Ok. This is coming from a major vampire lover. I've read plenty of books on the subject, read up the entire history of vampirism. It's fascinating stuff, but you have to draw the line somewhere. There are no vampires. Being one is physically impossible, and the people who really and truly think they are are delusional.
What arguements do you have to support your way of life, "vampires?"
2007-06-09 09:59:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Porphyria:
A rare hereditary blood disease, which causes the inability of the body to reproduce heme, the component of hemoglobin, which is the major component or red blood. Lack of heme causes a porphyriac to experience blood cravings, causing the sufferer of this disease to attack people or animals for their blood in desparate attempt to replace the heme their body could not generate. A driven porphyriac would do this without knowing why he/she had done it.
Porphyria causes skin sensativity to sunlight forcing the sufferer to come out only at night. Garlic, which stimulates heme production in healthy people, contains a chemical that worses then painful symptoms of porphyria. The porphyria sufferer would avoid contact with garlic becaused it caused pain, not because he/she was a Vampire.
More severe symptoms caused by this disease are sores and scars on the skin, exessive hariness, the tightening and stretching of the gums and lips causing teeth to appear fang-like. Aslo, in more severe cases, fingers and nose would sometimes fall off. Bloody sores around the mouth caused by stretching and tightening of the lips may give the appearance of a bloody mouthed Vampire that had recently fed from a victim.
This hereditary disease was more likely to occur in earlier times when travel was less common and inbreeding was more common, and their hereditary factor played a larger role. In some cases relatives may have been bitten for their blood simply because they were handy when the porphyria sufferer needed and immediate supply. These donors might later show the same porphyria symptoms and seem to have become Vampires themselves as the result of having been bitten by one. The truth is that they had already aquired the disease at birth, since the disease is hereditary. In this occurance of the disease many members of the community may have developed the belief in the transformation of become a Vampire in a certain village or community where the disease was more common.
2007-06-09 10:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by Fluffy Wisdom 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
OK in my opinion vampires are real but not the Hollywood fantasy i have done allot of research as well and came up with allot of good info to support psychic vampires they draw off of humans not only by thought but some crave blood, i don't really understand the blood thing but I'm not trying to either, OK i have a few sites you should check out they might give you the arguments you are looking for to believe or not to as i said this is my personal opinion and I'm not trying to sway anyone to believe me just trying to give you info so you can decide for yourself
2007-06-10 18:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a lover of vampire mythology. and a believer in the supernatural. i find the explanation of the blood disease already given to be a correct one on most accounts of actual vampires.
as a player of the Role Playing Game Vampire the Masquerade, i have seen people that simply had some mental problems. and took the game into their life. these people already had mental problems. and used the game as a detachment from a negative reality. the vampire mythos is so attractive baceuse of the power of the vampire. the Vampire is a sexual object in that it can seduce anyone that it wants. this makes it attractive to people that are in desperate need of love or companionship, but do not have the social skills to obtain it. the neverending life mythos gives people with no religion and a great fear of death something to hold on to. to make them forget their own mortality.
and to many it is much like the teenage Goth culture. it is a way to silently rebel against a society that refuses to accept them. so they make themselves into something that will not be accepted by society in general, so that they are accepted among other outcasts with similar mannerisms.
i believe in the psychic vamp. but most that are this way. never even know it. as it is an unconcious thing to draw energy from living things around you.
ans as far as the people that constantly have to talk about being a vampire. i feel that they are simply looking for the attention form society that most claim to reject.
2007-06-09 10:48:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First off being a vampire lover is also a very unusual way to be... For they are one of the most cursed creatures that ever walked this earth..... Also a very well know fact is, that all true vampires are possessed by a demon (fallen angel) so their walking this earth is not only very possible but also very real.. Their survival depends on man-kinds lack of belief in them.. But being possessed by a demon makes them a very real threat..... So I say save your love for the human race and be very careful about what you ask for.............................
2007-06-09 12:14:53 · answer #4 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I just like to kill and drink blood. Does that make me a vampire, or just a dilettante?
2007-06-09 10:03:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Vampirism" is a "lifestyle". It is not fake and its not hollywood crap that people pretend to be. Search more and ye shall find.
2007-06-09 16:22:50 · answer #6 · answered by Vampira 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
E.T. PHONE HOME .
2007-06-09 10:02:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋