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> rwgibson13 wrote:
> > On May 8, 6:44=EF=BF?am, ejt789...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >> On May 7, 2:04=EF=BF?pm, robg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >>
> >>> On May 7, 6:37=EF=BF?am, ejt789...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >>>> 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.
> >>> How is it shoddy writing if a viewer makes certain assumptions that
> >>> aren't borne out later?
> >> Because its being presented as fact that no one ever gets sick on the
> >> Island. =EF=BF?None of the other characters say "No, you are wrong,
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member
> >> Aaron got a fever and Shannon got an asthma attack?". =EF=BF?If the
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iters
> >> feel it im****tant enough to write a line about no one ever getting
> >> sick and DON'T feel it im****tant to point out that this is not true,
I
> >> attribute to shoddy writing. They don't want us to remember people
> >> getting sick because they are trying to retcon the Island's powers,
> >> IMO. =EF=BF? This is a minor point, granted, but it just goes into
the
> >> growing pile of retcons and continuity problems.
> >=20
> > The statement was consistent with Rose's character, just like
> > Mikhail's line about Naomi recovering from the punctured lung was
> > consistent with THAT particular character's view of the island because
> > of personal experience. If Jack had been in any condition to reply to
> > her, he probably WOULD have had a comeback about some of the other
> > times when this character or that did NOT recover extremely quickly
> > (the most blatant example being Sawyer after he was shot on the raft)
> > because that's the way his particular character thinks...
> >=20
> > The writers have been pretty consistent with having characters react
> > to the seemingly odd things that occur on the island in different
> > ways, depending on thier worldviews. Rose just happens to be one of
> > the characters who really believes strongly that Craphole is a place
> > where no one gets life-threatening illnesses...
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> Yes, that's part of her being a woman of faith. She believes in the=20
> island. Just like Locke.
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And she has good reason to.
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> I know devoutly religious people who believe that God will not allow=20
> them to die of cancer--right up to the moment that they do die.
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Not neccessilrily. Some, perhaps most would accept it as God's will.
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> Whenever someone gets sick, his devoutly religious friends and
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> pray for his recovery. Rarely, if ever, does anyone say "Maybe we
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> to check first to see if prayer has worked in the past before trying it=
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> again." That's how faith is.
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Actually some studies says that it does. Not neccessarily proof of Divine=
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Intervention, but it changes the state of mind to be more positive. Mind
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----->Hunter
"No man in the wrong can stand up against=20
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."
-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907
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