B* cut me off

Then I saw her license plate and I understood why.


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I figured out Lost. Part 2.

In response to my friends Jim and conversations held with them today, here is further proof that I have figured out Lost. This shit will play out, and you will all tell me at the end of the season how awesome I am.

Jim T. responds to me in the frustrated voice of a Lost follower, tired of being hooked and dragged along for so many years, yet unable to stop watching...like most of us.

[micah] The SM and Jacob are very high level. The Dharma initiative, the Others, the Survivors...they're all pawns and proxies for SM and Jacob's larger schemes, which are played out over loonnng periods of time.

[Jim] What is the magnetism?
[micah] Merely a tool used to draw people in. In one scheme involving the Dharma Initiative, they were allowed to reveal the magnatism and thus forced to build in a control (the computer and 108 minute clock) which was then useful in manipulating people to certain behavior (Desmond and the dude from Shawshank), but one which was designed to fail, thereby bringing more people to the island.

[Jim] Why is chrisitian shepherd appearing?
[micah] A tool, used to nudge people along. But don't really know.

[Jim] Why do they all know each other in parallel timelines?
[micah] They don't, but they are attracted to each other like iron filings to a magnet...destined to be together and my guess is somehow they will come to the island in the parallel world, too.

[Jim] How does the island move?
[micah] Don't know.

[Jim] Who are the others?
[micah] Followers of Jacob - various people living there following his rules, aiding him in his watch over the SM. Some (Richard) are kept alive for hundreds of years through the spring we saw them dunk Sayeed in (only when it's clear and tasty, I'm guessing).

[Jim] How did Dharma get there?
[micah] Through the manipulations of one or the other - Jacob or SM - they found a way to get there regularly, allowing for colonization.

[Jim] Who is on what side Ben or Widmore?
[micah] Ben was on Jacob's side, but was easily manipulated by SM over time, because Jacob stopped (or never really) talked to him. He was duped for years by the SM's machinations, and in turn he duped the Others into following him! Widmore - another tool, by which side I do not yet know, useful in manipulating people into coming to the island or forcing people off, etc etc. Probably the SM's unwitting accomplice.

[Jim] Why the psychic thing?
[micah] A tool, used to nudge people along. But don't really know.

[Jim] Why cant children be born there except Claire or Sun who had to be pregnant before arrival?
[micah] The island is merely a destination. Not a starting point for any new society or civilization. No new babies allowed in prison!

[Jim] What is the point of the pilot Frank lupidis? His name wasn’t on the cave wall? Or Desmond or Juliet ?
[micah] Comic effect, Tragic effect, Tragic effect. They are all tools, used in the balancing game.

The names on the cave wall are those who are candidates to be the new jailer, the new Jacob, the new White. Jacob I think was merely a shell for the Order god, and SM has destroyed the shell, thinking he has destroyed the god. But the god now seeks a new shell. And it shall...be...JACK!

That will be the ultimate twist! Jack, the Man of Science, the Non-Believer, the "this island is a lie!" guy, will become a shell for the Guardian! And Locke, the Believer, the Man of Faith, the "this island has a purpose for us!" guy will in turn become the prisoner, the chaos, the evil force, the would-be destroyer of the island prison! It's a classic flip!

The tone of the ever-present theme of Locke vs Jack will change as each person assumes the other's former role.

[Jim] ANSWER ME!
[micah] Thou hath been shown the path. Now walketh it.

I figured out Lost. Part 1

I told Wendy last night I had Lost figured out.

The island is a jail for the smoke monster. Jacob was the jailer, keeping the SM from leaving and wrecking the world.

Jacob kept the lid on Pandora's box, the apple on the Tree of Knowledge, the door to the jail locked.

The SM is Chaos, and Jacob is Order.

The SM is constantly trying to escape and manipulates people into doing things for him. Jacob pulls/pushes/gently nudges people to counter those activities. All the events leading to the Oceanic 815 crashing and the survivors living on the island were gentle nudges by both powers - the SM aiming to secure release, Jacob working to keep the jail locked tight.

Thus there is a long history of balancing between the two forces of SM and Jacob (hence the black rock, white rock joke). The SM thinks he has won and is seeking to escape (through manipulation of Sawyer, Ben, etc) whereas Jacob has already set things into motion to counter this, way before his death (luring back the Oceanic Six, time travel of the survivors, etc). The balancing will continue on forever, long after the series is rendered unto syndication.

It's all about balance!