IAJ, you did a very good job of presenting your thoughts, (and of restraining yourself from calling everyone idiots if they don't "get it"

) so kudos to you for that! I guess it's just that not everyone wants the same thing out of the show that you do, because we're all different personalities. For example, let me try to address a few of mine-- not trying to be difficult, but just to try to get you to see how other people may look at it, (and I know I only speak for myself):
Protecting the Light of Humanity seems to me to be as Noble a cause as one can get....
Well, that sounds nice. But the "light of humanity" is (forgive me) only what
you are calling it. We really haven't been told by the people who are the storytellers. We only know that Crazy Mom said "it's in everybody" or something like that. Well, OK, but even assuming that she actually knows and that she isn't crazy and doesn't lie, does that mean it's "everything good" (you seem to think so) and so if it goes out, everyone will be evil? Or is it maybe "the spark that makes humans alive instead of just chunks of meat" so if it goes out, everyone will be dead? Or is it electromagnetic energy, so if it goes out, the world will go into uncontrollable time shifts or implode or something? These are very different things and present very different scenarios. OK, so generally, yes, we are apparently supposed to imply that "good" things will go wrong if this light is messed with. But there is also still the possibility that the light could be the glow from the fires of Hades or something. The fact that we just don't know for sure is what's frustrating some of us.
People aren't very happy about what we were shown, as far as answers, but they aren't really sure what they wanted to see instead...
Well, yeah, I'm sure!

I want to see answers that are a bit more specific -- less nebulous. If you're the kind of person that can make up your own story and be satisfied that "that's how it IS" then you will be happy with what we're getting. Personally, I'm more like Conway and am detail-oriented and would rather hear the answers
from the story-tellers a little more specifically. I don't think this means I'm a baby who needs to be spoon-fed -- I think it means I just prefer some confirmation for my speculations in order for them to satisfy me.
I think they have already given us the Egyptian answers. We just have to know where to look for them. We know People crash on the Island right? We know that they have been crashing on the Island for centuries now, long before Jacob had to start bringing them there to help with the new found Nemesis on the Island. Here's where the Egyptians come into play, and the Mayans too if you like.
The Egyptians landed on the island like others had. They were in the presence of a protector, although there was little reason for the protector to get involved unless the castaways started to dig around and happened upon the light. The reason there was little reason for the Protector to get involved is because the Island made it so that no society could develope due to the inability for a mother to carry a baby full term. This inability is what caused the Egyptian castaways to build a statue to their Fertility goddess on the shore. They built other structures as well, and in some of those they carved their glyphs.
Well, again, this all
sounds nice. But it doesn't mean it's right. And "The Island made it so no society could develop by using The Infertility Curse" -- well, we just flat-out haven't been told anything that remotely resembles that, I don't think. Is it possible? Sure. But quite frankly I would rather
know.
I can honestly say that my favorite part of the Lost experience is taking the things we see on the show and figuring them out for myself...
I enjoy that, too. But I like for the teacher to hand me back my quiz and tell me how I did on it. I want the creators of the quiz to show me whether or not I got it right.
The detailed analysis of Lost is left up to us, which is why we love the show so much...
Well, (and again, forgive me) it's why YOU love the show so much. I love the analysis, too, but to me it feels very frustrating if you never know (and I mean
know) that your analysis was correct.
I guess that makes me a (wo)man of Science rather than one of Faith, huh?

Anyway, sorry IAJ if it feels like I'm picking on you -- I don't mean to because I know a lot of folks share your outlook, but you just do such a good job of presenting your side that it's easiest to quote you.

We're just on different sides of the Myers-Briggs bridge, I think...
If we don't get some more specific wrap-ups on Sunday, it will make me feel like the last page of the book is missing or something, and that will make me feel like the story-tellers shortchanged me. So they still have one more shot to make it right...