Science Saturday: Religion, Sex, and the Internet (John Horgan & George Johnson)

[Jyminee]

Your (and your girlfriend's) interpretation of the Lost finale is wrong. The island wasn't purgatory--everything that happened on the island happened. But the "flash sideways" universe was a sort of purgatory--it was created in a timeless realm after all the characters had died, as Christian Shepherd said, some before Jack, some long after.