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Post by skywalker on Jan 16, 2014 20:34:43 GMT -6
I just discovered that we don't have a zombie thread on our little forum. That's kind of odd since zombie movies seem to be all the rage now. I don't really like zombie movies because I'm not really interested in zombies...unless they are real. Then I would be all over them like a fly on a cow pie. I found this short little zombie film and decided to post it because it is actually a really good film. It's only a few minutes long but well worth the time to watch...especially if you like zombie movies.
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Jan 17, 2014 21:14:35 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 21:14:35 GMT -6
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. awesome. Good choice, Skywalker
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Jan 18, 2014 0:17:56 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jan 18, 2014 0:17:56 GMT -6
I'm a walking zombie. I have told that to my husband every time I'm tired and think I cannot go another minute.. I tell people when they as how are you today. I say I feel like a walking zombie.. I said it as a child . I do not know where it came from though . People say what is a walking zombie mean when I tell them that. I say I'm a dead person walking all day. People say I feel dead today . what is the difference?
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Jan 22, 2014 20:31:50 GMT -6
Post by casper on Jan 22, 2014 20:31:50 GMT -6
I also sometimes say I feel like a zombie when I'm tired. I really don't have anyidea what a zombie really feels like but I bet it's not too good.
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Mar 3, 2015 12:42:37 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Mar 3, 2015 12:42:37 GMT -6
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Mar 13, 2015 18:06:37 GMT -6
Post by BLACK DOG on Mar 13, 2015 18:06:37 GMT -6
If one is really interested in the topic, I might suggest reading Wade Davis book "The Serpent and the Rainbow". Interesting read, well worth the time.
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Mar 13, 2015 20:22:00 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 20:22:00 GMT -6
Have you seen the movie "serpent and the rainbow" with Bill P. playing the lead? Very creepy, and somewhat believable. I just saw it on a video in the past year; who cares if it was "outdated".
Can't imagine reading the book; knowing how much more detailed it has to be. brrrrrrrrrrrrr (shiver).
I have studied "houdon" in the past. After my son and I seemed to be visited by a certain, very scrawny, haunted-looking angry woman, I quit those studies.
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Mar 22, 2015 11:32:22 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Mar 22, 2015 11:32:22 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/25hAud/1OXdZL7um:KDitF72+/www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mathematicians-work-out-zombie-apocalypse-plan Mathematicians Work Out Zombie Apocalypse PlanFebruary 26, 2015 by Stephen Luntz Photo credit: Nemar74/Shutterstock. If zombies strike, get out of the city Cornell graduate students have adopted disease modeling to find the best response in the event of a zombie epidemic. They haven't reached the conclusion that the undead are about to rise from their graves and eat us all, but they claim the work could be useful in planning for more likely disease outbreaks. "Modeling zombies takes you through a lot of the techniques used to model real diseases, albeit in a fun context," says Alex Alemi, a Ph.D. student in Cornell's Physics Department. "A lot of modern research can be off-putting for people because the techniques are complicated and the systems or models studied lack a strong connection to everyday experiences. Not that zombies are an everyday occurrence, but most people can wrap their brains around them." Alemi and his colleagues are not the first to enlist zombies in disease outbreak planning. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide a zombie preparedness plan that, as we've noted before, involves pretty much the same things recommended for all sorts of other emergencies. (Although it leaves out the garlic and sharp sticks handy for vampire outbreaks.) Even the Pentagon got in on the act. However, Alemi's team are trying to introduce a little more scientific rigor into their zombie plans. They took the techniques epidemiologists use to forecast outbreaks of infectious diseases and applied them to zombies running loose across the United States. "At their heart, the simulations are akin to modeling chemical reactions taking place between different elements; in this case, we have four states a person can be in—human, infected, zombie, or dead zombie—with approximately 300 million people." Modeling what might happen in a small community is hard—a single heroic individual or a particularly lively zombie could change the course of events. But as the numbers of humans and zombies run into the millions, probabilistic techniques come to the fore. "Each possible interaction—zombie bites human, human kills zombie, zombie moves, etc.—is treated like a radioactive decay, with a half-life that depends on some parameters,” says Alemi. Not surprisingly, the modeling turned up a lot of problems with the way outbreaks are represented in films and books. Instead of a near-simultaneous apocalypse with a few communities holding out, the team found that cities would quickly become zombified, but most rural areas would stay safe for weeks or months. "I'd love to see a fictional account where most of New York City falls in a day, but upstate New York has a month or so to prepare," says Alemi, who has history with the undead. He once performed a rap based on the hypothesis that quantum physicist Paul Dirac was a vampire. Sadly, we don't think Hollywood will be beating at his door so they can describe the next blockbuster as “scientifically endorsed.” Alemi concludes that the safest place in the U.S. to try to wait things out would be the northern Rockies. Good to know. www.stumbleupon.com/su/25hAud/1OXdZL7um:KDitF72+/www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mathematicians-work-out-zombie-apocalypse-plan
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Nov 1, 2015 17:45:05 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Nov 1, 2015 17:45:05 GMT -6
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/how-america-erased-the-tragic-history-of-the-zombie/412264/
The Tragic, Forgotten History of ZombiesThe horror-movie trope owes its heritage to Haitian slaves, who imagined being imprisoned in their bodies forever.by Mike Mariani / www.theatlantic.com/author/mike-mariani/Oct 28, 2015 'The Zombies' by Hector Hyppolite, which hangs in the Museum of Haitian Art of St. Peter College in Port-au-Prince Mireille Vautier / Alamy Stock Photo In the original script for 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, the director George A. Romero refers to his flesh-eating antagonists as “ghouls.” Although the film is widely credited with launching zombies into the cultural zeitgeist, it wasn’t until its follow-up 10 years later, the consumerist nightmare Dawn of the Dead, that Romero would actually use the term. While making the first film, Romero understood zombies instead to be the undead Haitian slaves depicted in the 1932 Bela Lugosi horror film White Zombie. By the time Dawn of the Dead was released in 1978 the cultural tide had shifted completely, and Romero had essentially reinvented the zombie for American audiences. The last 15 years have seen films and TV shows including Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, World War Z, Zombieland, Life After Beth, iZombie, and even the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. But the zombie myth is far older and more rooted in history than the blinkered arc of American pop culture suggests. It first appeared in Haiti in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the country was known as Saint-Domingue and ruled by France, which hauled in African slaves to work on sugar plantations. Slavery in Saint-Domingue under the French was extremely brutal: Half of the slaves brought in from Africa were worked to death within a few years, which only led to the capture and import of more. In the hundreds of years since, the zombie myth has been widely appropriated by American pop culture in a way that whitewashes its origins—and turns the undead into a platform for escapist fantasy. The original brains-eating fiend was a slave not to the flesh of others but to his own. The zombie archetype, as it appeared in Haiti and mirrored the inhumanity that existed there from 1625 to around 1800, was a projection of the African slaves’ relentless misery and subjugation. Haitian slaves believed that dying would release them back to lan guinée, literally Guinea, or Africa in general, a kind of afterlife where they could be free. Though suicide was common among slaves, those who took their own lives wouldn’t be allowed to return to lan guinée. Instead, they’d be condemned to skulk the Hispaniola plantations for eternity, an undead slave at once denied their own bodies and yet trapped inside them—a soulless zombie. After the Haitian Revolution in 1804 and the end of French colonialism, the zombie became a part of Haiti’s folklore. The myth evolved slightly and was folded into the Voodoo religion, with Haitians believing zombies were corpses reanimated by shamans and voodoo priests. Sorcerers, known as bokor, used their bewitched undead as free labor or to carry out nefarious tasks. This was the post-colonialism zombie, the emblem of a nation haunted by the legacy of slavery and ever wary of its reinstitution. As the UC Irvine professor Amy Wilentz has pointed out in her writing on zombies, on several occasions after the revolution Haiti teetered on the brink of reinstating slavery. The zombies of the Haitian Voodoo religion were a more fractured representation of the anxieties of slavery, mixed as they were with occult trappings of sorcerers and necromancy. Even then, the zombie’s roots in the horrors of slavery were already facing dilution. It was in this form—Voodoo bokor and black magic—that the Haitian myth first crossed paths with American culture, in the aforementioned White Zombie. Although the film doesn’t begin to transform the undead in the way that Romero’s films and the subsequent zombie industrial complex would, it’s notable for its introduction of white people as interlopers in the zombie legend. It would take another few decades or so, but eventually the memory of Haiti’s colonialist history and the suffering it wrought—millions of Africans worked into the grave—would be excised from the zombie myth for good. CONTINUE READING: www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/how-america-erased-the-tragic-history-of-the-zombie/412264/RELATED ARTICLE: OUR ZOMBIES, OURSELVES: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/our-zombies-ourselves/308401/
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Feb 27, 2017 9:32:41 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Feb 27, 2017 9:32:41 GMT -6
Millions Saw A UFO In 'The Walking Dead' Last Sundaywww.disclose.tv/news/millions_saw_a_ufo_in_the_walking_dead_last_sunday/137947There are actually several unidentified moving things in the background in this clip. Several are down low closer to the ground and the one obvious one is up in the sky. Supposedly this was filmed on a production lot using green screens to fill in the background, but if there was any actual garbage in the area I would say the "UFOs" are probably birds. Birds love to hang around garbage dumps.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:35:16 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Oct 27, 2017 18:35:16 GMT -6
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Nov 5, 2018 15:10:08 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Nov 5, 2018 15:10:08 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/11/zombies-in-folklore-and-mythology/ Zombies in Folklore and Mythologyby Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/November 5, 2018 Thanks to television shows like The Walking Dead and Zombie Nation, and movies like World War Z, Dawn of the Dead, and 28 Days Later, the zombie was here, there and everywhere for years – even though, technically-speaking, the rampaging things in 28 Days Later were not really zombies. Granted, that mania has dropped off significantly in the past couple of years (and it may drop even more with the imminent departure of Andrew Lincoln’s character of Rick Grimes in the aforementioned The Walking Dead). It’s a little-known fact, though, that throughout history accounts can be found of creatures that sound very much like the undead. And, just like the less-than-living in The Walking Dead, these ancient monsters savagely fed on the human race. In many cultures, they still do. For the people of the many islands that comprise the Philippines, its resident zombie is the Aswang. It has two alternative monikers: the Tik-Tok and the Sok-Sok. The names are taken from the odd noises the creatures make when they are on the hunt for human flesh. The Aswang has another string to its bow – if that’s the appropriate terminology to use. As well as lusting after human flesh, the Aswang is also a monster that thrives on human blood. In that sense, the beast is half-zombie and half-vampire. And all-predator. The Aswang makes for a grim picture: it is skinny in the extreme, is as white as a ghost – which is more than appropriate – and its eyes are pale and bulging. As for its clothes they are typically torn and ragged and they give off a nauseating stench of rotting meat. And, it’s an extremely fast runner. No wonder the zombie parallels are so in evidence. Like just about all zombies, the Aswangs live on the flesh of people. Horrifically, they consider newborn babies to be the most prized meal of all – something which has led pregnant women in the Philippines to ensure that their homes are well-protected and in locked-down mode at night. Interestingly, the Aswang, just like the Middle Eastern Djinn, can take on the form of a large black dog. A connection, maybe? Moving on, there is the matter of the Ghoul. It’s a deadly and predatory creature that has a particular penchant for lurking around graveyards. There is a very good reason for this: just about all the other paranormal parasites described in this book target the living. The Ghoul, however, is a monster that craves the flesh, bones and blood of recently deceased people. It will dig in crazed fashion when its acute sense of smell alerts it to the fact that there is a fresh (or fresh-ish…) corpse in its midst. The creature will use its hands to dig deep into the ground, throwing dirt here, there and everywhere – until it gets what it seeks and then feeds savagely on the rotting body of the poor, unfortunate soul it has targeted. Gambia has its very own cursed thing which has zombie-like overtones attached to it. Its resident member of the undead is the Kikiyaon. This diabolical West African terror physically resembles a gargoyle, or a Harpie, of both Roman and Greek lore. A relatively short, humanoid creature with bat-like wings and fiery red eyes, the Kikiyaon is a monster that has a long and horrific history – and for a good reason. In English the word itself, “Kikiyaon,” translates to “soul cannibal.” The Kikiyaon typically dwells in caves, usually ones which are well hidden in the jungle environment. When the sun has set and darkness is upon the landscape, the Kikiyaon will soar into the night sky, seeking out the vulnerable, the weak and the unwary. When it has found its target, the Kikiyaon will stealthily creep into the home of its victim and softly nip their skin – very often on the neck, which of course inevitably provokes vampire-like imagery. Now, we get to the zombie comparisons. In no time after the person is bitten, their character changes – and hardly in what we would call a positive way. The person loses their character, and their face takes on a blank appearance – not unlike that of the old-school type of zombie most associated with Haitian voodoo traditions. There is another zombie angle to all of this: after a person is bitten by the Kikiyaon, the victim becomes ill, his or her skin starts to smell of decaying flesh, and finally they die. But, they don’t stay that way: the bite of the Kikiyaon ensures that they will soon return to the land of the semi-living and go on a ferocious spree of killing and eating. mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/11/zombies-in-folklore-and-mythology/
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Nov 6, 2018 7:24:06 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on Nov 6, 2018 7:24:06 GMT -6
Gosh, there’s another kind of “zombification”. Why can’t I think of the name of it??
Ummm, catatonic? Shell-shocked? A state of “being”, where a person is “frozen” into depression?
I’ve seen it. We all have. It’s not just the exhaustion that Lois talks about earlier on this thread.....
It’s like a “self-medicated” result. People that have done waaay too much “meth”, and their mugshots have this same “vacant” look. Over and over. Raw, used. There’s intelligence lingering there, but when it comes out again, it’s not smilin’ . . . .
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