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Started by jumbojak, March 04, 2019, 03:16:53 AM

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jumbojak

If vampires are destroyed by the sun wouldn't the light cast by a full moon irritate the living shit out of them?

"Amazing what chimney sweeping can teach us, no? Keep your fire hot and
your flue clean."  - Ecurb Noselrub

"I'd be incensed by your impudence were I not so impressed by your memory." - Siz

Tank

Quote from: jumbojak on March 04, 2019, 03:16:53 AM
If vampires are destroyed by the sun wouldn't the light cast by a full moon irritate the living shit out of them?

And then at the full moon those damn werewolves come out! Double whammy!
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Sandra Craft

I saw a cartoon once where a vampire was informed of this reflected sunlight fact and promptly disintegrated.  Moral: science saves lives.

And as long as we're on the subject, why would being soulless keep a vampire's image from reflecting in a mirror?  Mirrors don't reflect human souls, only the physical form which vampires also have so they should be showing up in mirrors just fine.  Ditto a photograph.
Sandy

  

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."  Sarah Louise Delany

jumbojak

Quote from: Tank on March 04, 2019, 06:15:56 AM
Quote from: jumbojak on March 04, 2019, 03:16:53 AM
If vampires are destroyed by the sun wouldn't the light cast by a full moon irritate the living shit out of them?

And then at the full moon those damn werewolves come out! Double whammy!

I'd rather like to be a werewolf. By the hairs on my back and chinny chin chin, I'm halfway there.

"Amazing what chimney sweeping can teach us, no? Keep your fire hot and
your flue clean."  - Ecurb Noselrub

"I'd be incensed by your impudence were I not so impressed by your memory." - Siz

jumbojak

Quote from: Sandra Craft on March 04, 2019, 07:41:46 AM
I saw a cartoon once where a vampire was informed of this reflected sunlight fact and promptly disintegrated.  Moral: science saves lives.

And as long as we're on the subject, why would being soulless keep a vampire's image from reflecting in a mirror?  Mirrors don't reflect human souls, only the physical form which vampires also have so they should be showing up in mirrors just fine.  Ditto a photograph.

Special, soul-detecting photons are the answer here. Except, these soul-detecting photons also reflect off of inanimate objects... so we have undead-soul-detecting photons. Yeah, that makes sense.

"Amazing what chimney sweeping can teach us, no? Keep your fire hot and
your flue clean."  - Ecurb Noselrub

"I'd be incensed by your impudence were I not so impressed by your memory." - Siz

xSilverPhinx

I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey


Bad Penny II

Take my advice, don't listen to me.

jumbojak

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on March 07, 2019, 02:45:51 PM


That's very perceptive. I had never thought about myself that way.

"Amazing what chimney sweeping can teach us, no? Keep your fire hot and
your flue clean."  - Ecurb Noselrub

"I'd be incensed by your impudence were I not so impressed by your memory." - Siz

joeactor

Technically, I'm not the same person I was last year. Or a decade ago.

Cells die, get added or replaced.

How much of the original is left?

"Self" is an illusion.

Tank

Quote from: joeactor on March 07, 2019, 08:15:07 PM
Technically, I'm not the same person I was last year. Or a decade ago.

Cells die, get added or replaced.

How much of the original is left?

"Self" is an illusion.

Classic.

If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

joeactor

Quote from: Tank on March 07, 2019, 08:21:33 PM
Quote from: joeactor on March 07, 2019, 08:15:07 PM
Technically, I'm not the same person I was last year. Or a decade ago.

Cells die, get added or replaced.

How much of the original is left?

"Self" is an illusion.

Classic.



;D ;D ;D

hermes2015

You can't cross the same street twice.
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
― Charles Eames

Bad Penny II

Quote from: hermes2015 on March 08, 2019, 03:41:26 AM
You can't cross the same street twice.

If the inhibitors lock on to us, decide we need to be exterminated, it'll because of shit like that.  :)
Take my advice, don't listen to me.

Magdalena

Who is this...francisco I keep seeing every time I login?
-Just curious.

"I've had several "spiritual" or numinous experiences over the years, but never felt that they were the product of anything but the workings of my own mind in reaction to the universe." ~Recusant

Bad Penny II

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Quote from: Magdalena on March 09, 2019, 05:25:50 AM
Who is this...francisco I keep seeing every time I login?
-Just curious.

He is a seller of shoes and printer ink/toner of dubious provenance.
I got a pair New Balonce joggers off him that are working for me.
We don't actually jog in them.
No, but the potential is there.

I'm not sure about his inks and toners.
Yes of course this kind of member wouldn't have been allowed back in the day but now is now, can't afford to be picky and his shoes are very competitively priced.
Take my advice, don't listen to me.