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Lost Follow Up

So, apparently I couldn't have been more wrong about my lost theory but really, that whole they were dead the whole time, purgatory, ascend to heaven thing, pretty fucking lame. I am so glad I did not invest six years of my life in to that show. Personally I think they should just call a do over and rewrite the last season based on my idea. If anyone is willing to put up the money for a spin off redo? Give me a call.

My Lost Theory

I’m personally not so into television, I may watch an hour or two a week. This apparently makes me an exception to the norm that becomes harshly evident when conversation shifts to last weeks Bachelor, who is going to win Survivor this season, or my personal pet peeve the Lost theories.

So after watching a few episodes at my girlfriends request I came up with my own Lost theory. I think it is pretty good, unfortunately nobody will listen to me because I haven’t invested enough of my life into the show to be taken seriously by the mega Lost fans, so I’m just going to blab about it here.

The most popular belief I have heard so far is that the island is purgatory. This doesn’t really make much sense to me, I’m not an expert on the subject but I’m pretty sure purgatory isn’t known for time travel and secret underground labs.

What makes more sense to me is that the island is surely on earth and the inhabitants of the island are quite alive. The cause of all the anomalies is the Dharma initiative which is in my opinion loosely inspired by the real life Large Hadron Collider, the 27km long underground particle accelerator on the border of France and Switzerland. The LHC is set to carry out physics experiments including those that hope to prove the big bang theory and investigate string theory which proposes that there are other dimensions beyond the known ones of space and time.

There are both opponents and champions with differing opinions of the LHC. I think the dramatization of the differing ideas surrounding this real science create the basis of the different aspects of the show.

First as with any new technological advance you have the dooms day types that believe it is going to destroy the world. These beliefs are exaggerated from the possibility that the LHC would generate huge amounts of energy, microscopic black holes and worm holes inside the device. As the dooms day idea would go these could somehow escape from the LHC. A black hole could destroy the earth. Huge amounts of energy could escape causing disturbances in the atmosphere, maybe crashing planes? Worm holes would create portals making possible travel through space and time.

Then there is CERN, the organization that runs the LHC and happens to be credited with inventing another giant technological phenomenon in current history, the world wide web. CERN is a multinational establishment of thousands of scientists and engineers representing 580 universities and research facilities and 80 nationalities all underground researching nuclear physics. That is great material for a conspiracy theorist and a good model for a secret organization that works in a hole in the ground on an island trying to hold in some mysterious energy source.

Of course there are the old school religious crowds that are a little worried about the scientists proving the big bang theory and unlocking other such mysteries of the world that could disprove their god theory and they are obviously lobbying to have the LHC shut down. But now we have this new breed of “creation scientists” who have realizing that fighting science was a losing battle and are now twisting scientific theory and traditional religious thinking to try and meld the two once opposing forces in an attempt to keep God relevant. I have heard some creation scientists try to work religion into string theory, proposing that heaven and hell exist on the other dimensions that we cannot yet see and if the experiments are successful the LHC may expose these other dimensions and therefore prove that heaven and hell exist. Good and Evil that once existed in unseen separate dimensions uncovered by the Dharma initiative? Sounds to me like the shit that is going on, on that island with these mysterious characters, black vs. white, etc.

Not convinced, whatever, I’m starting to feel like an uber nerd even writing this so I’ll quit. But check out these out;

LHC String Theory

LHC and Religion

LHC Wormholes

LHC Blackholes

LHC on Wikipedia

The LHC

The Dharma Initiative

Different Strokes Paintings

Some paintings from different strokes for different folks show at Sleeping Giant gallery

Loving this Toronto centric low budget arts and culture talk show

Late Night In The Bedroom

Researching the mighty unicorn

It still amazes me wpeople are capable of beleiving in. A simple Google search for unicorns will bring up a plethora of sites devoted to the mythological beast. My initial response is that there are a lot of cynical dicks out there that share my sarcastic sense of humor but after some further investigation it becomes quite apparent that many of these people, despite the real world being against them, actually believe that unicorns do or have existed and feel obligated to share these views, stories, etc. with the world via the web.
I just thought I’d share some of the amazing websites that I have come across, unicorn lady most definitely being my favorite;

The Unicorn Lady

The Unicorn Collector

Unicorns United

Crystal Links

D world

I don’t know about you but after spending all that time exploring the world of the unicorn I felt incredibly inspired. So I wrote my own little unicorn story, which I will share with you below;

In a dew kissed meadow of my mind lives a noble unicorn. The proud beast can often be seen grazing in the dim light of a new day’s birth. The faeries and wood nymphs of the surrounding forests call him Ron, but I prefer to call him Jesus. For he is my guiding light, my spirit guide.
My heart beats to the rhythm of the thunderous pounding of his hooves as he charges through my soul. In times of meditation a vision of the majestic mammal comes to me sometimes shedding a lone tear possibly contemplating a lost love, sometimes riding a bolt of lightning from the heavens to save an endangered virgin from the evil grasp of the mighty sea god Poseidon.
Jesus, I mean, Ron, he’s my fire inside, the burning within my loins. The equine inferno which inspires everything I do. His feathery mane flowing in the summer breeze of my unconscious as he gallops through the colorful fields of my emotion is a metaphor regarding the carefree desires of my inner child. My mind forcibly in the repressed state of adulthood, secretly longs to give up the current stature of responsible man in order to be free and frolic daily in the garden with my playful and curious unicorn friend, Ron.