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proximoceptionMy present Lost theory, w/ some debts to Julie and David:
Jacob is an entity that does not exist reaching back in time to ensure his own birth. An instability within reality itself long ago threw a chunk of rule-bending disturbance onto the surface of the earth, which, by creating the possibility of some Entity's gaining infinite power by manipulating the potentially infinite energy caused by the tension between the ordinary course of fate and the contrary influences emanating from the chunk of Something, thereby gave that Entity the ability to climb its way back through the time instabilities caused by that tension into the period in which it does not yet exist so as to work toward ensuring its own eventual existence. If God might exist, God will exist because God both wants to exist and has infinite power, including the power to exist--something along those lines. The existing order is an Esau he's stealing the birthright of or a stranger he's wrestling at night or a ladder he's climbing into his own potential heaven.
The conditions that will allow Jacob to come into being constitute a sort of fate, since they have to happen just right. Jacob speaks to sensitive people, mostly through dreams or through dead loved ones whose corpses have come near the time-disturbing Something and can therefore be maybe'd back into temporary existence, so as to convince those people that this "fate" is desirable or inevitable, often by working on the same guilts and parentlessness that make people susceptible to cult leaders. He has formed something like a cult on the island on which the Something rests, an ancient one if the four-toed statue of the Jacob-to-be is any evidence, the ultimate goal of whom is to breed the very god they worship. The natural order of things seems to reject this effort--fetuses conceived near the Something can't also come to term there. However, the offspring of two people conceived elsewhere but born near the Something (and/or of people conceived near it but born elsewhere) might have just the right combination of natural and unnatural traits to be brought to term without being rejected as viral, thus allowing Jacob into the world officially. Jacob seems to be onto this possibility, hence his interest in children like Aaron & Walt (both of whom have power over fate--Walt called that rare bird by wishing to see it, Aaron lent his mother a similar power in utero as her mother was struck by a car right after she told her she wished she was dead)--and now Sun's daughter.
Something beyond reality itself is fighting Jacob, however--possibly represented by Widmore, evil as he seems, and either stemming from or predating the Dharma Initiative, which either worked against Jacob or was as naive as Ben finds it. A game is being played by two sides, potentially meaning that reality itself is no better than Jacob. Both may be brothers playing a game unfriendly to the human pawns drawn into it. Of course, the world may instead be benevolent, just how things should be.
The Something releases chains of alternate fate into the existing world periodically, which appear as immensely improbable series of coincidences that gather certain people together and transport them to the island, though the world may be resisting these attempts--Jacob's main need is people of a certain kind, but most people who are coincidence-chained into coming to the island are soon killed. Others fight him off, like Mr. Eko, but almost every character who successfully confronts their own demons is then murdered by Jacob, as they are no longer easily duped by him but instead dangerous free agents. Their deaths usually serve some final purpose for him, as though he had some idea when they'd make their breakthroughs--Boone's death reveals the surveillance hatch, Shannon's unites the groups, Anna-Lucia's frees Ben etc.
People very close to the Something chunk when it emanates too much time/fate-bending energy gain the Jacob-like ability to change fate: Desmond has this, making his presence on and absence from the island crucial events for the power game being played--and making his belief in whether he can alter fate by changing his mind also crucial. He must be convinced he can change nothing in order to be controlled--hence the episode with the jewelry shop woman, who's now been revealed as the high priestess of the cult and possibly is Farraday's mother. He was also set up with Penelope as a means of controlling his behavior.
This is probably also why Ben had to leave the island and not come back: he too is now a potential disruptor, someone able to change the course of fate--whether Jacob's version or the real world's.
I forget the rest. Plausible?
Jacob is an entity that does not exist reaching back in time to ensure his own birth. An instability within reality itself long ago threw a chunk of rule-bending disturbance onto the surface of the earth, which, by creating the possibility of some Entity's gaining infinite power by manipulating the potentially infinite energy caused by the tension between the ordinary course of fate and the contrary influences emanating from the chunk of Something, thereby gave that Entity the ability to climb its way back through the time instabilities caused by that tension into the period in which it does not yet exist so as to work toward ensuring its own eventual existence. If God might exist, God will exist because God both wants to exist and has infinite power, including the power to exist--something along those lines. The existing order is an Esau he's stealing the birthright of or a stranger he's wrestling at night or a ladder he's climbing into his own potential heaven.
The conditions that will allow Jacob to come into being constitute a sort of fate, since they have to happen just right. Jacob speaks to sensitive people, mostly through dreams or through dead loved ones whose corpses have come near the time-disturbing Something and can therefore be maybe'd back into temporary existence, so as to convince those people that this "fate" is desirable or inevitable, often by working on the same guilts and parentlessness that make people susceptible to cult leaders. He has formed something like a cult on the island on which the Something rests, an ancient one if the four-toed statue of the Jacob-to-be is any evidence, the ultimate goal of whom is to breed the very god they worship. The natural order of things seems to reject this effort--fetuses conceived near the Something can't also come to term there. However, the offspring of two people conceived elsewhere but born near the Something (and/or of people conceived near it but born elsewhere) might have just the right combination of natural and unnatural traits to be brought to term without being rejected as viral, thus allowing Jacob into the world officially. Jacob seems to be onto this possibility, hence his interest in children like Aaron & Walt (both of whom have power over fate--Walt called that rare bird by wishing to see it, Aaron lent his mother a similar power in utero as her mother was struck by a car right after she told her she wished she was dead)--and now Sun's daughter.
Something beyond reality itself is fighting Jacob, however--possibly represented by Widmore, evil as he seems, and either stemming from or predating the Dharma Initiative, which either worked against Jacob or was as naive as Ben finds it. A game is being played by two sides, potentially meaning that reality itself is no better than Jacob. Both may be brothers playing a game unfriendly to the human pawns drawn into it. Of course, the world may instead be benevolent, just how things should be.
The Something releases chains of alternate fate into the existing world periodically, which appear as immensely improbable series of coincidences that gather certain people together and transport them to the island, though the world may be resisting these attempts--Jacob's main need is people of a certain kind, but most people who are coincidence-chained into coming to the island are soon killed. Others fight him off, like Mr. Eko, but almost every character who successfully confronts their own demons is then murdered by Jacob, as they are no longer easily duped by him but instead dangerous free agents. Their deaths usually serve some final purpose for him, as though he had some idea when they'd make their breakthroughs--Boone's death reveals the surveillance hatch, Shannon's unites the groups, Anna-Lucia's frees Ben etc.
People very close to the Something chunk when it emanates too much time/fate-bending energy gain the Jacob-like ability to change fate: Desmond has this, making his presence on and absence from the island crucial events for the power game being played--and making his belief in whether he can alter fate by changing his mind also crucial. He must be convinced he can change nothing in order to be controlled--hence the episode with the jewelry shop woman, who's now been revealed as the high priestess of the cult and possibly is Farraday's mother. He was also set up with Penelope as a means of controlling his behavior.
This is probably also why Ben had to leave the island and not come back: he too is now a potential disruptor, someone able to change the course of fate--whether Jacob's version or the real world's.
I forget the rest. Plausible?
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Date: 2009-01-26 03:36 am (UTC)