Sean Manchester - Vampire Hunter

I'm looking forward to getting that evidence for vampires, the spider kind or otherwise.
 
brodski said:
I am assuming that Sean Mythbuster is posting from the UK. In which case he was posting at around 11am this morning.
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Perhaps he'll be back later. Perhaps busking for change is a bit slow today. :Banane17:

I'm looking forward to getting that evidence for vampires, the spider kind or otherwise.
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I'm looking forward to that vampire spider evidence too. I really hate spiders. Nothing sends me screaming up on the furniture like spiders. Come to think of it, there was a large cave spider on an episode of Gilligan's Island. Maybe the two were related.
 
What's good for the goose is apparently not good for the gander

The Vampire said:
Perhaps he'll be back later. Perhaps busking for change is a bit slow today. :Banane17:
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I received warnings from the admin today on pain of being banned for making what they claim are personal posts and not sticking to the subject of vampires.

What I would like to know is why this does not apply equally to others posting here, namely "The Vampire"?
 
Myth Buster said:
I received warnings from the admin today on pain of being banned for making what they claim are personal posts and not sticking to the subject of vampires.

What I would like to know is why this does not apply equally to others posting here, namely "The Vampire"?
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Because the personal comments are related directly to your posting behaviour here. As opposed to your (or C&B's) arguments relating to feuds based on 30 years of delusional fantasy.
 
Now they're quoting Sean Manchester to support their argument!

CatherineandBarbara said:
What is [it] someone once said. Those who do believe in the paranormal evidence is not necessary and those who don't believe no evidence is good enough. Catherine
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It was Sean Manchester who originally said it, or something very like it, on page 5 of the first edition of The Highgate Vampire (1985). This is what he wrote:

"To those who accepted the existence of such phenomena no explanation was necessary; to those who did not, no explanation would suffice."
 
Yes, but as Fowlsound said, the first part is accurate but (here at least) the second part is not. If you have the evidence to support the existence of vampires, vampire spiders, or undead in general, we would love to see it. And if the evidence is convincing, I, for one, will be happy to accept it.

But as my personal hero, Carl Sagan, once said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

ETA: And if I had read Fowlsound's post to the end, I would have realized he quoted the same thing. Great minds think alike.
 
Myth Buster said:
It was Sean Manchester who originally said it, or something very like it, on page 5 of the first edition of The Highgate Vampire (1985). This is what he wrote:

"To those who accepted the existence of such phenomena no explanation was necessary; to those who did not, no explanation would suffice."
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Which is nothing but empty sophistry.
He's pleading that we don't look behind the curtain, we just have to take the existence of beings, (the existence of which, given just one sample, could be easily varied)- on faith in his word.

The fact that a phenomena is unexplained is irrelevant, the fact is- there is no evidence whatsoever for the existence of the claimed phenomena.
Once we have evidence that something, which could be called a vampire, exists then we can talk about whether an explanation is necessary or possible.
 
[pet peeve alert]
"Can't have your cake and eat it too."
It's, "eat your cake, and have it too".
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Myth Buster said:
I received warnings from the admin today on pain of being banned for making what they claim are personal posts and not sticking to the subject of vampires.

What I would like to know is why this does not apply equally to others posting here, namely "The Vampire"?
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Is it my screen name that upsets you so?

FYI - Perhaps you should convey this helpful hint to the webmaster of Manchester's many (and disorganized) webpages. Someone claiming to be the Bishop seems to be making a pest of himself making spurious claims of copyright infringement whenever someone links to his page or displays his picture from another source, legally used under Fair Use. Looks like the "Bish" is doing some pinching himself on this website. The picture of Carol Page located at Blood Lust Review is a scan of the book's dust jacket. This image belongs to Linda Borgeson. And it wasn't even annotated.

Naughty, naughty! What is that bible verse again? Remove the plank in one eye when your foot is in you mouth?
 
Myth Buster said:
It was Sean Manchester who originally said it, or something very like it, on page 5 of the first edition of The Highgate Vampire (1985). This is what he wrote:

"To those who accepted the existence of such phenomena no explanation was necessary; to those who did not, no explanation would suffice."
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Don't leave us hanging, man! Did the spider come from Gilligan's Island or not?!
 
I'm more interested in the girl that the spider turned into. But that's just me.
 
Myth Buster said:
It was Sean Manchester who originally said it, or something very like it, on page 5 of the first edition of The Highgate Vampire (1985). This is what he wrote:

"To those who accepted the existence of such phenomena no explanation was necessary; to those who did not, no explanation would suffice."
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Sean Manchester originated that saying? Er, wrong. It was St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) - “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.”
 
Is that the same guy as in Loyola University?

Trumped by almost 500 years...or maybe Sean IS St Ignatius..undead could live 500 years...

Ok, I'm creeped out.
 
Myth Buster said:
It was Sean Manchester.... This is what he wrote:

"To those who accepted the existence of such phenomena no explanation was necessary; to those who did not, no explanation would suffice."
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Odd, this is what a gentleman in Canada was saying regarding his book with the doubious attribution of a discovered album of drawings that he feels are by a young W. S. Gilbert:
" For those who believe, no explanation is required;-- for those who do not believe, no explanation will do."

I believe these are both derived from a common ancestor.;)

Basilio
 
CLD said:
Sean Manchester originated that saying? Er, wrong. It was St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) - “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.”
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HA! Plagiarizing St Ignatius!

That's kinda funny.
 
You folks beat me to it.

Plagiarising saints, especially smart ones, is risky.
 
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Myth Buster said:
It was Sean Manchester who originally said it, or something very like it, on page 5 of the first edition of The Highgate Vampire (1985). This is what he wrote:

"To those who accepted the existence of such phenomena no explanation was necessary; to those who did not, no explanation would suffice."
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Actually for MythBuster I got that quote from going to see another famous medium whose name I won't mention on here. Not from reading a silly book and I have not got the first edition anyway. I have just got the later hardback edition of which I paid £20 for in my own stupidity. Although at the time I did think it was a highly amusing read and I certainly didn't believe any of it as fact.

So MythBuster can you give us any evidence of the famous giant spider 'vampire'. If that is what you are claiming to have staked.

Who is to say what is the correct evidence on the subject of paranormal and what isn't. But to show photographs of a decomposing body with striking semblence to Sean Manchester is not evidence as 'vampire's. I don't believe that there is any evidence of vampires as these do not exist. As I said with regards to ghosts, spirits, etc, that is another matter altogether. I suppose I believe in some ways but not in others. Nothing in this subject is certain.

Catherine
 
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