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One Free Man Restricted

You're alone in the middle of the desert

nd you come across a tortoise. You turn it over, letting it's soft underside bake in the hot sun. you see it kicking, but you're not helping it. Why aren't you helping it?

Scythe The Goat

Blade Runner!

Leon: "Tortoise? What's that?"

chomperx9 Restricted

Re: You're alone in the middle of the desert

Originally posted by One Free Man
nd you come across a tortoise. You turn it over, letting it's soft underside bake in the hot sun. you see it kicking, but you're not helping it. Why aren't you helping it?

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One Free Man Restricted

Originally posted by Scythe
Blade Runner!
Leon: "Tortoise? What's that?"

you ever seen a turtle?

Scythe The Goat

Originally posted by One Free Man
you ever seen a turtle?

Of course!

One Free Man Restricted

Same thing.

Bicnarok From Ganymede

Re: You're alone in the middle of the desert

Originally posted by One Free Man
You're alone in the middle of the desert

No im not! 😮‍💨

RedAlertv2 Senior Member

Re: You're alone in the middle of the desert

Originally posted by One Free Man
Why aren't you helping it?

I decided to go make a dumb thread about it instead

Scythe The Goat

Originally posted by One Free Man
Same thing.

I've never seen a turtle, but I understand what you mean.

Parmaniac Evincar of KMC

Re: You're alone in the middle of the desert

Originally posted by One Free Man
nd you come across a tortoise. You turn it over, letting it's soft underside bake in the hot sun. you see it kicking, but you're not helping it. Why aren't you helping it?

So you give me/us a situation that pretty much contradicts with my own morals and ethics (I think others heres too) to not torment animals and then you wanna know why I/we don't help the poor thing? 🤨

Autokrat Unknown

I'm not helping it since I'm about to eat the stupid animal since I'm stuck in the middle of a desert with limited access to carbohydrates, protein or water.

Unless eating a turtle is toxic?

Deano Senior Member

are you trying to find out if anyone here is a replicant?

Mindship Snap out of it.

Originally posted by One Free Man
nd you come across a tortoise. You turn it over, letting it's soft underside bake in the hot sun. you see it kicking, but you're not helping it. Why aren't you helping it?

By not helping it -- in effect, by watching it die -- I assume the persona of Death. In doing so, I momentarily transcend my own Death Terror and happily exist within an illusion of godlike immortality: what every ego unconsciously desires.

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One Free Man Restricted

Originally posted by Scythe
I've never seen a turtle, but I understand what you mean.

You reach down and flip the turtle on it's back, leon.

Wait a minute, when I asked for a siggie you said you hadn't seen blade runner. Did you go and see it on my say so? 😛

One Free Man Restricted

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Re: You're alone in the middle of the desert

Originally posted by One Free Man
nd you come across a tortoise. You turn it over, letting it's soft underside bake in the hot sun. you see it kicking, but you're not helping it. Why aren't you helping it?

Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?

inimalist Junior Member

let me tell you about my mother...

lol, oh man, for how often the samples from that scene have been used, I should probably see the movie

Scythe The Goat

Originally posted by One Free Man
You reach down and flip the turtle on it's back, leon.
Wait a minute, when I asked for a siggie you said you hadn't seen blade runner. Did you go and see it on my say so? 😛

It was on tv, yeah, haha. I was like, I remember this! Never saw it growing up, but all my friends rant and rave about it, so I finally got my ass to watch it.

Symmetric Chaos Fractal King

Originally posted by One Free Man
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I don't get it, are they testing for empathy in retarded people?

One Free Man Restricted

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I don't get it, are they testing for empathy in retarded people?

No, it's a test to figure out if he's a replicant. Replicants can't stand the hypothetical stress of certain scenarios.

You should watch the movie. It really is a great. An instant classic. Why riddly scott>>>>>>James Cameron.

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And Scythe, you have made the first steps in the path to enlightenment 😮‍💨