The Truth Behind 'Lost' - A Philosophical Review

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, peels back the philosophical layers behind one of the most successful television shows of all time...

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[Lee86Cr]

Many people would also discard certain fields of physics as being nonsense. The idea of timetravel or dimensional portals... these are things athat are perfectly possible in theory and yet are frowned upon. Who is to determine what is 'mysticism' or 'insanity'? You? If religion is the opiate of the masses then so be it... it's everyone's choice. That my friend, IS individualism... if people choose to be swayed by certain idiotic ideas it's THEIR choice.

[TheCashForGoldStore]

(3/3) In the end what Lost is about the struggle between what we are taught to believe and what we experience. Science & Religion in its logic/dogma miss out on subjective POV, experience, and personal truth. Interestingly enough, neither Jack nor Lock became caretakers of the island. In the end we find out that the whole thing was like a play and the purpose of these experiences was to touch and experience the other characters in the play. That was the value of it.

[pperezklein]

The 15th episode of the last season, "Across the Sea", tells you all you need to know about the writers' attitude towards reason, curiosity, mysticism, abuse, murder, etc.

[0ddFutureW0lf]

Thanx for all this ; )

[vins1979]

I'm listening to you and while it's clear that you are advancing an - ermmm - "very very personal interpretation" of the show, I am a bit worried about your use of terms like "rationality" and "evidence". At some points, it seems you take "rationality" as synonymous of "scientific" (which would be another term in need of rogorous definition). You also take "evidence" as unambiguous, when it's not - as the "problem of the underdetermination of theories by data" teaches us...

[imnodog]

am I the only atheist that enjoyed LOST? It's definitely one of my favorite shows of all time, it's just a TV show, a fiction, no need to dissect it with rationalism...

and it actually shows how religion is stupid, most people got angry on how many stuff on the show didn't make sense (religious ppl btw), and it gave me at least some ammo to show how their own religion don't make sense, the only difference being that they're getting angry at a work of fiction while believing the other nonsense.

[pierrevalois00]

couldn't quite make it as a philosopher could you...wank!

[vtran31]

Respond to this video... and yes, I greatly admire mr dawkins as well. he's also not a bad teacher of evolutionary b iology

[vtran31]

@Lee86Cr athiests view religion as superstitious hogwash and are very angry at its abilities to brainwash people into ignorance and doing bad things

historically, this is true - just look at the crusades, inquisition, and the modern evangelical movement and their treatment of gays

[Lee86Cr]

@vtran31

I agree. But then people should also be FREE to make the decision on their own INDIVIDUAL terms, otherwise you're just as bad as the church. I personally don't believe in God and I greatly admire people like Richard Dawkins. (To a certain extent) But it seems like a large group of atheïsts are now on some sort of crusade. telling people how to live their lives. No one should tell anyone how to live their lives, nor Christians or Muslims or Atheïsts. That is individualism.

[vtran31]

Respond to this video...

To me the island embodies all your hopes and dreams, which u use to draw strength to be better (the water ritual for stewardship of the island was a powerful metaphor)

I think hugo is doing just fine running the irrational island with his number 2

[vtran31]

@sano0311 JJ abrams despised gilligans island and originally made lost as a form of purgatory/hell from which there was no escape

Jack was supposed to die in the first episode

the writers of ABC just paused and said it had to be made into a redemption story.

so that's what happened.