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Old 05-24-2010, 05:05 PM   #5654
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Originally Posted by Reaper16 View Post
I was having similar thoughts (and I know very little about the show) until the explanation of it all from Jack's dad. I felt like there could be a next world, perhaps any number of additional alt-timelines, in which things would play out differently but end pretty much the same. It alluded to reincarnation, yes, but more strongly to Nietzche's notion of the Eternal Recurrence.

I spoke that thought out loud last night, at which point my friend Nalla told me "Stop it. The minute you try and bring legitimate philosophy into this is the minute that the show's creators win." Then we went on to making jokes about how the Lost writers didn't really have a good idea of what they show meant. Then we watched Breaking Bad, a decidedly non-spiritual show that consequently has things to say about the world (a non-spiritual one) that real humans live in.

I plan on watching all of LOST right after I finish playing through Super Mario Galaxy 2 just to see how off I am about my impressions.
I wish you hadn't watched the finale, but there will still be some good stuff. Also SMG2 ftw.
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