I'm not so certain it's the book itself that's as important as the title, where that phrase originates and how it echoes Jacob's outlook on humanity. Briefly the title is the theme of a religious philosophy describing a spiritual version of evolution. It theorizes, that lower life forms evolve to greater and greater complexity and diversity and now have risen to the level of mankind. Mankind is seen as existing on a plane midpoint between animal and the Godhead. But instead of a biological evolution or diversification, humanity is rising towards, reaching for a convergence, a unification of spirit with God.
Both Jacob and Darkman see us, as at a midpoint between animal savagery and Ultimate Unity as One in the Christ head. Darkman sees us as O'Connor depicts humanity as a grotesque, pitiful, chaotic being that which is stuck in a bleak cycle of sin, violence and anger. Jacob sees us as in an evolution of spiritual progress and holds hope that we will rise towards convergence with the Goodness of God. This is our choice do we wallow in a destined place of no exit or exercise our free will and rise above from whence we came? The Darkman believes we cannot deny the fate and pull of our inner animal; that the physical and the ego will always override the cerebral and the soul.
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The above post was so profound that I felt the need to repeat it here as it bears credence to what many of us sense is the struggle between Jacob and Fake Locke, or Anti-Jacob, or Darkman. Stated so eloquently and clearly that I’m not even going to attempt to rewrite it in my own words, for I cannot.
Both Jacob and Darkman see us, as at a midpoint between animal savagery and Ultimate Unity as One in the Christ head. Darkman sees us as O'Connor depicts humanity as a grotesque, pitiful, chaotic being that which is stuck in a bleak cycle of sin, violence and anger. Jacob sees us as in an evolution of spiritual progress and holds hope that we will rise towards convergence with the Goodness of God. This is our choice do we wallow in a destined place of no exit or exercise our free will and rise above from whence we came? The Darkman believes we cannot deny the fate and pull of our inner animal; that the physical and the ego will always override the cerebral and the soul.
Penny-Ante ABC Lost Message Boards
The above post was so profound that I felt the need to repeat it here as it bears credence to what many of us sense is the struggle between Jacob and Fake Locke, or Anti-Jacob, or Darkman. Stated so eloquently and clearly that I’m not even going to attempt to rewrite it in my own words, for I cannot.
Until I read the above statement, I had been thinking that Jacob and Darkman were arguing apples and oranges. If that is so, then both are correct! It was confuddling me to no end and I felt that it was a cycle that never ended. Round, round we go.
There are only two facts in life that are certain. One is taxes and the other is death. We are born we live, learn and grow toward what end? Tada! The end! That’s it! Death is the end that both Jacob and Anti-Jacob speak of. But we knew that already, right?
However, I had felt that Jacob’s point was this; the journey holds precedence over the destination, and it is in the journey through which humanity grows, and changes until, at the end, their spirituality meets with that of God, converges. As Jacob agreed, it ends only once for each human and anything before that is progress, for it is in the journey in which humanity makes the progress from the base antagonistic animal fighting for survival, to the enlightened being who able to make a choice between remaining in the hole of despair or climbing out and moving on.
For Anti-Jacob, it all ends the same. It doesn't matter to him that when they come, they arrive in a different manner (ship, freighter, outrigger, magic box, plane).
When they fight, it isn't what they are fighting for, but the fact that they fight.When they destroy, it doesn't matter why they destroy. To Anti-Jacob, it will always end the same.
The dictionary defines fate as "that which is inevitably destined, the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably proscribed; the decreed cause of events. I read it as the end.
Fate = the end = death = the destination
Freedom of choice = progress = the journey
It's not the destination that matters but the journey. For without the journey we fail to evolve, we fail to learn from our past experiences and if we fail the journey, it will end the same as those who went before us.
So, that's my take on Jacob and Anti-Jacob's disagreement. They remind me of two boys who have been put into the time out room and told not to come out until they have sorted out their problem. Oh, and they can't physically fight, they must use diplomacy and tact to come to an agreement. Both entrenched in their belief that the other is wrong and there is no compromise to be had. Neither willing to not just hear, but to listen to the other side of the argument.
QUESTIONS:
Has Anti-Jacob become the very thing he despises?
Who or what will be coming, now that it appears Jacob is dead? Is Jacob really dead?
Who will Illana fight for?
What is Frank a candidate for?
Will Sun get angry at Fake John Locke for stringing her along? If she does, will she be the one to end his life? I can see her losing her temper, grabbing the knife from Ben and, since she's seen the corpse, slicing into the impostor. She has a right to be seriously ticked.
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