What is Jacob?
There have been many speculations on Jacob since we heard his name and saw his cabin. Let’s assume that Jacob really exists. When we first saw his cabin, Ben was referring something, just one thing, as Jacob. The theories about Jacob include that Jack, John, Ben, Sawyer, Eloise, Richard, Walt is/will become Jacob. (I used to believe that Jack is Jacob.) Some say that Jacob is the island, an electromagnetic life form or the God. We only know that about Jacob's identity is that he is a mysterious character?
Or is he a character, I mean just one character? We cannot be sure about that. Actually Jacob can be a group of persons/spirits rather than a single person. Jacob can be a senate or committee for the island. This senate, called the Jacob, consists of several spirits who died on the island and maybe some other alive people who are important for the Island. These spirits can be those of dead Others, Dharma members, Black Rock crew, Losties, Henry Gale, Naomi, Yemi and the smugglers, US soldiers, French science team, etc. Maybe all, may some of them are allowed to be members of the Jacob. There can also be alive members of the Jacob, but I cannot speculate more.
The Jacob sometimes selects a representative/spokesperson/leader among its members. The election of this representative can be one of various ways, or it may not be an election at all. The representative/leader has some authorities but he or she is not above the Jacob (the senate) itself. This representative carries out the decisions of the Jacob, but it is the Jacob that takes important decisions related to the island. The representative cannot, of course, be called Jacob since he/she is not; but he/she can speak on behalf of it.
The current representative/leader/spokesperson of the Jacob committee is Christian. Due to some reason, he became representative or was selected to this position after his body crushed to the island. In his life, for a time he was the head of surgery after all, he led some doctors. In the past, there were other representatives of the Jacob. Maybe one of these representatives was the captain of the Black Rock, who also led some people in his life. I mean, Jacob may be selecting its representatives among the ones who was some sort of leader in their lifetime.
If this is the case, why everybody talks about Jacob as he is one person? People refer Jacob as “him”. Ben was calling the being in the cabin as Jacob. Christian said that he could talk on “his” behalf. The reason can be that the Jacob does not want to be fully deciphered. It wants the living humans think that the representative is the Jacob and the representative behaves accordingly. Therefore people who can be in contact with the representative of the Jacob believe that the representative is Jacob. Maybe there are exceptions, like Richard. Maybe Richard is a member of the Jacob and is responsible for deciding who will be the leader of the living community of the island and inspecting the actions of the living leader closely. There may be several reasons why Richard is not the leader of the living himself.
I know there are several blank parts in this theory and some part of it is pure speculation. However, this can be indeed the case and this theory can explain several mysteries about the identity of Jacob and strange things on the island since the Jacob committee can contain members who are bad and good people. Theory by The Inspector
There have been many speculations on Jacob since we heard his name and saw his cabin. Let’s assume that Jacob really exists. When we first saw his cabin, Ben was referring something, just one thing, as Jacob. The theories about Jacob include that Jack, John, Ben, Sawyer, Eloise, Richard, Walt is/will become Jacob. (I used to believe that Jack is Jacob.) Some say that Jacob is the island, an electromagnetic life form or the God. We only know that about Jacob's identity is that he is a mysterious character?
Or is he a character, I mean just one character? We cannot be sure about that. Actually Jacob can be a group of persons/spirits rather than a single person. Jacob can be a senate or committee for the island. This senate, called the Jacob, consists of several spirits who died on the island and maybe some other alive people who are important for the Island. These spirits can be those of dead Others, Dharma members, Black Rock crew, Losties, Henry Gale, Naomi, Yemi and the smugglers, US soldiers, French science team, etc. Maybe all, may some of them are allowed to be members of the Jacob. There can also be alive members of the Jacob, but I cannot speculate more.
The Jacob sometimes selects a representative/spokesperson/leader among its members. The election of this representative can be one of various ways, or it may not be an election at all. The representative/leader has some authorities but he or she is not above the Jacob (the senate) itself. This representative carries out the decisions of the Jacob, but it is the Jacob that takes important decisions related to the island. The representative cannot, of course, be called Jacob since he/she is not; but he/she can speak on behalf of it.
The current representative/leader/spokesperson of the Jacob committee is Christian. Due to some reason, he became representative or was selected to this position after his body crushed to the island. In his life, for a time he was the head of surgery after all, he led some doctors. In the past, there were other representatives of the Jacob. Maybe one of these representatives was the captain of the Black Rock, who also led some people in his life. I mean, Jacob may be selecting its representatives among the ones who was some sort of leader in their lifetime.
If this is the case, why everybody talks about Jacob as he is one person? People refer Jacob as “him”. Ben was calling the being in the cabin as Jacob. Christian said that he could talk on “his” behalf. The reason can be that the Jacob does not want to be fully deciphered. It wants the living humans think that the representative is the Jacob and the representative behaves accordingly. Therefore people who can be in contact with the representative of the Jacob believe that the representative is Jacob. Maybe there are exceptions, like Richard. Maybe Richard is a member of the Jacob and is responsible for deciding who will be the leader of the living community of the island and inspecting the actions of the living leader closely. There may be several reasons why Richard is not the leader of the living himself.
I know there are several blank parts in this theory and some part of it is pure speculation. However, this can be indeed the case and this theory can explain several mysteries about the identity of Jacob and strange things on the island since the Jacob committee can contain members who are bad and good people. Theory by The Inspector
