So it was some sort of pan-religion purgatory, I'm guessing.
Darlton Alienate Atheists Worldwide - film at 11.
I'm sorry, VP
(BTW in general i loved it and got all weepy at all the reunions, and the other stuff that happened)
Understand
- because i really don't want you to think I'm insulting you (or other agnostics and atheists here at all) at all. And then give a bit on my take about that "purgatory/limbo" idea.
I grew up as more or less Catholic [a Catholic <Slavic> group that had elements of traditional Slavic Orthodox elements in it]. I eventually rejected that, and eventually American Catholicism, became generally Christian -but hadn't picked a new church, before I first became even more rejective of "organized religion" (THAT questioning started around the time I was 10), and then
became more and more agnostic.
I think i might have become almost aetheisitic, then after a few years found myself going towards a more spiritual inclination again. There were just "feelings" that had no typical Western Scientific or Western Religions validation/equivalency etc.
The suddenly--here's a whole sub-set of us who still had some kind of spiritual feelings who suddenly found that the "The Force" elements of Star Wars (and, no, for those who have heard that there are
Englanders who do so I do not list my religion as Jedi
) "spoke" to us. Some of that feeling and theories were echoed in some New Age/ Aquarian Conspiracy (a book in the 1980's explaining/exploring theories/experiences etc).
And THAT eventually lead me into reading about real Quantum Physicists and Astronauts all "Men of Science/(and Engineering " who started to have [without warning/ interes in etc] various parapsychology, and mystical experiences.
They have been trying to bring a
more rigorous scientific method and study into these experiences. I also have heard some startling stories from Doctors and EMT workers tha tat least says to me that.... "there's something more than meets the eye"..... than atheism.
But it doesn't look like my original upbringing, that's for sure!
I also had a great
World's Religions teacher in College, so I learned a lot early on about other Religious/ Spiritual paths.
Which brings my to my other comment.
Using the words (as far as I can tell) purgatory and limbo are from Christian POV. We go with what we know.
The religions that believe in re-incarnation, some- you go to your next life based on your karmic "accumulation".
Others do believe there is a period where the soul/spirit reviews their life, and decides what is the next soul lesson they want to attempt, pick a life accordingly. Some of that gets really intense,detailed, and some really "far out" as to what the soul is able to pick for their life at the start at least.
So I guess I would call it a more neutral term as some mentioned a holding/meeting place.
In certain spiritual theories/ and also possible the more unorthodox Quantum Scientists this place e has "no time". Which is why any Losties who had made meaningful connections could end up in that church.
Ben, I think, was still too aghast at parts of his life to feel he was perhaps not "worthy" yet to go in there. He needed to review more.PLus as someone mentioned ( if I read right) he was sometimes certainly stood alone against a lot of out Losties.
I do believe the Island and their experiences there were real just from was it Bo Macs comment or NWS.....they wouldn't have had any real long experiences with each other unless they did crash on The Island
I'm still head-scratching some over the Sideways World last night. I had been thinking along Quantum lines that the SW was another alternate reality that was created when The Bomb went off and one of them would eventually collapse into the other.
It maybe possible that this other world existed in the alternate reality where 815 didn't crash, they experienced it in no time, remembered the life they had had on The Island, and afterwards and then as each one died over time sought each other out in this holding/meeting place.
OK I'm confusing my self now!
I'm still wrestling with this .... and the idea some of you had that they conbstructed the Sideways world after each had died as they sought each other out....
In unorthodox QP ( and this has been in a few ST:Next Gen Episodes as well as in some Literary SF short stories I've read decades ago) our thought do create a individual and collective reality... so this is how they could have done it
Love to taslk about the visuals as well...
just say that Jack seeing the Plane escaping and Vincent returning to be with him as he died..... lovely.
and of course The Music!