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The three options listed on Facebook's LOST poll for the question "What do you think the island is?" are:
Heaven
Purgatory
Just really bad luck.
Despite all of the Catholic iconography in LOST, could it really all have that simplistic a resolution? How disappointing, if so. Has Lindelof or Cuse commented on this, does anyone know?
Both as a Likert scale and as piece of theological interpretation the Facebook poll question is flawed. The three options should have equal weights or be equal distances distances from one another, which they are not; Heaven and Purgatory would mean "Just bad luck" is all Hell is, which may be a popular theory in bars and at racetracks but would draw some brimstone and hellfire from both Baptist preachers and Vatican-style priests alike.
I have not taken the poll to see which option is drawing what percentage of the meaningless vote, but would expect it to be split between Purgatory and Just bad luck --with a skewing toward Purgatory.
Yes, the island is a ski resort in Colorado.
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Re: LOST Poll on Facebook
Wed, June 24, 2009 - 11:40 PMMaybe it's just an island and it will all end with some sort of lesson about how we are all interconnected and affect each others lives in ways we may never know and serve as an admonition to treat our fellow humans with more compassion, dignity and respect? It could be something just that simple.
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Re: LOST Poll on Facebook
Wed, June 24, 2009 - 11:58 PMThey said in the first season that it wasn't heaven or purgatory. I'm still not sure I believe it's not purgatory. -
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Re: LOST Poll on Facebook
Thu, June 25, 2009 - 12:08 AMSome people think it's a dream that dog Vincent is having.
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Re: LOST Poll on Facebook
Mon, July 13, 2009 - 2:34 PM> Despite all of the Catholic iconography in LOST, could it really all have that simplistic a resolution? How disappointing, if so. Has Lindelof or Cuse commented on this, does anyone know?
They have definitely said no purgatory. They have said that the people who are alive on the show are actually alive. And those who are dead really are dead (even if they appear to the other characters from time to time). I think that was part of the purpose of the Oceanic Six, to show that they are still alive and there exists a world outside the Island.
Polls and quizzes on Facebook have got to be the dumbest waste of time ever. But I suppose that writing them keeps some teenage idiots out of trouble.
