Keith&Co.
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A relative wants to know the details of the god i discount.
Do i disbelieve the god of the Jews or the Old Testament or do i disbelieve Jesus?
Mormom Jesus or the real Jesus?
And on and on...
Mary, every culture has vampires.
Some drink you blood, some drink your soul, some eat your ghost. Some drown you, some rip your throat out, some eat your brain.
They're human undead, or they're a completely separate species, reproducing among their own kind.
They have great physical strength, or they're weak like some sort of maggoty, animated corpse.
They have a weakness related to human religions, or to certain plants, or to people knocking the bowl of water off their head. They burn in daylight, or they're substantially weakened in daylight or they (ugh) sparkle in daylight.
When we say "I don't believe in vampires," we generally mean the Japanese ones and the Romanian ones and the Central African ones and the Latin American ones and the Chinese ones.... We tend not to believe in any of them, even if we only really know of Dracula, Twilight and Mr. Burns.
Now, if I were to say, I believe in vampires, it would make a difference if i thought they turned into bats or owls or jaguars. It would make a difference if i thought they were vulnerable to garlic, crosses, molasses, scattered birdseed, silver, sunlight or blessed oils.
It would make a difference if i thought finding the corpse of a victim would involve bite marks or strangulation, or drowning... It would be important to know if such a corpse should be buried, burned, submerged in fresh water, staked, or whatever.
It would be reflected if i carried certain items, certain foods, certain, defenses.
But if i don't believe in ANY of them, there's no real way to answer WHICH is hte one i don't believe in. Except: Yes.
If you show me a list of vampires, i'll say, yes, those are the vampires i don't believe in.
I'm an atheist, Mary. I don't believe in any gods.
I don't believe in the entities that are hailed as creators, responsible for the shape of earth and the diversity of all life upon it.
I don't believe in the judges who evaluate my life and determine my post mortem destination in the happy hunting grounds, Valhalla, Helheim, Hades, Hell or Chicago.
I don't believe in the trickster gods who pose as sea monsters or lake monsters, or who run through the forest as bigfoot, or stole the heat from the Moon's light or took Whale's legs while it was asleep.
I don't believe in the lawgivers, or the war helpers or the peace lovers, the healers, the seekers, theshapeshifters. I don't believe in the tenders of flora and fauna or the ones sowing the Forests.
I don't believe any star patterns used to walk the Earth or that anyone created the stars from or to memorialize a particular person.
If you cannot grasp this, we have little to talk about on the subject.
Unless you want to consider the various gigantic anthropoids that live outside of human civilization. Which one do you NOT believe in: Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch....?
Do i disbelieve the god of the Jews or the Old Testament or do i disbelieve Jesus?
Mormom Jesus or the real Jesus?
And on and on...
Mary, every culture has vampires.
Some drink you blood, some drink your soul, some eat your ghost. Some drown you, some rip your throat out, some eat your brain.
They're human undead, or they're a completely separate species, reproducing among their own kind.
They have great physical strength, or they're weak like some sort of maggoty, animated corpse.
They have a weakness related to human religions, or to certain plants, or to people knocking the bowl of water off their head. They burn in daylight, or they're substantially weakened in daylight or they (ugh) sparkle in daylight.
When we say "I don't believe in vampires," we generally mean the Japanese ones and the Romanian ones and the Central African ones and the Latin American ones and the Chinese ones.... We tend not to believe in any of them, even if we only really know of Dracula, Twilight and Mr. Burns.
Now, if I were to say, I believe in vampires, it would make a difference if i thought they turned into bats or owls or jaguars. It would make a difference if i thought they were vulnerable to garlic, crosses, molasses, scattered birdseed, silver, sunlight or blessed oils.
It would make a difference if i thought finding the corpse of a victim would involve bite marks or strangulation, or drowning... It would be important to know if such a corpse should be buried, burned, submerged in fresh water, staked, or whatever.
It would be reflected if i carried certain items, certain foods, certain, defenses.
But if i don't believe in ANY of them, there's no real way to answer WHICH is hte one i don't believe in. Except: Yes.
If you show me a list of vampires, i'll say, yes, those are the vampires i don't believe in.
I'm an atheist, Mary. I don't believe in any gods.
I don't believe in the entities that are hailed as creators, responsible for the shape of earth and the diversity of all life upon it.
I don't believe in the judges who evaluate my life and determine my post mortem destination in the happy hunting grounds, Valhalla, Helheim, Hades, Hell or Chicago.
I don't believe in the trickster gods who pose as sea monsters or lake monsters, or who run through the forest as bigfoot, or stole the heat from the Moon's light or took Whale's legs while it was asleep.
I don't believe in the lawgivers, or the war helpers or the peace lovers, the healers, the seekers, theshapeshifters. I don't believe in the tenders of flora and fauna or the ones sowing the Forests.
I don't believe any star patterns used to walk the Earth or that anyone created the stars from or to memorialize a particular person.
If you cannot grasp this, we have little to talk about on the subject.
Unless you want to consider the various gigantic anthropoids that live outside of human civilization. Which one do you NOT believe in: Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch....?
