• @Brkdncr@sh.itjust.works
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    987 months ago

    Vampires existed long before the church. They just have a brain disorder that gives them a seizure when they see straight right angles. Right angles don’t really exist in nature. Humans found out this and started making crosses. Humans created the church to maintain this knowledge during the vampires long hibernation periods of around 1000 years. (Credit to author Peter Watts “Blindside”)

    • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      487 months ago

      I loved Blindsight (the name of the book is not Blindside) but that was one of the most ridiculous paragraphs I’ve ever read.

      The natural world is filled with right angles. Many rocks erode into perfect right angles because of their cleave points. Saplings grow at right angles to the ground. Branches of older trees are sometimes at perfect right angles to the trunk.

      Anyone who has gone on a hike sees right angles everywhere. Vampires couldn’t walk a kilometer without a seizure from naturally occuring right angles.

    • @gato@feddit.de
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      447 months ago

      Brutalist architecture should be super effective against vampires.

      Also IKEA furniture.

      • hswolf
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        67 months ago

        came here to say that, also salt crystals