We have a discussion group at work. I've been harping the DHARMA/Widmore conncetion for years. Season 5 seemed to be the proof they all needed to finally tell me I was wrong. I relented for a week, but then I went back to it. How else would DHARMA have found the island?
Here's the rest of my theory: The Island has some kind of purpose to prevent the end of the world or something. The others, lead by Jacob, are there to protect the island so that it can play its part. However, Widmore began to think that the island wouldn't play this part on its own, so he co-founded or brought DHARMA to the island so that they could figure out how to control the island to MAKE it play its part. MIB and anyone associated with him would want to prevent it... but the others/DHARMA (Ben/Widmore) are on the same side, they just can't agree on how to go about it.
I am on facebook from time to time, but I can't get to it from work. *blush* So, sorry.
Also, it's 2003, right? The crash was in Sep 2003. It was Dec 2003 when Keamey and the freighter showed up, and Jan 2004 when the Oceanic Six were resuced? And then the non6 went back 30 years to 1974 and then lived there for three years until 1977. The six also lived 3 years off island before returning in 2007?
Juliet was already dead, while Sayid was alive (barely). Can't baptize dead people! ;-)
Paul would disagree with you: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/1_Corinthians#15:29
:)
Interesting how erasing the Island from existence since 1977 would change THAT much of random peoples' lives. Desmond I can understand, but why wouldn't Christian's body be on the plane, who had no contact with the Island previously? Same with Locke's knives. How did Hurley win the same lottery if he didn't know The Numbers? Chance? Fate?
If it's "fate" or "Jacob" that brings them to the island (it can't just be cause and effect... there's too much interleaving of their lives for that) then fate will course correct and bring them to the island in some other way.
Soo... I think I asked this before but I'm going to clarify it this way... is Lost2007 the future of Alt2003? Could it be that Alt2003 ends up with them coming back to the island under different circumstances? Probably not- especially given the underwater state of the island in Alt2003. But then what is Lost2007? It's not the future of Jack&CoInhabited1977, is it ? I thought Alt2003 was the future of that 1977, and I've already convinced myself that it's not the future of Alt2003. Well, it has to be the future of that 1977 to some degree because of the picture that Christian showed Sun. But would they really still build the Swan Station if the effect of the bomb was as destructive as intended? Is the whole that Juliet was in the result of the 1977 incident, or Desmond's 2003 implosion of the hatch?
My guess is that everything up to Faraday deciding that time actually can be changed is the history of both Lost2007 and Alt2003. Everything after that decision is only the history of Alt2003, and the explosion at the Swan kicked the losties back to their original, unmodied 2007 and at the same time created the Alt2003 universe.