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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin

"Naturally the common people do not want war, neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Hermann Göring

"It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy… The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States."
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

"Whate'ers begun in anger ends in shame."
Benjamin Franklin

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
Benjamin Franklin

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
American Proverb

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
J.R.R. Tolkien

"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always."
Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Re: Shameless (but Lost-related!) self-promotion (in LOST - ABC TV) >None of the other "mysterious islands" commonly considered antecedents for Lost's Island--Verne's The Mysterious Island, the island of Shakespeare's The Tempest (and the Forbidden Planet of film), Lemuria, Mu, Atlantis, and so on--were alive in a... read more

discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 6:27 PM

Re: moving the island... (in LOST - ABC TV)
>In the Season 3 finale Ben told Richard to lead the Others to "the Temple." In "Meet Kevin Johnson" this season, Ben gives Alex a map and sends her to "the Temple."<

Good point; perhaps the Temple is located up atop the jutting crag. That wo... read more

discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 4:17 PM

Re: moving the island... (in LOST - ABC TV) @bundt-
"Seem? That's exactly what he's doing. I really didn't think there was any question."

Well, perhaps I am just being dense --neither the first nor last time, fer sure-- but I still wonder about these points. For these reasons:

If mov... read more

discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 3:09 PM

Re: moving the island... (in LOST - ABC TV)
So, does it seem Ben is sending John Locke down into the Orchid station Time-Tunnel control room to flip whatever switch it is which sets in motion "moving" the island? As he steps forward from instructing Locke in the lore of elevator switch ac... read more

discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 12:58 PM

Re: Abaddon as the Big Bad Evil (in LOST - ABC TV) "Maybe Paik was sending the watch to Abaddon. The big A does seem to hang out in America more so than Widmore"

With ref to the Madonna song, to me Widmore seems much more a material girl liv'in in a material world than does the Big A.

Paik ... read more

discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 9:12 AM

Monty Python's Parrot Squawks Once Again (in Owned By Parrots)
Ha! We knew it all along, we did! The Norwegian Blue is just the most recent in a lonnnnng and illustrious line 'o proud parrot parentage.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...1733.ece

Eat yer hearts out, ye Johnny-... read more

discussion post on Thu, May 15, 2008 - 11:41 PM

Re: Abaddon as the Big Bad Evil (in LOST - ABC TV) Yes, they are like another set of twins in a way (both dark, in this case -so who would their light opposites be?)

I've wondered if Sun's ultra-rich Korean mafia businessman dad Mr. Paik was sending the extremely valuable watch on Jin's wrist ... read more

discussion post on Thu, May 15, 2008 - 5:41 PM

Re: So...what IS Abaddon's deal, anyway? (in LOST - ABC TV) @ Sonya L

The association of darkness with bad/evil and light with good might not be so much arbitrary as rooted in human origins and biology. We are diurnal animals --originally of the warm tropics-- highly dependent upon vision for sensing, n... read more

discussion post on Wed, May 14, 2008 - 7:54 PM

Re: The Lady is a Liar, Yes? (in LOST - ABC TV)
Interestingly, the real Hawking --the wheelchair-bound and brilliant cosmologist-physicist-mathematician who holds Issac Newton's post-- has just gone on a walkabout to Africa.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...8385.... read more

discussion post on Wed, May 14, 2008 - 7:18 PM

Re: So...what IS Abaddon's deal, anyway? (in LOST - ABC TV)
@ Sonya L : "...black and white is only the province of games and stories. I've long felt that it was a red herring trying to sort out "good" from "evil" when those terms can only ever be relative...a fact that this show has always woven into it... read more

discussion post on Wed, May 14, 2008 - 4:51 PM

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