Since they have the same lifespan, since both are rotting sacks of meat, how can theoretically speaking of course, a slave zombie survive rather than a killer zombie? You still haven't answered my question.
Sorry. I should have resaerched this a little more before I posted it.
O.k. I went ahead and looked up some info on them. The zombi that I was talking about was not a dead zombi after all. This was person who was given a paralytic drug that poisoned and paralysed the victim to the point where he/she looked dead. The person is buried. Later in the night the person who administered the drug (called the bokor) brings the body back up and revives it with some chemical that renders him like a zombie. The person is litterally a living human with no will of his own. Thus, he will live far longer than a killer zombie.
Sorry. I should have resaerched this a little more before I posted it.
O.k. I went ahead and looked up some info on them. The zombi that I was talking about was not a dead zombi after all. This was person who was given a paralytic drug that poisoned and paralysed the victim to the point where he/she looked dead. The person is buried. Later in the night the person who administered the drug (called the bokor) brings the body back up and revives it with some chemical that renders him like a zombie. The person is litterally a living human with no will of his own. Thus, he will live far longer than a killer zombie.
if you want a slave zombie, u can have it. u just have to get someone addicted to a certain kind of drugs and if u can supply them, they will be your slaves.
O.k. I went ahead and looked up some info on them. The zombi that I was talking about was not a dead zombi after all. This was person who was given a paralytic drug that poisoned and paralysed the victim to the point where he/she looked dead. The person is buried. Later in the night the person who administered the drug (called the bokor) brings the body back up and revives it with some chemical that renders him like a zombie. The person is litterally a living human with no will of his own. Thus, he will live far longer than a killer zombie.
Herbs, as I was saying ^^ Anyway, sounds interesting. I guess that following such practices, stories of 'dead' people, or moving 'corpses' went around and since we like to frighten ourselves, with time turned to the stories of flesh eating killer zombies we now know.
it depends if you define a zombie as in someone who dies and comes back then has no will (like dawn of the dead style) or someone who has no will (like 28 days later) because the 28 day later style zombie is like super human rabies so it would be possible but dawn of the dead style is very unlikely but I suppose it could be done but whether or not you would have to shoot them in the head IDK. But do they exist now? maybe in some underground nazi bunker or something but most likely no.
The slender man. That... is creepy. No, that is terrifying.
Terrifying? The dude kidnaps children ("He has the need to kidnap children, and is seen right before the disappearance of a child or multiple children." and hang out at 4chan. ("Slender Man became a well-known creature on the /x/ (paranormal) 4chan board." He might as well be pedobear on stilts.
If you want to define a zombie as a resurrected corpse, then there are thousands of zombies walking the Earth this very moment. Anybody that's died and come back to life via modern medicine would be the undead. If you want to define them as being a person stripped of all will and humanity, there must be hundreds of them. Severe torture, certain drugs, mad cow disease, even Alzheimer's can render a person like that. If you want to define them as humans with a savage, dire craving for the flesh of their own kind, every group of survivors that has gone the way of the Donner party is no longer human in your eyes. If you want to define them as the dead that were raised by supernatural/paranormal means, I give you Zombie Jesus! Also, you would say that most every Zombie movie that's been made in color wasn't actually about zombies. There needs to be a clear and concise definition of Zombies for me to truly answer the OP. I will, however, give a few hypotheses as to how something fitting the zombie archetype could possibly arise.
The brainworm/fungus/virus theories have pretty much been beaten to death (and zombified) as of late, but I'll still give my two cents on it. The mad cow and rabies mutations theory gives rise to a breed of fast and powerful living zombies that have had their brains turned to mush. This leaves two VERY large holes in their proposals:
1) If their brains have already been turned into useless mush, why do headshots kill them? 2) Both rabies and mad cow disease are lethal already (there has only been one documented case of a human surviving rabies without a vaccine), so a more powerful version would kill humans off even faster, not leave them alive and psychotic.
The fungus/parasite theory has a great deal of merit to me. It has already been cited that their are already mind controlling fungi and protozoans out there, even a few invertebrates, the only hurdle is that they are designed specifically for the rudimentary nervous systems of their current hosts; i do believe that the most complex brain that they were said to inhabit in this thread was that of a rat, correct? Granted, a rat does possess almost all of the same brain structures as a human does, but that still leaves a significant portion of our brains completely unknown to them. This safety zone, however, is not insurmountable; the parts of our brain that we do share with a rat are the ones that actually control our bodies. This does still leave the same problem that I had with the viral explanation: the undead were never dead to begin with. I do have a theory that satisfies that condition, luckily. If the parasite in this situation were to be either an animal (like a heart worm or liver fluke) that invades our brain, it could very likely kill us just as the virus would. The advantage that would be gained by having an animal be the culprit in lieu of any other parasite is that most animals have a muscular system. While this may not sound like much, consider the existence of creatures such as the electric eel and electric catfish, then consider how our nervous system works. After the parasite devours our brains, killing us in the process, it could hardwire itself directly into our spinal cords, taking complete control of our bodies. This parasite could either be a single entity that would inhabit our cranium singlehandedly or it could be a mass of individual beings forming a hivemind withing the grave of our own minds. Either way, it would need a way to see. If composed of hundreds of small worms, they could easily eat through the optical nerve and look out our own eyes. As for the reanimation, once they have control of our body, it shouldn't be all that hard to start our biological processes back up through puppeteering. Their concentration inside the skull would also allow for an explanation as to why a headshot would be a guaranteed kill.
I must cut my ramblings short for I fear that my post is by far the longest on on this thread (which is actually kind of said considering this is the WEPR). As such, I will hold of on my other analyses of zombification, as well as those for the other undead implied within this thread. I now welcome all critiques you may bring.
