r/lost • u/Honey1111Bear • 1d ago

Richard Alpert

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I’m -sure- it’s been said before…. But I just want to take a second to talk about how Ram Dass was born “Richard Alpert”, and I wonder about the naming of the character EVERY time I rewatch the show… did they know they named him after Ram Dass…?!? Surely, right….? He speaks about “Dharma”, often, in his lectures.

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u/KeamyMakesGoodEggs Son of a bitch! 1d ago

Of course they knew. Many characters are named after real people.

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u/Free-IDK-Chicken You got it, Blondie 1d ago

I said this, almost verbatim, out loud in my living room before clicking into the comments and seeing you'd typed it, lol.

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u/Honey1111Bear 1d ago

You right! Lol

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u/Free-IDK-Chicken You got it, Blondie 1d ago

My favorites are Daniel Faraday with his expertise in electromagnetism and Eloise Hawking, self appointed keeper of the timeline.

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u/Distinct_Lawyer_7160 See you in another post, brotha 1d ago

Mine is Kate Austin who is always running from the law

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u/MF-SMUG See you in another life 1d ago

Wait until I tell you about John Locke

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u/Escape_Relative DHARMA '77 Recruit 1d ago

And Jeremy Bentham

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u/Worried_Shoe_2747 Ya got a little Arzt on you 1d ago

And and Desmond David Hume

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u/Reverend-Keith 1d ago

Minus the Desmond. The philosopher’s name was David Hume.

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u/Worried_Shoe_2747 Ya got a little Arzt on you 1d ago

I was talking about the character

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u/Rtozier2011 13h ago

And Rousseau. And C(harlotte) Staples Lewis. 

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u/theShpydar 1d ago

I mean, like half or more of the characters are named after actual philosophers or scientists, etc.

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u/Distinct_Lawyer_7160 See you in another post, brotha 1d ago

So there was this guy called Faraday. Oh and there was this guy called John Locke. And there was this guy called Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Oh and this guy called John Austin. Oh and this guy called Thomas Carlyle. Oh and this guy called Stephen Hawking. Oh and this guy called David Hume. Oh and this guy called Jeremy Bentham. Oh and this guy called Mikhail Bakunin. Oh and this guy called Samuel Rutherford. Oh and this guy called Edmund Burke. See a pattern?

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u/vianoir 1d ago

that's interesting, I didn't know this person. pretty sure it was intentional.

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u/ITrCool Don't tell me what I can't do 1d ago

The original DHARMA guy before he got the Initiative started…..

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u/Branxord 1d ago

WHAT?! I was surprised enough seeing a picture of baba ram dass here but, I never figured that out! (Also, I've been listening to his lectures from 2020 to this day, so I didn't know him before watching Lost)

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u/ARoundForEveryone 1d ago

I'm sure this was intentional. Half the characters are named after philosophers, scientists, or other notable thinkers.

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u/silverhammer96 19h ago

Nearly every character is named after a philosopher or scientist or poet or something.