The Meaning of Everything

[Fringified]

I think I understand it all now!

The Island was the most important thing to happen to the survivors. It was their purpose in life - their experiences, their interactions, their knowledge gained from the Island was what they were meant to do. And after they died, when they entered that space between Earth and Heaven (I'm calling it Heaven, but not to be religiously offensive; it is basically the "Beyond," whatever is in the Afterlife). What I am assuming is that when the characters die, they forget what happened during their life.

So in the alternate universe (which was never an alternate universe, but ... a flashforward?), the objective and purpose of the characters is to rediscover themselves. Once they have all done so, as Desmond tried so hardly to do, then they may all move into Heaven together.

When Sun and Jin were in the hospital, Juliet came in to examine Sun's baby. Once Sun remembered, then Jin remembered - and all of a sudden, they could speak English and they were acting like a married couple! They remembered their real-life experiences and they then knew that it was time to move on - to venture into the Afterlife.

Here is my theory: There is no time in the space between Earth and Heaven.

Take this hypothetical example: Jack Shephard dies at Point A, 2010. Five hundred years later, at Point B, Hurley dies. But in the afterlife, no time passed. The five hundred years that took place in real time never occurred in the afterlife, or at least it was never perceived or experienced by the conscious mind of our Losties. All that matters is that they died and will die, and will all unite at the same place. They do not move on to Heaven until everyone is together because they were destined to be intertwined. They all matter to each other.

Christian: Hey kiddo.
Jack: Dad?
Christian: Hello, Jack.
Jack: I don't understand. You died.
Christian: Yeah. Yes, I did.
Jack: Then how are you here right now?
Christian: How are you here?
Jack: ... I died too.
Christian: It's okay. It's okay, son.
*Jack cries*
Jack: I love you, Dad.
Christian: I love you too, son.
Jack: Are you real?
Christian: I sure hope so. *laughs* You're real. Everything that's ever happened to you is real. All those people in the church, they're all real too.
Jack: They're all ... they're all dead?
Christian: Everyone dies sometime, kiddo. Some of them before you, some long after you.
Jack: Why are they all here now?
Christian: Well there is no now, here.
Jack: Where are we, Dad?
Christian: Well, this is a place that you all made together so that you could all find one another. The most important part of your life was the time that you spent with these people. That's why these people are here. No one does it alone, Jack. You needed them, and they needed you.
Jack: For what?
Christian: To remember ... and let go.
Jack: Kate - she said we were leaving.
Christian: Not leaving, no. Moving on.
Jack: Where are we going?
Christian: Let's go find out.

Christian will go on to open doors in the church, and behind the doors is a blinding white light, symbolizing the afterlife. They all move on.

[The_war_is_already_on]

Don't you get it? Its not a sci-fi mystery anymore, its a fantasy, so there are no more theories....

Anything could be true. On the other side of that door, there could be a gang of purple spotted, gerbil headed monkeys who wake Jack up, and its all been a dream, but all along there was this angel who was really speaking to his through the whispers, not the dead people, because what he just had was a hallicination involving a trio of demons who try and tempt his, but a small squirrel runs up to him, and as soon as it does, his character arc becomes instananeous and unsatisfying, but cloyingly re-uses a bunch of older arcs without any real new context.

Okay, im bitter, a little. But hey, dont let that hold you back from theorising about whether faeryland has donkeys with six or eight legs...

[Sambo]

Looks solid to me. That's exactly how I interpreted Christians closing remarks when he said - "There is no now here." and "Some died before you, some long after you." Simple enough in my view. I certainly don't think it needs to be called a 'theory' when it was clearly stated by Christian that this is indeed the case.

I do miss Lost.