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...like tears in the rain...

Original Prankster
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
 
Time to die.
RIP Rutger...
Anyone else feel more like they had more in common with the replicants than the humans?
  • in reply to Senor

    That's the point though isn't it?

    The 'inhuman' replicant displays more 'humanity' than the 'human' Bladerunner...

    The human fear/lack of understanding of the replicants meant they wanted to destroy them.

  • in reply to Plastic

    It's now quite obvious I spent a lot of time with ND folks in the distant past; but of course I (and probably they also) didn't then know any of the current terms associated with both ND and NT. And as I live out of the UK, I have got to meet quite a few expats & locals who were intent on activities that most of us would consider unacceptable - both neighbors & colleagues. (So I do believe.) My point really is that I will never know just how many of those I have met/observed might now be realistically labelled NT. So I'm loathe to just write them off as NT losers. A few of them might well now be considered ND, from my observations of both their apparent dishonesty &/or honesty. Surely, neither label is monolithic. And no doubt about it, I'm also riddled with a mixture of very human and very alienated inconsistencies.

  • Yes - the older i  get, the more I feel very different to everyone else.   The biggest thing I see is the casual lying and falsehood of NTs.  Their whole lives seem to be made of excuses why they didn't do any of the things they said they would or deliberately lying to each other over every aspect of their lives..

    I've found I can spend all day with other Aspies discussing anything from history to space travel - but just an hour dealing with NTs finishes me off.

     I have a 'why not?' attitude so I've had some very strange jobs and hobbies - I've literally seen and done things you people wouldn't believe.   

  • That certainly was a standout scene/performance. It hit me for six in a way that very few movie performances ever have. I haven't been to the movies since about 1990 - actually, an arts centre. And I rarely bother to watch anything on TV other than documentaries. I can't remember really having seen much of any great personal significance between this and previously watching the Chaplin silent, "The Goldrush", at a very young age. However, I often balk a bit at expressions of alienation. Might be just me, but most of the time I feel that my real issue is that I am profoundly human, thru the good and the not so good; and always took it from Rutger's death oration that his character had similar feelings. Which is not to say that alienation has never been a part of the issue, but to say that it fades for me with remarkable ease when subjected to other people's more human moments. Doubtless that is one of the reasons why things remained so hidden for most of my three score years and ten. My education & career might well have been mostly a waste of time, but the people I worked with often found it took only a few smiles, laughs and jokes to reestablish some rapport.