I want to bring this up again because we don't know the facts, and those facts play into many, if not most, of these theories.
First and foremost, the Purge. Did it happen in 1992? If it did, fine, great, I don't have a problem with that.
But we cannot assume this. All we know for a fact is that John had a dream in which a dream-Horace suggests to John that he's building a cabin (maybe not even "the" cabin) 12 years after he died.
Horace is building a cabin 12 years after he died. In Locke's dream. And we can presume that he finished it, because Locke found the map in Horace's corpse's pocket.
This cabin, if I remember correctly, did not have a line of gray powder/sand around it, like the original one did. This cabin did not contain Jacob, either. It contained Christian (who said he could speak for Jacob) and Claire.
What if it wasn't the same cabin?
What if it was the same cabin, but Christian doesn't really speak for Jacob?
What if the Purge happened in 1992? What if it didn't? What if the Purge happened in, say, 1984, and the Others didn't want to, or need to, move into the barracks until several years later? We see Widmore leaving in what appears to be 1992, since Alex is supposedly 4, and the Others are living in the barracks. But this doesn't explain why Widmore is always saying he's been looking for the Island for 20-some-odd-years.
And now: what if they hadn't left? "You weren't supposed to leave." So... were the 06 supposed to die on the boat? Die at sea? Or were they supposed to stay on the Island and flash around until they ended up in 1974, with everyone else? And if they were supposed to flash around, were any of them supposed to die by flaming arrow?
But wait... "this all happened... because you left." "This all" could mean, in part, the flashing through time. If they hadn't left, would the Island have been moved to a single time/place, with no LOSTies flashing?
My theory is simple, and admittedly unoriginal: there's a lot of stuff we think we know, that we assume, but I believe we're wrong about some of it. Maybe even much of it. Theory by Happenstance
First and foremost, the Purge. Did it happen in 1992? If it did, fine, great, I don't have a problem with that.
But we cannot assume this. All we know for a fact is that John had a dream in which a dream-Horace suggests to John that he's building a cabin (maybe not even "the" cabin) 12 years after he died.
Horace is building a cabin 12 years after he died. In Locke's dream. And we can presume that he finished it, because Locke found the map in Horace's corpse's pocket.
This cabin, if I remember correctly, did not have a line of gray powder/sand around it, like the original one did. This cabin did not contain Jacob, either. It contained Christian (who said he could speak for Jacob) and Claire.
What if it wasn't the same cabin?
What if it was the same cabin, but Christian doesn't really speak for Jacob?
What if the Purge happened in 1992? What if it didn't? What if the Purge happened in, say, 1984, and the Others didn't want to, or need to, move into the barracks until several years later? We see Widmore leaving in what appears to be 1992, since Alex is supposedly 4, and the Others are living in the barracks. But this doesn't explain why Widmore is always saying he's been looking for the Island for 20-some-odd-years.
And now: what if they hadn't left? "You weren't supposed to leave." So... were the 06 supposed to die on the boat? Die at sea? Or were they supposed to stay on the Island and flash around until they ended up in 1974, with everyone else? And if they were supposed to flash around, were any of them supposed to die by flaming arrow?
But wait... "this all happened... because you left." "This all" could mean, in part, the flashing through time. If they hadn't left, would the Island have been moved to a single time/place, with no LOSTies flashing?
My theory is simple, and admittedly unoriginal: there's a lot of stuff we think we know, that we assume, but I believe we're wrong about some of it. Maybe even much of it. Theory by Happenstance
