{"id":3534,"date":"2008-08-16T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-whispers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T01:01:00","slug":"lost-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-whispers.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Whispers"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravenscraft.org\/wp-stuff\/waltfirst.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ravenscraft.org\/wp-stuff\/waltfirst.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>I\u2019ve now watched into season 2 of LOST, up to the first episode I ever saw, if I remember correctly: \u201cThe Other 48 Days\u201d. One of the mysteries that becomes more prominent in this season, but has been there from <a href=\"http:\/\/lost.wikia.com\/wiki\/Whispers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">early on<\/a>, is the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longlostlist.net\/listforum\/major_arcana\/whispers\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">whispers<\/a><\/em>. They seem to accompany the movement of the Others, but also the manifestation of the island in the smoke monster or dead and missing individuals.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There have been several attempts to decipher the voices, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpedia.com\/wiki\/Whisper_transcripts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">transcripts<\/a> of the results have been <a href=\"http:\/\/lostwhispering.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted<\/a>. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The producers of LOST <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.thefuselage.com\/showthread.php?t=55358\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">seem to know <\/a>that die-hard fans will analyse, dissect, and <a href=\"http:\/\/lostwhispering.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">disseminate<\/a> information on the tiniest details of the show. And so one wonders whether the fact that the whispers consist of multiple overlapping tracks of voices is in fact <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.thefuselage.com\/showthread.php?t=55358\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">significant<\/a>, or just a means to produce the desired sound. Since the latter seems more likely, one explanation is that these are snippets of timelines and sounds of individuals moving through, around and outside of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?xml=\/earth\/2007\/09\/21\/sciuni121.xml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">time<\/a>. And the overlaps could suggest that, if it isn\u2019t possible to change the future, or the past, it is possible to create alternative, <a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/parallel-universe.htm\/printable\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">parallel universes<\/a> where something different happens.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is a possibility <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviddarling.info\/discussion\/newsletters_past_14.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">physicists<\/a> have explored, and it was well overdue for it to be turned into a TV show\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1775648830315658574?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve now watched into season 2 of LOST, up to the first episode I ever saw, if I remember correctly: \u201cThe Other 48 Days\u201d. 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