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[–] SuperDoobie 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

A friend of mine created this theory back in the early 80's. He called it the "Filler People" theory.

There is only a handful of actual, sentient people in the world and all the filler people mill around you and take up space so you do not realize how few people really exist. This is why you see the same people from time to time and why people seem to be unaware of what is really happening around them.

I am pretty sure he derived this theory from a science fiction novel even older than we are.

So, not a 4Chan theory and way older than the internet.

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[–] Socks_are_okay 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Can confirm this experience... the familiar standard faces of strangers I would know from NL are in Eastern Europe too - just Slavified. It's creepy. Creepiest is walking into fillers that look like Slav versions of my unpleasant parents - which only really happens on bad days, as if the negative emotions have become so associated with them, the machine conjures them up when they're not present.

I've lived a third of a century now, and only met the first of the 2 non- fillers I personally met (that I without doubt know of) 3 years ago.

There's a difference with non fillers in the eyes (sharp and intelligent... but the pupils seem to be deeper...) and moving (conscious and not machinal). I guess in a way there's authority in their acting, without them wanting to assess authority over those around them. This from own experience and what the others told me. Sadly, the first non- filler was terminally ill and only reached his early seventies. He told me I was one of very few like him he ever met in his entire life.