Re: Charlie must be retarded.

On Feb 10, 6:55 am, The Translucent Amoebae <transamoe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 8, 11:46 am, "Ernie Sty" <fake_em...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Gumby" <gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > s0183616 wrote:
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> > >> Bruce Leroy wrote:
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> > >>> <kryppy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>>news:bjjnq31im96sej98346dd0rf9hd1c8plse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>>> I don't know about you, but personally I would have run out the
door
> > >>>> and closed it BEHIND me, or waited for the room to flood and swam
out
> > >>>> the ****thole.
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> > >>>> Bunch of scuba gear in there as well, Desmond and Charlie could
have
> > >>>> taken their time suiting up even if the grenade actually severely
> > >>>> damaged the station. The crazy one eyed guy had just left a full
set
> > >>>> sitting there...
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> > >>> Charlie knew all this.  He WANTED to die.  He felt he NEEDED to
die in
> > >>> order for Claire to be saved.
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> > >> Enh, I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's a bit of a cop-out.
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> > >> He definitely indicated that he, perhaps, though he NEEDED to die,
but I
> > >> will not agree with WANTED.
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> > > semantics. he knew he had to die to save Claire. he allowed himself
to die
> > > to fulfill that vision.
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> > Agreed, that's exactly what happened.
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> The Vision predicted that Charlie would die, but the visions had been
> contradicted prior to that. The elemental part of the vision, that he
> turn off the jammer had been completed, so he could have easily run
> out the door and saved himself and still saved ( or not ) the others.
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> Why did Desmonds Vision think that turning off the jammer would =save=
> the others when it now appears that it would not...???

Desmond's vision only showed Claire and Aaron getting in a
helicopter.  It did not predict the safety of anyone.  Charlie and
Desmond together assumed that turning off the jammer would save
everyone but it may have done the opposite.