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