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Okay, I’ve been watching LOST again and this season is even more interesting than the last. Now that they’re in the hatch, we’ve learned about The Dharma Initiative. I find it interesting that the tail section survivors also found a Dharma Initiative compound to live in. Since there are probably six stations (being that the Hatch was the third of six tapes), it makes me wonder if there are six sections of survivors, each at one of the different compounds.

I’m also seriously obsessed with the numbers. If you haven’t been watching, the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42 appear together everywhere in this show.

So I decided to do what I could to try to figure out what I can about these mysterious numbers, though I have a sneaking suspicion they are randomly made up by the writers of Lost.

First of all, I made the numbers into a day. Fourth month of the year, eighth day of the month, and the date. April 8, 1516. Of course that excludes 23 and 42, but I’m clawing at scraps here. On the day of April 8, 1516, a letter was written from a reverand (or priest or something) to his brother, trying to convince him to turn to faith, or he would rot in hell. Turn to faith, that sounds a lot like what Locke is trying to convince Jack to do, does it not?

But alas, what of 23 and 42?

I came up with a new theory, one that used the exact day without excluding any numbers. The space between 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. Between the numbers there are the following spaces: 4, 7, 1, 7, and 19. That makes April 7, 1719. On that day, John-Baptist de la Salle a Priest who later became a saint died. He was known for founding a school that took both school subjects like science and math as well as religion. Man Of Science, Man Of Faith. Sound familiar? Another Locke/Jack relation it would appear.

But finally, I took the total. 108. There is a belief that the number 216 is a holy number. The number 216 applies to very many serious crimes and prominent events throughout all of history. It has been found in holy books, ancient writings and texts, and even the measurings of the Stonehenge.There are entire sites devoted to where it has turned up, and it is unbelievable how often it has. Scientific and Supernatural events alike, as well as days, times, places (longitude, latitude), and parts of scriptures (page numbers and etc) have experienced the power of this number. They believe 216 is being used as a code, but by who or what they don’t know. God, or some other higher power maybe. But many people also believe that sometimes 108 can be a powerful numbers as well, because 108 is half of 216.

Maybe this is one of those times 108 can be powerful.

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