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re: LOST Season Finale (5-13)- The Incident
Posted on 5/16/09 at 10:49 am to SouGent
Posted on 5/16/09 at 10:49 am to SouGent
Here's Doc Jensen on "Everything that Rises Must Converge":
To me, that's pretty illuminating stuff.
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As for Everything That Rises..., reader Adam Sroufe sent me this quote from critic Madsen Hardy characterizing O’Connor’s ambition: ''O'Connor...claims that it is her specific goal to offer a glimpse of God's mystery and, thus, to lead readers — whom she sees as, for the most part, spiritually lost in the modern, secular world — back toward the path of redemption.'' That could indeed be Jacobesque, provided he’s good, and certainly fits into my Quibbling theory
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As it happens, Flannery O’Connor’s aforementioned book takes its title — Everything That Rises Must Converge — from a phrase coined by an egghead and fellow Catholic provocateur named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who concocted a theory of evolution called “Omega Point.” Basically, it’s the idea that there is some kind of transcendent entity or consciousness that is guiding everyone and everything toward greater complexity and enlightenment, until everyone and everything becomes transcendent, too. I think. More simply, it’s Jacob’s view: There is a single end; everything before then is progress. Chardin believed his Omega entity was basically Jesus Christ himself. His phrase, “everything that rises must converge,” is a poetical expression of a key Christian idea known in the Greek apokatastasis. It’s like the opposite of apocalypse, or rather, what comes after apocalypse. I’m not trying to get all religious on you, but it is what it is: apokatastasis is the idea that in the end, Satan will be defeated and that all of creation will be redeemed and unified under Christ. “Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself.” (John 12:31-32) Or, again, to use a line from the show: “He who will save us all.” That, my friends, is the answer, translated from Richard Alpert’s Latin, to Ilana’s riddle: “What lies in the shadow of the statue?’
To me, that's pretty illuminating stuff.
Posted on 5/16/09 at 12:38 pm to Fun Bunch
So, I'm assuming the final season will be about redemption for all the Losties, but maybe Jack especially as he seems to need it more than the rest.
Posted on 5/20/09 at 12:48 pm to Fun Bunch
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Here's Doc Jensen on "Everything that Rises Must Converge
Nice find. His take on the finale and the probable loss of Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) is good stuff as well. The character that is Juliet added a lot to LOST. LINK I will sorely miss Mitchell's cool/calm demeanor yet resolute contribution to LOST. Her kickbutt action in the submarine was the typical Juliet that I came to enjoy so much.
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