Sawyer kills time on the island by reading books (such as Watership Down, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, A Wrinkle in Time and Bad Twin) salvaged from the plane; this has caused Sawyer to develop hyperopia, forcing him to wear reading glasses.

Also, Sawyer nearly dies from a bullet wound.

While some Losties are healing, Sawyer doesn't seem to have been given "The Island Miracle".

He later tells Charlie that he has never done a good thing in his life.

Is there a parallel, or reciprocal relationship?

I never looked at it like that.

So, the island "healing" powers only work on those it considers "good"? Wouldn't surprise me, actually.

Interesting thoughts, Pesty. I haven`t thought about that before.
I`m not sure if I believe Sawyer when he says he`s never done a good thing in his life. I tend to believe it`s more a front he puts on. When people has needed his help on craphole, he gives them a hard time about it - unless it`s something urgent - when he just seems to react.

There`s something strange about the island`s healing-powers though. So it could make sense if you had to be considered "good" to be healed. At the same time; people keep dying from wounds and injuries - Boone, Shannon, Libby, AnaL, the Others etc etc. So the healing powers doesn`t seem capable of healing things like that - unless none of them were considered "good". While most of the diseases which has been healed, are things we can`t see/don`t know what caused it and therefore really can`t tell if they really have been healed.

Yeah Rain, that's something I was wondering too... The deaths of Boone, Shannon, Ana and Libby.

I'd say it can't cure/heal something life threatening, but Rose had terminal cancer (at least, I recall it being terminal) and now says she feels as if she's healthy, so it's hard to say.

And I agree with you on the Sawyer putting up a front. We've seen him be concerned over things before... he just seems to want to keep people from getting too close to him. He lost both his parents, so I'm sure he fears anyone else getting too involved in his life will also disappear one way or another... but that's a whole other discussion, lol.  

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Yeah, I also remember Rose saying she was terminally ill - didn`t she say she had only a year left? But I guess we can`t be really sure she is cured? She says she feels healthy, but I don`t think the year is up yet - maybe she just believes it - and the outdoor-life on a tropical island is agreeing with her?  

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Good point.

Maybe she still only has a year, but the way the island has chosen to heal her is to just make her not feel the same pain she had been going through... so, she could still be sick, but the island is just letting her last year be a pain-free one.

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Tempest wrote : Sawyer kills time on the island by reading books (such as Watership Down, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, A Wrinkle in Time and Bad Twin) salvaged from the plane; this has caused Sawyer to develop hyperopia, forcing him to wear reading glasses. Also, Sawyer nearly dies from a bullet wound. While some Losties are healing, Sawyer doesn't seem to have been given "The Island Miracle". He later tells Charlie that he has never done a good thing in his life. Is there a parallel, or reciprocal relationship?

This is very interesting. I never thought of this before. The island as an entity however has never really hurt Sawyer, if you think about it. The reading was his own doing, the bullet was from a gun shot by one of the Others. So the island really didn't do anything to harm Sawyer. The same could be said about Shannon's death - the island didn't hurt her.

The island did hurt Boone though, in the sense that nature had a role in the plane crashing into the ravine.

Hasn't all the healing from the island been from pre-existing conditions?  I guess Locke's blast door injury could of been post-crash, but could also be viewed as an extension of a previous injury.  Rose and Jin should be looked at as diseases or ailments and maybe Locke's loss of use of his legs was actually disease related or mind related.  That is the problem, nothing is black & white but shades of gray.

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rottenralf wrote :  nothing is black & white but shades of gray.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:41
There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another in glory.KJV

I agree Ralf... Is anything really 100% Black or white?  
Aren't there flaws or shades of gray in almost everything?

Is it fair to judge someone and and say that they are only GOOD or only BAD?

Aren't most of us "gray" or in-betweeners.

ETA: The whole science VS spiritual theme gets me all Randy.