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Post by madeline on Apr 6, 2014 18:20:53 GMT -5
I don't know a lot about these murders because it's been a long time since I read about them and I think that there has been new information discovered since then. Maybe Lee will do one of her "This Day in History" articles about them if the date is ever right.
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Post by madeline on Apr 6, 2014 18:17:13 GMT -5
I read the book a long time ago, but it was written before she was executed, so it didn't have the information about her going to the electric chair. Good article, Lee.
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Post by madeline on Feb 16, 2014 4:09:28 GMT -5
Common sense tells you that these ghost hunting shows are fake. How many times does a person ever see a ghost, or see a lamp move across the table or hear some disembodied voice in their lifetime? But they want people to believe that it happens all the time.
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Post by madeline on Feb 16, 2014 4:05:52 GMT -5
Lee should be able to tell you where she got the photo.
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Post by madeline on Feb 16, 2014 4:04:07 GMT -5
I've never seen it either.
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Post by madeline on Feb 1, 2014 18:04:09 GMT -5
Of course it's all a myth. If every boy that ever wet the bed, set a fire and kicked a dog became a serial killer, there would be so many serial killers that they would have to start killing each other because there wouldn't be enough normal people for them to kill! Also, what about serial killers like Ted Bundy, who never did any of these things? I'll bet if someone did a study of serial killers, they would find that hardly any of them were bed wetters, fire starters or cruel to animals. I think that animal freaks are more likely to injure and kill humans than those who aren't animal crazy because animal freaks usually hate people.
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Post by madeline on Feb 1, 2014 17:51:20 GMT -5
He had probably stood outside and watched the women in that house for several nights and knew where everyone slept. He might have even already jimmied the window where he could get inside without making any noise.
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Post by madeline on Jan 28, 2014 19:45:45 GMT -5
Since the Festival is at the end of June, that means we're going to have to work around the 4th of July weekend for our DS trip. Even if we make sure that we're not flying or driving the 4th of July, all the hotels and restaurants will probably be crowded.
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Post by madeline on Jan 22, 2014 1:23:14 GMT -5
I've tried to find the answer to how a vampire got a woman pregnant and I found on one of those sites where teens ask each other questions, someone asked how Edward got Bella pregnant in the book Breaking Dawn and someone else gave the answer that I've copied below. It still doesn't make any sense to me because venom doesn't get women pregnant and how could the baby be a half vampire? If the baby was half vampire, it would have to be half dead and that's ridiculous. Babies grow and the dead can't grow. The person who gave the answer said that it made complete sense, but it's one of the dumbest things that I've ever heard. She talks about incubi, but that's something totally different from a vampire. But here's the answer. Maybe it will make more sense to others than it did to me. I'm sure I would understand it better if I read the book, but I'm just not into teenage fantasy and I don't think that I could read it from cover to cover if my life depended on it.
It is possible! Everyone always says stuff like “Stephenie Meyer lied.” or “She broke her own rules” or “vampire venom is magic” but if you actually read the book and are able to comprehend stuff, then you would realize that it all indeed makes perfect sense. Of course there’s the whole “Bella is human, humans can get pregnant.” But as you know, you need two people to get pregnant. So how exactly does Edward get Bella pregnant? Brace yourself because I’m about to explain:
It all starts on page 27 of Breaking Dawn. No need to grab it, I’ll write the part I’m referring to right here:
(Some stuff about Edward making sure Bella’s okay with staying eighteen forever.)
“Never changing… never moving forward.” (Edward)
“What does that mean?” (Bella)
He answered slowly. “Do you remember when we told Charlie we were getting married? And he thought you were… pregnant?
“And he thought about shooting you,” I guessed with a laugh. “Admit it-for one second, he honestly considered it.
He didn’t answer.
“What, Edward?”
“I just wish…well, I wish that he’d been right.”
“Gah,” I gasped.
“More that there was some way he could have been. That we had that kind of potential. I hate taking that away from you, too.”
It took me a minute. “I know what I’m doing.”
“How could you know that, Bella? Look at my mother, look at my sister. It’s not as easy a sacrifice as you imagine.”
“Esme and Rosalie get by just fine. If it’s a problem later, we can do what Esme did-we’ll adopt.”
He sighed, and then his voice was fierce. “It’s not right! I don’t want you to have to make sacrifices for me. I want to give you things, not take them away from you. I don’t want to steal your future. If you were human-”
Okay, that’s a pretty big chunk to take in. But you have to notice it! Read it again and again until you realize that it really, really, really makes Edward sad that Bella can’t get pregnant.
Now, on page 126, (Bella just realized she missed her period and the bump on her belly and such) Bella mentions the myths she read online when she first discovered Edward was a vampire. The word INCUBUS comes to mind. The definition of incubus is: the ability to father children with his hapless pray. From more detailed definitions, it leads to this: certain incubi have the DESIRE to be able to produce children. So like in the passage from the book above ... it is obvious that Edward wishes to have that ability. Well, lucky for him, he does. But it doesn’t mean all vampires do. It’s kind of like his mind reading. It was a gift chosen for him, not all vampires have it. There is a possibility that Carlisle, Jasper, or Emmett might also be incubi, but let’s hope they don’t do anything to find that out.
But for Edward, it’s not so much that he wants a child, it’s more just him wanting the option. You see where I’m coming from?
It’s starting to get pieced together right? But there’s more. Remember how Edward is totally and completely just pissed off at him self that Bella is pregnant? Well that’s why. He had the desire to get her pregnant, so it really is his entire fault. Maybe if he didn’t care about taking the ability to reproduce away from Bella, then Renesmee would have never happened. The fact that he knows this is totally and completely his fault, and his own selfish wish makes it that much harder on him, because he knows that if he didn’t think about that, she would never had gotten pregnant.
Now there’s also the matter of Renesmee. With what I’ve given you so far, it probably seems like with the way that Edward got her pregnant, Renesmee wouldn’t be half vampire because it just had to do with the incubus. Wrong. Because going back to the more detailed description of incubus, they still need sperm. But incubi have their own special form of sperm depending on what kind of a creature they are. For Edward, it just happened to be venom since he is a vampire. There are legends and stuff about horse blood being the sperm therefore the baby is half horse. So if Edward’s sperm is vampire venom, then clearly the baby will end up half vampire.
So, basically, it is extremely possible for it to happen without Stephenie Meyer going against what she said before. I know it’s a lot to take in, but it honestly does make total sense. Just read over it again and you’ll realize that I’m right. I’ve told my friends this over and over, and they realize that it is true. And this is not just another theory. It’s not like I just said “Well, I think this is right so it is.” It truly does make sense with what Stephenie Meyer meant. I’m sure this is what she meant in her books, but people are just too stubborn and blind to be able to notice that. (No offense).
I hope I helped more than people who just say “Vampire venom works magic in a vagina.” All you have to do is read the book. Seems like a simple answer, but next time you read it, pay more attention. It’s amazing what you notice when you read it over and over again. You discover new thin
Source(s): Breaking Dawn - Read it again, and think about what I told you when you do. It will make complete sense.
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Post by madeline on Jan 22, 2014 0:45:21 GMT -5
When I first read it, I didn't realize the 21st was THAT day. You're probably right and even if the police think the same thing, they'd be afraid to say so.
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Post by madeline on Dec 27, 2013 19:04:57 GMT -5
Another great story and very informative. I think that we should go to Block Island on one of our Dark Shadows trips. We talked about it once before and I checked out some of the hotels online. I've always wanted to visit the haunted lighthouse on Block Island.
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Post by madeline on Dec 20, 2013 13:15:03 GMT -5
Good story! Who wrote it?
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Post by madeline on Dec 18, 2013 19:22:25 GMT -5
It's scary that the author says that the book should be allowed to go out of print.
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Post by madeline on Dec 4, 2013 18:15:16 GMT -5
Well, excuse me, Jason! What I meant was that I believed you when you said that he would "gay it up," but I HOPED that because he and Burton were DS fans, that they wouldn't ruin it! He "gays up" everything, so that was a given.
BTW, you couldn't have chosen a more appropriate avatar!
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Post by madeline on Dec 2, 2013 15:03:26 GMT -5
It's not that we didn't believe you. We, or at least I, thought that because both Depp and Tim Burton were Dark Shadows fans, that they would try to do it justice. I was shocked when I saw those first pictures of Depp in his Michael Jackson get-up and those nails, Ughh! He looked more like a cartoon character than a person. Yes, Jason, you were right, he "gayed" it up!
Happy birthday, Barnabas!
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