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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 1805795" data-attributes="member: 3794">WizarDru:consider this; in support of the thoughts=reality idea, the main two people who possibly have displayed manifestations are Locke and Walt. it doesn't seem a stretch to deduce in Locke's case, the fact that he is a clearly slightly off-balance mentally (the unhealthy attachment to the chic on the phone, likely a 900 number) and his clear and unyeilding determination to exceed his limitations may make him more receptive to that sort of thing. in Walt's case, as a child, his mind is likely more open to a lot of the things that adulthood teaches the rest of us to ignore/discount. however his immaturity/inexperience may not give him enough control or even awareness to direct his manifestations in any precise manner. indeed, the more actively he wants something, the harder it might be for him to actually manifest it. same goes for the rest of the survivors. the collective active want to be rescued might be just what's preventing it. another possibility could be that this effect cannot affect anything beyond the island. further, since the rest of the survivors may not have whatever motivating factor required by this effect, or at least in generous enough helpings, then it's only their more generally collective subconcious thoughts that most of them have in common that might be manifesting. i've stated before that i think there is a sentient force/entity/creature on the island manipulating events. that may also be why things seem to be random. we may not understand its motivations or even it's way of reasoning. i too don't think that Locke killed the boar. your suggestion that the creature killed it and that he simpley took the already dead boar has a lot of merit, i think. i also think there's more to Jack than he's letting on (like everyone else, i suppose) Dagger75's idea did occur to me briefly, but i hadn't paid it much attention at the time. you may be onto something there. ~NegZ</blockquote>

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