Re: 4th Season Lost - Cabin Fever - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

and thus PV inscribed ... 
> ~consul <consul@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> Presumably time p***** normally on the island? So he's been eternal
>> since Ben was a tyke to now.
> We don't know that. What I'm saying is that the supposedly-ageless
Alpert
> might be someone skipping around in time, or maybe living in several
> segments of time at once, like the alien in the Doctor Who episode "City
of
> Death".

Never saw the show in any incarnation, though I do know what a tard ...
is. ;)

> Of course we can't rule out immortality given the healing powers of the
> island, but I think we're more likely seeing time travel at work. Alpert
is
> too similar in all the timeframes we've seen him in. *

What I mean is that he's looked the same since Ben was a kid all the way
up to Ben as an adult. I take that to mean that Alpert is immortal. Time
moves normally within the island because Ben has had a chance, along w/
everyone else, to grow up.
-- 
"... respect, all good works are not done by only good folk. For here, at
the end of all things, we shall do what needs to be done."
  --till next time, consul -x- <<poetry.dolphins-cove.com>>