tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20283853.post1309346899131418393..comments2023-11-03T08:17:05.687-04:00Comments on Jesus Saves Ministries Blog: How Many Crosses Does It Take to Kill A Vampire Today?Jesus Saves Ministrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07541296193857011870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20283853.post-61919403982366469392010-09-29T15:19:25.501-04:002010-09-29T15:19:25.501-04:00Here's more about vampires from the Christian ...Here's more about vampires from the Christian Research Institute and the article, "The World According to Goth."<br /><br />There can be a dark(er) side to goth—vampirism. Vampyres34 are a subset of the goth scene, though many goths reject vampyres as such and dislike being associated with them, finding it embarrassing. Vampyres may dress in capes, play a live action role-playing game such as “Vampire: The Masquerade,”35 wear artificial fangs,36 and may or may not drink blood from a voluntary donor. There are vampyre games that incorporate their own mythology and belief system. There is disagreement among vampyres as to what a real vampyre is. Some merely play the part in clubs or in games, or are into fetish scenes. Some belong to groups, called clans.37 There are those who claim vampyrism as a medical condition that causes them to shun the sun or to crave blood. Others believe that a true vampyre is initiated by another vampyre, often through a blood-drinking ritual. Still others believe that one is born a vampyre. Some vampyres do not drink blood and reject this as a part of vampyrism, while others claim that it is essential.38 Then there are the psychic vampyres who allege that they gather their “life force” from psychically feeding off people’s life energy. The psychic vampyres often e-mail me to insist that they are the true vampyres, while the blood-drinking vampyres do the same.39<br /><br />Some vampyres believe that they are not human, and that they have reached a state of immortality. This nonhuman status is possibly an ironic reaction to, or comment on, the dehumanization of our fast-paced and increasingly impersonal society, where shifts in relationships are casual and constant. The vampyre seems to say, if society treats us as nonhuman, then nonhuman we will become. Sometimes the vampyre guise is a way to reject others before others reject them, or a way to hide pain under a seemingly forbidding persona. The vampyre underground, although it is an extreme form of goth counterculture, does exist, despite the fact that it is not commonly known, and despite the fact that society may not want to believe it exists.Jesus Saves Ministrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541296193857011870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20283853.post-48302773245293414222010-09-29T15:18:04.464-04:002010-09-29T15:18:04.464-04:00Here's more about vampirism from the Christian...Here's more about vampirism from the Christian Research Institute and the article, "The World According to Goth."<br /><br />"There can be a dark(er) side to goth—vampirism. Vampyres34 are a subset of the goth scene, though many goths reject vampyres as such and dislike being associated with them, finding it embarrassing. Vampyres may dress in capes, play a live action role-playing game such as “Vampire: The Masquerade,”35 wear artificial fangs,36 and may or may not drink blood from a voluntary donor. There are vampyre games that incorporate their own mythology and belief system. There is disagreement among vampyres as to what a real vampyre is. Some merely play the part in clubs or in games, or are into fetish scenes. Some belong to groups, called clans.37 There are those who claim vampyrism as a medical condition that causes them to shun the sun or to crave blood. Others believe that a true vampyre is initiated by another vampyre, often through a blood-drinking ritual. Still others believe that one is born a vampyre. Some vampyres do not drink blood and reject this as a part of vampyrism, while others claim that it is essential.38 Then there are the psychic vampyres who allege that they gather their “life force” from psychically feeding off people’s life energy. The psychic vampyres often e-mail me to insist that they are the true vampyres, while the blood-drinking vampyres do the same.39<br /><br />Some vampyres believe that they are not human, and that they have reached a state of immortality. This nonhuman status is possibly an ironic reaction to, or comment on, the dehumanization of our fast-paced and increasingly impersonal society, where shifts in relationships are casual and constant. The vampyre seems to say, if society treats us as nonhuman, then nonhuman we will become. Sometimes the vampyre guise is a way to reject others before others reject them, or a way to hide pain under a seemingly forbidding persona. The vampyre underground, although it is an extreme form of goth counterculture, does exist, despite the fact that it is not commonly known, and despite the fact that society may not want to believe it exists."Jesus Saves Ministrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541296193857011870noreply@blogger.com