ydoaPs Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 there are people that kill people and drink thier blood. do you consider them vampires? http://scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4758&page=2&pp=20 http://www.cnn.com/US/9802/27/vampire.slayings/ http://www.vampyres.com/portal/modu...hp?op=view&t=70 http://www.trancenet.org/groups/news/9808.shtml http://www.factnet.org/cult_danger_growing.html?FACTNet
pulkit Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 do you consider them vampires? Are you referring to vampires as the classical blood sucking monster ? Coz such people I'd only call "deranged".
YT2095 Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 No, just sick/misguided folk that are illness based tragedies waiting to happen.
NavajoEverclear Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 vampires suck, and are stupid. all those goth retards who call themselves vampires---- they should explode.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 Spontaneously combust? Now, are we talking about those with fangs and coffins, or gangs of wacko teenagers, or people with an actual disease?
NavajoEverclear Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 i think i was talking about those punk teenagers. Don't get me wrong, i love the death and doom scene, but some people are just plain idiots mmmm spontaneous combustion sounds very suitable
The_simpsons Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 I voted no because what i consider vampires are organisms who suck blood for nutrition and food (hematophags) such as vampire bats, mosquitoes, horseflies, worms and lampreys. Or the mythological creatures vampires, but they do not exist. Since humans drink blood of clearly other reasons than a efficient way to get food, they are not vampires in my eyes.
padren Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 No more than people that bark and chase cars are dogs...
Spyman Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 For me a Vampire would be a magical and evil supernatural creature. They are undead and can't be killed.
ecoli Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 I had a friend who used to do that. He was sick in the head and on all sorts of illegal drugs. Luckily he's better now, thanks to two years in rehab. The worst part, is probably that he'd carve things into his body, like a pair of wings into his back and circles around his fingers. He's not a vampire, but he was pretty sick.
GutZ Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 No. They are undead and can't be killed. Hey I have an idea to test if they truely are vampires then! *cocks shotgun* herrrrreeee vampires! With my luck I'd get atleast one vampire which at that point will be extremely pissed.
AzurePhoenix Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 I think they have to cover any three of several criteria to be a "vampire." Drinks blood being the key, along with sensitive skin, a garlic allergy, naturally pointy canines, nocturnal habits, and obsessive complusive disorder. Oh, and that's just to be a psuedo-vampire, to be a REAL vampire they have to have died prior to manifesting these characteristics
JohnB Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 With my luck I'd get atleast one vampire which at that point will be extremely pissed. You could always apologise and offer to buy him a new Tux. These problems and more discussed in The Vampire Files by P.N. Elrod. A good series set in 1920's Chicago.
CanadaAotS Posted September 23, 2006 Posted September 23, 2006 I completely agree with the_simpsons. An organism that gets nutrition from drinking blood I would consider a vampire... Hey, whats the nutritional value in blood for a human anyway? lol And I know a girl whos allergic to everything heh, that would include sun. So, if she was allergic to garlic as well, and just so happened to have sharper canines then normal AND drank blood... Would that make her a vampire? (by Azure's definition)
ecoli Posted September 23, 2006 Posted September 23, 2006 I completely agree with the_simpsons. An organism that gets nutrition from drinking blood I would consider a vampire... Hey, whats the nutritional value in blood for a human anyway? lol And I know a girl whos allergic to everything heh, that would include sun. So, if she was allergic to garlic as well, and just so happened to have sharper canines then normal AND drank blood... Would that make her a vampire? (by Azure's definition) Does she also happen to be undead?
bigOz Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 So what does all this make those eating "Black pudding" all over in UK?
The Spith Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 IHey, whats the nutritional value in blood for a human anyway? lol I read an article once that said you would need to consume the blood of six average humans each day to survive on that alone. Then you would have problems from lack of nutrients and vitamins, poisoning and infections etc, etc.
The_simpsons Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 I read an article once that said you would need to consume the blood of six average humans each day to survive on that alone. Then you would have problems from lack of nutrients and vitamins, poisoning and infections etc, etc. Yeah that's why only small animals are vampires. Blood is rich in lipids and proteins and very easy to acquire with the right equipment which the vampire animals have, but only applies to animals of their size. So they have plenty of blood to suck on from a animal much bigger then yourself without big effort, and even with that much blood available, the big animal never suffers blood loss (except maybe for fishes who fall prey for lampreys). Big mammals like us have meat instead, because for us living on blood will be just to inefficient given our design.
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