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Post: 4357661_1 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:08:06 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:08:06 +0000

I have Decided to get opinions on Vampirism from people in E.D. forums b/c everywhere else is filled with them. I personally enjoy the taste but to tell someone "tilt your head i'm thirsty" is revolting anyone with an honest opinion on this please explain why those people do those disgusting things!

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Post: 4357661_2 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:27:11 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:27:11 +0000

Vampirism...
Haha!

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Post: 4357661_3 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:28:30 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:28:30 +0000

Disgusting? I could just as easily ask you why you eat food. It's disgusting, all that chewing in your mouth.
Ew, it disgusts me just to think about it. How can you eat that stuff.

So if drinking blood disgusts you, no problem. I'll stop as soon as you stop eating food.

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Post: 4357661_4 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:29:52 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:29:52 +0000

Fiction: Drinking blood makes you a vampire.

Fact: Drinking blood for the hell of it != vampirism. It doesn't provide you any sustenance, and you don't need to do it. It doesn't give you special powers. It just skyrockets your chances for carrying diseases and ******** up your intestinal tract.

Fact: You aren't undead. You aren't a creature of Slavic mythoi. You don't have the strength of 20 men. You can't control animals or the weather. And you're perfectly capable of sleeping without soil from your grave.

Edit: I just figured out that you're not claiming to be a vampire. I think so, anyway; your post was written a bit ambiguously.

But, yeah, for further clarification, Vampires != real.

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Post: 4357661_5 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:31:22 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:31:22 +0000

I wasn't going to do this, but eh. Infodump time! xd

Vampirism.

Porphyria at best, self-delusion of people who just want to be something more than human at worst. Psi-vampires are just sensitive to the feelings of others around them, and sanguines do not have the extended lives as they claim. They just like the taste of blood. Trust me, I dated one once. He was in his late teens and looked 40. And I know he was in his late teens as his aunt produced a birth certificate and various dated baby and toddler photos at one point in the relationship. She loved stripping his dark and evil image on him. 3nodding

In the case of those who are actually porphyric, the lack of heem in their systems makes them crave blood. Usually manifested in a love for rare-cooked meats, but it can make the more impressionable believe they're real live vampires and send them after blood from human sources. Also, in all but two types of the disease, it can make their skin rupture and blister badly in sunlight, which is one of the reasons porphyria is often associated with vampirism historically. Other reasons include sensitivity to certain foods (most notably garlic), obsessive behaviours (which may explain all those old "vampires need to count grains thrown at their feet" myths) and if left untreated, barking madness, which explains aversion to holy water, crosses, running water and the like.

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Post: 4357661_6 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:31:54 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:31:54 +0000

If drinking blood doesn't make me a vampire, what does, then?

EDIT: Wow...having your existance disproven is an interesting experience.

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Post: 4357661_7 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:35:24 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:35:24 +0000

Axioma

If drinking blood doesn't make me a vampire, what does, then?

Dying of exsanguination from a vampire bite, and then waking up three days later with vampiric powers and a thirst for blood.

Which, for clarification, doesn't happen in real life.

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Post: 4357661_8 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:38:08 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:38:08 +0000

Axioma

If drinking blood doesn't make me a vampire, what does, then?

Dying of exsanguination from a vampire bite, and then waking up three days later with vampiric powers and a thirst for blood.

Which, for clarification, doesn't happen in real life.

No, that's how you become one.

That'd be like saying that being born from a human mother is all that makes humans human. It certainly is one of the neccesary events that have to happen in a human's life, but it's not like that's all that makes 'em diffirent.

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Post: 4357661_9 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:46:12 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:46:12 +0000

Heh, I just noticed that the question is whether Vampirism is okay.
I find the question...strange.
That's like asking whether being human is wrong, or maybe wonder whether it's wrong for a dog to be a dog.
That's what it IS. A dog is a dog, a human is a human, a vampire is a vampire.

Of course, I might be going into a whole diffirent debate on whether vampires and humans are two separate species. I'd say this depends on the existance of "Half-vampires" or "dhampirs" as they are sometimes called. Now, I've never seen one, but if they do exist, they would prove that a sexual union between a vampire and a human can produce children capable of breeding further, than vampires and humans really are one species.

Which, I suppose, might make the concept of us feeding on what is essentially another race of our own kind problematic, since it smacks of cannibalism. But then again, I've never personally seen any proof of the existance of the "dhampirs", so I can't really say.

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Post: 4357661_10 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:26:22 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:26:22 +0000

Myths.

Pretty cool myths, but myths nevertheless.

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Post: 4357661_11 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:03:06 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:03:06 +0000

Fact: You aren't a creature of Slavic mythoi.

AyHEM?

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Post: 4357661_12 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:09:47 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:09:47 +0000

i am a vampire (half)! i wuz biten by a tru vampire n now i am stuieng silvar ravenwolf to becum a full vampire! i will then studie ninjitsu and become ninja wicca vampire!

u who do not belief w/e u r jelous.

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Post: 4357661_13 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:11:49 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:11:49 +0000

izthizloli

Going to look for a werewolf to bite you next? 3nodding

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Post: 4357661_14 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:14:30 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:14:30 +0000

Lunar Faeri

izthizloli

Going to look for a werewolf to bite you next? 3nodding

omg no i h8 furries wtf?

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Post: 4357661_15 created on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:51:37 +0000
Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:51:37 +0000

Not to be rude, but I'd like to say I'm impressed that you know that some vampire myths say that you need soil from your grave or native land to live as a vampire or rest peacefully in your coffin. Not many ppl know that.

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