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\"\"<\/a>A religion major who is soon to graduate needed one more credit for this semester and has decided to meet it by doing an independent study\u2026on LOST and religion! There are so many ideas we\u2019ve both had, and so many possibilities. One interesting suggestion is to investigate whether the light-dark polarity that is part of LOST\u2019s mythology and symbolism<\/a> is understood in a good-vs.-evil, Zoroastrian sort of way, or in a Yin-and-Yang, Taoist, balance sort of way. I suspect that the notion of the Force from Star Wars is relevant, since the producers are Star Wars fans, but since there have been interpretations of the Force in both sorts of ways, I\u2019m not sure that sheds much light on the meaning of LOST.<\/p>\n

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What do you think the most interesting and important questions are at the intersection of LOST and religion?<\/div>\n

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