pedantry does not cost a penny
The fellow in the taxi was not Jacob. It was Faraday, the character that could be Transcendent (e.g. God): outside of time-space, beyond the material universe, present before the alpha and after the omega.
Or he may be immanent: separate from creation. Mary is immanent because she has no stain of original sin and did not sin in her life. In LOST, FARADAY, WALT, HUGO, DESMOND are likely immanent. I know of nobody who plays chess with the dead. No soul I've met has survived a giant electromanetic toaster.
AS for demons, Mother, Jacob, MiB are third rate. Walt could just slammed MiB against a windshield over and over again. Walt may be transcendent. Only gods create; that's what he did at least once. Then he destroyed his creation.
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where are you, mr. sheep?
It is rare that I feel any emotion. But, Mr Sheep, where art thou? I regret your absence. There are so few creative intellects. Your analysis of the scientific flaws in LOST was a great impetus to debate for anthropological view (Jung's anthropology of archetypes). The fundamental failure of LOST as science, anthropology of archetypes and as a self-contained world cannot be denied. Yet I enjoyed fishing in the murky ocean of the jokers who wrote this self-important version of "Left Behind". At least they found someone unexpected to lead the characters: anti-social, misanthropic, whoring, abusive drunk. Gives me hope.--Past recaptured 20:08, July 23, 2010 (UTC)