In the episode Ji Yeon, Jin is dead when Sun gets off the island, but we find out at the end that Jin claims to be only married for two months and won't be expecting a baby anytime soon. Backtrack a bit when Jin buys a panda and loses it in the cab and then goes back to the toy shop and asks for another one behind the counter, and the clerk offers him a dragon instead; saying that it is the year of the dragon. The year 2000 was the year of the dragon and that might explain the bulky cell phone. 2004 was the year of the monkey when he (Jin) supposedly died. Superimposition? I think something along that line. The island itself might of displaced people in different time periods (Desmond) mentally or physically, and might also bring back the dead who either died on the island or died and then arrived on the island, where their bodies would be used to trace them from the past and not truely ressurrect them, but b! ringing their already living body from the past before their deaths into the present time on the island.
According to the Vonnegut in Slaughter-house five: the Tralfamadorians never view the end of a life as death, because you would still exist in the past (time period that already has past is still concrete and real) and thus you are still alive and are able to travel to the present through some phenomenom. The book was also featured on the show. This might explain why Jin is alive in the past with being only married to Sun for only two months back in 2000 but with Sun grieving his death in Sept. 22, 2004. I don't think anyone has "died" in the traditional sense on the show, as the island brings their breathing bodies from their personal pasts and they (the deceased) has gained what Vonnegut calls the "Tralfamadorian perspective" and know that they are as alive as they are dead, and can choose where and when to exist through the power of the island. I think it is a matter of time (pun not intended) before all the deceased in the present are brought back to life via the isl! and (when everyone who left goes back, only then will it work) through the lives of themselves in their past. I think Jin in 2000 (sounds like a sci-fi B-movie)who dosn't realize his fate on the island and his death and all the other deceased-person's past selves will travel to exist in their future, thus replacing their other future dead selves. This is my two cents, hope you like it. And please feel free to disagree with your own facts because that is the beauty and mystery of LOST.
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According to the Vonnegut in Slaughter-house five: the Tralfamadorians never view the end of a life as death, because you would still exist in the past (time period that already has past is still concrete and real) and thus you are still alive and are able to travel to the present through some phenomenom. The book was also featured on the show. This might explain why Jin is alive in the past with being only married to Sun for only two months back in 2000 but with Sun grieving his death in Sept. 22, 2004. I don't think anyone has "died" in the traditional sense on the show, as the island brings their breathing bodies from their personal pasts and they (the deceased) has gained what Vonnegut calls the "Tralfamadorian perspective" and know that they are as alive as they are dead, and can choose where and when to exist through the power of the island. I think it is a matter of time (pun not intended) before all the deceased in the present are brought back to life via the isl! and (when everyone who left goes back, only then will it work) through the lives of themselves in their past. I think Jin in 2000 (sounds like a sci-fi B-movie)who dosn't realize his fate on the island and his death and all the other deceased-person's past selves will travel to exist in their future, thus replacing their other future dead selves. This is my two cents, hope you like it. And please feel free to disagree with your own facts because that is the beauty and mystery of LOST.
Theory by ClearSkyOpening
