Its all remarkably silly. I mean I still like the show but I'm actually getting a little annoyed with it.

I get the basics, its the "Losties" present while their past is actually in the future and its Ben's, Horace's "past" and all of that.

"if i went back in time, to when you were 10, and said something to you, your present body, the one im talking to right now, would not know of this memory"

But Widmore clearly did. He remembered in his present Locke going back, walking into their camp and talking to Alpert.

What I'm saying with Alpert is Ben's present doesn't remember it because Alpert said that if he fixed him after he was shot by Sayid he would lose all memory of what happened related to that event.

I'm not totally sure of what you're talking about in the last half of that paragraph. Its a little late.

I basically get it. I'm still a little iffy on some of the you can't change anything theory. I'm not sure their totally consistent about it. Not about life and death things but more subtle stuff.