Syuvial
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- Posted: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:32:15 +0000
Kaitos Wolfhaart
Syuvial
Kaitos Wolfhaart
Miizturi
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thank you.
somebody else gets that. i'm very tired of everybody looking to science like a panaceaic god. science is like anything else- flawed, fabricated, and likely to be proven wrong in 50 years. why do people think science changes so much?
Science changes? So I take it the laws of gravity will be non-existent in 10 years from now?
It's not so much that it 'changes' ... it's that we learn new things every time. And our theories change. And conclusions change. It happens.
Science is based on what we know. Knowledge changes, we learn new things all the time. Some of this new knowledge disproves older knowledge.
This is why science is so great, it's about the now.
We cannot confirm the existance of vampires. And I know I know alot of people in this thread are "vampires" that are just like normal people but feed on energy from other people. Sounds like extravagant bullshit to me.
If you insist on making your own definition of the term "vampire" it looses all of it's meaning. A vampire used to be an undead creature that sucked the blood of the living and although immortal had a few weaknesses. Now the word means nothing simply because everyone has their own definition.
Let's make an example to prove my point. Let's say you're a caucasian but you act black. You have the personality of a stereotypical black person. You act blacker than Shaft himself. Guess what, you're still caucasian. You're not physicly a black person, you're just a white person impersonating a black person.
That's what I see all "vampires" as. Wannabe's. Cause nomatter how you choose to descibe a vampire you will never be one. Why is it so hard for you all to accept that you're human. It's not that bad you know...
Now, dont get me wrong, im not one of the people calling themselves vampires nor do i know any of them in real life, thats not what im posting on.
The english language has been changing for hundreds of years. and this right here is the reason why. first you have one specific thing and a word for it, lets say Vampire. now in the beginning before all the anne rice, humphry bogart, and all that, before the media and entertainment industries latched on to the term, Vampire was spelled differently and was used to identify all sorts of mythical monsters not all of which were undead.
Then this bat shows up and we find evidence of it feeding off the blood of livestock. zOMG new definition! and all of a sudden we have sotries about vampire bats springing up, and people start to combine the new stories with old.
then we have this media that wants everything to be sexy and mysterious, so over several decades vampires stop being soulless beasts whose only goal is to drink your blood, and the effective definition becomes something a little close to human.
and now we have the people here who say not that they are undead creatures risen from the grave to suck away your soul, not that they have magic powers and are the next step in human evolution, but that they share some traits NOT ALL with the modern idea of vampires.
this is how words and meanings change.
its not a delusion, or maybe it is, my position has yet to be established on the matter. the fact that they are using the term vampire to describe theselves merely means that there isnt a RESPECTABLE word that describes them more
and let me head you off before you try to reply with some idiosyncratic bullcrap about being clinical and calling themselves "hemophage" or "sanguinarian" or somehting like that, because the average person isnt going to GET that. and then theyll have to explain it. and then when they explain it, the answer they receive will invvariably be "so youre some kind of vampire?"
So we're gonna keep adding our own definitons to the word vampire without any regard for it's meaning?
They call themselves Psy-vampires. Their common traits with a more traditional vampire? They feed.
They don't feed on human blood, so the similarity actually ends with "They feed".
Well I feed too. I eat every day. Does that make me a vampire? No it does not.
This is the reason for inventing NEW words. Expanding the language.
But no, the new age "vampires" stole a word and destroyed it's definition instead of just making up a new word for it.
Oh and I wouldn't reply with "so youre some kind of vampire?". I'de reply with "So you're some kind of nutcase?".
and seriously, the ne age vampire stole the term from something they have only a passing resemblance with, which stole it from something it, itself had only a passing resemblance with.
example. the term f*****t. not a nice word, emotionally charged, offensive to some. it originally meant "a small bundle of sticks used as kindling"
does that in any way resemble a gay man? in any serious way?
and to respond to someone who explain theyre lifestyle to you in such a degrading and spiteful way suggets to me that you yourself are not much more than demeaning and hurtful as a person. and quite frankly i place more value on kindness and goodness of spirit than of intelligence or sanity.
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thats how language works. words change meaning over time, because to constantly invent new words is annoying difficult and then noone uses them. hence the reason why we use old words to describe nd name new things.





