Are Zombies real?

ouch · 01-20-2008, 08:27 PM

I wonder why there is an apparent attraction to the notion of zombies.

billy · 01-20-2008, 08:35 PM

Mitchell · 01-20-2008, 08:38 PM

i think it's because people like the idea of total chaos-like running around with fully automatic weapons shooting stuff

Midas · 01-20-2008, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ouch

I wonder why there is an apparent attraction to the notion of zombies.

Because they fall right in with an end of the world/SHTF scenario. And no, posting a thread like this doesn't put you above the rest of us zombie-hounds

billy · 01-20-2008, 09:05 PM

zombies are yet another sign the end times!
you know?
armageddon?
antichrist?
cats sleeping with dogs?

Inew2guns · 01-20-2008, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by billy

cats sleeping with dogs?

Couldn't stop laughing after that! But in my personal opinion I would say I highly doubt that they are real if they were real what are they waiting for?

redhed · 01-20-2008, 09:42 PM

Okay, I have to admit that unlike my husband, I am a great SciFi fan and not a stranger to the medical profession having been a nurse for more years than I care to admit. But I have to admit that I'm having a hard time getting my head wrapped around this zombie concept the same as he is.

Isn't a zombie, technically a reanimated dead person?

Unfortunately, I've pronounced a lot of patients dead during my career and I've yet to see one cadaver rise from it's post postmortem state and lurch about my floor. I've never seen one twitch, move or wink at me. Not one has set up and voice a craving for fresh brains and then bit a CNA's ear off. There is an absence of pulse, respiration or pain stimuli. The brain is dead, therefor the rest of the body is in a similar state. It ain't doin nuthin but laying there enjoying the decomposing process.. Or as the old saying goes, you can't whip a dead horse. Nor can you make a dead person rise and walk unless you're...well, you know who....

As a much younger person, I watched 'zombie' movies such as Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, The Mummy and many others with rapt interest. But even as a kid, I didn't believe that they really existed. To me the true zombies we would have to face in a TEOTWAWKI situation will be the gang bangers strung out on drugs or whatever that will rampage the countryside looking for their own form of 'fresh brains' in the form of stolen property that they can use to buy more of what ever drug d' jour they are hooked on.

The solution for that problem is simple. Buy bigger guns....and lots of bullets.

big boomer · 01-20-2008, 09:48 PM

Anyone who doesn't believe in the walking dead didn't work where I did.

Inew2guns · 01-21-2008, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by big boomer

Anyone who doesn't believe in the walking dead didn't work where I did.

Go into more detail please!?!

nathangdad · 01-21-2008, 03:52 AM

It is human nature to seek the unusual and strange. I doubt any of us will outlive the
ever-so-often releasing of new movie or t.v. offerings with a vampire or some similar not-quite-human central character. On the reading scene, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was in print before any of us was born and will be in print after we all pass away (ditto for Dracula). It is just a facet of human nature. If we just take the experience it then put it back on the shelf outlook without becoming obsessed over it no real harm occurs.

redhed · 01-21-2008, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by nathangdad

It is human nature to seek the unusual and strange. I doubt any of us will outlive the
ever-so-often releasing of new movie or t.v. offerings with a vampire or some similar not-quite-human central character. On the reading scene, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was in print before any of us was born and will be in print after we all pass away (ditto for Dracula). It is just a facet of human nature. If we just take the experience it then put it back on the shelf outlook without becoming obsessed over it no real harm occurs.

Very true. But I have visited other sites where this topic is almost obsessive with the members.

It goes beyond media entertainment and into topics that hint at the belief that there really are zombies lurking around out there or that zombies really could at some point exist.

Don't you think that obsession with something that doesn't really exist, takes survival focus off of that which does?

Or has zombies become a euphemism for the real evils that lurk out there in the world?

Unfortunately those are the ones we have to worry about.

BPierce · 01-21-2008, 09:53 AM

You have to understand that there are two kinds of zombies. First are those created by practitioners of the voodoo arts. They may be real but then they were never really dead, it's a trick. The fear among people of the area is not of the zombies themselves (they are pitied) but of being turned into one by voodoo.

Then there are the other kind that kill people and eat their brain. The existence of these have been proved by a number of authoritative movies the titles of which have been listed in above posts.

Readers of this thread don't worry about the first. It is the second, which await only the rite situation to come barging into our world. Is it not our credo to be prepared? My wife just thinks it's an excuse to buy more guns and ammunition, but what does she know?

white devil · 01-21-2008, 10:39 AM

What kind of good would you use against them.

ArkansasHunter · 01-21-2008, 10:53 AM

Zomies are as real as Goose's laying golden eggs !!!

mym1a · 01-21-2008, 10:58 AM

Zombies check out any of these convicts who have been locked down for several years, the lights are on but nobody is at home !!!!!!!!!!! lucky thing for us that most zombies in this country reside in a 8x10 cage or smaller

two-70 · 01-21-2008, 06:30 PM

the dead are asleep they know nothing , id rather believe in the goose laying the golden egg lol

blackhawk45 · 01-21-2008, 06:58 PM

Do a little research into VOO-DOO, then make a decision !

Reddbecca · 01-21-2008, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ouch

I wonder why there is an apparent attraction to the notion of zombies.

Of course zombies are real! Go to Wal-Mart sometime and just observe the people and take notes sometime. If they aren't zombies I don't know who would be.

A-10 · 01-21-2008, 07:33 PM

Every myth of legend has its origen in reality. I just wonder where the idea of zombies came from.

elmer fudd · 01-21-2008, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ArkansasHunter

Zomies are as real as Goose's laying golden eggs !!!

i wish i had one of those geese!!

01-20-2008, 08:27 PM	#1
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01-20-2008, 09:42 PM	#7
redhed Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Armpit, Illinois, USA Posts: 333	Okay, I have to admit that unlike my husband, I am a great SciFi fan and not a stranger to the medical profession having been a nurse for more years than I care to admit. But I have to admit that I'm having a hard time getting my head wrapped around this zombie concept the same as he is. Isn't a zombie, technically a reanimated dead person? Unfortunately, I've pronounced a lot of patients dead during my career and I've yet to see one cadaver rise from it's post postmortem state and lurch about my floor. I've never seen one twitch, move or wink at me. Not one has set up and voice a craving for fresh brains and then bit a CNA's ear off. There is an absence of pulse, respiration or pain stimuli. The brain is dead, therefor the rest of the body is in a similar state. It ain't doin nuthin but laying there enjoying the decomposing process.. Or as the old saying goes, you can't whip a dead horse. Nor can you make a dead person rise and walk unless you're...well, you know who.... As a much younger person, I watched 'zombie' movies such as Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, The Mummy and many others with rapt interest. But even as a kid, I didn't believe that they really existed. To me the true zombies we would have to face in a TEOTWAWKI situation will be the gang bangers strung out on drugs or whatever that will rampage the countryside looking for their own form of 'fresh brains' in the form of stolen property that they can use to buy more of what ever drug d' jour they are hooked on. The solution for that problem is simple. Buy bigger guns....and lots of bullets. __________________ I'm a member of PETA. People Eating Tasty Animals!

01-21-2008, 03:52 AM	#10
nathangdad Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,483	Unusual, strange, and thus interesting It is human nature to seek the unusual and strange. I doubt any of us will outlive the ever-so-often releasing of new movie or t.v. offerings with a vampire or some similar not-quite-human central character. On the reading scene, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was in print before any of us was born and will be in print after we all pass away (ditto for Dracula). It is just a facet of human nature. If we just take the experience it then put it back on the shelf outlook without becoming obsessed over it no real harm occurs.

01-20-2008, 08:38 PM	#3
Mitchell Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Essex, Iowa Posts: 56	i think it's because people like the idea of total chaos-like running around with fully automatic weapons shooting stuff

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big boomer Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Minn. Posts: 980	Anyone who doesn't believe in the walking dead didn't work where I did.

01-21-2008, 09:53 AM	#12
BPierce Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Minnesota (Becker County) Posts: 148	You have to understand that there are two kinds of zombies. First are those created by practitioners of the voodoo arts. They may be real but then they were never really dead, it's a trick. The fear among people of the area is not of the zombies themselves (they are pitied) but of being turned into one by voodoo. Then there are the other kind that kill people and eat their brain. The existence of these have been proved by a number of authoritative movies the titles of which have been listed in above posts. Readers of this thread don't worry about the first. It is the second, which await only the rite situation to come barging into our world. Is it not our credo to be prepared? My wife just thinks it's an excuse to buy more guns and ammunition, but what does she know?

01-21-2008, 10:39 AM	#13
white devil Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: south windsor ct Posts: 7	What kind of good would you use against them.

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ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas Posts: 10,709	Zomies are as real as Goose's laying golden eggs !!!

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mym1a Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,313	Zombies check out any of these convicts who have been locked down for several years, the lights are on but nobody is at home !!!!!!!!!!! lucky thing for us that most zombies in this country reside in a 8x10 cage or smaller Last edited by mym1a; 01-21-2008 at 11:00 AM.

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two-70 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ponca city, oklahoma Posts: 1,778	the dead are asleep they know nothing , id rather believe in the goose laying the golden egg lol __________________ What Would Jesus Do ????? Just Ask Him.

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blackhawk45 Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Millersville Pa. Posts: 79	Do a little research into VOO-DOO, then make a decision !

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A-10 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 732	Every myth of legend has its origen in reality. I just wonder where the idea of zombies came from. __________________ If there's nothing worth dying for, there's nothing worth living for.