Do Zombies have beliefs?

[Rae'ya]

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And if you should be the zombies in the sad book of Zone One. Don't lock yourself in a room so that when you turn, you are in an eternal shamble of your locked quarters. And if you know you are going to turn, wear good shoes. The zombie virus kills your brain except for the primal need to eat. You will also lie down during the day and nap. Storing up your energy. That's how you stay strong.

In The Walking Dead you turn no matter how you die, so there are a few zombies who were people who hanged themselves when the apocalypse happened... and are now zombies hanging from a noose waving their arms around uselessly. There was also some poor wheelchair bound guy who shot himself in the bathtub, but didn't do a very good job of it... so then he was a zombie stuck in a bathtub.

Lesson learned... when the Zombie Apocalypse happens, don't try to hang yourself. It wont work.

[MaskedOne]

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(No, I don't think the Zombie Apocalypse will actually happen... I just think it's fun to speculate. It's a running joke in my house.)

All I have to say about Zombie rebellions is that I'm hoping the people who wrote

CONPLAN-8888 did a better job than the planners in World War Z that allowed for a battle where the US Army ran out of ammunition in a key battle on it's home ground.

[Medusa]

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In one book I read (the one where the zombies were actually demons from another dimension who once you died took over your body and ate people) this lady had a baby. She was a zombie. And well...the baby started eating its way out.

Brian Keene I'm eyeing you!

[Juniper]

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I'm not really sure how to define zombie. I've never really been into them. The question only popped in my head because I spent an hour in Cadaver Lab yesterday. The faces were covered out of respect for the dead (except when the Chiropractor Students dissect the heads). The only time I felt any kind of awkward feelings of "what if they move?" was when I was standing near the head... which was most of the time because we were studying Muscles, Fascia and so-on on the trunk and upper extremities.

One thought leads to another... you know how it goes. What types of definitions of zombies are there?

[Briton]

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Or some potentially plausible modified version of that fungus that makes ant zombies

I actually have a novel in the making based on this premise, set in a 19th century provincial English village.

The fungus genus you are thinking of is Cordyceps.

[magusphredde]

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Also... can zombies climb fences? Because the answer to that question is very important for any Zombie Apocolypse Survival Plans. If zombies are World War Z style acrobats, then we're all screwed. If they're the more traditional slow, lumbering corpses, then we stand a chance.

(No, I don't think the Zombie Apocalypse will actually happen... I just think it's fun to speculate. It's a running joke in my house.)

Don't forget the moat or an island ... What if zombies don't need to breathe ... They can walk underwater until they get to you ...

[Munin-Hugin]

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Don't forget the moat or an island ... What if zombies don't need to breathe ... They can walk underwater until they get to you ...

This very thing was present in the book of World War Z.

[anunitu]

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Less worried about zombies,and a bit wondering what Zombie poop is like..I mean a diet of only brains or human flesh..makes one wonder what walking would be like..Oh crap I stepped in it!!

[Medusa]

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Less worried about zombies,and a bit wondering what Zombie poop is like..I mean a diet of only brains or human flesh..makes one wonder what walking would be like..Oh crap I stepped in it!!

Zombie factoid #1238594564

So in the book Rise Again, the thinker zombies use these buckets. They poop and pee in them. And then they put the dumb zombie heads and body parts in there (and yes, the dumb zombies just bob up and down eyeballing you with their last good eye). They then put the buckets on the border of their Happy Town. This scent keeps the dumb zombies away. They don't like the smell of the thinker zombies.

Sorta like how you put water jugs out for cats not to pee on your lawn I guess.

Zombie jugs for zombie cats.

*I'll see my way out now.

[Jembru]

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Ooh a porn thread! Loving this. I have nothing to add about zombie beliefs, but I'm gonna have to make a wishlist based on the books Medusa has read. I particularly like the idea of zombies being able to evolve into sophisticated thinking being's over time. I started writing a zombie fiction in which zombies and the living had a symbiotic relationship. Despite having finished a few long stories
/short novels in the past, I somehow lost interest before the end of that one. Maybe one day.

[Medusa]

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http://noctuary.booklikes.com/shelf

That's a list of all the audiobooks I've read for the last 2 1/2 years. Good times!

[Rae'ya]

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Don't forget the moat or an island ... What if zombies don't need to breathe ... They can walk underwater until they get to you ...

Nope, everyone who every goes to an island gets zombified. Some infected idiot turns up in a boat and everyone gets undead 'cos they've got nowhere to go.

You need escape routes! Nowhere is safe and everywhere needs at least a Plan B (and preferably also a Plan C).

[Gleb]

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Which version of zombie?

Good question.
But if we're talking about the zombies from the legends, then I think they praise the brain gods.

[B. de Corbin]

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I wonder if zombies believe in sex after death?

If so, would they, technically, be necrophiliacs?

[Munin-Hugin]

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There was a movie I saw not too long ago where zombieism was a sexual transmitted disease. The movie was quite good, and while graphic at times, was not sexually graphic.