I'll start with a fairly easy assumption, and then work backwards through some logical steps.
There have been a lot of hints at a Dharma resurgence in the present. Pierre Chang’s video being the most obvious.
So if Dharma’s work must be finished, who completes it but our born leader Jack? For him to do this he had to be able to see the need to do this as being logical. That means learning from Dharma first hand, but since they were dead, he had to go to the past. He got to the past by accepting his fate through influence from Locke. Locke of course influenced Jack through direction from Ben, Christian, Richard, and Widmore, all of whom claim to speak for the Island.
To be able to reconstitute Dharma in the present Jack must get back there. That makes Jin's purpose that of being a lure for sun in the future, which makes Sun's purpose to bring them back.
The point is that in the beginning Dharma was solving a problem. Richard wasn't capable of dealing with it, since being very old he is not technologically savvy, and so the Island lured Dharma to solve the problem. Ben was brought in by the Island as a liason between the Island and Dharma. Ben becomes the island's main contact but is longing for attention and power and so he imprisons the island's good influence in Jacob's cabin, and convinces Richard that the Island now wants Dharma purged. Widmore was the only one who believed that Dharma was in fact necessary and Ben removed him, thus consolidating his power. Widmore then uses the rest of his life influencing the arrival of the Losties and the chain reaction noted in the previous 3 paragraphs.
Ben doesn't realize the true importance of Dharma however, neither does Richard nor Locke. Widmore doesn't either but knows they are necessary, but still Ben is using Locke in the present to lead the Hostiles, despite Widmore’s attempts to use him. Jack will come back to the present and attempt to continue Dharma’s work. Christian, now knowing that Jack is ready will finally come to him and lead him to Jacob. Jack will free him at last, Richard will undermine Ben once he learns the truth, and Dharma will be reborn in time to complete its work, which is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
To prevent the island or perhaps the world from reaching the end of the record.
I’m surmising that with the reference to the record, that not only can it skip, but eventually it will run out as well. This fits well with the idea of the Valenzetti equation predicting the end of the world.
You see, the island does have a type of sentience. Just as a human brain is made of nerves and runs on electricity of sorts, the island's immense power allows it a sort of self awareness. It also allows it to influence people in a psychic manner along with the ability to create a mini time loop that allows into the spin a few hours away from the present and back around, making it hard to find, and the difference in time between the island and the real world in constant flux. But this spinning is always centered on the present, meaning that in the long run, island time moves at exactly the same pace as real world time.
To better explain this, I’ve used a pie example in the past. Think of a pie with many slices, sitting in front of you, and spinning on a turn table. You are sitting in the real world, the pie is island time, and each slice that spins in front of you represents a length of time relative to the real world. For people on the island, time moves normally, but time relative to the outside world is always moving as the pie spins. If sitting there looking at the pie, you reach out and touch a slice, you would be connected via wormhole to the pie/island and the time it exists in. Therefore if you touched a piece that was 4 hours prior to the present time, you would get to the pie 4 hours earlier than present time and exist in both places simultaneously for four hours, ala Doc Ray. If you touch a piece a half hour into the future, you would get to the pie/island a half hour into the future, ala the missile test.
But moving on,
Because of this power the Island was eventually able to foresee an end. Knowing the hostiles, native protectors it brought on centuries before, were not capable of dealing with this end, it had them create the Donkey wheel at its power source that would enhance this power enough to send the entire Island into the past, giving it enough time to learn how to get past or avoid the end that it saw. The 2nd time around it brought in Dharma to solve this problem.
The wheel was turned for the first time sometime after 2007, whereabouts the end was going to take place, sending it back to the age of the Black Rock, where the ship came to crash on the island. This allowed it to makes ties to Alvar Hanso who would fund the Dharma explorations of the Island, thereby giving the Island what it needed to fix the problem.
The one who turned the wheel so near to the end, leapt forward in time just as Ben and Locke have upon turning the wheel and was left in a future that did not yet exist, leaving them in a corporeal form we know as Jacob. Jacob, not living in any real time can only be channeled by the good force of the island, and as stated before both were imprisoned by Ben, who did not fully understand the circumstances, and still doesn't.
This makes the dark force of the island the smoke monster. Dark doesn’t mean evil, but the island is out of balance, creating things such as pregnancy problems.
In the end Sawyer will get to keep his happy life with Juliet as a New Dharma park ranger, and Kate will wind up back with Jack once everything is sorted out.
Sayid has started all of the bad events that led to Dharma's downfall. Unfortunately seeing the Swan plans, and shooting Ben will lead to both the Incident and the Purge as the Hostiles retaliate. This will force Radzinsky to hide in the Swan where he will draw an invisible map to help future Swan employees locate the rest of the Island's basis while keeping it hidden from Hostiles should they overtake the Swan. Unfortunately he learns that Dharma has abandoned the project, and after many years, he kills himself.
“Him,” the one who Desmond refers to and is supposed to answer “Smells like carrots,” to the snowman joke, is a man that Radzinsky felt was supposed to come. I really don’t know who that could be. Could be Daniel if he said he would be back to help him, or it could be Sawyer, Jack, or a numbers other all for the same reason.
The reason that Richard was never able to lure Locke when he visited him as a youth, is because Locke isn’t special. The future had already played out, and Richard only knew about Locke because of his brief visit, but Locke’s only goal was to get Jack to believe enough to get him to the past, and then later to be conned by Ben into siding against what Jack will have to do to fix the problem.
The Losties appear in the past of 1977, even before Widmore began to influence them, because events had already been set in motion leading to their arrival on 815. Since that path was imminent, their arrival in the past was non-paradoxical.
Once they correct the end, they will move into the new future, and Jacob will be fully freed now that this future exists. So what is the end that needed to be fixed?
It's the end of time, at least for the island, and possibly the larger world. It has to do with Jughead. Perhaps not the explosion of this bomb itself, but the Island was unable through any attempt to prevent its arrival, and the fact that such a disastrous weapon was introduced, means that it must spell major trouble. The end of everything is related to this bomb. What in the hell else did they introduce it for?
Thank you for reading. I will say that the first few paragraphs are the logical basis for everything and the remainder are piecing in the other details with some liberal amount of speculation.
I have yet to fit in how characters such as Kate, Hurley, Claire, and Aaron might be up to, and would be very open to your ideas on how you think they either might work into this theory or completely nullify it. Theory by Locke4God
There have been a lot of hints at a Dharma resurgence in the present. Pierre Chang’s video being the most obvious.
So if Dharma’s work must be finished, who completes it but our born leader Jack? For him to do this he had to be able to see the need to do this as being logical. That means learning from Dharma first hand, but since they were dead, he had to go to the past. He got to the past by accepting his fate through influence from Locke. Locke of course influenced Jack through direction from Ben, Christian, Richard, and Widmore, all of whom claim to speak for the Island.
To be able to reconstitute Dharma in the present Jack must get back there. That makes Jin's purpose that of being a lure for sun in the future, which makes Sun's purpose to bring them back.
The point is that in the beginning Dharma was solving a problem. Richard wasn't capable of dealing with it, since being very old he is not technologically savvy, and so the Island lured Dharma to solve the problem. Ben was brought in by the Island as a liason between the Island and Dharma. Ben becomes the island's main contact but is longing for attention and power and so he imprisons the island's good influence in Jacob's cabin, and convinces Richard that the Island now wants Dharma purged. Widmore was the only one who believed that Dharma was in fact necessary and Ben removed him, thus consolidating his power. Widmore then uses the rest of his life influencing the arrival of the Losties and the chain reaction noted in the previous 3 paragraphs.
Ben doesn't realize the true importance of Dharma however, neither does Richard nor Locke. Widmore doesn't either but knows they are necessary, but still Ben is using Locke in the present to lead the Hostiles, despite Widmore’s attempts to use him. Jack will come back to the present and attempt to continue Dharma’s work. Christian, now knowing that Jack is ready will finally come to him and lead him to Jacob. Jack will free him at last, Richard will undermine Ben once he learns the truth, and Dharma will be reborn in time to complete its work, which is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
To prevent the island or perhaps the world from reaching the end of the record.
I’m surmising that with the reference to the record, that not only can it skip, but eventually it will run out as well. This fits well with the idea of the Valenzetti equation predicting the end of the world.
You see, the island does have a type of sentience. Just as a human brain is made of nerves and runs on electricity of sorts, the island's immense power allows it a sort of self awareness. It also allows it to influence people in a psychic manner along with the ability to create a mini time loop that allows into the spin a few hours away from the present and back around, making it hard to find, and the difference in time between the island and the real world in constant flux. But this spinning is always centered on the present, meaning that in the long run, island time moves at exactly the same pace as real world time.
To better explain this, I’ve used a pie example in the past. Think of a pie with many slices, sitting in front of you, and spinning on a turn table. You are sitting in the real world, the pie is island time, and each slice that spins in front of you represents a length of time relative to the real world. For people on the island, time moves normally, but time relative to the outside world is always moving as the pie spins. If sitting there looking at the pie, you reach out and touch a slice, you would be connected via wormhole to the pie/island and the time it exists in. Therefore if you touched a piece that was 4 hours prior to the present time, you would get to the pie 4 hours earlier than present time and exist in both places simultaneously for four hours, ala Doc Ray. If you touch a piece a half hour into the future, you would get to the pie/island a half hour into the future, ala the missile test.
But moving on,
Because of this power the Island was eventually able to foresee an end. Knowing the hostiles, native protectors it brought on centuries before, were not capable of dealing with this end, it had them create the Donkey wheel at its power source that would enhance this power enough to send the entire Island into the past, giving it enough time to learn how to get past or avoid the end that it saw. The 2nd time around it brought in Dharma to solve this problem.
The wheel was turned for the first time sometime after 2007, whereabouts the end was going to take place, sending it back to the age of the Black Rock, where the ship came to crash on the island. This allowed it to makes ties to Alvar Hanso who would fund the Dharma explorations of the Island, thereby giving the Island what it needed to fix the problem.
The one who turned the wheel so near to the end, leapt forward in time just as Ben and Locke have upon turning the wheel and was left in a future that did not yet exist, leaving them in a corporeal form we know as Jacob. Jacob, not living in any real time can only be channeled by the good force of the island, and as stated before both were imprisoned by Ben, who did not fully understand the circumstances, and still doesn't.
This makes the dark force of the island the smoke monster. Dark doesn’t mean evil, but the island is out of balance, creating things such as pregnancy problems.
In the end Sawyer will get to keep his happy life with Juliet as a New Dharma park ranger, and Kate will wind up back with Jack once everything is sorted out.
Sayid has started all of the bad events that led to Dharma's downfall. Unfortunately seeing the Swan plans, and shooting Ben will lead to both the Incident and the Purge as the Hostiles retaliate. This will force Radzinsky to hide in the Swan where he will draw an invisible map to help future Swan employees locate the rest of the Island's basis while keeping it hidden from Hostiles should they overtake the Swan. Unfortunately he learns that Dharma has abandoned the project, and after many years, he kills himself.
“Him,” the one who Desmond refers to and is supposed to answer “Smells like carrots,” to the snowman joke, is a man that Radzinsky felt was supposed to come. I really don’t know who that could be. Could be Daniel if he said he would be back to help him, or it could be Sawyer, Jack, or a numbers other all for the same reason.
The reason that Richard was never able to lure Locke when he visited him as a youth, is because Locke isn’t special. The future had already played out, and Richard only knew about Locke because of his brief visit, but Locke’s only goal was to get Jack to believe enough to get him to the past, and then later to be conned by Ben into siding against what Jack will have to do to fix the problem.
The Losties appear in the past of 1977, even before Widmore began to influence them, because events had already been set in motion leading to their arrival on 815. Since that path was imminent, their arrival in the past was non-paradoxical.
Once they correct the end, they will move into the new future, and Jacob will be fully freed now that this future exists. So what is the end that needed to be fixed?
It's the end of time, at least for the island, and possibly the larger world. It has to do with Jughead. Perhaps not the explosion of this bomb itself, but the Island was unable through any attempt to prevent its arrival, and the fact that such a disastrous weapon was introduced, means that it must spell major trouble. The end of everything is related to this bomb. What in the hell else did they introduce it for?
Thank you for reading. I will say that the first few paragraphs are the logical basis for everything and the remainder are piecing in the other details with some liberal amount of speculation.
I have yet to fit in how characters such as Kate, Hurley, Claire, and Aaron might be up to, and would be very open to your ideas on how you think they either might work into this theory or completely nullify it. Theory by Locke4God
