Various Lost Theories

My thoughts on what may be really happening on Lost:

1. Jacob is Locke, in the future. Or the past. Whatever the point of view may be.
2. The Orchid is the site of the time travel anomaly/machine.
3. When Locke goes into The Orchid in the upcoming episode, he time travels. This is the beginning of the loop that I think everyone on the island is in.
4. Everyone on the island are trapped in a time loop created by Jacob/Locke (see above).
5. It's not that Richard Alpert is immortal, or that he hasn't aged; rather, he's simply a time traveler. He appears the same age he was when he met Locke as a boy and when he met Ben as a boy because he *is* the same age; from his point of view, it's all probably happened in a couple of weeks, jumping back and forth hither and yon in time. We see him look the same as he looked 30 years ago, but it's only been 30 years in our time line, not his. You get the idea.
6. I think that perhaps what viewers call the "flash-backs" and "flash-forwards" may not be dramatic devices at all but actual time jumps, either in the various character's memories or actual real leaps in time. But I could be wrong.
7. There's a chance that the time loop everyone is trapped in varies and branches off into an infinite number of possible futures/pasts. The flight might have actually crashed into the ocean and be lying in a trench in one of these possible futures. It might not have been staged by Penny's dad at all.
8. The Oceanic Six are dead; everyone else survived.
9. Why did that statue have four toes? Easy: The Others (the Island's Original Others) were all fans of The Simpsons.
10. The Island is a ultra-sophisticated prison in the future; all the main cast members are there for murder. Almost everyone has killed someone. Oh, you think Sun didn't kill anyone? And just how did whats-his-name fall out of that 20 story window? The doc? Killed someone on the table. We know about Sawyer and Kate. Locke? Killed his father at some point. Hurly? You think a meteor really is what took out that Action Five news reporter? Jin? He had blood on his hands more than once. You get the idea. They're all serving time in some meta-world prison akin to ST:TNG's holodeck or something.
11. It's all taking place in a snow globe owned by some autistic kid in Boston.