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[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Once you invite them in and feed them, you'll never get rid of them. But the same could be said for mormons.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you do that with Mormons though?

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They said they'd give me a planet

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Still, vampires are better.

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Morons give out planets?

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well because maybe it's a good thing to offer food to these kids who don't really yet understand the folly of their cult beliefs. At least I can give them a cookie or something for their efforts.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are talking about vampires, right?

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Umm.....not sure anymore. Do vampires like cookies? If they're nice they can come to my house and have a bite.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I let some Mormons come in once when I was in my early 20's because I wanted to confirm some things I had heard about their religion that they usually don't share with outsiders. We talked for about an hour and then I asked them to leave. They came back the next day with their leader, and we talked some more. Then they came back the next day with their leader, and his leader! At that point I just told them point blank that it was nice talking to them, but I'm never converting to Mormonism, so stop coming back. To their credit, they said okay and left. It was an interesting experience.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If you kept that going much longer most of Provo would have been at your door.

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I'm pretty anti-mormon even though I live in Utah. I guess shouldn't be so hard on them, they're not bad people really and I have mistreated them quite often. They do have weird beliefs (in my view) but when you're raised with that mindset it's not really your fault for believing it. Our neighbors are mormon and they're always looking after us, shovel our driveway when it snows and check to see if we're doing OK. I'd like to think that's how neighbors SHOULD be no matter their religious ideas.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mormons seem to walk the walk a lot more than other religions I've been exposed to. They generally live by the rules they espouse, and they have a robust support network for their members, including things like discount grocery stores. It's not for me, but as religious people go, they seem pretty okay.

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I've lived among them for 65 years and there are good people and bad, as in every other circumstance. The mormons do live by the rules they espouse (which isn't so great for mormon women) but, they also do take care of neighbors in need and always bring over food when they make too much. I can't fault them for trying to be as good mormons as possible. But I do object to the term "Latter Day Saints" because, to me, no human is meant to be a saint. We're meant to be human and have human failings and learn from them.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Insert a joke about kidnapping Mormons here.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly, I think vampires would have plenty of volunteers nowadays.

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Really depends on the rules vampires exist under.

I'm guessing some people wouldn't care and just want in, but there are quite a few vampire mythologies that would be a really awful existence.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fr. In most interpretations vampires are undead, beings that lose all the joy of living, no warmth, no taste except for blood, inability to have kids or sex, being weak to the sun/running water/garlic/holy ground, being unable to enter any residence without being invited, having to sleep in coffin with dirt from where you are born (which means you can't travel without bringing a whole ass coffin with you). Being a vampire would suck, now a daywalker tho....

[–] cmhickman358@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All existence is awful, but if you were a vampire you would get to wear a neat cape

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ay, nobody's stopping you!

[–] Itd4n@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago
[–] CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You're not doing a good job of turning me away ಠ_ಠ

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grounded vampire mythos is suspiciously similar to the symptoms of rabies.

If you get Form Of Mist, though, I'm in.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Walking on ceiling, though. If I can get that, I'd say yes, too.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that's a symptom of rabies then Harper Lee undersold it.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

It might be, but most rabies patients are probably too terrified of dying and water to try it out.

[–] wsweg@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I highly recommend the show “What We Do in the Shadows.” It sort of covers this

[–] Lunachocken@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My friend complains it's awful but watches with me anyway and laughs

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

I always say being awful does not equal being non-enjoyable. It seems your friend agrees.

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's a good friend

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I love that show so much. Bat!

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Finally a chance to clear my games and books backlog

[–] OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Me in '06/07.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Now that's a meme I haven't heard in a while, nice!

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you say your Dracula died and came back to life? And you drink his blood during religious service in his honor?

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

Yes but it's human blood that we anoint and gets spiritually converted to Dracula blood.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Ye- oh! Ha. Nice try, bite guy."

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

"I D K, Can You Come In?"

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

"Never invite a vampire into your home, you silly boy, it renders you powerless."

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

This is brilliant!

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And that is how I came to be a vampire thunder crash

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago