About four days after the crash, the survivors discover that their food is exhausted, and wonder what to do; John Locke, a menacing presence in the background of the previous stories, flings a combat knife at an abandoned plane seat, narrowly missing the head of another castaway (Sawyer), and announces that they should go hunting in the jungle. While the survivors deal with mundane tasks of survival, Locke's background is set forth. Locke is revealed to have been paralyzed and wheelchair-bound prior to the plane crash. Locke had plann ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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Joanna, a character who had not been previously mentioned, drowns in the ocean, despite Boone and Jack's best efforts to save her. They hold a makeshift funeral for her, with the few bits of information they can glean from her few recovered possessions. The survivors' water supply is starting to run low, and they decide to ration the water. After Claire faints in the heat, they discover the last of it has been stolen. Delirious from a lack of sleep, Jack believes he sees his father stalking him from a distance, and forsakes the ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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All are shocked when Jin attacks Michael without warning; Sayid is forced to handcuff him to a portion of the plane wreckage to keep the peace. While the survivors argue whether to stay on the beach — where a rescue party could see them — or move to the cave in the jungle near fresh water, the story of Jin and Sun is revealed in a series of flashbacks. Jin went to work for Sun's father in order to gain his permission to marry her. After working years for her father, Jin returned home late one night, his clothes and hands covered with blo ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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When Shannon's asthma becomes a problem, everyone becomes convinced that Sawyer is hoarding some inhalers from the wreck. Jack and Sayid torture him, but he only agrees to give up the inhalers in return for a kiss from Kate. She kisses Sawyer, after which he reveals that he doesn't have the inhalers after all. Sun helps Shannon by making a eucalyptus salve to clear her bronchial passages. In flashbacks, we learn that Sawyer is a confidence man. His parents were ruined by another grifter named Sawyer, whose name he took as an alias whe ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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On his own, Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. He follows it, is captured, and tortured by a mysterious woman who identifies herself as Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan). It is her voice on the automatically repeating distress call; she seems mentally unbalanced. She claims to have been stranded on the island when a "science expedition" ran aground there. She also claims to have killed most of the other expedition members after they became "infected"—controlled by some sort of disease or mind control (this is v ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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Sawyer has a nightmare about the night when (as a child) he was told by his mother to hide under his bed while she went to the door to tell his father to leave. His father forced his way into the house, kills his mother, sits on the bed the child Sawyer (actually named James) was hiding under, and kills himself, the dream ends. Sawyer then wakes up to find a giant boar in front of him, and it attacks his tent and runs away into the trees taking Sawyer's tarp with it. Sawyer chases after it, and while he is in the jungle he hears whisp ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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After Charlie points out that the people rescued from the island will be surrounded by media scrutiny, Kate asks to be the fourth person on the raft, saying she has sailing experience. Michael refuses, saying the raft is full, with Michael, Walt, Jin, and Sawyer. Michael is subsequently poisoned and after Jack interrogates suspected people including Sawyer and Kate, Sawyer reveals to everyone on the island that Kate is the fugitive the U.S. Marshal was escorting, and blames her for attempting to poison Michael; it is also revealed that she k ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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Rousseau comes to the beach camp to warn the castaways that enemies known only as the "Others" are coming. She tells her story again, and reveals that she was seven months pregnant when she arrived on the island; a week after her baby was born, she was taken by the "Others." She also mentions that the arrival of the "Others" was heralded by a column of black smoke. Rousseau's warning hastens the launch of the raft. As they are pushing the raft towards the sea, Sawyer uses his lever incorrectly, and the mast of the ship is damaged. As ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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An ontological reduction reduces the number of ontological primitives that exist within our ontology. Philosophers welcome this, because every ontological primitive demands a special explanation for its existence. If we maintain that life is not a physical property, for example, then we must give a separate explanation of why some objects possess it and why others do not. This is more often than not a daunting task, and such explanations often have the flavor of ad hoc contrivances or deus ex machina. Also, since every ontologi ...

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Reduction philosophy, Reduction philosophy - Types of reductionism, Reduction philosophy - Types of reduction, Reduction philosophy - Benefits of reduction, Reduction philosophy - Examples, Reduction philosophy - Source

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In a makeshift infirmary tent, Jack is tending to the Marshal who mutters the same thing over and over through his pain: "Don't trust her. She's dangerous." When Jack asks him who "she" is, the Marshal tells him to look in his jacket pocket. Jack looks in the Marshal's wallet and finds a picture of Kate. The "Signal Party" is working their way back down the mountain. It's getting dark and some of them want to make camp for the night. Sawyer wants to press on through the jungle at night, but the others agree that it isn't a very good i ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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Charlie begins a painful journey of withdrawal from drugs, particularly heroin. Locke aides him, although his true motive for helping him remains a mystery. Locke suggests that the two of them go for a walk; that fresh air will do the profusely-sweating Charlie good. In flashbacks, Charlie recalls his glory days playing with his band, Drive Shaft, with his brother, Liam. Charlie is in church, confessing his sins, and when he comes out of the confessional, Liam holds up an envelope and says they've been signed to a record contract and ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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Enthused with his sudden success, Tymiński, who had run as a nonpartisan candidate, decided to found a party of his own, which he called Partia X, with a populist libertarian political profile as diffuse as its name. However, Tymiński's charisma as a self-styled political deus ex machina wore off too quickly to translate into any long-term success; in the 1991 general elections, his "X-Party" achieved just one seat in the Sejm. Tym ...

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Stanisław Tymiński, Stanisław Tymiński - 1990 campaign, Stanisław Tymiński - Partia X, Stanisław Tymiński - 2005 campaign, Stanisław Tymiński - Trivia

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The premise for the series is set forth in an indirect and incomplete manner, which has become the defining style of the series. The 14 principals are briefly introduced. A close-up of an opening eye shows the pupil contracting. The tops of trees in a bamboo grove are seen through the eyes of a man (who is later identified as Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox)) lying on his back in the jungle. A Golden Labrador Retriever dog trots past through the trees. Obviously confused to how he arrived there, the man gazes about at the idyllic surroundi ...

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Episodes of Lost season 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Pilot: Part 2, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Tabula Rasa, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Walkabout, Episodes of Lost season 1 - White Rabbit, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - House of the Rising Sun, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Moth, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Confidence Man, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Solitary, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Raised by Another, Episodes of Lost season 1 - All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Whatever the Case May Be, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Hearts and Minds, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Special, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Homecoming, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Outlaws, Episodes of Lost season 1 - ... In Translation, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Numbers, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Deus Ex Machina, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Do No Harm, Episodes of Lost season 1 - The Greater Good, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Born to Run, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Part 1, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Trivia, Episodes of Lost season 1 - Exodus: Parts 2 and 3

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Like other magical objects in stories, magic rings serve to excuse some impossible event, which the story teller wishes to place in the plot. Normally magic rings either are used as a way to begin a plot or to end it. In modern fantasy, roughly half the time a magic ring occurs it is used by the author as a means for the ordinary protagonist to enter the fairytale world. Roughly the other half of modern fiction, magic rings are used as a "deus ex machina", or a plot-cheat, for the author to solve an apparently im ...

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Magic ring, Magic ring - Types of Magic Rings, Magic ring - Function in the Story, Magic ring - Magic Rings in Mythology and Folklore, Magic ring - Magic Rings in Fairytales and Modern Fantasy

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In the Star Trek fictional universe, tachyons are frequently invoked to explain some aspect of the Romulan cloaking device. Cloaked ships have been detected by watching them pass through a tachyon beam, essentially creating a faster-than-light burglar alarm. Tachyons are among the fictitious or hypothetical particles frequently invoked in treknobabble, often as a deus ex machina used to maintain the plot. Ships using imperfect cloaking devices are also implied to produce residual tachyon emissions, such as in the film Star Trek: Nemesis. Tachyons are shot at ships, forcing its crew to reset the ...

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Tachyon, Tachyon - Basic properties from a special relativity perspective, Tachyon - Causality, Tachyon - Field and string theories, Tachyon - Tachyons in fiction

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Steamboy - Cat's Cradle. There are elements that bear a certain similarity to Kurt Vonnegut's 1964 Cat's Cradle, such as a respected scientist who helps develop a new and potentially dangerous source of power, the transgenerational relay of techno-political responsibility, an artificial fuel which is an alternative structure of water (and which also catalyzes the molecules of liquid water into a solid ice), and a fictional island as a Deus ex machina.

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Steamboy, Steamboy - Thematic Style, Steamboy - Nods, Steamboy - Cat's Cradle, Steamboy - Laputa, Steamboy - The Rocketeer, Steamboy - Characters, Steamboy - James Ray Steam, Steamboy - Lloyd Steam, Steamboy - Edward Steam, Steamboy - Scarlett O'Hara, Steamboy - Jason, Steamboy - Alfred, Steamboy - Freddie, Steamboy - Robert Stephenson, Steamboy - David, Steamboy - Archibald Simon, Steamboy - Plot summary, Steamboy - Easter Eggs, Steamboy - Scarlet O'Hara, Steamboy - Coronation Street

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The game is built based on a modified Unreal engine and Deus Ex is seen as combining a variety of gaming genres. The game featured environments often drawn from real locations, including a severely damaged Statue of Liberty, Hell's Kitchen in New York City, and the Wan Chai District in Hong Kong, among others. It was also notable for the complex tactical possibilities, where players could choose many different ways of achieving evolving goals, including stealth (akin to Thief), long-range sniping, all-out combat with various heavy weapons, character interaction, bypassing devices, computer hacking an ...

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Deus Ex, Deus Ex - Etymology, Deus Ex - Overview, Deus Ex - Dating, Deus Ex - Real world parallels, Deus Ex - Trivia, Deus Ex - Characters, Deus Ex - Theme music

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InuYasha - Inuyasha's Group. Inuyasha (犬夜叉) The male protagonist, a hybrid of a dog demon and a human (called a "hanyōu" in Japanese, meaning half-demon and half-human). He has a tendency for massive regeneration after fights from injuries which would kill most people. It is unknown if this is demon powers or a deus ex machina effect. Kagome Higurashi (日暮かごめ Higurashi Kagome) The female protagonist and a third year middle school student. In th ...

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InuYasha, InuYasha - Overview, InuYasha - Explanation of time travel, InuYasha - Title dispute, InuYasha - Popularity, InuYasha - Characters, InuYasha - Inuyasha's Group, InuYasha - Supporting Characters, InuYasha - Kikyo's Group, InuYasha - Sesshomaru's Group, InuYasha - Naraku's Group, InuYasha - Wolf Tribe, InuYasha - Modern Day People, InuYasha - Shichinintai, InuYasha - Other Characters, InuYasha - Cameo appearances, InuYasha - Anime, InuYasha - Songs, InuYasha - Seasons, InuYasha - Distributors, InuYasha - Games, InuYasha - Notes

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Prana (Sanskrit) [from pra before + the verbal root an to breathe, live]

In theosophy, the breath of life; the third principle in the ascending scale of the sevenfold human constitution. This life or prana works on, in, and around us, pulsating unceasingly during the term of physical existence. Prana is "the radiating force or Energy of Atma -- as the Universal Life and the One Self, -- Its lower or rather (in its effects) more physical, because manifesting, aspect. Prana or Life permeates the whole being of the objective Universe; and is called a 'principle' only because it is an indispensable factor and the deus ex machina of the living man" (Key 176).

In working upon the physical body, prana automatically uses the linga-sarira (model-body) as its vehicle of expression during earth-life. Prana may be said to be the psychoelectric veil or field manifesting in the individual as vitality. The life-atoms of prana fly instantly back, at the moment of physical dissolution, to the natural pranic reservoirs of the planet.

Further, occultism teaches that "(a) the life-atoms of our (Prana) life-principle are never entirely lost when a man dies. That the atoms best impregnated with the life-principle (an independent, eternal, conscious factor) are partially transmitted from father to son by heredity, and partially are drawn once more together and become the animating principle of the new body in every new incarnation of the Monads. Because (b), as the individual Soul is even the same, so are the atoms of the lower principles (body, its astral, or life double, etc.), drawn as they are by affinity and Karmic law always to the same individuality in a series of various bodies, etc. . . ." (SD 2:671-2).

In Sanskrit it refers to the life currents or vital fluids, variously numbered as three, five, seven, twelve, and thirteen. The five life-winds mentioned are samana, vyana, prana, apana, and udana. In this classification prana represents the expirational breath.

Jiva is sometimes used similarly to prana, but strictly prana means outbreathing and jiva means life per se. There is a universal or cosmic jiva or life principle, just as there are innumerable hosts of individualized jivas, which are the atoms of the former, drops in the ocean of cosmic life. These individualized jivas are relatively eternal, and correspond exactly to the term monad. Jiva, without qualification, is of general application; when considered as individualized, these jivas are used in the sense of individual monads; contrariwise, prana is applied to the life-fluid or jivic aura when manifesting in the lower triad of the human constitution as prana-lingasarira-sthulasarira. Hence Blavatsky said that jiva becomes prana when the child is born and begins to breathe.

(See also: Prana, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Supporting characters of Xenogears - Dan. Dan was a mischevous young boy who lived in Lahan village. When his older sister, Alice, died in the Lahan incident, he blamed it on Fei. From that day forward, Dan became Fei's rival, challenging the hero at the Aveh tournament. Dan also has possession of Allice's wedding dress, which he may give to Fei during the tournament. Dan's motivation is for Fei to have it to constantly remind him of what he did to her, however it is an equipable item and a pretty good one in terms of defence for female characters. In dis ...

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Supporting characters of Xenogears - Dan. Dan is a mischevous young boy who once lived in Lahan village. When his older sister, Alice, dies in the Lahan incident, he blames it on Fei. From that day forward, Dan becomes Fei's rival, challenging the hero at the Aveh tournament. Dan also has possession of Allice's wedding dress, which he may give to Fei during the tournament. Dan's motivation is for Fei to have it to constantly remind him of what he did to her, although it does have a positive use. Once the truth behind Fei's Id form is revealed, Dan forgives him. See also:

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