Vampire

My current woes… at least it’s only 3 out of that list of plenty.

These… I can deal with, of which 3… being the hardest. :sad-fever:

You have to get practical.prevent vampire loss.

Vampiric Drain is a Vampire Destruction spell in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. … Enemy vampires cast versions of this spell which—at higher levels—drains both magicka and stamina along with health. The spell drains health from an opponent and heals the caster with it.

MagsJ vampires should never try to destroy, they only can give immortality.
And immortality induces gain, whichever way you look at it.
Igor and all ghouls know: they are slaves to cook up potions to help overcome severe loss, of the life force, they have to stop the bleeding immediately by singular means, and they can hunt alone, better then competitively, and that way they may transcend the ring,

The negated ring can never be lost or stolen, it is it’s own anti lock device, if it is played backwards, and travels backward, eludes consequences reversely, breaks up determination, into smaller and smaller fill ins, and at the most opportune moment , creates a circus of simulated hoops , the ring aflame and then, the motive flows back and into it’s self, impregrating it’self asexually by cell division.

It eats away the starved decayed parts within it’s own being, and transcends a transcriptive double of it’s existence, at understanding
no appearent casual relationships.

It’s soul’s remainder then , eternally halved , not merely into it’s ultimate negation, but also for practical use other then deflection of the archaic vintage parts, logistically directed into it’s progressively determined projected image. By this strange magic, #3 will be absorbed into the futility of apprehension.
if this process is sustained against all understanding, then the ring of fire can be jumped , without the fear of oblivion, and proceed on it"s merry way into the warm embrace of it’s futility.

The magic of this power by will alone can feed it’s self transforming lower powers, accordingly, by channelling it.
Mesmeretically, by the wonder of magnetic resonance inducement, practiced to perfected , metaphorically, even if clearly outlined thus: Figuratively, vampiric loss of disangaging waste, of unused and excessive utilities are a real systemic worry come Halloween, and things SHOULD lighten up a bit by then.No guarantees, though. My basic instincts all veer toward that general direction, though.
There is no simple solution, and it carries vast potential energy losses of risk and imminent danger, but the arid field of the sublime can overcome the spiteful , spineless charges of direct current, by alternation of fields wonder and awe.
If You dare expose Yourself during daylight, run on minimum power and protect by layers of sun block to avoid the build up of toxicity.

There is no way, then, that the power of this ring can not but protect , like brunhilda, you will be maintained and protected through eternities of change until the time of becoming.

That will be the age of reconciliation and happiness, life and understanding. You will become one with the light and the bargain that was imprinted unto You, will release the soul, that like a caged bat was afraid to fly.

Try to call on the muses to reply to the unforgivin , unforgotten parts, later 2 day, promise.

Trick, or treat?

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The Premature Burial. Antoine Wiertz (1854)
Older than Dracula: in search of the English vampire
Sam George, University of Hertfordshire
October 25, 2018 4.55pm BST
The story of Count Dracula as many of us know it was created by Bram Stoker, an Irishman, in 1897. But most of the action takes place in England, from the moment the Transylvanian vampire arrives on a shipwrecked vessel in Whitby, North Yorkshire, with plans to make his lair in the spookily named Carfax estate, west of the river in London.

But Dracula wasn’t the first vampire in English literature, let alone the first to stalk England. The vampire first made its way into English literature in John Polidori’s 1819 short story “The Vampyre”. Polidori’s vampire, Lord Ruthven, is inspired by a thinly disguised portrait of the predatory English poet, Lord Byron, in Lady Caroline Lamb’s novel Glenarvon (1816). So the first fictional vampire was actually a satanic English Lord.

It is nearly 200 years since this Romantic/Byronic archetype for a vampire emerged – but what do we know about English belief in vampires outside of fiction? New research at the University of Hertfordshire has uncovered and reappraised a number of vampire myths – and they are not all confined to the realms of fiction.

The Croglin Vampire reputedly first appeared in Cumberland to a Miss Fisher in the 1750s. Its story is retold by Dr Augustus Hare, a clergyman, in his Memorials of a Quiet Life in 1871. According to this legend, the vampire scratches at the window before disappearing into an ancient vault. The vault is later discovered to be full of coffins that have been broken open and their contents, horribly mangled and distorted, are scattered over the floor. One coffin only remains intact, but the lid has been loosened. There, shrivelled and mummified – but quite intact – lies the Croglin Vampire.

Elsewhere in Cumbria, the natives of Renwick, were once known as “bats” due to the monstrous creature that is said to have flown out of the foundations of a rebuilt church there in 1733. The existence of vampire bats, which sucked blood wouldn’t be confirmed until 1832, when Charles Darwin sketched one feeding off a horse on his voyage to South America in The Beagle. The creature in Renwick has been referred to as a “cockatrice” – a mythical creature with a serpent’s head and tail and the feet and wings of a cockerel – by Cumbrian County History. But it’s the myth of the vampire bat that has prevailed in the surrounding villages and is recorded in conversations in local archives and journals

What picture emerges then in this history of the English vampire? The Croglin Vampire has never been verified – but it has an afterlife in the 20th century, appearing as The British Vampire in 1977 in an anthology of horror by Daniel Farson, who turns out to be Stoker’s great-grandnephew.

The Nightmare. John Henry Fuseli (1781)
Nightmare in Buckinghamshire
But there is one case that has no connection to fiction, the little-known Buckinghamshire Vampire, recorded by William of Newburgh in the 12th century. Historical records show that St Hugh, the Bishop of Lincoln, was called upon to deal with the terrifying revenant and learned to his astonishment, after contacting other theologians, that similar attacks had happened elsewhere in England.

St Hugh was told that no peace would be had until the corpse was dug up and burned, but it was decided that an absolution – a declaration of forgiveness, by the church, absolving one from sin – would be a more seemly way to disable the vampire. When the tomb was opened the body was found to have not decomposed. The absolution was laid inside on the corpse’s chest by the Archdeacon and the vampire was never again seen wandering from his grave.

The Buckinghamshire revenant did not have a “vampire” burial – but such practices are evidence of a longstanding belief in vampires in Britain. Astonishingly, the medieval remains of the what are thought to be the first English vampires have been found in the Yorkshire village of Wharram Percy. The bones of over 100 “vampire” corpses have now been uncovered buried deep in village pits. The bones were excavated more than half a century ago and date back to before the 14th century. They were at first thought to be the result of cannibalism during a famine or a massacre in the village but on further inspection in 2017 the burned and broken skeletons were linked instead to deliberate mutilations perpetrated to prevent the dead returning to harm the living – beliefs common in folklore at the time.

‘Vampire graves’ have been found at the abandoned village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire. Paul Allison via Alchemipedia
Vile bodies
The inhabitants of Wharram Percy showed widespread belief in the undead returning as revenants or reanimated corpses and so fought back against the risk of vampire attacks by deliberately mutilating their own dead, burning bones and dismembering corpses, including those of women, children and teenagers, in an attempt to stave off what they believed could be a plague of vampires. This once flourishing village was completely deserted in the aftermath.

Just recently at an ancient Roman site in Italy the severed skull of a ten-year-old child was discovered with a large rock inserted in the mouth to prevent biting and bloodsucking. Then skull belongs to a suspected 15th-century revenant which they are calling locally the “Vampire of Lugano”.

There has been a wealth of other stories from the UK and other parts of Western Europe – but, despite this, thanks to the Dracula legend, most people still assume such practises and beliefs belong to remote parts of Eastern Europe. But our research is continuing to examine “vampire burials” in the UK and is making connections to local myths and their legacy in English literature, many years before the Byronic fiend Count Dracula arrived in Yorkshire carrying his own supply of Transylvanian soil.

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Sam George
Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Hertfordshire
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The leachy vampire which is a type for any act, is systemic of everyone, especially when simulation has become a modus operans that has overcome reality, figuring on evolved overblown representative models , of what what has been lost.
The original loss has transpired a long long time ago, and incrementally gained steam.

The systemic need to be scarred by scare, the puncture of vitality, of blood letting, pretty much parallels that which vampirism inflicts by the bite, of return to the age of immortality, a return to the garden.

Friedrich Nietzsche Human All Too Human

THE PREJUDICE IN FAVOUR OF GREATNESS. It is clear that men overvalue everything great and prominent. This arises from the conscious or unconscious idea that they deem it very useful when one person throws all his strength into one thing and makes himself into a monstrous organ. Assuredly, an equal development of all his powers is more useful and happier for man; for every talent is a vampire which sucks blood and strength from other powers, and an exaggerated production can drive the most gifted almost to madness. Within the circle of the arts, too, extreme natures excite far too much attention; but a much lower culture is necessary to be captivated by them. Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

While at the same time:

Narcissism and Self-Esteem Are Very Different

Narcissism and self-esteem have very different developmental pathways and outcomes

By Scott Barry Kaufman on October 29, 2017

As the mythology goes, Narcissus fell in love so much with his own reflection in a pool of water that he was unable to do anything else but admire himself. Eventually, he withered away and died staring at his reflection. Did Narcissus have excessively high self-esteem? Was that his main issue? Or was it something else?

For many years, psychologists and the media alike have treated narcissism as representing “inflated self-esteem”, or “self-esteem on steroids”. In the past few years, however, there have been some serious challenges to this view. The latest research suggests that narcissism differs significantly from self-esteem in its development, origins, consequences, and outcomes. This has important implications for our understanding of narcissism, and for interventions to increase healthy self-esteem.

Both narcissism and self-esteem start to develop around the age of 7. At this age, children draw heavily on social comparisons with others and start to evaluate themselves along the lines of “I am a loser”, “I am worthy”, or “I am special”. Children come to view themselves as they perceive they are seen by others.

Whereas self-esteem tends to be at its lowest in adolescence, and slowly increases throughout life, narcissism peaks in adolescence and gradually declines throughout the lifespan. Therefore, the development of narcissism and high self-esteem show the mirror image of each other throughout the course of human development.

The development of self-esteem and narcissism are also influenced by different parenting styles. Narcissism tends to develop in tandem with parental overvaluation. Parents who raise children who exhibit high levels of narcissism tend to overclaim their child’s knowledge (e.g., “My child knows everything there is to know about math”), overestimate their child’s IQ, overpraise their child’s performances, and even tend to give their children a unique name to stand out from the crowd. Eventually, the child internalizes these self-views, and they unconsciously drive the child’s interactions with others.

In contrast, high self-esteem develops in tandem with parental warmth. Parents who raise children who exhibit high levels of self-esteem tend to treat their children with affection, appreciation, and fondness. They treat their children as though they matter. Eventually, this parenting practice leads to the child internalizing the message that they are worthy individuals, a core aspect of healthy self-esteem.

Outcomes

The prototypical grandiose narcissist is characterized by arrogance, superiority, vanity, entitlement, exploitativeness, exhibitionism, and the incessant need for acclaim from others. Those scoring high on measures of self-esteem, however, tend to feel satisfied with themselves but do not necessarily see themselves as superior to others.

For instance, the most widely administered test of self-esteem-- the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale-- has items such as, “On the whole, I am satisfied with myself”, “I feel that I have a number of good qualities”, and “I am able to do things as well as most other people.” These items are not about being superior to others, but about having a healthy level of self-worth and self-competence. As Rosenberg put it,“When we deal with self-esteem, we are asking whether the individual considers [themselves] adequate-- a person of worth-- not whether [they] consider [themselves] superior to others.”

While narcissism is positively correlated with self-esteem, the association is actually small. This suggests it’s possible to think you are superior to others, but still not view yourself as a worthy human being. On the contrary, it’s possible to think you are worthy and competent without thinking you are better than others.

A very interesting recent paper further sheds light on the similarities and differences between narcissism and self-esteem. Self-esteem and narcissism were both related to agency, assertiveness, positive emotions, and a drive for rewards. But that’s essentially where the similarities ended. In fact, narcissism and self-esteem differed on 63% of the other traits that were assessed.

Self-esteem was much more strongly linked to conscientiousness and perseverence than narcissism. Also, whereas narcissism was negatively associated with agreeableness (i.e., narcissists were more antagonistic), the relationship between self-esteem and agreeableness was small but positive.

In regards to interpersonal functioning, narcissism and self-esteem differed on 75% of the measures. Narcissism, but not self-esteem, was associated with experiencing and expressing anger, and confrontational responses such as yelling, threatening, and physical aggression. Narcissism, but not self-esteem, was also related to a drive for acquisition of disproportionate resources as well as greater relationship problems.

Narcissism was related to feeling central to one’s social networks, and also perceiving others in one’s network as narcissistic, neurotic, disagreeable, and disinhibited. Narcissism was also related to more frequent arguing and social comparisons than self-esteem. The opposite was true for self-esteem. Self-esteem was related to feeling close to others in one’s social network, and perceiving others in one’s social network as attractive, high status, high in leadership, intelligent, likeable, and kind.

There were also clear differences in terms of psychopathology. Narcissism and self-esteem differed on 100% of the measures relating to internalizing psychopathology.Whereas self-esteem was strongly related to lower levels of anxiety, depression, and global distress, narcissism was only weakly related to these outcomes. Narcissism was much more associated with externalizing behavior, including alcohol/substance abuse, antisocial behavior, and aggression.

In terms of pathological traits, narcissism was related to a higher score on every single pathological trait, whereas self-esteem showed negative correlations with all 30 pathological traits. Self-esteem was particularly negatively associated with detachment, disinhibition, and psychoticism, whereas narcissism showed substantial positive relations to these traits. Narcissism also showed a strong relationship to histrionic personality disorders, whereas self-esteem was either unrelated or unrelated to histrionic behaviors.

It’s very clear from this analysis that narcissists are much more driven to get ahead than to get along. Narcissism is associated with the need to dominate others and the need to achieve superior resources. In contrast, high self-esteem is much more associated with the desire to establish deep, intimate relationships with others.

Should We Be Trying to Raise Self-Esteem?

What are the implications of these findings for the way we think about raising self-esteem? In order to answer this question, I think it’s important to look at history. For a good 20 years in U…S history (from the 70s to 90s), the self-esteem craze was definitely a thing. There was such a focus on feeling good about yourself as the answer to all of life’s problems.

Rightly so, there was a backlash against this simplistic view. Roy Baumeister and colleagues did a systematic review of the self-esteem literature and found that the effects of self-esteem aren’t as pervasive as generally thought: self-esteem was most strongly correlated with enhanced initiative and happiness. But correlation doesn’t equal causation, and they found little evidence that interventions designed to boost self-esteem actually causebenefits. So what should be the status of self-esteem in our psychological interventions?

On the one hand, I think we can relax our fears that efforts to raise self-esteem in children will inadvertently create a generation of narcissists. The real concern isn’t with raising healthy self-esteem. If anything, we could do a MUCH better job making all students feel valued and respected. The real problem is with “overvaluing”, and praising children for being special in a way that far exceeds their actual accomplishments. As Eddie Brummelman and colleagues put it,

“Interventions can teach parents and educators to express affection and appreciation for children without proclaiming them to be superior to others. By doing so, parents and educators may help children feel happy with themselves without seeing themselves as better than others.”

I view self-esteem boosts like taking a vitamin. If you are very deficient in self-esteem, there are really important consequences for health outcomes. For instance, low self-esteem is a significant risk factor for depression, regardless of whether or not one is narcissistic. However, once a person has a basic level of healthy self-esteem, the constant pursuit of self-esteem can be very costly. When our goals are to validate our self, or to constantly feel good about ourselves, rather than to learn and grow, we actually undermine our learning, relationships, authenticity, ability to self-regulate our behavior, and mental and physical health.

It seems that a better alternative, once you have a sufficient belief in your self-worth, is to focus on accomplishing challenging, valued activities and fostering your relationships. Let authentic pride and strong positive feelings about oneself be the natural outcome, instead of driving force. To get you through the difficult times and self-doubt, work on increasing your self-compassion, not self-esteem.

Hopefully through our understanding of the different pathways of narcissism and self-esteem, we can have a more realistic understanding of the impact of raising self-esteem, and can target practices to help people make sure they are increasing their self-esteem in the most healthy, productive, genuine, and authentic fashion.

© 2017 Scott Barry Kaufman, All Rights Reserved

Ok self esteem?
Narcissism, complexity, languages, s(t)imulation, talk,
Darkness, and political uncertainty, straight talk, masochism,
Vampiric flagellation, waiting for the dark, been there done that, you would be surprised how complexity can not simply translate, stick to it never let go , and don’t mess with leeches, they bargain to deceive, and yet:

You know in constrained environments anything goes, they treat you respectfully since they don’t know or seem to care what you have, buffer zones, hiding in fields of cotton, be a gentleman, and beware of profalgates, & exhibitionist, in the certain field of travesty you’ll feel better,

So and so, stay home but don’t get stuck on the luminosity of televisions over right alternative, play the game,

And by all means stop when the chips are down, have a few left, a few shots and you’re back in the zone, I never left them oh no
to leave them desert them
As few shots later
Will miss you,
and of course don’t leave them hanging like to really leave, as if it was small just a gig,
course let them think, yours quitting time, as bereft of certain defeat
another then,
bites the dust.

Be mindful of perhaps mechanical failures along the way - it is an old model left to rust
not to impress.

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Worse

Whilst out last week,
my nephew attempted,
to rouse me out of my indifference,
only to realise,
that my indifference is my normal,
and to attempt for me to be otherwise,
becomes detrimental to mine self,
and now he knows to leave me be,
or make me worse…

I hate to agree with You, but it’s so true!

Indifference hurts more than the sting that is self infused by it, for it really much more effective a weapon than trying to argue and setting records straight.
It does have a castrating effect on the attempted fuel that keeps the fire of loathing and anger burning.
In many a case, after a while it neutralizes negative feelings and even dampens the affects that intended hurt can impose.
Sometimes that is the only solution.

He just wanted me to perk up… I just don’t do the whole ‘exuberant’ thing often… intensity, yes: exuberance, not often… I ain’t got time for that.

Why take another’s indifference personally? Not like he’s any different… which he’s not, but he is a hoot to be around.

Of course he may not realize it…that is the partial truth, before even considering it.

But I wonder, is it not inconsiderate to feign , or even be indifferent to that , wherein when he comes around may turn the hoot into some other technical muse?

And does that tend to devolve indifference to difference? Leading to more apathy and deconstruction of more ideal relationships ?

More questions then avaibility of answers.

The early depictions of vampires were as ugly, hook-nosed, blood-suckers. Parasites of humans.
recently they’ve been upgraded and made sexy, attractive, romantic.

Guess why?

Either… for Box-Office profit, or, that the Vampires would have started suing anyone that portrayed them in an unattractive light? I’m going with the former, myself, but I always like to offer options to others.

The earlier cinematic vampire depictions were indeed horror films, the current cinematic/TV vampire depictions are more Romance, Thriller, or Drama. Sex sells… the advertising from the 80s onwards is reflective of that, when the overt really started taking off.

Vlad the Impaler: the original Count Dracula and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula… OMG! go to 6.40 onwards… what a ruthless fucker… the good-old days of real torture and crusades.

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I say… take me as I am on that, or any-other given day, or fear pissing me off… a one-off faux pas is fine… as I’ll recover, but once alerted to the fact of another’s (strict(er)) boundaries, then remember that… or I’ll help you remember.

When it comes to the day-to-day preservation of such-a-self, no-one’s going to give a shit about it but you, and no-one can see or even begin to fathom the great-effort that goes into it… but you, or the repercussions suffered, from not doing so. It becomes an art-form, you know… fine-tuning one’s craft and skill, until perfect, and then making it an eternal work-in-progress.

This series of adverts, is currently my favourite… the actor, brilliantly portraying Vladimir the Vampire.

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Fear of the dark? Lack of sensory integration ? Return to the cave?

But then…that goes for both: the gentile and the Jew.

From the formless , there is no exit, and their commonality can not be mutually identified by recognition, hence the gap of sensory continuum

Victimization is an aesthetic premise stamped upon the Jew by a game akin to bait and switch, which most cons need to become wise to, if they can play the game.

The order of characterization between the good and the bad was not anticipated or planned , in thinly veiled metaphors, and hence resulted in the ugly de-differentiated basic and simple forms of averice.

The synthesis of such dramatic thrusts to vanity, had it’s clear motive expunged by the underlying one if basic substrate; approbation caused by wanton need to nationalize private property, to switch ideological uncertainty from the spirit to it’s constituenr.
It always was a subliminal game of hide and go between so called races, where races and cultural artifacts could be colluded.

The vampire, if he had been able to see himself in this manner, would not have fell for it, but would have rejected it , the whole nine yards, in an obvious game that lacking wisdom.

It is at a level brought upon it’s self, and ill understood, it can only see it’s self in shared blindness of each other.

It does not depict the particular vampire, only reflects , through a glass, darkly, a manifest projection of it’s own lack of sight, hence sustaining the vampirism it seeks to enlighten.

It is not trickery, but a needed bravery needed that denotes the real dynamic.
that is easy to recognize ; as hiding under.the Caricatures. which hinder suppressed emotions resolvinv sensory disjunction.

Oh this waiting game, 3 days to Christmas, let us not forget who caused this, and what it represents!

Even if, one day, the Christ appears as negative to His own image! It would serve a preestablushed transcendental contract between everyone, father and sons connected by fiat. It would disserve only those , who revel in uniform suppression of the innocent , colluded with the unformed.

Vampire prefer the shadows…despise the sunlight.
They are eternal…meme.
They are parasitical in relation to humans.
They suck the host dry…

I’ve posted an entire thesis on the symbolism of Vampires, Werewolves, Frankenstein, and the entire modern canon of superheroes and supervillains.
Each one symbolizing a post-modern psychological type.