Since Fate versus Free Will is such an important part of LOST, I thought it would be a cool idea to have everyone weigh in on how they think the lesson should ultimately play out.
Here is my take.
You may consider Fate, giving into it and all, as the correct path, like "You've got a role to play". Yet, there's a certain imprisonment feeling to that. If you never had a choice to begin with, then is it really your life, or are you just a chess piece? Even Locke, the man of Faith, didn't seem too happy about the idea of predetermination in "Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham".
Not only that, but the whole idea of course correction reeks of "Do it this way or I'll punish you" mentality. Is it possible that maybe course correction and the "paths", like Hawking said, are the 'bad side' so to speak? Wouldn't a good final goal for the Losties be to break free of this smothering path forced upon them?
I don't mean that it's okay for them to just blow off the whole mythology, I mean they're involved now, but they should be able to play it out the way they choose to, not the way some cosmic script tells them to. We know Daniel Faraday accepts that the past can't be changed, yet we also know he is at some point gonna try to convince young Charlotte not to ever return. Maybe he leads the pack in trying to find a way to escape from the prison known as fate.
In closing, I think the ultimate moral of LOST will be that Free Will triumphs Fate, and that we carve our own path.
I'd love to hear other theories, agreement or disagreement. So, post away and let's get a good discussion rolling. Theory by Blinus
Here is my take.
You may consider Fate, giving into it and all, as the correct path, like "You've got a role to play". Yet, there's a certain imprisonment feeling to that. If you never had a choice to begin with, then is it really your life, or are you just a chess piece? Even Locke, the man of Faith, didn't seem too happy about the idea of predetermination in "Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham".
Not only that, but the whole idea of course correction reeks of "Do it this way or I'll punish you" mentality. Is it possible that maybe course correction and the "paths", like Hawking said, are the 'bad side' so to speak? Wouldn't a good final goal for the Losties be to break free of this smothering path forced upon them?
I don't mean that it's okay for them to just blow off the whole mythology, I mean they're involved now, but they should be able to play it out the way they choose to, not the way some cosmic script tells them to. We know Daniel Faraday accepts that the past can't be changed, yet we also know he is at some point gonna try to convince young Charlotte not to ever return. Maybe he leads the pack in trying to find a way to escape from the prison known as fate.
In closing, I think the ultimate moral of LOST will be that Free Will triumphs Fate, and that we carve our own path.
I'd love to hear other theories, agreement or disagreement. So, post away and let's get a good discussion rolling. Theory by Blinus
