His words on the beach seemed to further he is actually MIB, Jacobs brother, not the monster.

Its like Locke said in the airport…the body was Lost, not the man…huge clue I think…

Idk what to think anymore but I really think Smokey is Evil & the way he talked to Jacob about men & the Island while the Black Rock was in view.

I thought they just werent human the way both of them were talking about us people, like the were angels or something that didnt understand human emotion or get it completely but in fact they were just men before.

Why tell Kate about his crazy mother, or especially mess with jacob with the rocks.

Its so obvious that MIb becomes annoyed when handed the white stone by Richard…they are brother playing a game, which is why MIB/Locke is smug when entering the cave and throws out the white stone from the scale into the ocean…

I think Jacob’s brother was killed by Jacob & the way he did it released the smoke monster, I think that the smoke has some ways to access memories or something like that cause he started talking about things that happened to the real John Locke before John was killed & before John’s dead body arrived.

So Smokey might be duplicating Jacob’s brother the same way he duplicates John, maybe it has something to do with the flashes & that light in the cave.

I understand what you mean by the story he told to Kate could of been anything but what if it was for us the viewers to believe that smokey is somehow human & what not but what if smokey is exactly what Jacob described him as, Evil & shouldnt be able to escape & so on.

Jacob looked very surprised when he first saw the smoke so he obviously had no idea what it was but by the time Richard arrives in the 1800′s Jacob seems to have a good idea of what it is & what he has to do.

Wouldnt that kill you if the smoke came back to you as your dead brother that you killed kind of accidentally just to keep trying to figure out ways to kill you?

It’s like when you ask a person what the French translation of any English word is when you don’t know any French; they could give you any nonsense French word and you’d have no idea whether they were being honest or not cuz you don’t know any French yourself. Likewise, the Losties don’t know any of that information to begin with, so there’s nothing to compare it or contrast it to.