Some things that I learned/thought about now that I saw how many people were searching my site for LOST answers:

1. Whisky is what you’d call it if you were a Scotsman.
2. McCutchen was a guy from the Civil War. (He was promoted to Captain in the Ohio army in 1861. No mention of whiskey.) But MacCutcheon is what’s on the label that Desmond holds.
3. Aldo, the guard for the Others, was reading A Brief History of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking. Black Holes…the Black Hole with Maximillian and V.I.N.C.E.N.T…20,000 Leagues Under the Sea…Hermann Weyl thought of Wormholes and time conundrums in 1921 when researching electromagnetism…Swan station, where Desmond stayed, was experimenting in electromagnetism (the plane falling from the sky, right?)…time travel caused by magnets?
4. Desmond Hume is struggling through the same stuff that David Hume wrote about. Desmond thinks that he can change the future, or at least delay it. He keeps trying to save people, even though he knows that they will die. The crazy jeweler has the same type of time travel stuff and lets the guy die, knowing that he would die some other way, too (she’s seen them all, which suggests that she tried to help in the past). This lends itself to fatalism and a, “Meh.” outlook on life.
5. David Hume was Scottish as well. He was influenced by John Locke (a character’s name on LOST as well as a philosopher).
6. David Hume believed that causation was dumb.
7. Okay, so I may have oversimplified that. David Hume thought that causation lead to unmet expectations. Events are not connected to each other (Event A happens and so then Event B happens). They are merely random experiences. He argued against induction. Just because the sun rose yesterday does not mean it will rise today. Too many assumptions.
8. He was a nihilist who also said there was no designer of the universe because the designer would need a designer (and on into infinity). (Because there can’t be anything outside of the universe. I’m glad that the true designer is also an interacter even though he is beyond design. There is a distinction between creator and created. When we get to Heaven, we still won’t know everything because we’re not God. We’ll still learn, and imagine what we’ll learn, because we’re still human. We won’t angelfy or anything. (Yet we know some things now that the angels don’t know.))
9. Like Francis Galton (the Nazi-inspiring eugenicist) and Charles Darwin, David Hume had some interesting words to say about other races. Here’s from his essay, “Of Natural Characters”:
   (Begin non-Booyor sanctioned quote)
   “I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences. On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the whites, such as the ancient Germans, the present Tartars, have still something eminent about them, in their valour, form of government, or some other particular. Such a uniform and constant difference could not happen, in so many countries and ages, if nature had not made an original distinction betwixt these breeds of men. Not to mention our colonies, there are Negroe slaves dispersed all over Europe, of which none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity; tho’ low people, without education, will start up amongst us, and distinguish themselves in every profession. In Jamaica indeed they talk of one negroe as a man of parts and learning; but ‘tis likely he is admired for very slender accomplishments, like a parrot, who speaks a few words plainly.”
   (End non-Booyor sanctioned quote)
   But he doesn’t support slavery. He just sees them as a separate species. Yeah, thanks, buddy.
10. Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Christiaan Barnard, and Ernest Everett Just could school him.
11. Hopefully Desmond (now my favorite character, since Mr. Eko died (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje played a character in ABC’s re-telling of 20,000 leagues under the sea)(where there was another character named MacCutcheon) does not share the same views as David Hume.
12. Desmond is living life upside down and backwards after being re-born-ish when blown out of the hatch. The polar bear comes back in the painting, the Buddha statue is upside down, and ‘ETSAMAN’ shows up again. (‘Namaste’ backwards.)
13. Mittelos is the name of the research group that approaches Juliet in the first episode of the season. ‘LOST time’, anyone? Mittelos also means ‘indigent’ – without material wealth – in German. Yeah, you can start laughing. It’s a Saturday.
14. ‘Namaste’ can mean:

• The Spirit in me meets the same Spirit in you.
• I greet that place where you and I are one.
• I salute the Light of life in you.
• I receive the free spirit in you.
• I recognize that within each of us is a place where peace dwells, and when we are in that place, we are One.
• My energy salutes your energy.
• The life in me sees and honors the life in you.
• May the life within you be strong.
• The light within me sees and honors the light within you.

Dark matter may have been found.

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1. Pigeon Meteorite and McCutchen Whiskey
2. Open Source: Part the First, Being Free and Things Concerning Free
3. LOST: Apollo Candy
4. Captain Mal was on Lost
5. Free stuff