Desmond
Day after Lost + no work = spammy Lost theories abounding.
The Desmond Timeline
Desmond engaged to Ruth.
He flakes out and is found by monk.
He stays there for months.
The DAY AFTER he gets "fired," he happens to meet Penny and it's omgloveatfirstsight.
So then he's with Penny for x amount of years.
And he wants to propose, but her father is a dickface and tells Desmond no.
So then he joins the military, and is eventually put in military prison.
After prison he wants to redeem himself (HONAH BACK) and he trains for that race.
While training he meets Jack and tells him he was almost a doctor once.
Penny tells him not to go and proves she has the means to find him if necesary.
Desmond meets Libby in the coffee shop and she gives him the boat, allowing him to take part in the race. (So as much as things are working against him, it is his fate to be in that race!!)
The boat crashes and he's been on the island for 3 years after being found by Kelvin , trying to sail away, and drifting right back to where he started.
So everyone keeps telling Desmond that he has a greater purpose in life, right? They fact that he met Penny RIGHT AFTER the creepy monk (whose mommy is that creepy jewelry lady) tells him he is destined for greater things. Now perhaps the only person that can find that island and all the insanity that goes on there is someone who has pretty much a neverending supply of money and determination, i.e. Penny. (You could say that Sun's father might have never ending money and determination, but he also thinks that his daughter's plane crashed and that was the end of it. Penny, on the other hand, would make no connection between a random plane crash and Desmond, as he's been there much longer.)So it's true, Desmond really IS destined for greater things, he is going to save not only Charlie, but the entire island full of people!
Maybe!
LOL and I mean what if the island itself, like the hatch, could potentially implode or something, which could have catastrophic effects on the entire planet. So he really could be saving the world just by being there, although it's really Penny who should get the credit.
And some interesting Wiki tidbits from the Scottish philospher David Hume, for whom Desmond is named after:
Free Will vs Determinism:
But Hume noted another conflict, one that turned the problem of free will into a full-fledged dilemma: free will is incompatible with indeterminism. Imagine that your actions are not determined by what events came before. Then your actions are, it seems, completely random. Moreover, and most importantly for Hume, they are not determined by your character - your desires, your preferences, your values, etc. How can we hold someone responsible for an action that did not result from his character? How can we hold someone responsible for an action that randomly occurred? Hume's view is that human behavior, like everything else, is caused, and therefore holding people responsible for their actions should focus on rewarding them or punishing them in such a way that they will try to do what is morally desirable and will try to avoid doing what is morally reprehensible.
Miracles:
His very definition of miracles from his An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding states that miracles are violations of the laws of nature and consequently have a very low probability of occurring.
OH AND ALSO, I NEEDED TO BRAG FOR A SECOND MMKAY?
iamalreadyinuse posted this review of last night's Lost from EW.com:
"The noodle cooker: Ruth and Naomi In ''Catch 22,'' the characters Ruth and Naomi have nothing to do with each other. But in The Bible, they are the stars of the Book of Ruth. Well, it just so happens that the book right before Ruth is the Book of Judges. The very last story in the Book of Judges is the story of a war among the tribes of Israel. The bad guy in this story: the Tribe of Benjamin. The war started over a murder that the other tribes believed needed to be avenged; it ended with the near-obliteration (''The Purge,'' perhaps?) of the Benjaminites. Here's where it gets creepy: In the aftermath, the people of Israel felt badly about wiping out Benjamin's people. So they decided to repopulate his tribe by forcing the women from another city to join the tribe of Benjamin. You know: to make babies and stuff."
WHO CALLED IT A MONTH AGO!? IT WAS ME, BITCHES! ME! Ew.com must read my LJ looool.
ETA: And if you liked my crazy Bible Lost theory last month, totally read this.
The Desmond Timeline
Desmond engaged to Ruth.
He flakes out and is found by monk.
He stays there for months.
The DAY AFTER he gets "fired," he happens to meet Penny and it's omgloveatfirstsight.
So then he's with Penny for x amount of years.
And he wants to propose, but her father is a dickface and tells Desmond no.
So then he joins the military, and is eventually put in military prison.
After prison he wants to redeem himself (HONAH BACK) and he trains for that race.
While training he meets Jack and tells him he was almost a doctor once.
Penny tells him not to go and proves she has the means to find him if necesary.
Desmond meets Libby in the coffee shop and she gives him the boat, allowing him to take part in the race. (So as much as things are working against him, it is his fate to be in that race!!)
The boat crashes and he's been on the island for 3 years after being found by Kelvin , trying to sail away, and drifting right back to where he started.
So everyone keeps telling Desmond that he has a greater purpose in life, right? They fact that he met Penny RIGHT AFTER the creepy monk (whose mommy is that creepy jewelry lady) tells him he is destined for greater things. Now perhaps the only person that can find that island and all the insanity that goes on there is someone who has pretty much a neverending supply of money and determination, i.e. Penny. (You could say that Sun's father might have never ending money and determination, but he also thinks that his daughter's plane crashed and that was the end of it. Penny, on the other hand, would make no connection between a random plane crash and Desmond, as he's been there much longer.)So it's true, Desmond really IS destined for greater things, he is going to save not only Charlie, but the entire island full of people!
Maybe!
LOL and I mean what if the island itself, like the hatch, could potentially implode or something, which could have catastrophic effects on the entire planet. So he really could be saving the world just by being there, although it's really Penny who should get the credit.
And some interesting Wiki tidbits from the Scottish philospher David Hume, for whom Desmond is named after:
Free Will vs Determinism:
But Hume noted another conflict, one that turned the problem of free will into a full-fledged dilemma: free will is incompatible with indeterminism. Imagine that your actions are not determined by what events came before. Then your actions are, it seems, completely random. Moreover, and most importantly for Hume, they are not determined by your character - your desires, your preferences, your values, etc. How can we hold someone responsible for an action that did not result from his character? How can we hold someone responsible for an action that randomly occurred? Hume's view is that human behavior, like everything else, is caused, and therefore holding people responsible for their actions should focus on rewarding them or punishing them in such a way that they will try to do what is morally desirable and will try to avoid doing what is morally reprehensible.
Miracles:
His very definition of miracles from his An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding states that miracles are violations of the laws of nature and consequently have a very low probability of occurring.
OH AND ALSO, I NEEDED TO BRAG FOR A SECOND MMKAY?
iamalreadyinuse posted this review of last night's Lost from EW.com:
"The noodle cooker: Ruth and Naomi In ''Catch 22,'' the characters Ruth and Naomi have nothing to do with each other. But in The Bible, they are the stars of the Book of Ruth. Well, it just so happens that the book right before Ruth is the Book of Judges. The very last story in the Book of Judges is the story of a war among the tribes of Israel. The bad guy in this story: the Tribe of Benjamin. The war started over a murder that the other tribes believed needed to be avenged; it ended with the near-obliteration (''The Purge,'' perhaps?) of the Benjaminites. Here's where it gets creepy: In the aftermath, the people of Israel felt badly about wiping out Benjamin's people. So they decided to repopulate his tribe by forcing the women from another city to join the tribe of Benjamin. You know: to make babies and stuff."
WHO CALLED IT A MONTH AGO!? IT WAS ME, BITCHES! ME! Ew.com must read my LJ looool.
ETA: And if you liked my crazy Bible Lost theory last month, totally read this.