Vampires? Real or not?

SirJosephPorter

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I assume you mean Bram Stoker type vampires. If so there is a logical proof for the nonexistence of vampires; it goes like this:
1. Stoker type vampires create new vampires when they kill their victim.
2. The new vampires kill their victims and create even more vampires.
3. If the original vampire kills just one person a week in single year he would
create 52 new vampires.
4. The 52 new vampires during the following year would create 2704 vampires.
5. The year after that the 2700 odd vampires would increase to seven million vampires.
6. By year three everyone would be a vampire.
I am not a vampire, therefore vampires do not exist, although I do stay up very late at night and live in a cold dark place.

Sorry to spoil everyones' fantasies, but there it is.

It works like a chain letter, doesn't it? If everybody who got a chain letter sent one to say 2 or 3 of his acquaintances, the whole world would receive the chain letter in a few years. Most people don't understand how a geometric progression works.
 

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I assume you mean Bram Stoker type vampires. If so there is a logical proof for the nonexistence of vampires; it goes like this:
1. Stoker type vampires create new vampires when they kill their victim.
2. The new vampires kill their victims and create even more vampires.
3. If the original vampire kills just one person a week in single year he would
create 52 new vampires.
4. The 52 new vampires during the following year would create 2704 vampires.
5. The year after that the 2700 odd vampires would increase to seven million vampires.
6. By year three everyone would be a vampire.
I am not a vampire, therefore vampires do not exist, although I do stay up very late at night and live in a cold dark place.

Sorry to spoil everyones' fantasies, but there it is.

really, i got dissapointed :D
 

Twila

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the ex-inlaws had a roommate who thought he was a vampire. Had his teeth filed, slept in a coffin shaped bed, a real odd ball.

I was tempted to ask him about the sun / daylight thing, but figured it would be pointless to ask. He didn't glitter, so he couldn't have been a cullen vampire.
 

AnnaG

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I assume you mean Bram Stoker type vampires. If so there is a logical proof for the nonexistence of vampires; it goes like this:
1. Stoker type vampires create new vampires when they kill their victim.
2. The new vampires kill their victims and create even more vampires.
3. If the original vampire kills just one person a week in single year he would
create 52 new vampires.
4. The 52 new vampires during the following year would create 2704 vampires.
5. The year after that the 2700 odd vampires would increase to seven million vampires.
6. By year three everyone would be a vampire.
I am not a vampire, therefore vampires do not exist, although I do stay up very late at night and live in a cold dark place.

Sorry to spoil everyones' fantasies, but there it is.
That's one kind of vampire story. There are stories that explain those items pretty logically, though. You are assuming that vampyres could not be killed, that they couldn't farm humans for blood, etc.
But it is moot, though, as they can't exist biologically.
 

Twila

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You are assuming that vampyres could not be killed, that they couldn't farm humans for blood, etc.

Well you know that someone would start to promote wild humans over the farmed humans. Then there'd be the whole debate over organic and non organic...It'd just get too messy.
 

SirJosephPorter

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While vampire lore originated in Christian countries, it has spread into non Christian countries. I have read some of the non Christian vampire fiction. There is one big difference between a Christian and a non Christian vampire. While a Christian vampire can be killed by the cross (or be scared away by the cross), the cross or holy water does not work on a Jewish vampire or a Hindu vampire. Other methods of killing (running water, sunlight etc.) are OK.

I remember reading a vampire story from India. The vampire was killed not by a cross, but by a trident.
 

AnnaG

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Well you know that someone would start to promote wild humans over the farmed humans. Then there'd be the whole debate over organic and non organic...It'd just get too messy.
Oh, yeah, and the gov't would be indecisive about it, too. Right. Really messy.
 

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Of course they are for real! So are werewolves, goblins, and the Abominable Snowman! Dracula was the King of Vampires as we all know. But Vampira was the Queen!





Here she is in action:



YouTube - The Vampira Show 1954


She says, "screaming relaxes me so".