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I imagine that you cannot travel through time via the islands but time can visit the islands.

— fivestades

Hello There

This is my first post, I’m sure it won’t be as elegant as other theories, you all write so well! At times not a tight theory but a string of plot possibilities

My ideas circulate around two ideas: The central issue of LOST is, organised attempts to forcibly ‘fix’ humans V’s organised attempts to prevent human ‘fixing’ and The island(s) we know are part of a chain of islands. Our island is a ‘first edition’ failure.

I believe our losties are not lost but have been lost. All on the plane were put there.

The amazing deductions in Where on Earth is the Island?! seem to prove that aircraft was heading west not east with the full consent of the pilot and the cabin crew. They were being delivered. So the crash landing ripped them off course and the precious selection of cargo did not get to the place it was supposed to, the precious cargo has been Lost. I think they were almost at their destination but the wrong island. Here we have to assume a great deal. Imagine there are a string of islands, maybe 3 , maybe 108, who knows, all of which are not accessible by ordinary means. All are contained with in a ‘bubble’. This islands are known about and have been accessed by a privileged few throughout time……..past, present and future. I imagine that you cannot travel through time via the islands but time can visit the islands. Lost in time. You can go if you know how.

Imagine that through the past, present and future one organisation has knowledge of these invisible islands and decided to dedicate them to the alteration of human behavior, human testing, trials for the perfection of the Human race. Humans even in the future we can assume are not down with human testing, Thus any good despot with a desire to experiment with species perfection would keep the existence of such a remote testing goldmine a closely guard secret. Passing the access instructions from one generation to the next. Again am not suggesting people travel through time to get to the island but time can visit the islands. i.e when you enter and leave you go back to your time. In theory a mix of people from all across time could be there at the same time. This may explain age freezing.

Black rock represents one prior attempt to find and use the people on board for the ‘mission’

Flight 815 represents one present attempt to use the people on board for the ‘mission’

And I think that future ‘missions’ have been to the island: I believe The smoke monster is a piece of technology left from future experiments……..It can asses thoughts, assess people, be a personality judge, quite scary….maybe the ‘organisation’ is trying to find a way to clinically assess people for the right to bear children, and ole’ smoke assesses this. I propose smoke monster is an obsolete model, broken, too sensitive, hence no babies or mothers are allowed to live. This unfathomable technology (in our world time) could also explain the visions etc. (Futuristic experimental stress trials) The orientation video shows us another attempt at a feasible future concept for ‘refreshing’ society with clone experiments. The four toed statue is a possible hint to a further future visitation, it is widely known that we no longer use our little toe for balance it is useless so evolution dictates that in time (a really long time) humans will only have four toes. This statue may look ancient but it is most likely to be a statue built by the ‘organisation’ visiting from the future. The foot reminds me of the Colossus of Rhodes (http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Europe/04/carroll/COR1.jpg) built in 304 BC, straddling the harbor entrance in Rhodes to commemorate victory over the Macedonians.( also the Colossus was the design basis for the Statue of Liberty) Statues of this grand scale were often built as a celebration at the end of a war. The statues decay suggests either it has been there a long time, It and some of the (highly futuristic) technology was present when past people somehow discovered the islands? Or it has been destroyed? Based the idea that time has visited our island, how many times has this island been used? What other evidence is there so far to pinpoint times throughout history things have been left on the island (like black rock). Could people on the island be from the past or future but trapped? Jacob?

So imagining that throughout time one ‘organisation’ has knowledge of this place, a closely guarded secret handed through time. Good and bad being a blurred central theme to lost, we can assume that as hard as one ‘organisation’ is trying to manipulate the progress of human development there will be another ‘organisation’ trying to stop them. Nature V’s Nurture. “Organisation 1” being the party attempting to manipulate and control human development and ‘Organisation 2’ being the party trying to prevent this. Could the statue have been built by one battle winning organisation? ‘Soldiers’ so far into human development they have four toes?

The island we know is clearly not a smooth technological engine, maybe this is because ‘organisation 2’ has scuppered previous experiments leaving the island we know, useless and unwanted or maybe just invisible to ‘organisation 1’.

At this point I am not confident in naming which characters or groups on lost fit each organisation, we have Dharma, Widmore, Christian Shephard, Hanso, Ben, Penny, Jacob?

Back to our losties, if we assume that they were elaborately organised to be on that flight, for what reason? All of our losties come from very different walks of life yet have one thing in common, upbringing, questionable parenting, parent issues. Very extreme and debilitating in some cases (Locke) others more subtle (Hurley), but all have had far from a ‘normal’ upbringing. These people could have been carefully watched and selected destined to be test subjects, can a human be ‘fixed’? Can pain be abolished in a human mind? Can a bad parenting cycle be broken? (relation to my smokie theory) Arranged by ‘Organisation 1’ Alternatively. The losties are selected because they were all unknowingly raised, Genetically significant, ancestors of the great, destined to be ‘organisation 2’ (with parental knowledge in some cases). (not so likely due to close relation to Heroes show, but It’s worth a mention)

Where should they have safely landed? I imagine flight 815 was on course for a more refined functioning version of our island. I think we will see this in S04. To partake or infiltrate?

The concept of an organisation attempting to alter human behavior is classically dark and sinister, however I think the writers will tip this on it’s head and it will eventually be the losties that make the decision to be ‘people of science or people of faith’.

Ben and the Others are trying to hide the island, (not very well, people keep landing on it) maybe they as children were test subjects, They too are abandoned failed experiments. They may think island 1 is the only one possessing such equipment and mysticism, I believe they do not know the full extent of things, they are not fully ‘in the know’. I think Ben vaguely knows that ‘Organisation 1’ needs and takes children. Again good and bad being blurred, when 815 came down he was either trying to rescue the children from ‘organisation 1’ or trying to get them for ‘organisation 1’. I think Ben from prior involvement with the organisation sees children as the young, unaware that the children as defined by ‘organisation 1’ is all on the plane. Our losties are the children wanted.

If my theory of two organisations is right who will be the rescue party?

Why can they not go back? I anticipate some kind of realisation when they are rescued, that they have become cold blooded murderers without a cause. Future Jack is clearly not a happy man because under his leadership troops turned into monsters, his crew killed many of the Others. On many occasion the Others could have killed the losties but they did not, they were suspicious but not killers. The others lost body count wise. Our losties did very bad things. And this will hurt. Maybe they are only ‘required’ when they are all together. The 815 passengers may have been heading somewhere great to do great things but they will be sent home. Jack and Kate met in a location where they could not be heard is this because all the rescued are under surveillance? Is ‘he’ a watcher?

Throughout the remainder of the series we have already seen Jacks desire to return, I’m sure he and others will find a way. But to which island? Will Science or Faith prevail?

I know these ideas are broad without direct character examples or references, but I hope you get the idea

Thank you for reading

Key characters

Short Name	Full Name	Episodes	Theories
Charles	Charles Widmore		412
Dr. Christian	Dr. Christian Shephard		339
Jack	Jack Shephard	1.1, 1.5, 2.11, 1.11, 1.16, 1.20, 3.9, 3.22, 3.1, 4.10, 4.12, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13	1460
Juliet	Juliet Burke	3.7, 3.16, 4.6	345
Penny	Penny Widmore	3.8	254

Key events

Theme	Relevant Episodes	Theories
Four Toed Statue		205
Jack finds empty coffin	1.5	168
Jack sees his father on the island	1.4	218
Michael shoots Ana-Lucia and Libby	2.20	121
Sun becomes pregnant	2.16	156

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