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Originally Posted by James Casbolt
"Do you know how few vampires have the stamina for immortality? The world changes but we do not. Therein lies the irony that finally kills us. I need you to make contact with this age
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OK, vampires, lots of thoughts.
Is it vampires like gentlemanly, inexplicably 'so made' (by betrayal, by gift) vampires ? E.g. 'Moonlight's' Alex O'Loughlin (
character: Mick St. John) And/or vampires like Guillermo del Toro's vampire novel The Strain, which also offers a zombie > vampire > segue > Compare: So Del Toro is making a novel of the new strain of vampires from Blade 2? (
comment)
There are patents for HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS strains (
example).
Also, longevity is genetic: In Genesis, chapter five we read of many long ages. Adam lived 930 years, Seth lived 912 years, Methuselah lived 969 years, just to name a few. It is not until after the Flood that life spans steadily start to decline. Abraham lived 175 years; Moses lived 120 years; then eventually the familiar 70-year lifespan we read about in Psalms 90:10 is close to where we have returned today (i.e. *pre* sun's radiation degrade on human form due to, e.g. to atmospheric change).
http://www.creationdefense.org/05.htm
As would be (genetic) an appetite for blood: I imagine somewhere in us is a strand memory of hunger, hunting and a great relief for survival. Maybe even memory of eye contact, in tribal/group settings, to communicate pleasures. I might add that peasant families - eastern Europe (like mine, maternal) - did butcher animals, used blood for sausage, everything was used. Cattle were near sacred, kept for milk and butter. However, the butter was
sold or
traded for clothing fabric (not kept, too valuable a commodity). Butter was gold. We still eat raw meat (tartar), which is yummy on black bread with onions, sometimes capers, lots of salt and pepper, but not too often.
I've heard: it's
healthier to eat bad food (like commercial pizza) with friends than good food, alone. That goes to group pleasure 'versus' individual survival. Maybe it's more like Last Tango in Paris (butter scene) than Angel Heart (finale).
Do you have any thoughts about, or are there connections between, dead scientists and antidotes for 'vampirism'?
Note: Patton, Paul (December, 2008). "One World, Many Minds: Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom". Scientific American.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...rld-many-minds. Retrieved 29 December 2008. "The traditional ideas about sequential brain evolution appeared, for example, in the late neuroscientist and psychiatrist Paul D. MacLean’s triune brain model, formulated in the 1960s. Mac*Lean’s model promoted the belief that the human brain contains a “reptilian complex” inherited from reptilian ancestors. Beginning in the 1980s, the field of comparative neuroanatomy experienced a renaissance. In the intervening decades evolutionary biologists had learned a great deal about vertebrate evolutionary history, and they developed new and effective methods of applying Darwin’s concept of the tree of life to analyze and interpret their findings. It is now apparent that a simple linear hierarchy cannot adequately account for the evolution of brains or of intelligence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
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No offense here, James, in case you're a vampire.
Vampires of ancient myth and legend were ugly, stupid creatures. They were creatures said to be related to the dead, who rise to drink the blood of the living. The word vampire is Slavic in origin meaning 'obyri' or 'obiri', which evolved into the Bulgarian word 'vampir'. Some think the Greek word 'nosophoros' (meaning plague carrier) evolved into the old Slavanic word nosufu-atu, which is synonym for the vampire.
http://www.helium.com/items/1225460-...es-of-vampires
"Nosufu-atu' just seems like airborne disease to me, personified.
Also, I saw a great animated vid (legend) about a tall man who lived in a village, but can't find it now
