A wrinkle in time

failsafe

In anticipation of ep 21 i've been snooping around the net looking for a bit of info on the date it's coming out. I love reading the "coincidences in lost" or "things i've noticed" in lost style articles and posts, as i'm sure most of you guys do.

Most of them are absurd references to the numbers being strenuously linked to bible passages and stellar constellations but i actually came across one that made me second think.

Jollyblogger had this bit on the what book Sawyer was reading in "Numbers."

He was reading Madeline L'Engle's sci-fi classic, A Wrinkle in Time (1962), about three children who travel through time to rescue a father from an impending evil force. Prior to the 2004 broadcast of the film version on ABC, the 85-year-old L'Engle was interviewed by Newsweek:

Newsweek: "So to you, faith is not a comfort?"

L'Engle: "Good heavens, no. It's a challenge: I dare you to believe in God.
I dare you to think [our existence] wasn't an accident."

Newsweek: "Many people see faith as anti-intellectual."

L'Engle: "Then they're not very bright. It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity."

I've been toying with two theories, one of the religous faith based (possible purgatory) theory and the scientific, dharma experiment fact based theory, which are represented Locke and Jack.

I liked this quote as I could almost see the writers using this to say that just because the series deals with faith and spirituality (Locke gains the use of his legs, the baby needs to be babtised to be saved), doesn't mean it can't also deal with intelligent fact based logic (US

the map showing "polar bear experiments" and the like

)

"You're a man of science Jack, I'm a man of faith"

Psycopat

failsafe wrote:

I've been toying with two theories, one of the religous faith based (possible purgatory)

They have ruled out purgatory

failsafe wrote:

the map showing "polar bear experiments" and the like

Why was this in a spoiler? i would be very annoyed if lost was all about experimenting on polar bears

Bacchus

Put a US spoiler tag on the title or remove that Rose comment.

failsafe

Crap, sorry, forgot when that was found out. Not a huge giveaway tho.

Bacchus

No worries mate.

As for the theories. I'm getting tired of reading the same half-brained, off the wall ideas people throw out based on a book a character reads, or one line of dialogue that can be linked to some ancient Egyptian concubine or whatever. I loved that stuff at first but until we see some hard evidence or something major it all remains a mystery. Even if someone comes up with a watertight explaination with loads of evidence to support it, noone can really be sure if it's right or wrong.