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Post by avenger on Sept 1, 2008 8:38:09 GMT -5
the solamum virus or sumthing ill edit the post with correct spelling.
its a virus not somethi8ng random
only affects humans
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Post by ~Kill3r~ on Sept 14, 2008 6:30:12 GMT -5
this is very interesting... but I think that zombies are entirely NOT REAL
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Post by I wuv M4( Satar Jaèoèdoæ) on Sept 14, 2008 16:52:28 GMT -5
Ever heard of zombie potion?
I belive voodoo zombies might be able to exist.
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Post by mythoswyrm on Sept 15, 2008 18:28:37 GMT -5
Zombies as a undead person that becomes living too feed on people is FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But if they are created by voodoo potions an mind control then they are real!!!!!!!!!!1
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Post by avenger on Sept 15, 2008 18:31:14 GMT -5
..................well thats an opinon i am in the middle...........so yeah....................... but still who knows they might be real and they might not......................
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Post by ~Kill3r~ on Sept 16, 2008 9:30:53 GMT -5
meh... there have been no encounters with zombies... but who knows... <.< they could come in a couple of years...
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Post by avenger on Sept 17, 2008 15:59:40 GMT -5
there have been documented accounts but those are from way back(like 1930s) or sumthing but yes voodoo zombies are real all they are is people put to sleep for a while then buried then the shaman comes and digs them up and wakes em up. thats all
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Post by ~Kill3r~ on Sept 19, 2008 8:27:27 GMT -5
o...k... but still... zombies are not real!!!!!!@#!$%$@#!%^%!$#^
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Post by shandyman on Oct 16, 2008 21:24:56 GMT -5
so wait. you think zombies MIGHT be real, but you went ahead and claimed vampires and the rest to be impossible? so, how can zombies be real either? if the other mythical things don't make sense in the slightest, then how can zombies? how can we be sure that all of these things DO exist, and we 'normal' humans just dont know the world around us? (yes, YES! its all just a conspiracy to keep us in the dark! NYAHAHAHAHAHA!!*runs around padded room*..............um, no?) sure science is growing, but personally, there will never any possible way that someone can come back from the dead except: 1) they were not supposed to die yet 2)they are resurected or 3) there is some sort of 'magic' or 'spirits' involved.
so there.
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Post by Qwerty on Oct 30, 2008 16:10:28 GMT -5
If anything, I think an I-Am-Legend type thing is the most likely to happen. All the muscular cells must be intact in order for the zombie to move. In fact, the body must still be functioning perfectly, since even zombies can't live without blood, a functioning heart, functioning lungs, etc. All of their organs must be in perfect condition. We certainly don't have the technology to re-animate many people who have been dead for a while, as any decomposition at all would mean it would not work. As a result, it would be impossible to have an army of dead zombies, and almost impossible to just have one.
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Post by noodlesoup on Oct 30, 2008 19:14:22 GMT -5
I think it depends on how someone defines a zombie. Like some may see them as green people who walk with their hands out who feed on the living.(humans) While others may see them as people being controlled...possibly to feed on the living.(humans)
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Post by avenger on Nov 16, 2008 16:03:47 GMT -5
the body dosent have to be functioning perfectly, just the brain needs to be perfect, not destroyed
and vamps and stuff are defiantly not realy. but who knows. we havent see all the world yet..............theres got to be at the least like................5% of earths pop. that has a zombie plan...........
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Post by FoxtrotZero on Dec 18, 2008 0:26:55 GMT -5
If anything, I think an I-Am-Legend type thing is the most likely to happen. All the muscular cells must be intact in order for the zombie to move. In fact, the body must still be functioning perfectly, since even zombies can't live without blood, a functioning heart, functioning lungs, etc. All of their organs must be in perfect condition. We certainly don't have the technology to re-animate many people who have been dead for a while, as any decomposition at all would mean it would not work. As a result, it would be impossible to have an army of dead zombies, and almost impossible to just have one. FINALLY! An ACTUALLY INTELLEGENT RESPONCE! As defined by wikipedia, keeper of all knowledge: A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. One possible origin is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost".[1] Another is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person."[1] According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word entered English circa 1871; it's derived from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, which in turn is of Bantu origin.[2] A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will.[3] It is akin to the Kimbundu nzúmbe ghost. According to the tenets of Vodou, a dead person can be revived by a bokor or Voodoo sorcerer. Zombies remain under the control of the bokor since they have no will of their own. "Zombi" is also another name of the Vodou snake god Damballah Wedo, of Niger-Congo origin; it is akin to the Kongo word nzambi, which means "god". There also exists within the voudon tradition the zombi astral which is a human soul that is captured by a bokor and used to enhance the bokor's power. In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman that appeared in a village, and a family claimed she was Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29. Hurston pursued rumors that the affected persons were given powerful drugs, but she was unable to locate individuals willing to offer much information. She wrote: “What is more, if science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony.[4]” Several decades later, Wade Davis, a Harvard ethnobotanist, presented a pharmacological case for zombies in two books, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988). Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being entered into the blood stream (usually via a wound). The first, coup de poudre (French: 'powder strike'), includes tetrodotoxin (TTX), the poison found in the pufferfish. The second powder is composed of dissociatives such as datura. Together, these powders were said to induce a death-like state in which the victim's will would be entirely subject to that of the bokor. Davis also popularized the story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was claimed to have succumbed to this practice.
Symptoms of TTX poisoning range from numbness and nausea to paralysis, unconsciousness, and death, but do not include a stiffened gait or a deathlike trance. According to neurologist Terence Hines, the scientific community dismisses tetrodotoxin as the cause of this state, and Davis' assessment of the nature of the reports of Haitian Zombies is overly credulous.[5] Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing further highlighted the link between social and cultural expectations and compulsion, in the context of schizophrenia and other mental illness, suggesting that schizogenesis may account for some of the psychological aspects of zombification.In the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed that the souls of the dead could return to earth and haunt the living. The belief in revenants (someone who has returned from the dead) is well documented by contemporary European writers of the time, such as William of Newburgh and Walter Map. According to the Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were[6], particularly in France during the Middle Ages, the revenant rises from the dead usually to avenge some crime committed against the entity, most likely a murder. The revenant usually took on the form of an emaciated corpse or skeletal human figure, and wandered around graveyards at night. The "draugr" of medieval Norse mythology were also believed to be the corpses of warriors returned from the dead to attack the living. The zombie appears in several other cultures worldwide, including China, Japan, the Pacific, India, Persia, the Arabs, and the Native Americans. The Epic of Gilgamesh of ancient Sumer includes a mention of zombies. Ishtar, in the fury of vengeance says: Father give me the Bull of Heaven, So he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling. If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven, I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld, I will smash the doorposts, and leave the doors flat down, and will let the dead go up to eat the living! And the dead will outnumber the living![7] Modern zombies, as portrayed in books, films, games, and haunted attractions, are quite different from both voodoo zombies and those of folklore. Modern zombies are typically depicted in popular culture as mindless, unfeeling monsters with a hunger for human flesh, a prototype established in the seminal 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. Typically, these creatures can sustain damage far beyond that of a normal, living human and can pass whatever syndrome that causes their condition onto others. Usually, zombies are not depicted as thralls to masters, as in the film White Zombie or the spirit-cult myths. Rather, modern zombies are depicted in mobs and waves, seeking either flesh to eat or people to kill or infect, and are typically rendered to exhibit signs of physical decomposition such as rotting flesh, discolored eyes, and open wounds, and moving with a slow, shambling gait. They are generally incapable of communication and show no signs of personality or rationality, though George Romero's zombies appear capable of learning and very basic levels of speech as seen in the films Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead. Modern zombies are closely tied to the idea of a zombie apocalypse, the collapse of civilization caused by a vast plague of undead. The ideas are now so strongly linked that zombies are rarely depicted within any other context. There are still significant differences among the depictions of zombies by various media; for one comparison see the contrasts between zombies by Night of the Living Dead authors George A. Romero and John A. Russo as they evolved in the two separate film series that followed. In some zombie apocalypse films from the 2000's, such as 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Dead Set, zombies are depicted as being superhumanly quick and nimble, a further departure from the established genre stereotype. In philosophy of mind, zombies are hypothetical persons who lack full consciousness but have the biology or behavior of a normal human being; they are often used in thought experiments which make arguments against the identity of the mind and the brain. The term was coined by philosopher of mind David Chalmers. They are referred to as philosophical zombies or "p-zombies". [8]
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Post by ~Memzak~ on Dec 22, 2008 18:28:56 GMT -5
whoa thats a long post...
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Post by wizard on Jan 30, 2009 23:41:36 GMT -5
now then, to end that long and extremely complibcated post with... OMGF THEYS GOING TO EAT MY BRAINZERS! ROFLOL
*that is exxagerated and i dont beleive. evem if there is real life hipnotism ( buy the book mind performance hacks. its useful.*
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Post by The Dark Master on Feb 8, 2009 13:53:20 GMT -5
Do zombies exist? short answer:NO Some guys play way toooo much computer games.
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Post by GrandEnder on Feb 8, 2009 14:09:44 GMT -5
Zombies do not exist, though reanimation after death will probably be possible in the future.
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Post by wizard on Feb 8, 2009 21:57:50 GMT -5
grandender: NO and i play to much to. i just find zombie games suckish
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Post by SilentWaves on Feb 26, 2009 18:21:02 GMT -5
Zombies could possibly be real to an extent as of now there are no zombies but if you ever watched I-am-Legend as mentioned early a cencer cure backfired and rewired the brains of humans so they would slowly change into more animal like beings but the possibility of them etating humans is low and the chance they can onyly stay in darkness is low to impposible (maybe theyre vamps not zombies in the movie) but honestly they would be more like an animal then a blood thirsty mutated freak.
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Post by doomish on Feb 26, 2009 18:34:37 GMT -5
If Left 4 Dead has taught me anything, it's that life is not like a video game. Or a movie, but that's beside the point.
Zombies cannot exist in the time period we live in, but perhaps the next hundred or so years someone will do something stupid, and the dead will rise. Who knows..?
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