Re: People DO get sick on the Island

On May 6, 8:23=A0pm, "Steven L." <sdlit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> alooo wrote:
> > <ejt789...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> >> Rose is wrong, people do get sick on the Island.
>
> >> Shannon had an asthma attack. Sawyer battled a fever. Aaron had
> >> rosiola (sp). =A0That's just off the top of my head, there could be
> >> other examples.
>
> >> The powers of the Island seem to vary with the needs of the writers.
> >> And they seem to have short memories.
>
> > We don't even know exactly what the healing properties of the island
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.. I
> > believe the only person who has miraculously healed from injuries is
Loc=
ke
> > (Rose just thinks she's healed but doesn't know for sure). So Rose's
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> > that people don't get sick on the island is her own belief that hasn't
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> > fully substantiated.
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> Rose is a woman of faith, just like Locke is a man of faith.
=A0(Remember
> that she had faith that her husband was alive, even though he had been
> in the tail section that broke off in midair.)
>
> Maybe that's why the island favored the both of them and healed the both
> of them.
>
> There is some good in both Jack and Sawyer. =A0But neither is a man of
> faith. =A0Maybe that's why the island failed to heal them.
>
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> Steven L.
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So I guess Aaron got a virus because he was not a baby of faith?
This is just a bunch of hand-waving to cover up shoddy writing.