No you’re not a vampire…
August 27th, 2008
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I happened to be flipping through the channels when I saw our friend Dr. Michael Shermer, on a program about vampires. Apparently there are people who claim that they are, indeed, real life vampires.
And another similar program that’s even better (or worse, depending on the strength of your stomach) :
No. These guys are not vampires. Vampires are not real. Vampires need to drink blood to stay alive, they disintigrate in the light and they can’t die except with a stake through the heart – okay in reality that varies quite a lot depending on what version of the myth you go with. It seems to have changed a lot between the Eastern European myths, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and 1950’s horror flicks. You can no more be a vampire than you can be a centaur or a griffin or unicorn, because they’re just not real.
But regardless of these are not “vampires” they are “kinda creepy people who took the whole goth look and death/blood fetish waaaay too far, to the point of being a little disgusting and unsettling and who probably need to get a real life and might want to see a therapist too, because I would not be surprised if they had some really weird repressed stuff going on.”
Anyways, if these guys are vampires, then I’m a warewolf
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August 27th, 2008 at 1:51 am
You’re a warewolf? DAMN!
What are you standing in front of? It looks like an authographed picture and a bunch of other pictures.
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August 27th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Everyone has the right to be stupid, some just abuse the privilege. (ie. vampire people)
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August 27th, 2008 at 2:15 am
My issue with this on the whole “politically correct” thing is that we’re supposed to embrace diversity and respect all people equally and treat them equally regardless of lifestyle. I’m for that within reason but I have my limits and these people are just so skeevy that I’m not sure I could really bring myself to just act like they’re the same as anyone else. I mean I think I’d avoid them and kinda treat them with a bit of apprehension and not be so friendly, just because the whole blood thing is really gross and also because they seem like the type who might just not be my type.
I have to think if you go for that whole dig you’d expect that a lot of members of society won’t greet you with open arms and be 100% accepting of it or at least be apprehensive and not want to deal with you so much.
If that makes me a bad person, oh well. Like I said, I have my limits. (That’s very un-PC)
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Ben Dover said:
Looks like a picture of Edward Teller.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Erythropoietic Porphyria – a rare skin disease characterised by severe light sensitivity of the skin that can result in intolerable, pain, swelling and scarring, and those afflicted with the condition are often forced to remain indoors and in the dark.
Though those afflicted don’t need to drink blood.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:39 am
From the woman with the blood-sucking fetish in second video: “Sexually, I’m celibate.”
Ya think? Am I the only one who is not surprised at this?
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:57 am
BMS said:
Human nature sublimates the impulses it thwarts,
A healthy sex-life mitigates lusts of other sorts
-Piet Hine
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Damn I meant Piet Hein
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August 27th, 2008 at 8:32 am
have they ever heard of a little thing like AIDS.
GoodNight people are STUPID,
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August 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am
DV82XL said:
On the opposite side of the coin:
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
— Thomas Mann
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August 27th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Most people seem to have an aversion to blood, especially from other humans and don’t like the idea of drinking it. To put it bluntly it’s disgusting. I think this may actually have evolutionary roots just like he general aversion to the smell of feces or the smell of decaying matter.
Blood-blood contact is one of the best ways of spreading some extremely nasty diseases.
I think this is people who want to have attention and get their jollies by pushing the norm and shocking others etc. It’s the goth thing gone WAY WAY WAY too far.
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August 30th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Doesn’t porphyria also give the impression of elongated fangs though?
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:00 am
Just wanted to say a thank you for taking your time to write this page. It wasn’t what I were originally searching for but it let me kill some time during a dull work shift.
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