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108

108 redireciona para cá. Para o episódio "correspondente" ao número, veja "Confidence Man".

108 é a somatória de Os Números.

Isto significa:

4 + 8 + 15 + 16 + 23 + 42 = 108

Ocorrências na Série

Impressão do registo de actividade de episode "?" que mostra incrementos de 108 unidades na base 60

• Número que aparece no mural na estação O Cisne. ("Adrift")
• Número de minutos no relógio do Cisne em contagem decrescente antes dos Números terem de ser inseridos no computador. (Nota: o alarme dispara ao quarto minuto da contagem decrescente, e os Números podem ser inseridos em qualquer momento a partir daí). O relógio regressa a este número logo que os números correctos tenham sido inseridos. Se o contador atingir o zero, um conjunto de hieroglifos aparecem no contador em vez deste número. ("Adrift")  ("Orientation")
• Número que x 5 = 540. 540 é o número de dias que faltam para "o seu substituto" chegar à Escotilha, de acordo com o filme de orientação. ("Orientation")
• Número de respostas das palavras cruzadas ("Collision") de Locke
• Parte da película de vídeo #23108-42 que Kelvin mostra a Sayid. ("One of Them")
• Número na impressão do registo de actividade na Pérola que mostra números que crescem por incrementos de 1:48 na base 60 (que usamos para contar o tempo). Se convertermos 1:48 da base 60 para a decimal chegamos a 108, o que faz sentido, dado que esta é a frequência com a qual o código é inserido. ("?")
• Número de horas entre os intervalos com que as vacinas têm de ser administradas (9 dias). ("Three Minutes")
• No mapa da porta de segurança, o números romano CVIII aparece numa caixa, traduzido para a numeração moderna árabe-hindu, o número CVIII é 108
• Número de batimentos cardíacos de Ben no ECG durante um momento. ("Not in Portland")
• A horas que aparece no relógio digital é 1:08. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")

DHARMA & Significados Religiosos

As it is now clear that the show has a recurring theme of religion, specifically Eastern religion (DHARMA, namaste), it is important to note that the number 108 has great signifance attached in that realm. Note that the religious significance of 108 to many Eastern ideological beliefs also has great impact on their popular culture, as seen in the following "Occurrences outside the show" section.

• There are 108 beads on a mala, used by Buddhists and Hindus for chanting.
• There are "108 Defilements of Buddhism which can be connected to the symbols in the DHARMA logo(s)".
  • More specifically, one of the Buddhist readings of the number 108 is as the quantity of Klesas (mental defilements) according to the Tientai version of the Abhidharma (one of the main Buddhist doctrinary texts) [1].
• A typical Japanese interpretation for the meaning of the number 108, used by both Nichiren and Pure Land schools, is given under "Shoshu Buddhist" (Shoshu is a controversial Nichiren school of Buddhist origins) in [2]:
  • Followers use 108 beads in their malas. They implement the following formula:
  • 6 x 3 x 2 x3 = 108
  • 6 senses [sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, thought]
  • 3 aspects of time [past, present, future]
  • 2 condition of heart [pure or impure]
  • 3 possibilities of sentiment [like, dislike, indifference]
• 6^2 + 6^2 + 6^2 = 108. In common Christian Eschatology, 666 is the Number of the Beast.
• There are 108 beads on a rosary.

Fora da Série & Ocorrências na Vida Real

• On New Years in Japan the church ring a bell 108 times to rid the 108 evils in the body.
• 108 minutes is the time it took Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin to circle around the earth on his first spaceflight.
• In Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "Notes From the Underground" the narrator muses that science will one day teach man that he posesses neither will nor uncontrollable urges and is nothing more than a piano key or organ stop opperating by laws of nature, and that if discovered, these laws could be used to compute human actions mathematically like tables of logarithims up to 108 - 000.
• In Homer's "The Odyssey," Odysseus is forced to fight off 108 suitors when he returns to his wife Penelope.
• It took 108 years to end the Spanish-American War tax. In 2006, the Treasury Dept. ended a 1898 tax to fund the war.
• 108 = 0108 Hebrew Strong's number = mist, vapor of the ground whence clouds are formed, so called from surrounding and covering the earth like a vail. This derivation is confirmed by the Arabic root 'med', which is whatever guards and strengthens anything, defense. Also means atmosphere.
• 1-0-8 is the emergency telephone number in India (such as 9-1-1 is in the USA). A common saying in India is "Dial 108 and save a life".
• The Chinese classic Shui Hu Zhuan there are 108 Stars of Destiny, heroes who band together for the cause of justice.
• In the martial art Wing Chun, each of the 3 forms, and the wooden dummy training traditionally consist of 108 movements.
• There are 108 stitches on a regulation baseball, such as the ones used by the Boston Red Sox.
• On the Lost original television soundtrack the track "Me and my big mouth" is exactly one minute and eight seconds (1:08) long

Links Externos

A list of the significance of the Number 108 (Mostly religious and mystical references)