idiots... born or made?17:31 Nov 14 2006
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im not gonna let myself feel like an idiot just cause of differences of opinion. i may not be as smart about a lot of things, but it doesnt make me stupid. i will not let others make me feel lower then i am because of the way others choose to treat me. i may be too compassionate for my own good, but compassion is good. i think i make up for those who have no compassion.
i apologize to those out that are like me. on here, that means, having the interest of vampires and all things occult... yet, in reality, im sure more are like me then not when it comes down to having any sort of powers. i have none. the sight skipped me. so i have my faith, and my interest that keep me here. the only thing i would change about VR as a whole is that those who know these things were more willing to teach or more tolerant of those like me who "just dont know shit."
i thought this was a place to learn.. where i could ask a question and have it answered... where bigotry didnt exist because of prejudices against "alternative" lifestyles... where individuals could come and be.. and not have to conform. apparently, i was wrong... i guess conformity comes in many ways, eh?
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Research.. yea, well ok.. whom do I, the ignorant, trust?
Wikipedia: Vampires (archaic spelling: vampyres) are mythological or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood
To wikipedia, vampires are only real in stories.
Vampirism is the practice of drinking blood from a person/animal. In folklore and popular culture, the term generally refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a more specific and less commonly occurring form of cannibalism.
uh huh...
Monstrous.com, the second site to show up when I google..
Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), meaning pigmented dry skin is a rare, often fatal genetic disorder that leaves its victims acutely vulnerable to skin and eye cancers if they are even briefly exposed to sun or any ultraviolet rays. The body fails to produce one of the enzymes necessary to make heme, the red pigment in hemeglobin. Strangely, Garlic stimulates heme production (a reason for its inclusion in many herbal blood tonics) and can turn a mild case of porphryia into a severe and painful one. There is less than 100,000 identified cases of XP nowadays but inbreeding could have stimulated the disease in the middle ages, creating pockets of it in isolated areas. Drinking blood could have been considered as a remedy in the dark ages but the human body is not made to assimilate heme directly from blood so it cannot be a cause of vampirism.
uh huh, ok... "cannot be a cause.." uh huh
oh just go to the bloody site.. this is giving me a headache. i just wish that the holier then thou (lol) vampires on here, would be more tolerant of us mere mortals.
more to come later
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