Whoa Locke and Religion!

Okay, I'm so befuddled that I'm not even sure where to start and when I do, I'm sure it'll make no sense at all.
Religion... Blowing up the island... Leaving the island... SHEESH!

First of all, how can detonating the bomb be a good thing?
I think they've all built lives together and this will erase everything they've known. Jack doesn't even act like he's thinking about a single feeling for Kate. They will have never met if their plane didn't/doesn't crash. Kate realizes this and wants to go running back to Sawyer. I like Kate, but it's too late girlfriend and plus, that's not fair to Sawyer, being second. I like Kate and Jack together and I like Juliette and Sawyer together. LET IT BE!
Besides the love cirlce, detonating the bomb is just A DUMB IDEA!!!

Kate wants to stop Jack from detonating the bomb, but what good does it do if she gets on the sub, no good.

Okay, I think there is a whole religious correlation going on here.
There were three or four things that made me think this while I was watching and now that I've waited until Friday to post, I can't remember what they all were. I've been thinking for a while that there were Egyptian ties to the whole thing, beliefs / religion. But now I started to see some resemblence to the modern Christian beliefs.

The whole back from the dead thing with John and leading them. Is Ben portraying a character similar to Judas? Or maybe Ben is just simply that conniving...?

And Jacob... we've been led to believe that the island chose John to become the leader of the Others. Is Jacob the Island or the Island Jacob? John is questioning if Jacob even exists, if he does, did Jacob nominate John for the leadership? And in saying that the island wanted him as leader, does that mean Jacob wanted him to be?

Lord, I'm confused! Okay, so now John sets off to kill Jacob or at least he tells Ben that's what his plans are. I'm trying to decide if he told Ben that as some kind of ploy or if he knows Ben will tell everyone for his advantage.

Sucks cause I thought Ben was kind of born again when the smoke monster let him live and his life flashed before him, but he seems to back to his old nasty ways. And to think that for a second I actually considered liking him or giving him a chance.

Ben said to think of Richard Alpert as kind of an advisor that's had the job for a very long time. Well, I got the feeling that Alpert was thinking that they may need to get rid of John when John demanded that the whole group go visit Jacob. Is Jacob imaginary and John wants to prove that he doesn't exist so they can stop fooling with the idea of him? And John said the island told him the exact time to show up where he would be wounded near the plane. Is he just pulling someone's leg or is he actually being spoken to by the island/God? And is he mistaken and his messages are actually coming from Jacob / Island / God?

Or maybe this is another process that the island demands and when the island appoints a new leader, John, the newly appointed leader then kills off the former leader, which is Jacob. We were led to believe that John was simply replacing Ben, but I'm not really sure Ben was ever what the island intended or he was just a sub-leader. But maybe John is now going to replace Jacob...?

It does in fact seem that everyone on the island has eternal ties to the island in some form or fashion through the generations. I have a feeling that the characters we know, who's parents are showing up all over the island 30 yrs ago, also have grand-parents and great-grandparents that formerly inhabited the island.

AND... I still think Richard Alpert looks 100% Egyptian!

Okay, my brain is spent. Please share your thoughts and ideas. I crave more input on the subject!

Egyptian Ties?

I always watch the encore episodes because of the notes they post at the bottom of the screen.

Last week vikingrunning responded to my March 4 Episode post and gave some interesting tidbits, the first of which is about the four-toed statue being ancient Egyptian and holding an ankh. The second is about an Egyptian god named Horus who had the head of a falcon and held an ankh. He also reminded us that we've seen Egyptian hieroglyphics on the island before in the hatch and on the temple.

When I watched the encore tonight, I put two and two together that the pendant that Amy saves from Paul's neck, is an ankh - Egyptian symbol of eternal life. Later in the episode, Horace finds the ankh in Amy's drawer, the same night that their son is born. Horace is now in possession of the ankh.

The encore also lets us know that the countdown symbols used in the hatch were Egyptian symbols.

I don't know what all of this means, but I do know that Richard Alpert looks Egyptian to me.

With the ankh being the Egyptian symbol of eternal life, it might make sense that history is repeating itself over and over. People dieing and suddenly being alive and well or a young child all over again. Or "extras" filling in the gaps of history that would otherwise be LOST in the recurring cycle.

Characters of Lost - Wikipedia

I found this to be pretty handy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Lost

History repeating itself

I think that history may be repeating itself over and over.

We know that Locke died to help get everyone back to the island, but we haven't been told "why" he had to die to make it work. Faraday's mother said that they had to replicate the other plane crash as closely as possible. Sayid was the prisoner instead of Kate and Locke was in the casket instead of Christian Shepherd. Christian Shepherd was seen by many after the crash even though he was on the plane in a casket. Locke crashed in a casket in the most recent crash and yet looked alive and well on the beach after wards.

This makes me think that Christian Shepherd was on the island prior to the plane crash from season 1. He had to leave the island to bring people back and he had to die to fill the casket to make it work and replicate an even earlier plane crash.

Each time there is a new crash, there are "extras" on the plane. Jack asked Ben, what happens to all these other people? Ben replied who cares. So there seem to be people who weren't previously involved that get drug into the happenings of the island.
New people arrive on the island each time there is a crash in addition to the regulars and frequent flyers/crashers.

Danielle Rousseau had her baby on the island. Alex was conceived before Danielle arrived on the island. Alex was later executed as a way to punish Ben in an eternal battle with Widmore.

Claire delivered Aaron on the island. Aaron was conceived before Claire arrived on the island. So far, those are the only two babies I can think of that were actually born on the island. Claire warns Kate not to bring Aaron back to the island and I think she did it because history has a way or repeating itself.

With that being said, I just shot my Sawyer is Jacob theory all to hell, because it would actually make more sense if Jack became Jacob. The Jack that just returned to the island. Notice the name similarity and maybe Jack is even short for Jacob. It would explain Claire and Christian being in the cabin with him. It would also explain why Claire told Kate not to bring Aaron back to the island. Widmore could use Aaron against him, like he used Alex against Ben.

Last thing we know about the Jack and John relationship is that John left Jack a note that said "I wish you believed me." If Jack is Jacob, then this is his chance to show a little faith in John and make him the leader.

Whoa! I've lost myself here. Bare with me. I may be way off base, but I'm having fun working the puzzle!

Jacob Theory

Okay, this may be a shot in the dark, but what the heck, I think it'll be fun to talk about.

I have a new theory about what why they're positioning Sawyer into a leader position.

I think Sawyer may turn out to be Jacob. He's the king of many names, so it wouldn't be terribly hard to believe if he created a new alias.

If the current Sawyer that we know, is on the island with the Dharma initiative and kind of falls into a leader position and then ends up being on the island for a long time...

It looks as if he might still be on the island when Ben arrives as a child. (Ed actually suggested the Ben/child arrival to me). I think Sawyer might know or will know that adult Ben kills off all of the Dharma Initiative personnel. So he will be forewarned. If Sawyer is on the island that long and so long prior to Ben, he will certainly have powers far superior to Ben or at least Ben will think so.

I also think it is possible that Sawyer will still be on the island when his plane (from season 1) crashes on the island. So he'll end up operating under the alias of Jacob to secretly control Ben and to avoid interaction with himself (2 of Sawyer) or with some that know him.

Jacob characteristics that make me think he is Sawyer:

It appears that Jacob displays a certain fondness to Locke. Jacob or the island want Locke to become the leader or "The Others". We know Sawyer was on Locke's side when the group split and he seems to have a lot of faith in Locke.

Jacob displays a curious fondness to Hurley. He allows Hurley to see the cabin when no one else can and we know Sawyer loves Hurley.

Pickett, one of the Others, gets upset when Jack does surgery on Ben and says "Shepherd wasn't even on Jacob's list". We know that Sawyer has hard feelings about Jack because of Kate. I think that situation is about to unravel in the next episode.

Jacob mysteriously befriends Christian Shepherd (Jack's dad). We know that Sawyer and Christian met in a bar.

I haven't guessed at the connection with Claire and Jacob yet, except that she's Christian's daughter and she is reunited with him at the cabin.

That's as far as my ideas about that go for now.

March 4 - LOST

This was one of my favorite episodes of the season, so far. I certainly enjoy and prefer the episodes where the story is following them on the island as opposed to the main land. I think Sawyer and Juliette make a good couple as do Jack and Kate, looks like there's going to be a wrench thrown in that after Sawyer saw Kate again.

I was thinking and wanted to get your opinions...
I think Horace is the guy that appeared to John (i think it was John) in a previous season. I think Horace's nose was bleeding and John asked him what was wrong and he said it's probably because I've been dead for 12 (or was it 15?) yrs. Anyway, trying to figure out the correlation between the nose bleeds and people traveling in time, dead, nose bleeds and some regressing with time to their childhood, like Charlotte.

I usually feel real frustrated at the end of every episode because I don't feel like I got enough content, but tonight, I was satisfied, although I'd sit there and watch a lot more if they'd give me new stuff.

What did you all think about tonight's episode?

Why doesn't Richard Alpert age?

with his non-aging, and his seemingly superior knowledge, i would think he would naturally be the leader. But then you have the mysterious and MIA Jacob and/or Jack's dad who is dead and alive.

So Locke is supposed to be the leader, but Ben was before and now Sawyer is kinda playing a leader role, which in time is actually before Ben.

At first I thought Richard had special powers, then i thought he was an expert at the time travel thing, but last night's episode implied that he's no expert at the time travel thing, cause he seemed shocked by Sawyer's knowledge.

My best guess for now is that he is an alien waiting for direction for some reason. They never really let you know if the other "original others" age. All of the Others that we've followed were implants. So maybe none of the originals age. But then again, who are the original others?

Can you tell I'm lost in Lost?