On May 10, 7:59=EF=BF=BDam, Doug Elrod <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 10, 3:43 am, Kevin Reilly <use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Alternatively, if we're dealing with single reality, but one in which
> > certain characters can know the future either through time travel or
> > parapsychological means, then someone who knew of Michael's certain
> > survival up to particular future date could feed him all these stories
> > about "the island" wanting him alive and not have to worry about the
> > details. Michael's survival WOULD be the result of a bizarre series of
> > coincidences, but a series of which the long-term outcome was already
> > known. An absolute certainty with an extraordinarily unlikely
> > probability is not impossible under these cir***stances.
>
> > It would be like going back in time a week and telling the known
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> > winner he was about to win. What you end up with is staggeringly low
> > odds, but with an absolute guarantee of fruition. It seems like a
> > contradiction but it's not; it works because there's more than one
> > observer.
>
> The same sort of thing could resolve the "What if I kill my
> grandfather?" problem for time travel. =EF=BF=BDIf time travel is really
> possible, and there's one reality, then if we *try* to do something
> like this, then the gun will jam, or it will turn out to be a guy who
> merely *looked* like our grandfather, or a medical miracle will
> happen, etc, etc.
>
> > Of course this being LOST the real truth could well be somewhere in
> > between (or indeed somewhere miles away). The only certainty is that
> > there'll be a lot of Lindelhof / Cuse interpretation thrown in along
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> > way.
>
> > What I hope it ISN'T is a literal island "consciousness" that can
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> > out across space and/or time and manipulate previously unforeseen
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> > as and when they threaten its plans. That's too far beyond paranormal
> > and into the realms of pure fantasy for me.
>
> Knowing the future in a way that makes current events *inevitable*
> would be, to a large extent, as fantastic as what you fear, I think
> (reminiscent of that "X-Files" episode, "Clyde Bruckman's Final
> Repose") -). =EF=BF=BDGiven the many series-of-unlikely-events that have
> happened on "Lost", it seems that manipulation is happening
> SOMEWHERE. =EF=BF=BDMaybe it's done by carefully controlling how
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> is imparted to the past (as when past-Desmond contacts Daniel).
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'm
> thinking of something like an interference pattern, where a certain
> outcome is reinforced, while others are suppressed.
>
> -Doug Elrod (d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RWG (just didn't want to repeat myself :-)
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