Is the island anchored to something??

[touzoku]

Like many I am rewatching the series again, now on finalle of s2

I was thinking about when desmond came back on the sail boat.

Desmond is the only person who pushed the button for a long period of time, being exposed to the electromagntesim. and he is the only person who also left on a boat and sailed around the island. those two things make him maybe the most unique character on the show kinda.

Then he left on the boat. k so what happens to people on boats who try to leave the island by boat, but not know the proper course (aka faradays course), well they go crazy, or die, or time shift. Desmond went out on the boat and sailed around for days and came back, with no problems, thats just an observation.

but then i thought, hmmm des said he sailed due west at 9 knots for like 2 days, someehting like that, and he should have been in tahiti.

We know the island is always moving, which makes navigating by compas tricky, or sailing, or driving a boat, or flying a helicopter away very diffacult, light even scatters strange (faradays comment), because the island is always in motion.

But as the others know if you sail at a certain degrees on a certain course, for a certain amount of time you can escape the island.

so picture the island being held in our world by an anchor. The anchor point never moves its always in the same spot and a rope is tied to the anchor and to the island. the island is trying to move, fly away but this anchor and rope keeps it from going to far, soo i think the course that leads you away from the island, if followed long enough would lead you to some place that the anchor is at. pretend you could see the rope, you could simply pull yourself along it and eventually you would come tot he anchor, even if the island was moving the whole time, the rope leads to the anchor.

its like the island is a tether ball on a pole, it can move back and forth up and down, around, back wrap around the pole, but ultimatly the ball has a limited amount of positions it can go to, and perhaps this is how using mathmatics hawkings and posibly others can determine where the island is going to be at certain times, by using probability.

Maybe the island is like a boat and its traped by an anchor and the donkey wheel is really the "boats" steering wheel. and maybe if somone knew how to drive the boat they could actually make the boat go where they want it to.

Perhaps our boat captains are Jacob and MIB.

MIB "How did that boat find the island?"
Jacob "I don't know you will have to ask them."
MIB "I don't have to ask them, you brought them here Jacob."

but Jacob is not really piloting the boat, instead he piloted the island to move into a position that would make the boat find the island, maybe Jacob didnt have to leave the island and give the captain of the black rock a map to the boat, instead he moved the island inbetween the path of the blackrock.

maybe the reason the "rules dont apply to desmond" is because he really found the island by pure chance and no one moved the island inbetween him and his racing sailboat.

maybe desmond just got really realy unlucky.

[Hurley_Bird_Special]

I like this theory, but if it really was the Black Rock that Jacob and FLocke saw approaching in the finale how the hell did the it end up in the middle of the island? I haven't heard any theories about that.

[Y-Ssin]

I also kinda like the theory, in a way. In another way it sucks! To make this theory hard you need to fill in allot of other wholes....
Anyways, if I where you, don't bother, you'll just drift away further, and further..