{"id":2422,"date":"2009-04-01T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/04\/lost-untangled-whatever-happened-happened-april-fool\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:56:00","slug":"lost-untangled-whatever-happened-happened-april-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/04\/lost-untangled-whatever-happened-happened-april-fool.html","title":{"rendered":"Lost Untangled: Whatever Happened, Happened (April Fool?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s the latest installment of Lost Untangled, entertaining as always.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/widgets.abc.go.com\/o\/48bda4baaf82f1d1\/49d426845a7ae4fa\/48bda4baaf82f1d1\/e58a2f64\/-cpid\/af60537961e61d01<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/lost-ben-vs-the-universe.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/who-is-charles-widmore.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">clue<\/a> in tonight\u2019s episode [Spoiler Alert] was the reference to Charles and Ellie still being on the island at this stage, among the Others in a leadership position, although Richard Alpert says he doesn\u2019t answer to them. I had always assumed that Charles Widmore was behind the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Dharma<\/a> Initative all along, and that is still possible, although perhaps it is more likely that his family is involved (perhaps his \u201cbad twin\u201d?). But even more likely, perhaps, is that Charles Widmore collaborates with the Hanso Foundation and other Dharma Initative sponsors after being tricked into leaving the island, as he seeks to find a way to get it back.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably the temple will do to Ben what it did to Rousseau\u2019s companions? I found the reference to a loss of innocence interesting. There have occasionally been hints of \u201cEden\u201d in discussion of the show, and just recently I found myself wondering whether we have not been given an important clue that Desmond is \u201cAdam\u201d, since he\u2019s the only character we\u2019ve encountered running around paradise <i>naked<\/i>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5778612257963498818?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the latest installment of Lost Untangled, entertaining as always. http:\/\/widgets.abc.go.com\/o\/48bda4baaf82f1d1\/49d426845a7ae4fa\/48bda4baaf82f1d1\/e58a2f64\/-cpid\/af60537961e61d01 Perhaps the most interesting clue in tonight\u2019s episode [Spoiler Alert] was the reference to Charles and Ellie still being on the island at this stage, among the Others in a leadership position, although Richard Alpert says he doesn\u2019t answer to them. 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