From: fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: Vampire Victims Needed for TV Interview!
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:38:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bradley University

In <1992Oct2.070029.26307@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> tarrall@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Dead Queen) writes:

>fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie) writes:

>>>	Carol Page is the author of a book on modern vampires and victims
>>>and even vampire hunters.  "Blood Lust -- Conversations with Real Vampires"
>>>Through her bodyguard during the interviews for her book comes an offer to
>>>be on TV.


>>	Oh, come on!  Where do they find these people?  THERE ARE NO SUCH
>>THINGS AS VAMPIRES!!!!  Get a clue!  It's okay for a fun fantasy, but let's
>>try to keep things in perspective!  This woman is making some fast money
>>off those people stupid enough to believe in such rubbish!

>How can you be so sure?  Just because in your limited experience you
>have never run across a vampyre, you make their existance a certain 
>impossibility (sp?).  Allow yourself a moment to escape from the tiny
>and provincial outlook to which you so strongly subscribe and realize
>that many things which you have never run across do indeed exist.
	
	I don't suffer from a narrow-minded outlook, but apparently you do,
since you seem to be so sure vampires exist.  I merely, from a purely
scientific point of you, stated that vampires don't exist.  Immortality is
a fantasy for fools.  Everyone casts a reflection in the mirror.  And a stake
through the heart would kill ANYONE, much less a "vampire."

>Perhaps you are not psychologically equipped to understand that 
>many things that you think are impossibilities are realities for
>other human beings, perhaps you do not even notice other human
>beings in your daily closed minded life exercise(exorcise).
>Extricate a bit of open-minded reasoning from your dim-wit provinciality,
>and maybe then I will listen.

	I am more than mentally equipped to deal with impossibilities.  In
my physics classes, I enjoy trying to prove theories of time travel.  Because,
unlike vampires, time travel is a definite possibility.  It CAN exist in our
world.  We know of phenomena, such as wormholes, that PROVE time travel is 
possible in some format or another.
	And, contrary to what you wrongly assumed based on ignorance, I notice
other people quite a bit in my daily life.  I study other people and their
habits quite a bit.  Psychology is my minor.  I also enjoy studying the way
that some people will want to believe something so badly, that they will
refuse to listen to anyone who objects to their beliefs.


>Best of all, STOP being such a CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the universe is
>pretty big, don't assume you already have it all figured out.

	Oh, I NEVER assume anything (unlike you).  I'm always VERY
open minded, and should a vampire turn out to come and visit me and prove
he exists, I would be MORE than happy to prostrate myself over internet in a
humble apology to all vampires.  However, since none have come forth and 
PROVED their existence in the few years that humanity has been around, I'm not
going to live in a delusional fantasy brought on by a romantic longing and
inability to separate reality from fiction.

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