CONCEPT OF TIME PART 2

In modern society, we view time as a linear concept and count it out in order of seconds, minutes, hours, days like, - - - 1, 2, 3, 4.

There is a phrase that states "History repeats itself." We believe that since people are creatures of habit, things do appear to have circular patterns but time itself moves on. But in ancient Mayan culture, they viewed time as literally repeating itself - - - 1, 2, 3, then 1 again. The Mayans believed that a person's life was destined by a predetermined fate. Some scholars now speculate that the Mayan Long Count calendar which ends in 2012 (because of several rare and unique cosmic astronomic events) was actually the beginning point and the Mayan calendars were created going backward from that that End point.

Now taking the concept into the froth of LOST's themes of time, free will and faith: If a person's life is merely a matter of fate, any free will decisions, if any, would not change the outcome. It is like a lab rat running a maze; there may be minor twists or turns and dead ends, but there is only one solution (outcome). If one back tracks in the maze (going back to a point seen earlier in time), WHH is still correct. But WHH does not change the overall structure of the total maze, since even by trial, error or luck the lab rat will finish the puzzle because the End was constructed before the Beginning.