Apparently Stephen King's THE STAND was a huge inspiration for the creators of Lost. In it there's a number sequence similiar to this one and it's the exact moment a virus is released which kills off most of the human race. In one of the videos from the Lost Experience they said the numbers were from the Valenzetti equation which gave the time of humanity's destruction:
April 8, 2015 4:23pm and 42 seconds?
Dharma established a scientific community on the island with the hope of finding a way of stopping this event. The Dharma initiative was founded in 1970, but the initial group of researchers could've already been on the island setting things up. When Dharma was created and the Hanso foundation began funding work took off on the island. Ben's claim to have been born on the island could very well be true. He could've been born to parents that were exploring and setting up the scientific community on the island OR he could've been born to the "hostiles" and taken by Dharma and raised by them. Either way, something happened within the Dharma community and some began to either believe they couldn't stop the apocalypse or that humanity needed to be wiped out. Zealots within Dharma called for the destruction of the human race and in the ruins a new society would be created. The purge ensued (the Radzinsky blood stain wasn't from suicide). The "Others" took over the Dharma facilities and began work towards their own goals. They behave with an intense fanaticism and they live in a community that appears to be similiar to a cult (Room 23 - "We are the cause of our own suffering" and "God loves you as he loved Jacob") or an extreme version of the Puritans (the Juliet mark being a reference to the Scarlet Letter?).
It's too hard for me to believe they were on the island prior to Dharma. They are all too well adept to modern living. It's more likely the hostiles are another group, native to the island, who are the descendants of the four-toed statue builders.
One of Dharma's goals was time travel; perhaps as a way to understand the key moments leading to humanity's demise. Unique electromagnetism fluctuations on the island promised the potential for stabilizing wormholes to connect two points in space-time that one could travel between. The Swan station was created to experiment to that end (watch the swan orientation video). One of the experiments went wrong, the Incident happened and since then they created a system to release the dangerous levels of electrical charges. When Desmond used the fail-safe key it opened a wormhole for a few seconds sending Desmond back in time. Desmond, understanding what's happened decides to change his life. The matrix-like woman explains that he can't. He has to go to the island, he has to press the button and that the universe has a way of "course correcting" (not leaving room for free will and change). Desmond reluctantly accepts and says goodbye to Penny. In the bar that night, howerver, he tells the bartender to duck and begins to change the future. Ultimately he's created a new timeline from that point on. Desmond finds himself back on the island shortly after the hatch has exploded. He now has these flashes offering mere glimpses into the future (residual memory of the original timeline his actions have manipulated). If he can prevent Charlie from dying that would show that a "course correcting" universe is not certain and that things can be changed. If not, than Dharma's initial attempts to save the world would've been pointless and humanity would be extinct one way or another.
The producers have said the "Others" had limited knowledge of the function of the Swan station. If they were originally Dharma this still makes sense. It seems that some of the hatches shown so far have been isolated from one another. People working in the Pearl were unaware of the work people in the Swan were doing and vice versa. If the Swan station suffered any kind of catastrophic event they would presumably keep the people who knew limited to only those who worked in that station. The community on the island looks large enough that anyone working in one station would not have to work in another station.
Perhaps what the "Others" think they've found is an earthly paradise- Eden.
There's a reference to Adam and Eve and the Bad Twin (Cain who killed Abel).
Upon their banishment from the Garden of Eden, God "stationed the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword, to guard the way to the tree of life" (Genesis 4:24).
The black smoke, maybe? The producers said the black smoke was only a part of the overall thing/monster. After writing about the Garden of Eden theory I looked around and found that someone had already come up with it.
http://lost.about.com/od/theories/a/gardeneden.htm
Maybe the Adam and Eve skeletons found in that cave are the DeGroots. Ben is their son and is the "Bad Twin" who killed his sibling during the Purge.
Theory by Helium99
April 8, 2015 4:23pm and 42 seconds?
Dharma established a scientific community on the island with the hope of finding a way of stopping this event. The Dharma initiative was founded in 1970, but the initial group of researchers could've already been on the island setting things up. When Dharma was created and the Hanso foundation began funding work took off on the island. Ben's claim to have been born on the island could very well be true. He could've been born to parents that were exploring and setting up the scientific community on the island OR he could've been born to the "hostiles" and taken by Dharma and raised by them. Either way, something happened within the Dharma community and some began to either believe they couldn't stop the apocalypse or that humanity needed to be wiped out. Zealots within Dharma called for the destruction of the human race and in the ruins a new society would be created. The purge ensued (the Radzinsky blood stain wasn't from suicide). The "Others" took over the Dharma facilities and began work towards their own goals. They behave with an intense fanaticism and they live in a community that appears to be similiar to a cult (Room 23 - "We are the cause of our own suffering" and "God loves you as he loved Jacob") or an extreme version of the Puritans (the Juliet mark being a reference to the Scarlet Letter?).
It's too hard for me to believe they were on the island prior to Dharma. They are all too well adept to modern living. It's more likely the hostiles are another group, native to the island, who are the descendants of the four-toed statue builders.
One of Dharma's goals was time travel; perhaps as a way to understand the key moments leading to humanity's demise. Unique electromagnetism fluctuations on the island promised the potential for stabilizing wormholes to connect two points in space-time that one could travel between. The Swan station was created to experiment to that end (watch the swan orientation video). One of the experiments went wrong, the Incident happened and since then they created a system to release the dangerous levels of electrical charges. When Desmond used the fail-safe key it opened a wormhole for a few seconds sending Desmond back in time. Desmond, understanding what's happened decides to change his life. The matrix-like woman explains that he can't. He has to go to the island, he has to press the button and that the universe has a way of "course correcting" (not leaving room for free will and change). Desmond reluctantly accepts and says goodbye to Penny. In the bar that night, howerver, he tells the bartender to duck and begins to change the future. Ultimately he's created a new timeline from that point on. Desmond finds himself back on the island shortly after the hatch has exploded. He now has these flashes offering mere glimpses into the future (residual memory of the original timeline his actions have manipulated). If he can prevent Charlie from dying that would show that a "course correcting" universe is not certain and that things can be changed. If not, than Dharma's initial attempts to save the world would've been pointless and humanity would be extinct one way or another.
The producers have said the "Others" had limited knowledge of the function of the Swan station. If they were originally Dharma this still makes sense. It seems that some of the hatches shown so far have been isolated from one another. People working in the Pearl were unaware of the work people in the Swan were doing and vice versa. If the Swan station suffered any kind of catastrophic event they would presumably keep the people who knew limited to only those who worked in that station. The community on the island looks large enough that anyone working in one station would not have to work in another station.
Perhaps what the "Others" think they've found is an earthly paradise- Eden.
There's a reference to Adam and Eve and the Bad Twin (Cain who killed Abel).
Upon their banishment from the Garden of Eden, God "stationed the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword, to guard the way to the tree of life" (Genesis 4:24).
The black smoke, maybe? The producers said the black smoke was only a part of the overall thing/monster. After writing about the Garden of Eden theory I looked around and found that someone had already come up with it.
http://lost.about.com/od/theories/a/gardeneden.htm
Maybe the Adam and Eve skeletons found in that cave are the DeGroots. Ben is their son and is the "Bad Twin" who killed his sibling during the Purge.
Theory by Helium99
