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VandalHeart -> RE: What is Vampirism? (5/26/2006 2:04:41 AM)
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The line between scening, lifestyle, and reality can always be blurred by a failure to reconnect with another of the three when one ends. If a scene ends, and someone doesn't want it to, or they're under stress, or whatever, they can become stuck in their scene. That's true of any make believe. Mental facilities will most likely never go out of business (unless something is done about them. . .it's the whole community's problem, we all need to act, and act now, bringing down the oppressive fist of psychology, free the masses, burn Freud in effigy, begin the revolution, why are you looking at me like that?). The point is, vampirism, while a common fantasy to be overdone and immersed, is no worse than most other delusions, just usually more noticeable. Hell, one of my best friend's uncle was treated over 4 years for believing he was Jesus. BTW, when asked why he thought this, he matter-of-factly responded, "Nobody else was. Coulda' been." But the existence of one vampire does not discount the existence of other vampires, so they tend to congregate. . .less possibility of ridicule. I should know -- I used to be really big into the vampire scene down in New Orleans (or American Transylvania as some called it), but it just got way too out of hand. A word of advice: if you like Shadowrun, don't move to Seattle, if you like movies, don't work in or around Hollywood, and if you like vampires, don't move to the same city with Anne Rice. You will either be ruined on it, or you will expose yourself as the utterly pathetic loser that you are. There are exceptions, but they are rare, and no, for a while, I was NOT one of them. To get out of crowd #2, I had to join crowd #1. Unfortunate, really, but I moved on, and eventually got back to where I could enjoy it again. Basically, all I'm trying to say is don't hate on the Kindred or the Immortal or the "Society" or whatever they call themselves where you are, because they may be sick. Either mental illness or porphrya or sheer boredom (and let the first person without that experience be the first to be stoned) has led them to this behavior, and it usually isn't that harmful to the average onlooker if they can just learn to live and let (un)live. Besides, if you look at it my way, when they get too obnoxious, the real vampires will take care of them for the insult carried in the bad impression.
P.S. -- I don't know how many people know this, but during Mardi Gras, a lot of churches like to send "missionaries" to New Orleans to fling a little brimstone (and by a little, I mean a metric shit ton). While I was living there, a young girl was found crucified, wreathed with garlic, staked, soaked with what I can only assume was holy water, and left where the sunrise would bathe her in light. If there is someone in your area that is a little to trusting with their lecture on their vampiric status, I strongly urge you to point out that, whether or not they are crazy, other people are much worse, and that atrocities happen every day, and not just outside the U.S. When I read about it, I couldn't help but think about how it could have been me or one of my friends at the time. I didn't have the horror of witnessing that particular crime scene, but the less it happens the better.
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