Ok im confused can any one give me a definition of a vampire coz ive heard all different things and also about turning into one just qurious

it depends on the authors interpretation....normally it is: immortal fiend who drinks blood to survive....or something like that...

in addition to ^.....its usually something that is dead and is stronger and more powerful than any mortal...

No-one can give you a definitive idea of what a Vampire is because everyone's idea is different. Surely you must have your own idea of what a Vampire is. Spend more time researching the myths and other people's experiences, and your ideas will gradually polarize into a concept you are happy with. Basically RESEARCH - we are not here to tell you what to think.

I've already mentioned that the concept of turning is taken with a grain of salt here. there are plenty of threads on this subject. Look around.

I guess I must not be feeling well today - I can't actually find the inspiration to reply in my usual fashion...

Aww, you poor man. Shed a tear, folks.

And for the question...you'll find that a 'vampire' is absolutely anything that survives by draining life from another being. See those ticks on your dog's back? They're vampires! Quick - fetch a priest! Fluffy must be baptised or shall face ETERNAL DARNATION IN THE NASTIEST PITS OF HECK!

Bwahahaaa...ha.

Depends what books you read anne rice,bram stoker or steven spruill they all varie thats without going into vampire movies aswell or folklore.

I would go by Anne Rice.

An eternal romantic undead feind who feeds on the blood of the living and 9 times out of 10 has homosexual tendencies

i don't know how to explain that, but basically, vampires, are vampires :robot:

Great AV, Wolfesbane.

Wolfsbane, since you brought it up.... does anyone know the reason the talented Ms Rice writes her vampires as bi/homosexuals?

Just a thought that kept going through my head through most of her books, and didnt really know how to voice it till now.

Because she is a woman who finds large muscular and romantic men having sex with each other apealing. Hell, I'm not complaining!

i thought, if anything, they were asexual - to distinguish them even more from humanity.

not sure about Anne Rice.

but in the book "The Hunger" the clearly female vampire was discovered to have both male and female hormones and reproductive cells, however they had a problem when reproduceing as it would often prove fatal, however theu could "turn" humans. which didn't turn them into true vampire but rather boosted their life spans by a few centuries and required them to drink blood, however their human creations were in a sense immortal as they deteriated as human and became zombie like "more like a traditional vampire" one reason I liked this book "a mix between classical aspects and traditional aspects"


as for a definition

"any creature that requires to survive to drain something from their prey rather than consume the flesh"

this basic also includes many animal parasites as for supernatural I added on

"and has some enhanced aspect to it, as well as unusual limiteing factors not prevoiusly present in the prmary state of the organism it mimmics."

i wuld have to agree with wolfesbane about the whole anne rice biexual factor but i think it gets a bit annoying i mean there are enough women vamps they could take an interest in. :devilbook:

i recon its sweet having gay vamps
any way i recon they turn gay coz the biting of people is supposed to be a sexual thing its supposed to feel like some great orgasm or something so recon they just like anyone there sucking at the time

"reads last post and looks at food" thats just sick. you shouldn't think of your prey sexually, if I was out hunting and jumped a deer and bit its throat to bring it down as food, my thaught wouldn't be mmmm sexy, it would be "kill, eat"

Well said, thats what I argued with my stupid english teacher when she mentioned about Dracula being a puffter!

lol when they bite a chemical is emited into the body making it some what pleasurable its not the fact of just biting turns them on its a chemical

actually your teacher was right about the Dracula book,

you see Bram Stoker wasn't writing a seroiuse work on vampires, in fact he barely knew anything about them, he was writing a satire of the rich play boys that were gallavanting around Europe in his time period.

Yeah I know, but that's beside the point. She's a teacher! Plus it's fun to argue with teachers, and when you ask them questions they don't know the answer to and they go awkwardly silent. Bram Stoker also wrote The Mummy while there was a mummy(not his mother, a corpse in bandages) in his room. Freaky huh?

no, its not freaky, that story was as about as far from the myths as you could go, mummys never in egyption belief got up and walked around. besides alot of idiots in europe at the time had mummys "hell they used to use them as drugs "mummy dust" those people were messed up.

if bram strokers work was as stupid as you say then why does his work live on today his work is depicted as great novels and literature you cant say that one book is wrong because they dont know anything about vampires when in reality no one knows anything about vampires we go along on our own beliefes of what a vampire is bram stroker was a good author

I never called Bram Stoker stupid, I was pointing out the nature of his work, besides he is a great author to me , he created a new genre after all.

Hey that isn't fair, I was discussing Dracula and then it got heated between * & *. Anyway, why did they take mummy dust? Does it actually work as an intoxicant?

mummy dust has the same effects as Meth.

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was bram stroker born in ireland i cant remember

Yes, he first worked as a journalist I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

yeah your right i like it when everyonce in a while a great author comes along like stroker or steven king there both fantastic authors

are we straying off topic again?

Where has the person who created this topic gone anyway? There has been lots of answers etc and he/she hasn't replied at all. Theres only so many answers you can give, I think this has become something of a 'dead' topic?

ohh come on peir you cant expect us to stay on topic every subject strays of to another thats how conversation is formed

Then start a new thread about Bram Stoker in Literature. Jesus, do I have to police all your posts now?

ya I heard that some of her friends or something were gay and they kept saying stuff about that there were no good homosexual romance novels out there while she was starting her vampire chronicles so she decided to write all her vampires as either gay or bi

Closed.

If you want to talk about Anne Rice - look in the literature section.