Meet Jeremy Bentham.
Yeah, so JB was a philosopher and John Locke was a philosopher. Here's the real significance:
The REAL Jeremy Bentham requested that his body be put on display in a wooden case for people to gaze upon after he died. Not a statue. His actual body. So it is - you can see it today at the University College London. He died in 1832, you know. This body is truly an antique.
I digress. The body has a wax head, because Bentham's real head was damaged in the preservation process. The real head used to be in the case with Jeremy, but students at the college kept pulling pranks with it so it had to be put in a secure location somewhere.
They still pull old Jeremy Bentham out for important meetings, where they list him as "present but not voting."
Gross. But... does this mean John Locke is made of wax? Maybe it's not really John Locke who is dead? Who knows what this means. But to me, that's the most interesting factoid about Jeremy Bentham... NOT the fact that he was a philosopher.
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You miss the point of the two names. John Locke and Jeremy Bentham had opposing views.
omgsh lost is so confusing only the one writer knows the ending to the whole show...the other writer or the actors have no cluse what the ending is.....i heard that all the actors from lost meet up every week to watch the episode together and try to figure it all out
clue* sorry