Vampire
 

Hey! Does anyone here know a good House of Vampires. I tired to sign up for one and it kept saying I didn't fill out something. *sigh*rolling my eyes* If anyone know a good house let me know!

Lolly senses tingling...Must not give in to the urge to bust out laughing.

For serious:
"Stay away from "vampire" clubs. Most of these people have actually convinced themselves that they are real vampires. They are uniformly pathetic."

TL;DR version: No, you can not has hampires especially if you are serious about it. :P

Given the telltale "Y" in Gothic Piano's custom title, I fear we may be too late in whatever attempt we perpetrate to rescue her from the coils of sad delusion.

Maybe we're exceptionally lucky and s/he just wants to find a local group running White Wolf games? In which case, google it, find your local, email the GM to see if s/he will accept a new player.
If GP wants to join a group of people who discuss vampire books and movies and like an excuse to wear capes, GP should look for a local Vampire Group. London, UK has three- and almost none of the members think they're vampires, they just like the aesthetic and the literature.
If GP thinks that GP is a Vampyre and wants to find other Vampyres, GP's best bet is to find a suitable forum somewhere and talk to other, equally deluded individuals. These people can probably find a group that's reasonably local to GP.

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For those that laughed: I do belive in the vampiric RELIGION. It's an actrual religion that has to do with exchanging engery. It's acraully not all about sucking ones blood. It has a lot to do with my Wiccan religion, instead of getting the energy from the Earth, you're getting it from an other individual.

Then, there is role playing. I personally don't understand "role playing", and I think that's what two of you were talking about. ;)

GP- You'll want to keep things like this to yourself in future. The boardmembers aren't overly tolerant of people who claim vampirism as a way of life or religion, or claim to be 340 and drink blood or whatever.
For this kind of thing you want a vampire forum, not a goth forum. Please don't confuse them in future, not even if you think energy vampirism is somehow different and won't be mocked here.
I'm not sure how you can understand your 'religion' and not understand role playing games like Masquerade. The games stimulate the imagination and encourage tactical thinking, but I'm not sure what your 'religion' can do for you.

Sounds pretty cool, getting energy from another person.

Umm, you don't think people would laugh at a 'vampiric religion' which takes 'energy' from another individual too?

Ah, Humanity. It amuses me immensely sometimes.

I saw that halloween special on that on TV. Those people seemed more like people into trying to be psychics than vampires, IMO. They called themselves vampires who didn't drink blood *boggle*...perhaps this is the new politically correct, disease feared out thing to do I don't really know. But my point is, even though they were wearing capes and such I think you may be better off looking for people among the mind reading, psychic community type of thing, not really the role play world. That's the impression I got anyway. Whatever it is, I don't think you will find it here. This is a place to chat about music, literature, fashion, etc.

Sorry to bring it up. Well, since it IS a gothic website, I thought the poeple would be a little bit more open minded, that's all. Props to Duane who DOES have an open mind.

Dont walk in the light is all im gonna say

GP, this just isn't the right forum for it.
We can be open minded about a lot of things, and I have friends from a lot of strange religions and pagan variants, but this is not the place for 'vampire' talk. GNet's about literature, music and a bit of chat. Insinuating that we're all close-minded won't win friends.

I'm not into the vamp thing, but to each his own. I have nothing against you. I have seen some online houses on Yahoo Groups. You should check them out. Go to Yahoo(that search engine with five letters in it case it gets edited out), assuming you have a yahoo account, uhmm, then, go to Groups, and search for "vampire" "Vampirism" "Vampyrism" and join a group. They can help you. They have resources for links.

Good luck.

Having an open mind =/= Enduring deluded nonsense with a blithe black/blood red lipped smile out of pity. Maybe you want to look some more into Wicca with titles that DON'T have goth or teen in the title?

Goths really are very open minded, but there are some things that accepting them doesn't make you open minded, it just makes you politically squeamish. Please don't confuse the two.
This is what many people are looking for, and will actually find it more in the mainstream:
- I believe the world is the playball of a giant three headed Schnauzer
- That's fuckin' stupid...
- It's my religion
- ...and I respect that.

Haha, so very true Jillian, so very true.

XD I fucking laughed my ass off at that...Jillian's post, not your whole vampire thing...which I respect...

I have difficulty respecting religions whose followers claim superpowers.

God, vampires are so gay.

Well, I know what I WON'T do again! Geez! Oh, and you don't think christians don't do some kind of power? We get our power from a god just like them, *rolling my eyes*, just in a different way.

LOL!
Powers.....

Lol! You can laugh all you want, but when your ass catches on fire and there's no fire anywere near where your standing, I'm goint to laugh so hard! Plus, I didn't even say that I WAS a vampire. I'm mostly just interested in it, not REALY wanting to become one. GEEZ!

Like a moth to the flame. Aaaah it reminds me of the days. I once had a dragon threaten to bite my head off.

Drake

That's funny! LOL! It's sad when you laugh at something someone said when they're talking about you. I must iether be drunk or in a very good mood. Stupid classical music!

I don't respect christians who claim powers either.

Truth be told, I'm into the whole vampire thing, too. But it's more of a fascination with the idea rather than a belief in any kind of vampire "religion."

So, for the record, I do not believe that I'm a vampire. I do not drink blood (though I have). I don't think that I have, urm, powers.

A lot of us are captivated by the idea of vampires, I personally think vampires kick ass. This is not of what Gothic Piano is speaking, however.

It's more than thinking that vampires "kick ass." I constantly consider what it would be like to be a vampire, where I would go, what I would do, who I would remove from the gene pool. In my mind I create all sorts of different personas of who I could be. Then I write all this stuff down. It's my hope that some of it could come to be of use in stories that I write.

Houses usually mean the opposite, don't they? Last time I checked, vampires were not part of Wiccan/pagan religion.

Such as your father...and I quote:

"Jesus...he had powers...you have to believe in his powers. He walked on water!"

I wonder who would win in a race between him and the Jesus lizard, I'd totally pay to see that!

One does have to wonder why it is considered any less reasonable to claim that one has magical powers, than to claim that some Jewish carpenter who lived in a desert on the other side of the Earth a long time ago did.

Drake

This is true.

This thread split my sides and now I hurt.

Because 'vampires' should be able to show off their vampire powers. Jesus is dead, so any claim regarding him can be neither substantiated nor outrightly dismissed. An appropriate analogy would be me telling you I'm riding a magical purple unicorn while standing in front of you clearly not atop a purple unicorn vs. me telling you I once rode a magical purple unicorn.
For Christians pretending to have powers, see Faith Healers.

How long have you been pracitcing wicca? My guess would be about....... three minutes?

Because " getting energy from another individual " in whatever form is harmful. Both by taking blood ( which is a fantastically easy way to end up getting a disease ) or so called " psychic vampirism " ( which supposedly drains energy from the body ) and the wiccan rede states " an it harm none do as ye will " . By doing this you effectively break the wiccan rede, YES even if the other person is willing.

Wicca also has absolutely NOTHING to do with vampirism. At all. Ever.

I for one cannot imagine Gerald Gardener swooping about in a cape, Quotng Anne Rice , Bram Stoker and " feeding " from people ,fond as he was of ceremonial magic and ritual.

I'm not saying you cannot love vampire literature and group culture, and be wiccan as well,I am certain many do . But to claim it is any form of " religion " or has anything to do with Wicca is spectacularly ignorant and mindless.

Lol. Yes, I think that puts it nicely in its place. I submit to your well advised choice of analogy, and everything you say minus "nor outrightly dismissed". :D

Drake

Yea, ok, I'm SURE my ass is just going to magically catch on fire....

Just because we don't like something doesn't mean our minds aren't open.
I'm not crazy about the idea of bring shit into my sexual life--I'll be damned if that means I don't have an open mind.

Maybe the fact that you believe you need to steal energy (and yes, it would be stealing) from others is what's turning us off.