re: Finished Lost

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Re: leaving the island

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If the island is purgatory, then leaving the island was a fiction. There is no way to leave purgatory. The people outside of the island were just the reality the Oceanic 6 created. To give an analogy, were all the people in the flashsideway dead (jacks kid, locke's wife, everyone they interact with)? Or was the flashsideway just a fiction, that they had to wake up from.

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Re: they were dead, then died again to be more dead?

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Different levels of moving on. If you think the flashsideway is a staging area before moving on, then the island serves a similar role. To get to the flashsideway, you had to let go or be ready to move on from the island. If we think of purgatory, it's a holding area. That's the island. Then, the flashsideway is like a staging area before moving on to their final destination. Think inception, different levels.

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Re: the mercenaries

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Yes, they were dead when they came to the island. If you go to the island, you are dead. How else would you get to purgatory.

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So what you are saying is that they all die, and then in their deadness, they come to the island and in the case of most of them....THEY DIE AGAIN

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They were dead on arrival. And death on the island only signifies release to the next plane of afterlife. Think about the struggle each had before giving into their purpose. They each also had to face their past on the island.

Don't we also see the mercenaries in the flashforward? And they get killed by Sayid. Did they die and die again?

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