Vampirism: Moved to new thread, see 1st post.

[OrnatePixels]

R.A.A.M

OrnatePixels

Elite Beat Vampire

Sometimes, in life, you need to make a leap of faith to get results.

You don't have to believe in the same things that other people do, but it sure doesn't hurt to understand it, either.

(Sometimes I think Therians are whack jobs, you should pay THEM a visit.)

Therians being?

They believe that their soul is fused with that of an animal or something along those lines.

Oh.

My very best friend is infused with a wolf.

[Van Gogh Baez]

OrnatePixels

R.A.A.M

OrnatePixels

Elite Beat Vampire

Sometimes, in life, you need to make a leap of faith to get results.

You don't have to believe in the same things that other people do, but it sure doesn't hurt to understand it, either.

(Sometimes I think Therians are whack jobs, you should pay THEM a visit.)

Therians being?

They believe that their soul is fused with that of an animal or something along those lines.

Oh.

My very best friend is infused with a wolf.

I think that perhaps the basic ideas of therianism can be true, but they get into alot of new-agey bullshit, so I don't hang around that forum anymore...

[Vampire Cup]

R.A.A.M

Elite Beat Vampire

Sometimes, in life, you need to make a leap of faith to get results.

You don't have to believe in the same things that other people do, but it sure doesn't hurt to understand it, either.

(Sometimes I think Therians are whack jobs, you should pay THEM a visit.)

Hey,hey. Therians actually, in my opinion, are more likely than vampires. The basic beliefs of Therians pretty much date back to the cave man days, whilst the basic ideas of vampirism in this forum don't really appear until around.. 1880 was it?

So you can't really say Therians are Whack jobs, while you believe in vampires.

I wouldn't have said it if I weren't a whack-o myself. I didn't say I hated them, either. I like talking to them.

Vampirism probably has deep roots too, I am sure. But this shouldn't be a "who is oldest" contest. It shouldn't be a belief fight, either. We are what we are, I am more than sure you understand that.

[Kinesia]

Elite Beat Vampire

Sometimes, in life, you need to make a leap of faith to get results.

You don't have to believe in the same things that other people do, but it sure doesn't hurt to understand it, either.

(Sometimes I think Therians are whack jobs, you should pay THEM a visit.)

Hey. Be nice.

[OrnatePixels]

R.A.A.M

OrnatePixels

R.A.A.M

OrnatePixels

Elite Beat Vampire

Sometimes, in life, you need to make a leap of faith to get results.

You don't have to believe in the same things that other people do, but it sure doesn't hurt to understand it, either.

(Sometimes I think Therians are whack jobs, you should pay THEM a visit.)

Therians being?

They believe that their soul is fused with that of an animal or something along those lines.

Oh.

My very best friend is infused with a wolf.

I think that perhaps the basic ideas of therianism can be true, but they get into alot of new-agey bullshit, so I don't hang around that forum anymore...

What kinda new-agey?

[II Xero II]

I find it irritating how you people can believe in something like Therians and not believe in Vampires at all.

We're less "out of the ordinary" than they are, how the hell is it so hard to believe?

How can you believe the people who are fused with the spirit of an animal, yet you can't believe a simple case of someone who needs to constantly supplement himself/herself with blood/other forms of energy?

Honestly people, is it that hard to believe that there are people who are a little different out there? It's not like we're claiming to be "immortal" and have some kind of "amazing inhuman abilities" that normal people don't have. Such is not the case here. We're human beings all the same, just "different", is that so hard to believe?

Seriously, this is pissing me off.

[Van Gogh Baez]

OrnatePixels

R.A.A.M

OrnatePixels

R.A.A.M

OrnatePixels

Elite Beat Vampire

Sometimes, in life, you need to make a leap of faith to get results.

You don't have to believe in the same things that other people do, but it sure doesn't hurt to understand it, either.

(Sometimes I think Therians are whack jobs, you should pay THEM a visit.)

Therians being?

They believe that their soul is fused with that of an animal or something along those lines.

Oh.

My very best friend is infused with a wolf.

I think that perhaps the basic ideas of therianism can be true, but they get into alot of new-agey bullshit, so I don't hang around that forum anymore...

What kinda new-agey?

You know, the meditation, crystal energy kinda new agey sillyness. Not to mention the majority of Therians seem to be wolves or even -snicker- "Dragons.". I think it was when someone said that they were a dragon that I left.

[Mrs Amarah Couture]

@ the dragon thing.-
I think I read somewhere back that they were dinosaurs actually.
But the knights or whoever just called them dragons.

O:

interesting

[Van Gogh Baez]

II Xero II

I find it irritating how you people can believe in something like Therians and not believe in Vampires at all.

We're less "out of the ordinary" than they are, how the hell is it so hard to believe?

How can you believe the people who are fused with the spirit of an animal, yet you can't believe a simple case of someone who needs to constantly supplement himself/herself with blood/other forms of energy?

Honestly people, is it that hard to believe that there are people who are a little different out there? It's not like we're claiming to be "immortal" and have some kind of "amazing inhuman abilities" that normal people don't have. Such is not the case here. We're human beings all the same, just "different", is that so hard to believe?

Seriously, this is pissing me off.

Ok. Here it is.

Well. Since your ingesting something, you can actually look at Vampirism scientifically. It fails there, as does therianism but oh well. I have left behind science to talk about this stuff. Now I concentrate on history.

Therianism has roots in almost every culture. The idea of humans associating themselves with animals dates back to the cavemen.

Vampirism, however, does not have the same solid history. The majority of vampire history is about Traditional Vampires, I've not found a single mention of vampires even close to what is talked about here before the 1800s. Except maybe the chick who bathed in virgins blood, but I think we can agree she was just batshit insane. It seems to be trad. vampires all the way down from 1800.

[Van Gogh Baez]

Mrs Amarah Couture

@ the dragon thing.-
I think I read somewhere back that they were dinosaurs actually.
But the knights or whoever just called them dragons.

O:

interesting

I think the myths of dragons came from medieval folks unearthing dino bones. There was never an instance in which knights fought dinosaurs. Though that would be pretty bad a**.

[Aislin Artiers]

II Xero II

I find it irritating how you people can believe in something like Therians and not believe in Vampires at all.

We're less "out of the ordinary" than they are, how the hell is it so hard to believe?

How can you believe the people who are fused with the spirit of an animal, yet you can't believe a simple case of someone who needs to constantly supplement himself/herself with blood/other forms of energy?

Honestly people, is it that hard to believe that there are people who are a little different out there? It's not like we're claiming to be "immortal" and have some kind of "amazing inhuman abilities" that normal people don't have. Such is not the case here. We're human beings all the same, just "different", is that so hard to believe?

Seriously, this is pissing me off.

I whole-heartedly agree with you. This thread has become nothing but a place in which a life style is continuously being explained and re-explained to closed minded
dicks who are just looking for an arguement.

[II Xero II]

R.A.A.M

II Xero II

I find it irritating how you people can believe in something like Therians and not believe in Vampires at all.

We're less "out of the ordinary" than they are, how the hell is it so hard to believe?

How can you believe the people who are fused with the spirit of an animal, yet you can't believe a simple case of someone who needs to constantly supplement himself/herself with blood/other forms of energy?

Honestly people, is it that hard to believe that there are people who are a little different out there? It's not like we're claiming to be "immortal" and have some kind of "amazing inhuman abilities" that normal people don't have. Such is not the case here. We're human beings all the same, just "different", is that so hard to believe?

Seriously, this is pissing me off.

Ok. Here it is.

Well. Since your ingesting something, you can actually look at Vampirism scientifically. It fails there, as does therianism but oh well. I have left behind science to talk about this stuff. Now I concentrate on history.

Therianism has roots in almost every culture. The idea of humans associating themselves with animals dates back to the cavemen.

Vampirism, however, does not have the same solid history. The majority of vampire history is about Traditional Vampires, I've not found a single mention of vampires even close to what is talked about here before the 1800 hundreds. Except maybe the chick who bathed in virgins blood, but I think we can agree she was just batshit insane. It seems to be trad. vampires all the way down from 1800.

As long as we're talking about history, take into consideration that Vampirism actually does show up in other world cultures as far east as the orient, not to mention people of that time were highly superstitious and/or otherwise paranoid to the point of either exaggerating stories of things they had seen to make it more interesting, or they were just crazy/paranoid enough to interpret it that way.
The fact is, I believe what people today consider "traditional" vampires are exaggerations of people no different than ourselves, but as it was at that time, people were highly superstitious or paranoid, or just wanted to tell a good story, as I stated earlier in my post.

[Vampire Cup]

Miizturi

Elite Beat Vampire

Sometimes, in life, you need to make a leap of faith to get results.

You don't have to believe in the same things that other people do, but it sure doesn't hurt to understand it, either.

(Sometimes I think Therians are whack jobs, you should pay THEM a visit.)

Hey. Be nice.

I explained myself, about a post above ya. However, I think I turned this into an origin and belief war... oh no....

[Van Gogh Baez]

II Xero II

R.A.A.M

II Xero II

I find it irritating how you people can believe in something like Therians and not believe in Vampires at all.

We're less "out of the ordinary" than they are, how the hell is it so hard to believe?

How can you believe the people who are fused with the spirit of an animal, yet you can't believe a simple case of someone who needs to constantly supplement himself/herself with blood/other forms of energy?

Honestly people, is it that hard to believe that there are people who are a little different out there? It's not like we're claiming to be "immortal" and have some kind of "amazing inhuman abilities" that normal people don't have. Such is not the case here. We're human beings all the same, just "different", is that so hard to believe?

Seriously, this is pissing me off.

Ok. Here it is.

Well. Since your ingesting something, you can actually look at Vampirism scientifically. It fails there, as does therianism but oh well. I have left behind science to talk about this stuff. Now I concentrate on history.

Therianism has roots in almost every culture. The idea of humans associating themselves with animals dates back to the cavemen.

Vampirism, however, does not have the same solid history. The majority of vampire history is about Traditional Vampires, I've not found a single mention of vampires even close to what is talked about here before the 1800 hundreds. Except maybe the chick who bathed in virgins blood, but I think we can agree she was just batshit insane. It seems to be trad. vampires all the way down from 1800.

As long as we're talking about history, take into consideration that Vampirism actually does show up in other world cultures as far east as the orient, not to mention people of that time were highly superstitious and/or otherwise paranoid to the point of either exaggerating stories of things they had seen to make it more interesting, or they were just crazy/paranoid enough to interpret it that way.
The fact is, I believe what people today consider "traditional" vampires are exaggerations of people no different than ourselves, but as it was at that time, people were highly superstitious or paranoid, or just wanted to tell a good story, as I stated earlier in my post.

I'm sorry but, can you prove this?

[II Xero II]

R.A.A.M

II Xero II

R.A.A.M

II Xero II

I find it irritating how you people can believe in something like Therians and not believe in Vampires at all.

We're less "out of the ordinary" than they are, how the hell is it so hard to believe?

How can you believe the people who are fused with the spirit of an animal, yet you can't believe a simple case of someone who needs to constantly supplement himself/herself with blood/other forms of energy?

Honestly people, is it that hard to believe that there are people who are a little different out there? It's not like we're claiming to be "immortal" and have some kind of "amazing inhuman abilities" that normal people don't have. Such is not the case here. We're human beings all the same, just "different", is that so hard to believe?

Seriously, this is pissing me off.

Ok. Here it is.

Well. Since your ingesting something, you can actually look at Vampirism scientifically. It fails there, as does therianism but oh well. I have left behind science to talk about this stuff. Now I concentrate on history.

Therianism has roots in almost every culture. The idea of humans associating themselves with animals dates back to the cavemen.

Vampirism, however, does not have the same solid history. The majority of vampire history is about Traditional Vampires, I've not found a single mention of vampires even close to what is talked about here before the 1800 hundreds. Except maybe the chick who bathed in virgins blood, but I think we can agree she was just batshit insane. It seems to be trad. vampires all the way down from 1800.

As long as we're talking about history, take into consideration that Vampirism actually does show up in other world cultures as far east as the orient, not to mention people of that time were highly superstitious and/or otherwise paranoid to the point of either exaggerating stories of things they had seen to make it more interesting, or they were just crazy/paranoid enough to interpret it that way.
The fact is, I believe what people today consider "traditional" vampires are exaggerations of people no different than ourselves, but as it was at that time, people were highly superstitious or paranoid, or just wanted to tell a good story, as I stated earlier in my post.

I'm sorry but, can you prove this?

Ever heard of the Gung Xi of Chinese mythology? (forgive me if I misspelled that)
and there have been accounts of people hunting and/or killing people both modern and from older times who were suspected to have been vampires, and as a result of the superstitious minds, they were killed through whatever means were typically used to do away with a "mythological" vampire.
I can't quite find an exact record, but that's what google is for.