Vampires! Do they exist?

reply to post by jackinthebox

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Hey jackinthebox, did you ever hear of the blue shadows?
And did you have any opinion on the recent concepts of pollution in the concept of "vampires"? Did you ever think that the two-shadows and vampires- could be somehow related?

What is existence? Define that and I will be more than happy to tell you if they exist or not.

reply to post by Torsten

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That is the very first problem. There is no way to define their existance, so far as we know. Because what really do we know? It's almost saddening. To define their existance we must first define what "they" are; but what a nightmare of a task.

reply to post by WHOFLUNGGUM

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Newton's law of equal and opposite reactions is a physical law, meaning it applies to physical objects that have a force applied to them. It cannot under any circumstance be taken to mean anything other than the reaction to a force applied to an object. Also, no it is not reasonable to assume that if someone can die 7 times sooner that the opposite can be true and someone can live 7 times longer than average (500 or so years) because the basic cellular functioning of organs and even DNA itself break down over time. Yes, certain things sea turtles, trees etc... have a longer average life span than humans but nowehere in nature are there cases of animals living many times longer than average for the species. Go ask ANY doctor if the human body under ANY circumstance can withstand even 150-175 years on the planet. I will ACTUALLY mail you $50 if you can find a single M.D. who went to school in the U.S. who says that a human body can (without some future medical miracle) live over 150 years.

There are always anomalies in any species but they must fall within 2-3 standard deviasions from the average, thus it is possible goliath was 8-9 feet tall although it is more likely that since a foot wasn't invented until thousands of years later that through the various conversions and translations he was 6-7 feet tall or even 7-8 tall which would have been extreme for humans in that time period.

If you believe the bible, the human body could live for hundreds of years.

And, vampires may not be the same species as humans, meaning they aren't bound by human physiological limitations.

If one could reproduce all of his cells starting from bones, it wouldn't be impossible to live basically as long as the world is habitable - assuming that your head wouldn't give up first. It is from the will we are born, and it is will which takes you through the rock itself.

-v

The human body is continuously dying and reproducing itself (hair, skin etc). Eventually it gets too weak and parts of the organism (us) begin to faultier and die. As V0liO mentioned, on a cellular level if you could repair the damage or keep the vitality of the cells, you could extend your life(?) For how long, I'm not sure - I'm no biologist, but that's just an idea.

So if you were to consider vampirism as a virus, it would obviously react on a cellular level to change the person, so what is to say it doesn't somehow slow down the aging process? I'm not so sure about the speed and strength aspect, but the aging process could be plausible. I mean there are some Chinese who have lived well over 100 years because of their diet. So what is to say the consumption of blood and a mutating virus couldn't do the same?

Too bad it isn't the same with beer...one can hope.

O.

[edit on 26-9-2008 by Okwari]

No. That's offensive. It does to say that vampires are only things with imperfect systems- people that got sick. The body is imperfect regardless of its form. Complex, but imperfect. ...Some wholistic doctors say that it is possible for a human to live to about 140 years present day, if they really took good care of their body. I don't have an example, but it is something.