Nerd Theology, LOST vs Deism vs Eternalism vs Block Universe.

I moderated a comment today on this now dormant site. The original posting had to do with my thoughts on the link between God & Deism being closer than I might have originally believed. The post was over 2 years ago so a lot of my thinking has changed and e/devolved more. But as I reread the post and as I moderated the comment . . . I had just gotten finished reading, ironically enough, a comment thread on a Lost Spoiler site about a potential spoilerish analogy that one of the sources provided. Don’t worry, I did not list the spoiler. But instead a comment that is one person’s theory of what is happening on the island and in particular between Jacob and the Man in Black (MIB, Esau, Samuel, or whatever else you want to call him).

Something happened in the future regarding time travel and the results are like “letting the genie out of the bottle”, or opening Pandora’s box. You can never again put things back the way they were and can only deal with the consequences of the action. Think of it like a champagne bottle, the escaping bubbles are everywhere and have a will of their own. They really can’t be controlled. So maybe Richard is to be an eternal watcher of time to help at least keep track of the bubbles and avoid future problems.

The analogy to Lost is seen in all the character and story arcs. Once you do something you can’t go back and change it. You have to deal with the consequences, and as Locke was told in his vision, “clean up your own mess.”

Jacob is trying to fix it by giving people (bubbles) nudges and free will to carry on with at least one, new timeline. MIB is trying to keep what is left in the bottle, but setting it upright and pop as many escaping bubbles as he can to reduce the chaos of all that exploding champagne.

So whatever happened, happened – the uncorking of the champagne- and now our losties have to clean up their own mistakes while trying to help contain all those bubbles to create a new timeline.

I’m fairly confident this is not going to happen on LOST, but I think the implications of this thought are very closely tied to my evolving thoughts on the nature of good and evil and the role that humanity plays in choosing and creating “new timelines”. Teasing out the implications of this champagne bottle analogy with an exploding cork marry quite nicely for me my thoughts on God, deism, and science.