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[0011235813]

My definition of a vampire is a being that relies on blood to keep itself alive. Not some teenager who thinks he is a vampire. If you actually were a vampire(u-
likely that a real vampire would have any interest in this forum)then you would certainly know.

[0011235813]

There is a poll debating the existence of vampires. Poll name: existence of vampires

[The New Richard Nixon]

Im a vampire.

[JGirl]

0011235813, on 26 February 2011 - 03:42 PM, said:

There is a poll debating the existence of vampires. Poll name: existence of vampires

so what

[0011235813]

JGirl, on 26 February 2011 - 03:51 PM, said:

so what

I am simply informing people who want to discuss the topic. This thread seemed an appropriate place. Doesn't mean you have to be so rude!

Erix, on 26 February 2011 - 03:48 PM, said:

Im a vampire.

Prove it!

[JGirl]

0011235813, on 26 February 2011 - 04:00 PM, said:

I am simply informing people who want to discuss the topic. This thread seemed an appropriate place. Doesn't mean you have to be so rude!


Prove it!

do you realize how many vampire threads are here already?  people are and have been  discussing the topic. you came on this thread and brow beat those who don't believe what you believe, and now you call me rude. that's rich.

Edited by JGirl, 26 February 2011 - 04:27 PM.

[0011235813]

I would very much appreciate receiving some answers on the poll. It is fairly straight forward.
And I am not making anyone do anything, if you don't go thats fine, just don't insult me for making a very polite request

Edited by 0011235813, 26 February 2011 - 05:53 PM.

[JGirl]

0011235813, on 26 February 2011 - 05:52 PM, said:

I would very much appreciate receiving some answers on the poll. It is fairly straight forward.
And I am not making anyone do anything, if you don't go thats fine, just don't insult me for making a very polite request

whether you feel insulted is your decision -i am merely pointing out that there are already countless threads you could post on regarding vampires - that's all. if you doubt that go to the right top of your page and search vampirism in the forums. you may be surprised how many threads come up
i did vote on your poll, as you can see if you click on the view option in the poll.
otherwise there is nothing to say on the thread that hasn't been hashed over a million times already

[0011235813]

JGirl, on 26 February 2011 - 06:41 PM, said:

whether you feel insulted is your decision -i am merely pointing out that there are already countless threads you could post on regarding vampires - that's all. if you doubt that go to the right top of your page and search vampirism in the forums. you may be surprised how many threads come up
i did vote on your poll, as you can see if you click on the view option in the poll.
otherwise there is nothing to say on the thread that hasn't been hashed over a million times already

Sorry, are you saying I shouldn't post on the subject?
tell me if I am wrong anybody.

[JGirl]

0011235813, on 26 February 2011 - 07:52 PM, said:

Sorry, are you saying I shouldn't post on the subject?
tell me if I am wrong anybody.

what on earth gives you the idea that i'm suggesting you cannot post on a subject?
you have accused me of insulting you, following you around the internet even, and now this.
i think you need to calm down

[HerNibs]

0011235813, on 26 February 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

My definition of a vampire is a being that relies on blood to keep itself alive. Not some teenager who thinks he is a vampire. If you actually were a vampire(u-
likely that a real vampire would have any interest in this forum)then you would certainly know.

What kind of being?

Nibs

[Render]

0011235813, on 25 February 2011 - 06:54 PM, said:

the shear amount of circumstantial evidence is huge. There have been recorded vampire sightings for over two thousand years! over different continents! how can people come up with such similar ideas when they are separated by huge distances and through millennia?!

because their haven't been recordings of actual vampires as they are portrayed (beings that have the shape of a human and suck blood lol)

The only real vampire there is, is the bat.
The rest of these recordings are either metaphores and things that were unexplainable, for example diseases what made humans look like "undead" but still walking around.


vampire
    1734, from Fr. vampire or Ger. Vampir (1732, in an account of Hungarian vampires), from Hung. vampir, from O.C.S. opiri (cf. Serb. vampir, Bulg. vapir, Ukrainian uper), said by Slavic linguist Franc Miklošič to be ultimtely from Kazan Tatar ubyr "witch," but Max Vasmer, an expert in this linguistic area, finds that phonetically doubtful. An Eastern European creature popularized in English by late 19c. gothic novels, however there are scattered English accounts of night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading undead corpses from as far back as 1196. Applied 1774 by French biologist Buffon to a species of South American blood-sucking bat.

vamp (n.)
    "seductive woman," 1911, short for vampire. First attested use is earlier than the release of the Fox film "A Fool There Was" (January 1915), with sultry Theda Bara in the role of The Vampire. But the movie was based on a play of that name that had been a Broadway hit (title and concept from a Kipling poem, "The Vampire"), and the word may ultimately trace to Bara's role. At any rate, Bara (real name Theodosia Goodman) remains the classic vamp.

        A fool there was and he made his prayer
        (Even as you and I!)
        To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair
        (We called her the woman who did not care)
        But the fool, he called her his lady fair
        (Even as you and I.)

        [Kipling, "The Vampire"]

lamia
    late 14c., from Gk. lamia "female vampire," lit. "swallower, lecher," from laimos "throat, gullet." Probably cognate with L. lemures "spirits of the dead" (see lemur). Used in early translations of the Bible for screech owls and sea monsters.



You're just another victim of wishful thinking.

[0011235813]

Triade, on 27 February 2011 - 09:41 AM, said:

because their haven't been recordings of actual vampires as they are portrayed (beings that have the shape of a human and suck blood lol)

The only real vampire there is, is the bat.
The rest of these recordings are either metaphores and things that were unexplainable, for example diseases what made humans look like "undead" but still walking around.


vampire
    1734, from Fr. vampire or Ger. Vampir (1732, in an account of Hungarian vampires), from Hung. vampir, from O.C.S. opiri (cf. Serb. vampir, Bulg. vapir, Ukrainian uper), said by Slavic linguist Franc Miklošič to be ultimtely from Kazan Tatar ubyr "witch," but Max Vasmer, an expert in this linguistic area, finds that phonetically doubtful. An Eastern European creature popularized in English by late 19c. gothic novels, however there are scattered English accounts of night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading undead corpses from as far back as 1196. Applied 1774 by French biologist Buffon to a species of South American blood-sucking bat.

vamp (n.)
    "seductive woman," 1911, short for vampire. First attested use is earlier than the release of the Fox film "A Fool There Was" (January 1915), with sultry Theda Bara in the role of The Vampire. But the movie was based on a play of that name that had been a Broadway hit (title and concept from a Kipling poem, "The Vampire"), and the word may ultimately trace to Bara's role. At any rate, Bara (real name Theodosia Goodman) remains the classic vamp.

        A fool there was and he made his prayer
        (Even as you and I!)
        To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair
        (We called her the woman who did not care)
        But the fool, he called her his lady fair
        (Even as you and I.)

        [Kipling, "The Vampire"]

lamia
    late 14c., from Gk. lamia "female vampire," lit. "swallower, lecher," from laimos "throat, gullet." Probably cognate with L. lemures "spirits of the dead" (see lemur). Used in early translations of the Bible for screech owls and sea monsters.



You're just another victim of wishful thinking.

Well I guess we will never know for sure unless we find the real thing.

[0011235813]

HerNibs, on 27 February 2011 - 03:20 AM, said:

What kind of being?

Nibs

A being that resembles a human but with some differences (i.e. has a desire for blood etc.)
don't know what else i can say.

[Disembodied Voice]

Gotavamp, on 03 October 2010 - 10:17 PM, said:

Vampirism is real, and doesn't have to do with just chosing a lifestyle, but on how something gains energy from something else. Those who want to live a lifestyle evolving around vampirism can be dangerious and perhaps some that is the allure. There is a difference between living a fun exotic life of blood drinking, for the allure and turn ons, and one that has a person feels the need to feed off the blood of another.

Some claim to be real vampires that can drain energy, and there has been testing to prove something is taking place. But not enough to prove one is actually draining a person of their energy.

There are different kinds of vampirism, and that is a person becomes a hosts to something thats attached to them and feeds from that person in mulitiple ways, through fear, sex, anger, depression, and even suicide and pain. So there is a difference in the question being asked, is vampirism real, yes, but is a person really a vampire, remains to be seen.

That's something to the extent of what I wanted to bring up. I just couldn't word it right. I've seen an episode on tv about psychic vampires. Michelle Belanger was in it. She wrote the book - "Psychic Vampire Coax" Interesting read.

Edited by Disembodied Voice, 06 March 2011 - 02:55 PM.