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
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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?
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.
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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.
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.
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Could be said for both my LCP 380 and a Hershey Bar!
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?
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
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.
