Of course, it's in Ebou Dar, where a woman killing a man was justified unless proven otherwise. And if women can get away with murdering men, they can certainly get away with raping men.

Different cultures have varying attitudes toward rape even in real life, and consequences that range from an apology and a marriage to smashing the offender's gonads.

I think it's PG-13 to say that being scared out of your wits is not conducive to arousal, although perhaps I should leave it at that...

Or I could go on to say that Mat couldn't have been too scared to be aroused, or Tylin couldn't have done him.

Yet it seemed, when I read those passages, like Mat WAS too scared...

But sick definately sick hes 20 shes 45?

I'm pretty sure that at some point Nynaeve said that Lan was old enough to be her father, and of course Gaidal Cain is either much older or much younger than Birgitte.

Age differences clearly aren't that sick, if they're both adults.

What Tylin did to Mat was no worse than what Alanna did to Rand.

He attributes his lack of disabling wounds to luck, though. When he was feigning fatigue, attacking and defending a bit more slowly than he could have, he took fewer wounds than he was expecting. "Only luck kept him from taking more wounds in those exchanges. Or perhaps the Light really did shine on this fight."

Not conclusive by any means, and it is awfully late for Galad to have taught himself to channel... and he certainly couldn't have learned any other way.

I'm pretty sure that this is why the majority of Darkfriends are fools and the rest are insane. Sure, they couldn't have known that the Dark One winning would screw physics up so much, but it's always foolish at best and insane at worst to sign a contract without reading the fine print, and the fine print of a bargain with the Dark One is impossible to read...

/end excessive metaphor

Also, how about a quote that says Shai'tan can Heal anything at all, let alone severing?

Didn't Ishamael heal Lews Therin with the True Power?

Granted, that might be a bit different from Shai'tan himself healing anyone...

On a different note, I'd say that if the attitudes of the Forsaken (who until recently thought that it was impossible to heal severing) filter through to the Dark One, it logically follows that the True Power cannot heal severing.

say you only channel at level 3, you use an angrael that allows you to channel at level 4.  i come alogn and snatch the angrael out of your hand, forcing you to lose contact with it.  in effect, you should drop back down to channeling at level 3, but feel totally exhuasted on the verge of collapsing from havign it taken away from you so abruptly.  i don't understand how it would cause the person to be burnt out.  please do correct me if i'm wrong.

You're forgetting an important detail: At the time that you snatch the angreal out of my hand, I'm channeling a level 4 amount of One Power. Without that angreal, I cannot safely handle a level 4 amount of One Power. So unless I stop channeling IMMEDIATELY upon losing contact with the angreal, I'm suddenly channeling more of the One Power than I can handle, which is exactly what Verin warned Nynaeve about.

and also, please quote where it states in the book that one is severed if they loose contact with an angrael they are channeling through.  both myself and bubba disagree with this.

It doesn't say that anywhere in particular, but it logically follows from two facts:

1. A channeler who uses more of the One Power than he can safely handle risks burning himself out. (Verin warns Nynaeve about this in TGH paperback page 209-210, and no doubt there are other references to this as well.)

2. The primary purpose of an angreal is to increase the amount of One Power that a channeler can safely handle. (Moiraine mentions this to Rand in TEOTW paperback page 108.)

in fact everyone believes this until the letter to Thom and Matt is revealed.

Not everyone. Amys called Rand a fool for thinking that Moiraine was dead, so she at least must have known the truth.

Just a few questions.

Was Lanfear holding an angreal when she was channeling that huge spell at Rand?

Did Moiraine snatch that angreal from Lanfear's grip?

Could this have burned Lanfear out?

Lanfear isn't bound by the Three Oaths so she can lie about who she is just like every other Forsaken.  She lied to give herself a cover identity such as other Chosen used.

Rahvin = Gaebril

Sammael = Lord Brend

Be'lal = High Lord Samon

Semmerhige = Anath

Aginor = Dashiva/Osangar

Balthamel = Halima/Arangar

(Granted those last two are a little different)

You left out Asmodean (Jasin Natael), Demandred, Graendal, Ishamael (Ba'alzamon, and later Moridin), Mesaana, and Moghedien.

Of course, some of them don't have cover identities, but it just occurred to me that not all of them needed them, and they could probably take them if they did.