Originally posted by Silver Stardust
Actually, in most vampire myths the vampires DON'T consume human blood. I remember that because in my sci-fi/horror lit class we did a project on vampires while we read Dracula. If you'd like I'll find the info again.edit: here's one of the vampire info links I found... http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/a273566
Though I really don't see what vampires have to do with evolution 😐
Ahh, see, now you and I are talking about different kinds of vampires. You are talking about a person who drinks blood, from some kind of disorder whether it'd be mental or otherwise. People like that exist today, I know a few people who drink blood for the hell of it and call themselves vampires. I don't consider these people vampires, they simply don't fit the criteria. I am talking about the mythical creatures who drink human blood to survive(Yes, Dracula in the book did, I've read and re-read it over the past year) and have supernatural powers. They all drank human blood. Blood is symbolic of life, and the nutrients were supposed to keep them alive. I don't know what kind of myths you read, but vampires consume human blood, in every case. Unfortunately, they aren't real.
Yes, it's a little off topic, and this discussion can continue in the "creatures of the night" thread.
Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
Ahh, see, now you and I are talking about different kinds of vampires. You are talking about a person who drinks blood, from some kind of disorder whether it'd be mental or otherwise. People like that exist today, I know a few people who drink blood for the hell of it and call themselves vampires. I don't consider these people vampires, they simply don't fit the criteria. I am talking about the mythical creatures who drink human blood to survive(Yes, Dracula in the book did, I've read and re-read it over the past year) and have [b]supernatural powers. They all drank human blood. Blood is symbolic of life, and the nutrients were supposed to keep them alive. I don't know what kind of myths you read, but vampires consume human blood, in every case. Unfortunately, they aren't real.Yes, it's a little off topic, and this discussion can continue in the "creatures of the night" thread. [/B]
Nope, I am talking about vampires in myths...in some country their vampire myths say that they eat cow manure or something like that 😑 can't remember which it was, though...also, in the book Dracula was the first time a vampire actually had fangs ✅
Originally posted by Silver Stardust
Nope, I am talking about vampires in myths...in some country their vampire myths say that they eat cow manure or something like that 😑 can't remember which it was, though...also, in the book Dracula was the first time a vampire actually had fangs ✅
I'd like the name of the country, and the myth itself. ALOT of what the modern vampire looks/acts like is taken directly from Dracula, and Stoker based Dracula off of Vlad the Impaler, who didn't have fangs. He took a real person and mixed him with mythology, and made an entirely new fictional character. Dracula is different in that he basically embodies all other types of vampires in one being. It wasn't the FIRST time, it was the first WRITTEN time a vampire was described with fangs. I have read many myths that were around before Dracula(they were passed down orally, and finally written in a collection of stories) where the "vampire" had fangs.
No Clovie, I meant what I said, "do and believe what I want." I encourage you to do the same.
In Bram Stokers Dracula, he consumes the blood to retain youth.
Comparing Bats and mythical monsters is insane. If you go into a field, point at a horse and say "Look A Unicorn". That's actually far truer than connecting a vampire to a bat. Bats came first. Bram Stoker based his tale on that creature.
-AC
The Force won’t DARE to return. He knows full well we have about a page of replies to his last copy-past-post that he fled from – remember it took him months to answer the first replies? 😄
About floods and mythologies: I think what’s being debated here is “Many ancient cultures have stories about floods. So is the story about Noah right?”
1) Yes, many ancient cultures do INDEED have flood-myths. There is a geological theory abound, that at the end of the last ice-age, due to the asymmetrical receding of the ice, the poles tipped some – causing a lot of natural disasters. Including floods – at this time there were humans around, and these floods would’ve caused a complete change in the “way of life.” This – of course – doesn’t mean Noah ever existed. Just that Hebrew myths also have flood stories.
2) If one insists on “Well, floods probably happened ergo Noah happened ergo the Bible is true” you can indeed go on and say “Well, what about OTHER mythologies”? Using the first reasoning “An event depicted in the Bible is found in many mythologies->Noah existed->the bible is true” you can reason “ANY event depicted in mythology existed”.
This is logic.
Of course the reasoning above is plain wrong!
AE> There most likely were FLOODS. Plural. Ice melting at the end of the ice-age, and melting rapidly due to the tipping of the poles would’ve made living at coastal regions a wet mess.
Entire regions were underwater http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr4944.html, and that would’ve cause have looked like the entire world vanished to the early human settlers. (Human urbanisation started about 12.000 years ago – at the end of the last ice-age).
Of COURSE Noah never lived, there was no Ark, and the entire world wasn’t underwater.
If it had been – and the myth was true – ALL animals should show signs of having descended from wherever the Ark touched land again – as well as all humans.
This is not true. There should’ve been trails from EVERY animal on the planet having wandered off from a single point, and gotten to far-away and unreachable (due to ocean) continents.
There – that should do it. 😄
AE> Ahhh, the vengeful God of OT versus the nice and forgiving one of NT?
Knock yourself out http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/inj/long.html