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I have been struggling with direction lately… Not sense of direction, but direction in life. I haven’t felt happy with where I’m at right now and it’s reflecting in everything I do and all my relationships. I’m not real sure where I’m trying to get to with my life right now and this lack of direction has made me question things more than usual. I think it is also responsible for a lack of motivation in doing things that are easily accomplished. Life without direction is hard, I hope I find it soon…
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I have major issue with the fact that we are really doing nothing to help a population nearly in ruin. Especially a population that is critical in our attempt to beat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. If we do not provide boots on the ground American Aid, the Taliban will and they will take the opportunity we haven’t to gain the trust of the Pakistani people. As much as we may not wish to spend the money or provide the support, it is a strategic necessity in this situation.
We have promised more than anyone else to date (150 million and 12 helicopters), but this really isn’t enough in any way shape or form. This is the opportunity the Taliban need to gain territory in Pakistan and further there attempts at over throwing that government. Just in case you forgot, that is a nuclear country; making this a crisis of not just Pakistan, but one of global and more specifically US security.
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You never know how exactly you effect people. The smallest action that really means nothing to you can be that big difference to someone else…
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Clear skies
They seem to run forever until you cross the horizon and run into a storm.
Have I reached the horizon? I’m not really sure, but I see a storm and I’m not sure if I’m in that storm or if it is floating on by.
I’m lost in my own mind that is both clear and stormy. I feel the rain falling but I’m not really wet. Or maybe I am and I just haven’t seen myself in any of the mirrors in this maze that is my own head.
Maybe I am the Storm…
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Here is a thought on the show I recently read. Thought I’d pass it on. Attempts to explain the significance of the Island, it’s properties, and why it was important to save. Which, along with the themes of Faith v Science, love, redemption and second chances, it was an integral part of he show.
In the Island is a river. This river runs from its source in high ground (one of the large hills), down into a valley, and then into an underground cave. There it cascades over a waterfall, and builds up into a pool, the Source Pool. Here it mixes with The Light, and flows out towards the sea through an underground river. As it flows out to sea, it mixes with sea water and dissipates across the world, into the clouds, and into all the water of the world, eventually passing into the bodies of all people and animals.
The Light is the currency of time. Although light in general is a wave, The Light is a fluorescent particle, which dissolves in water. The Light allows all events to occur. It is time itself. The particles of The Light do not have a fixed time and space. This is their power, that they can slide backwards and forwards without a linear progression. Without The Light, time stops and nothing can live, or die. It has incredible high electromagnetic properties, which cause people and animals in close proximity to become unhinged in time, in high enough doses. As the Mother says to Jacob and MiB, it brings life and death. The Source Pool in the cave is where all The Light in the world comes from, and thus is the source of time.
When the water leaves the Source Pool, it travels through a river to the coast, under various parts of the Island. Many of these places were located by the various inhabitants of the Island including The Others, Jacob and his brothers people and Dharma. These include The Swan Hatch, The Orchid and the various wells. At these locations, the electromagnetism is at a relatively safe level compared with the Source Pool, and experiments can take place. The sea around the island has an abnormally high amount of The Light in it. This is why there is a time delay when Faraday sends his rocket from the Freighter to the Beach.
At some point, the Man in Black (MiB) discovered if he altered the flow of the river he could unhinge the Island in time. He created the wheel under the future site of The Orchid, and created a series of locks to dam the water and redirect it. The wheel controlled this movement.
When the stream is blocked, The Light is contained inside the Island. This means the rest of the world stops moving through time (something that the rest of the world would not experience, you could only view it if you were on the Island). The Island, however, would keep progressing.
The detonation of Jughead in 1977 was always meant to happen. This is why The Swan exists in the first place, and the remains of it still exist when the Losties are send back to the Present (which occurs due to their exposure to a very high concentration of The Light). The bomb caused the underground river to be revealed. This means a high concentration of The Light would be released all the time, which would be dangerous. The Swan hatch is the nearest known source to the Source Pool. This is known because the bamboo forest is close to the beach (as its where Jack woke up), and the Swan is fairly close also (close enough for John and Boone to get from there back to the beach quite quickly).
The Dharma initiative could have just plugged the breach, but they wanted to experiment on it, due to it’s concentrated nature (far more concentrated than The Orchid). They put scientists into the Swan, and quarantined them in, telling them that the air was poisoned. After the Purge, the Swan scientists carried on without the knowledge of the purge, as they were locked inside. The supply drops are drops sent using The Orchid. Using the power of The Light, during a lockdown event, a message is sent back in time to the 1970s Orchid, who send a supply drop forward in time to the source of the message.
Every 108 minutes the button must be pressed to diffuse the build up of The Light and allow the river to carry on running. The fail-safe detonates via implosion the mechanism Dharma set up for the experiments, removing the danger but destroying The Swan. It was put there just in case the experiments got out of control. When Oceanic flight 815 flew overhead during event, The Light seeped upwards as electromagnetic waves which ripped the plane apart, causing the crash. The same light also brought the survivors down to the ground in a fairly safe manner, explaining why so many people survived a pretty horrific plane crash. A similar thing happened when Juliet was pulled down into the Swan construction site in the 1970s, which is why she survived.
When Ben turned the wheel, he knocked it off axis. This meant the The Light was still moving out from the Island, but inconsistently. The Island jumped through time, as it’s relative position with the rest of the world was in constant flux. When Locke moved the wheel, it restored the flow, but being in close proximity to The Light (which happens during the turning) moved him in spacetime (to Tunisia).
The sickness is caused by people drinking the water downstream from the Source Pool. This water has a high concentration of The Light, and can cause people to become unhinged from time and, from their point of view, reality, causing insanity.
At exactly the right concentration, drinking The Light can make you have supernatural powers. These include the ability to accelerate and control healing (Jacobs touching Locke helped repair a lot of the damage of his fall) and the ability to stop the visible effects of aging. When a Guardian (Mother, Jacob, Jack) pass on the torch to the next Guardian, they drink from a part of the stream very nearby to the Source Pool. In this water is the correct concentration of The Light required. The touch of the previous Guardian seals the deal, and grants you the same power (which lasts forever, or at least until all of The Light has left your body).
If The Light goes out (it stops being mixed with the river in the Source Pool), time in the outside world slows down to a halt (once all of the current Light has been used up). However, because all the particles are connected, extinguishing The Light also means that The Guardian will lose his or her powers, making them mortal.
When Desmond removed the stone and the water stopped mixing with The Light, the Island started to sink. This is because the Island is a separate entity from the Earths crust - the only way which it can move (if it was a joined entity, it wouldn’t be able to move independently). It stays afloat because it is constantly moving.
Because Kate kills MiB, all the events leading up to her doing that have to happen. Therefore, for the continuation of The Light, all of the people who effected her and caused her to walk that path on the Island must live. These are the names of the candidates that Jacob found. They are the people who collectively will kill the evil on the Island.
Because he knows this, Jacob allows the candidates to chose. They can be the Guardian if they like, it doesn’t matter who does it, as he knows together they will win his war against his brother. This is how Jacob won.
Because of their services to protecting The Light, and for the sacrifices they make, Jacobs final gift was to use the last of his power, as he died, to move all the dead candidates into a parallel universe which exists as if The Light had gone out, and they never had contact with the Island, or Jacob. This flash sideways universe is slowly dying as The Light is not being replaced. As more and more of the candidates die, they all move into the universe. When Jack dies, he moves into that universe too.
After Jacks, Hurley and Ben continue to run the island, and look after it for many centuries, until Hurley uses the same foresight as Jacob to create a new list of candidates who will protect the island from evil. He allows people to come and go from the island, something which Jacob never allowed. When eventually Hurley and Ben die, all of the candidates are now in the sideways time line, and their memories begin to be awoken. Because the time line is unhinged in time, they all start the time line at the same time (September 22nd 2004), but all leave the main time line at different times (their deaths).
Once they all remember, and choose to leave (Jacobs gift) they can pass into The Light. They are absorbed by The Light, and finally are at peace.
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Lately I keep coming back to the concept of what I’m going to do when I get out of the military. I don’t think I want to become just another government contractor. I am leaning towards becoming a teacher or Real Estate Broker… both things I enjoy doing on some level and think I would be successful at. I’m on that downhill slope to 20 now and hope that I’ve made up my mine at some point in the next 9 years.
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…Was my first time to do an airport standby. It’s basically just wandering around Ops, trying to kill time, and praying that they will (not) pull you out for a flight. I had to get up at 4am, shower, get in full uniform and make-up, and have a readily packed cabin bag. Briefing manager said I…
I love the thought about Bahrain being artificial. As much as I love it here and consider it my home, I really think this place is like limbo. An awesome stopover where we meet different kinds of people and experience things we otherwise wouldn’t have experienced. Once our time is up, we say our see you laters and go on our merry ways.
I agree to some extent… while you are in Bahrain it sometimes seems like the rest of your life is on hold… it’s kinda like flying and the airline losing half of your luggage.
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