The replicants in the film “Blade Runner” based off of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? are seen as pawns in a chess game of the human. Their entire existence is made to be used to serve us. Some might agree that this is unjust, and raises moral questions about what is considered a living being and what is considered a synthetic creation destined for slave labor. In the hit video game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and its upcoming sequel Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, we see the same moral questions brought up with futuristic technology being developed in form of nano-tech “augmentations” which are synthetic additions or replacements of various parts of the human anatomy–effectively making the person a lesser version of the Borg from Star Trek. We will get to Deus Ex later.
While the novel itself is pessimistic and post-apocalyptic, the movie is far much darker, in which its visuals follow a cyberpunk, machinic society that is disconnected from nature, much like the Borg from Star Trek, H.R. Giger’s nightmarish artwork, who is most famous for designing the alien for the movie Alien, present a similar world. The future in the Terminator-movies and the Matrix isn’t that different either. While I do find this dark, cybernetic world aesthetically pleasing, but certainly it is not world that any sane person would want to become reality, as it is basically a depiction of hell.
The movie is transhumanistic in its depiction of the replicants, the artificial humans. The plot is that four (six, really but two of them died in the backstory) replicants escaped from the off-world colonies (i.e. colonies in outer space to earth.) Replicants have only a four year life-span, and they’re seeking to prolong it. Their presence on earth is illegal and Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, has to hunt them down. The suffering of the replicants is much more highlighted than the experiences of Deckard. When both of the female replicants are killed sad music is played in the background, and there’s slow motion. And the end battle against the boss, Roy, played by Rutger Hauer, is somewhat anti-climactic, since the replicant saves Deckard and simply dies of old age instead of being shot by the hero.
Throughout the film of Blade Runner, the replicants strive to hide behind their apparent humanity as well as become more powerful than their human creators. Replicants are essentially synthetic humans with superhuman capabilities. There are also animal replicants shown throughout the film as synthetics such as the owl or the snake that played pivotal roles (symbolizing Minerva, Lilith, Molech, Lucifer, Satan, etc). These were developed first for use as pets and beasts of burden after most real animals became extinct due to some type of nuclear holocaust or chemtrail-geoengineering experiment gone global. Blade Runner begins with a shot of a huge, futuristic ziggurat-like building with a vehicle flying towards it. Such buildings reminds us of the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia. Erich von Däniken, the Ancient Alien theorist, theorized that ziggurats were airports for the flying vessels of the aliens.
In the film, it is revealed that humanoid replicants were created for military purposes and for the exploration and colonization of space. The Tyrell Corporation recently introduced the Nexus 6, the supreme replicant which are much stronger and faster than, and virtually indistinguishable from, real human beings. Earth law forbids replicants on the planet, except in the huge industrial complex where they are created.
The law does not consider replicants human and therefore accords them no rights nor protection. A key aspect of replicant psychology is that they are lacking in empathy, in effect making them textbook sociopaths. Because of that, measuring the degree of empathic response via a Voight-Kompff machine is the most used method of detecting replicants. NEXUS 6 replicants also have an in-built fail-safe mechanism, namely a four year lifespan, to prevent them from developing empathic cognition and therefore immunity to a Voight Kompff Machine. This is especially necessary for the Nexus 6 models whose intellectual capacity at least matches their designers.
Replicants are illegal on Earth after a bloody mutiny against an off-world colony staged by a Nexus-6 combat model. Special police units or bounty hunters such as Blade Runners are sent to investigate, test and ultimately “retire” replicants found on Earth. Since the dawn of their existence, these replicants were meant for labor. This was not considered slavery because they were synthetic beings. They have no ability to think or feel exactly as humans are meant to. But, this presents some moral dilemmas.
Tyrell himself said to Deckard in the beginning of the film that his corporation’s motto was “more human than human.” With this vision, his corporation blurred the line that was living and non-living. These replicants began to feel that they should be entitled to more than slave labor. To live as the humans live in the decaying Earth of 2019. So they rebelled and switched the tables on which is the user and whom is being used in the chess game of mortality. Throughout the film each of the replicants use humans as pawns in this chess game as the replicants scramble from lower beginnings to the kings of the game. The first instance of the replicants switching the roles of user and used includes the meeting of Roy, Leon, and Chew in the sub-zero lab which neither interests nor affects the Nexus 6.
As Roy and Leon torment and drive him towards hypothermia, they use him for information as to get inside the Tyrell Corporation’s main headquarters to discover a possible way to increase their very short lifespan. The group of Nexus replicants were a new breed of replicants and were designed to be as human possible. With these advancements however, they started to consider themselves as actual humans. In the short scene before the meeting of Roy and Tyrell, Pris and Roy are in J.F. Sebastian’s apartment trying to convince him of letting Roy into Tyrell’s complex. This of course is another example of the replicants bending the role of the pawn in the chess game by manipulating J.F. Sebastian into what they want. This is also however, an example of the replicant’s transcendence into another class of being. Sebastian asks Roy and Pris to give him an example of their superhuman powers after he discovers they’re the Nexus 6 model.
Roy replies by saying “We’re not computers Sebastian, we’re physical.” Roy is referring to the sensitivity that he and Pris have developed in which they consider themselves not a robot or computer but a real and living being that deserves respect. Pris goes onto say in the same scene “I think Sebastian, therefore I am.” Both of these acts from the replicants intimidate Sebastian into letting them into Tyrell’s complex.
These points raise some interesting questions, not only about the film, but about life in itself. Do we define ourselves solely on the biological characteristics, or is there something more that makes a person human? If it is solely on the biological aspects of a being, then replicants are clearly not human, for they have genetic differences.
Yet, as the movie progresses, we come to see that some of the replicants, particularly Roy and Pris, are capable of being more “human” than Deckard. Deckard is cold and uncaring, whereas Roy and Pris are two replicants who seem to convey genuine love for each other. And beyond that Roy conveys strong feelings of empathy and respect for Deckard. So, the suggestion becomes that we cannot so easily distinguish what it is and what it isn’t human.
Nearing the end of the film, Roy uses Sebastian’s literal chess game to complete his own chess game of mortality. Roy tells Sebastian to make a move that would result in Tyrell’s king in checkmate. Roy enters into the room of Tyrell and finds it difficult to confront his creator just as Tyrell finds it difficult to have Roy confront him. Roy asks a series of biological questions in order to figure some kind of way to expand Roy’s and the other’s lifespan from 4 years.
After Tyrell tells him that it’s impossible to change Roy’s structure to incorporate a longer lifespan because of viral and toxic difficulties, Roy crushes his skull and makes him bleed out his eyes in a gruesome death. Truly, this was a checkmate of Tyrell’s king on Roy’s behalf. After Roy was done using Tyrell, he would travel back to Sebastian’s apartment. Roy’s chess game with the human race continues even after discovering that he will soon die with no help from Tyrell.
Roy discovers a dead Pris lying on the ground riddled with bullet holes. He cries out in anguish and searches for whoever stole the last remaining time he had with Pris away from him. Deckard fires a couple shots past Roy, but Roy is too fast while he dodges them. Repeatedly throughout this scene, Roy says how Deckard is being unsportsmanlike for a man to shoot another man while unarmed. Roy is toying with Deckard at the end of this film, using Deckard even at the last moments of his life as part of a game. At the end of this scene, Roy saves the life after letting him hang off the edge of a skyscraper by his only good hand. Showing that he despises the waste of a life, Roy grabs Deckard by the arm and pulls him over the ledge.
He then proceeds to say one of my favorite lines in the film. Roy speaks in a soft monotone voice “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…Attack ships on fire off the shores of Orion…I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost…like tears in rain.” In the end of the film, Roy and the rest of the escaped replicants are retired and Deckard’s job is complete. However, many of the questions that were raised are left unanswered. Is it unjust to enslave a creation if it is a living being just as humans are? Also, what is the distinguishing factor of a living and thinking being? At least at the end of the film one point is absolutely clear. The replicants were driven to become as human as they possibly could. Using humans as a chess piece to complete the tasks as they wanted. Truly switching the roles of the user and the used.
Personally, I think Blade Runner is a beautiful film, but I can’t get over Ridley Scott’s butchering of Dick’s masterpiece. Philip K Dick portrayed replicants as amoral sociopaths for a reason. Scott totally misunderstood everything Dick was saying in the book. Replicants were never supposed to be misunderstood good guys. They’re evil sociopaths who are totally devoid of empathy. They aren’t even called “replicants” in the book, but andies (short for android). Roy and his android pals are unambiguously amoral and inclined to evil in Dick’s story, and in the book, Deckard kills Roy almost immediately after locating the androids. Roy isn’t a big character in the book at all. Blade Runner is really a completely different story that just uses the same setting and characters that appear in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Why is the film so different than the book? It’s because Ridley Scott is another one of those bigwig Hollywood directors who thinks that he understands the story better than the original author.
No doubt, Blade Runner is a beautiful film. The casting, score, and cinematography were all perfect. It’s just the modifications to the story that sucked. Ridley Scott should’ve left it alone. It would’ve been the perfect adaptation from literature to film. The androids are sociopaths in the novel. You’re supposed to sympathize with them in Blade Runner, however. That’s what I dislike so much about that movie. It’s a complete 180 from the premise of the book. In effect the movie wants you to sympathize with the inhuman antagonists. I don’t think it worked, though, particularly when it came out in the eighties, when people saw the movie, since people back them were more rooted in reality than we are now. Nowadays though, I can imagine a Social Justice Warrior watching the movie and hating humans for being so intolerant against these poor artificial machines.
“Androids?” blew my mind when I first read it. Dick really explores the themes of good and evil more in-depth than any of his other work, in my opinion. He also goes into the possibility of good and evil people, like the pneumatics and hylics of Gnosticism. I highly recommend people to read it. Not surprisingly, Blade Runner has many allusions to Gnosticism as well. Jay’s Analysis also has a great review of the film as well.
The underlying message in Blade Runner is, as the Rolling Stones put it, to have sympathy for the devil. Transhumanism and Satanism have many strong similarities and some may go so far as to say they are one and the same philosophy. This might sound counter-intuitive to someone not versed in these topics. Transhumanism is something that is associated with science fiction and futurism, while Satanism is something archaic and superstitious. And yet, we see places and sites like CERN with their employees performing mock human sacrifices in context of a Satanic ritual performed before the Hindu god Shiva, the principle of destruction. In a way, demons, or devils, or fallen angels are some may be considered artificial intelligence’s.
In Hinduism, these same demons are called “rakashas” which are often referred to as “man-eaters.” Either they were devised as concepts in the mind of God, but he chose not to create them, or he created them but banished them to hell. Christopher Knowles over at the Secret Sun blog, has also equated the rise of scientific materialism and globalism with the Faustian bargain. Quite clever. Indeed, the globalist agenda is kind of like the counterfeit creation of the Gnostic Demiurge. They’ve created a counterfeit reality that does not actually exist, and they’ve successfully indoctrinated the majority of the public with their lies.
Hieronymous Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights.”
Hell is often (but not always) depicted as a terrible place of fire and brimstone, a lake of fire filled with horned demons, but hell can also be an artificial, dark world that is often presented in science fiction works. This does not mean the artists who make these depictions are necessarily “in the know” or work for the Illuminati, but rather they have inadvertently picked up the inspiration from the ether or in dreams and depicted what they saw. This is where Deus Ex comes in. I am actually a big fan of the series. While the Deus Ex series started in 2000, the video game I will be referring to often is the sequel, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This game begins by immediately focusing in on a statue of a fallen angel facing a mysterious smoking figure/conspirator.
The game primarily follows the exploits and adventures of the security agent Adam Jensen for a biotechnology corporation called Sarif Industries. Adam Jensen quickly uncovers a plan that ties technological “augmentations” with the Illuminati controllers to take over the world in their Satanic quest to create a totalitarian socialist/fascist New World Order, which reminds us of the idea of the “Beast” in Revelation 17, which makes war “with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them.” Oh and by the way, in Revelation 19:20, the same Beast is condemned to hell:
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
There are other mysterious groups alluded and discussed throughout the game, such as Majestic 12, the Knights Templar, the Bilderberg Group, and the Trilateral Commission, also play a central part in the plot. They also show up in Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. This dark setting is enhanced by the fact that the entire game takes place at night (the first Deus Ex that is), a backdrop that adds to the atmosphere of conspiracies and stealth. The name “Sarif” evokes similarities with the angelic class of the Seraphim. In Romans 1:21-23, we read:
…when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
One central tenet of early heresy in Gnosticism, is that the Lawgiver Jehovah was really just an angel in rebellion against the Good Father above (e.g. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1.24.2, 1.25.4). Paul seems to evoke the same language which reflects this doctrine in letters such as Galatians 3:19 and 4:1-8:
“Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”
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4 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4 but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
There are other instances in Paul’s letters where he basically says that the Old Testament and Moses’ Law quite literally blinded and deceived the Israelites such as 2 Corinthians 3. In these passages observing the Law is equated with worshiping angels as seen in Hebrews 2:1-3
We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,…
In context of the sermon, in the Bible the Seraphim and Cherubim, are described as having both human and animal traits, having the forms of men, eagles, lions, ox, and even serpents as different texts of the Old Testament depict (Isaiah 6:2-6, Ezekiel 1 & 10). This is where the many Gnostic teachers like Basilides and the Sethian Ophites pounced upon this idea by using Romans 1:23, to reduce Jehovah, the Lawgiver to an inferior power or a mere angel, which has the corruptible form of a man and various animals, much like how Ialdaboath is portrayed as having a face of a lion and a body of a serpent or dragon in Gnostic literature. Paul also seems to be attacking pagans and perhaps even Jews for reducing the Supreme deity to angel and demon worship. And so Sarif industries also made the human race further corruptible by using different augmentations which only sever the spirit of man from God, even further. Some point to Daniel 2:43 as prophetic reference to cybernetic influence on the biology of mankind:
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
In the sequel Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the fallen angelic/Luciferian symbolism continues on. Oh and there is even an official novella called Deus Ex: Fallen Angel. Matthew 24:37, tells us:
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
This is a phrase that some Christian UFOlogists and conspiracy theorists like Michael Tsarion have interpreted this to mean that in the days of Noah, earth inhabitants held a wide variety of technology which gave rise to various pyramids and structures that we, today, have no way of reconstructing on an exact scale, as well as all of the genetic manipulation that we are seeing now arise in food production and hybrid experiments with human and animal DNA. Matthew seems to echo Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch, among other Jewish apocalyptic literature, with the Sons of God interbreeding with the daughters of men to produce a race of giants or the Nephilim. And then God sent a flood to get rid of it all because it was perverting his creation. This relates to the ziggurat in Blade Runner, the building of the Tyrell corporation, that creates the replicants. Back in the days of Noah, these high priests used their perverse technologies and occult ritual magic to try to summon these demonic, artificial entities into our world. The ziggurat probably symbolizes this. The movie Blade Runner states that they are attempting to do it again. The Gnostic text On the Origin of the World tells us this exactly:
Let us return to the aforementioned rulers, so that we may offer some explanation of them. Now, when the seven rulers were cast down from their heavens onto the earth, they made for themselves angels, numerous, demonic, to serve them. And the latter instructed mankind in many kinds of error and magic and potions and worship of idols and spilling of blood and altars and temples and sacrifices and libations to all the spirits of the earth, having their coworker fate, who came into existence by the concord between the gods of injustice and justice.
Many have also compared the Kabbalistic Jewish Golem, which is an artificially emerging human nourished from inanimate matter to modern A.I., a being with the unholy capacity of stealing the uniqueness of human soul, through spells using the Tetagrammaton or the Name of YHWH, indicating the Demiurge has occult mysticism under his sway.
Now, forgive me for heading into further conspiracy territory but it must be pointed out. Chemtrails are often poo-pooed on by many but it relates to the idea of geoengineering. Geoengineering for what exactly? I would say it’s the dark, artificial world we’ve been seeing in various science fiction movies. Perhaps the strange phenomenon Global Dimming is caused by chemtrails. I’ve seen many airplanes spray chemtrails over the years in many different countries, even over my house! This isn’t such an easily dismissible issue since they are very visible and perceived unlike other nebulous concepts you will see in esoterica. If you don’t believe me, start paying attention when you go outside. You might not see them everyday, but you will see them eventually. I do not know exactly for what purpose they are being sprayed–perhaps its for depopulation purposes.
I heard one Christian Youtuber guy say that they are used so that demons can manifest in the natural world more seamlessly. This ties into the technocratic kingdom of the fallen angels, or the rising and fall of the Beast of Revelation. I’ve heard other authors like John Lash discuss the “archons” of Gnosticism in terms of being inorganic cyborgs. But he’s a bit of a psuedo-Gnostic pagan David Duke and has fallen far from what he was doing 8-10 years earlier with his fascinating book Not In His Image. What I am saying might be hard to believe but there you have it.
All of this also ties in with what has been occurring on the world stage as of late, with numerous terror-attacks, threats of World War 3, reproductive-disease spreading Mosquitoes, poisoned drinking waters for the underprivileged, citizen assassinations, proxy wars and uprising in the Middle East, civil, domestic uprisings, the rise of Satanism in the public arena, the crushing of dissidents and free-speech, one must realize that there are insane, lunatic nihilists out there, especially in positions of power, who really do want to realize their own destruction. Just look at all the progressive feminists who want Muslim immigrants to invade their countries and rape and kill them. Just look at the Bug Chasers in San Francisco who purposefully want to get HIV/AIDS. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
In Luke 21:10-28, Jesus tells his disciples a dire prophecy about the future:
10 Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake. 13 But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.14 Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer; 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. 17 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. 18 But not a hair of your head shall be lost. 19 By your patience possess your souls.
The Destruction of Jerusalem
20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those who are in the country enter her. 22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. 24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
The Coming of the Son of Man
25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; 26 men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”
It sure sounds like the future is now. But, threats of the apocalypse have been here with us since the beginning of time and space. It’s always been the same story in the realm of the Demiurge! Here are a few more videos of interest. (Please note, I won’t be posting links to videos in all future posts.) One more thing, please consider supporting my site by donating so I can keep this site afloat, independent and advertisement-free.
The Aeon Eye 