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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"

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The Pope added a "maximum range/volume" to the blessing of holy water, to ensure no one blessed water en masse. We don't want regular ocean water or toilet bowl water to be holy. (aussie.zone)
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Text transcriptionA screenshot of a Reddit post in r/Jokes by u/OneChrononOfPlancks, posted to Tumblr.

Since Vampires are supposedly hurt by holy water, I always wondered why priests don't just say a prayer over every storm cloud, kill the vampires from above. Then I realized why so many Vampires are from Europe...

Someone already blessed the rains down in Africa.

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I hate it. Bad post. Horrible. Have a terrible day

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I love it. Great post. Fantastic. Have a wonderful day

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[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mixing religion in with vampires really points out the fictional nature of all religions. They're just as goofy as vampires.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Still, vampires remain one of the best critiques of capitalism we have available.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Much older than capitalism itself. It's a critic of power hoarding and hierarchical power structures.

The top bleeds the bottom dry. That was a sad reality before capitalism developed out of mercantilism.

Although, admittedly, it's big popularity started with Dracula when capitalism already reared its ugly head.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I don't disagree with what you're said but I'm not saying that they have the same age or that the ultimate origin doesn't go back further.

The point is that nothing brings home reality of the top bleeding the bottom dry, in all its forms, better than an undying blood sucking parasite, that gains extra life from your dead labour (excess to what you need for a reasonable life etc.). What you're forced to do, but not for the community or pensions, hospitals. Just to make someone else richer, for doing no work.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bless

Level: 1st Casting Time: 1 Action Range/Area: 30 ft. Components: V, S, M * Duration: Concentration 1 Minute School: Enchantment Attack/Save: None Damage/Effect: Buff

You bless up to three creatures of your choice within range. Whenever a target makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the attack roll or saving throw.

Well the answer seems simple. The clouds neither count as creatures, nor are they in range.

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, they could do it if they're many, as there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cleric: Mind your manners, scum. Don't forget how we dealt with your kind in Aafrika.

Vampire: YOU KILLED HUNDREDS OF MY KIND, YOU MONSTER!!!!!

Bard: Um, what the heck did you do?

Cleric: I blessed the rains down in Aafrika.

[–] SuperNinjaFury@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

The bards name? Toto

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because the priest uses his FP to infuse the water with Holy +1. But the amount of FP is fixed, based on the current level the priest has. This means the more water the priest tries to infuse, the weaker the effect. When infusing a small vial of water, it's very effective. For a vampire it would be like throwing scalding hot water at a regular person, burning them badly. But if you try to do something larger, it doesn't work as well. Once you get to the size of a coke bottle, it would be like just luke-warm water, not doing a lot. At that point, you'd be better off throwing pocket sand.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm, I thought FP might be Focus Point and that this was the rules for Pathfinder 2e. But I couldn't find anything concrete about creating "holy water". The closest I found was a 2nd rank ritual that covers a 40 foot radius around an altar or shrine (or 80 on a critical success) for one year (or 10 years on a critβ€”choose one of these options on a crit). Or a 2nd level feat that creates up to 3 small containers' worth of holy water as "a temporary effect".

Definitely not gonna be blessing the rains at this rate.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago

The duality of woman

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Holy water works only for christian vampires. Atheist vampires remain unaffected.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Though occasionally your luck runs out when you meet a really ancient vampire who can only be stopped with the totems of a stone-age shamanic cult no historic record remains of.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or garlic

Or didn't they have garlic in the ancient times?

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They'd have had proto garlic. Probably not as delicious as modern, but still like. Tasty?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's about the belief of the priest, regardless of the beliefs (or lack thereof) of the vampire.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 3 weeks ago

It’s like antibiotics. If you keep blessing water without restraint, soon you’ll get holy-water-resistant vampires.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Could just bless the water in their bodies.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe that's what they're doing when they scare vampires off with the cross?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Omg, it blesses the moisture in their eyes!!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe that's why their eyes go red!

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

My toilet water is already holy. It’s filled with spirits every night.