Re: 4th Season Lost - Meet Kevin Johnson - 5 star poll - SPOILERS

On Mar 27, 5:18 am, dgates <dga...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:24:38 -0000, pv+use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (PV) wrote:
> >"Steven L." <sdlit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >>And please don't tell me you think Ben just made up that story.  We
> >>can't just pick and choose those parts of the Lost mythology we want
to
> >>believe in, and dismiss the other parts as "long cons" or lies, just
> >>because they don't fit our theories.
>
> >Oh yes we can! Nothing can be considered fact until we've seen it in
3rd
> >person. There is absolutely no reason to believe a word out of Ben's
mouth,
> >if you don't have secondary proof that it's true.
>
> I agree.  I think the show made a mistake when it had Ben declare "My
> name is Ben Linus, and I was born on this island," when we later learn
> that not only wasn't he born on the island, but he didn't have any
> reason to lie about it in the first place.

Unless he means something else by "born".

A lot of arguments in this newsgroups deal in absolutes, which I think
is shaky since there's a LOT of show left, and we know practically
nothing about how the Island really works.