Interesting New Theory

Saw a little smidge of this and have expanded on it a lot. What if while we are all looking to the past for answers everything we want to know is in the future...

Here's the part I actually read: What if Richard and his people are actually from the future. Their 'time vessel' is disguised as an island so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb in the past. Somehow it breaks down and everything Richard is doing is to fix it at some point and get home.

Expanded thoughts: I kinda like this one. Smokey could be some sort of futuristic device that they have used to make sure Richards plan happens. It could also explain why Richard isn't necessarily 'in charge'. He gets someone from the time era they are in to be his liaison to the outside world and not to Jacob as we previously thought. Could also play into this never aging thing...maybe when time shifting on the island, you don't age until you catch up to your original time period (total guess there but who knows).

Again, this doesn't explain everything and I'm sure its full of holes. Just thought I'd throw it out there for you guys.

Something on my mind.

It is almost 3 A.M., so I'm going to keep this short. Do you think Juliet is the kind of girl that does do Taco night?

Jeremy Bentham

I'm sure we can find other sources that have brought this up, but Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher who lived 1748-1832. He was a believer in Utilitarianism.

"Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribution to overall utility"

aka "the ends justify the means"

This is more for trivia than anything else. I'm reading Richard Dawkins and he mentioned Jeremy Bentham.

It's interesting how they choose the names for these folks. The fact that there is a Lost: Philosophy book in paperback at your local bookstore is probably evidence enough for that.

wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham

I thought this was badass....

Having nothing to do with plot...

I just found out recently that one of my friends from High School is best friends with Maggie Grace!

How cool (and random) is that?

I miss California for things like that... haha... anyhow, moving on

Egyptian afterlife

Here are some interesting facts about Egyptian afterlife:

It was believed that in death, as in life, man was in constant need of his faithful companion, the dog.(Vincent)

Anubis would protect the dead. The statue looks like a combination of Anubis and Thawaret. Thawaret is the Godess of fertility. It was common for Egyptian dieties to be combined with each other over time. I think that it is completely believable that the people on the island could have combined these too. I also would be suprised if the statue is Ra.

The Sun God

Maybe I am looking into this too much but....

Richard
Alpert

The symbol for the Sun God Ra



Eye-liner?

Could this be the 4-toed statue?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawaret

According to Wikipedia: "Tawaret became seen, very early in Egyptian history, as a deity of protection in pregnancy and childbirth."