Hypocrisy

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

(from hamlet, William Shakespeare)

          This should be the battle cry of all those, who proudly proclaim that they are in fact a real vampire or even what is considered in our world to be otherkin for that matter. We dwell in a world that is chock full of hypocrisy when it comes to matters of spirituality and beliefs. The debate lies in what is acceptable in the eyes of a society born of religious persecution. It is within that fact where the hypocrisy lies.

          When I first came out of the coffin as it were, I immediately faced an overwhelming battery of questions concerning my mental state. I was shunned by most of my peers and frowned upon by most of my own family. However the most critical of all came from the religious community as a whole. Catholics, protestants, muselum, and Jew, all called me everything from delusional to demonic. For catholics as well as protestants the convenient memory lapse of northern Ireland and the reasons for the pilgrims traveling to the “new” world is hypocrisy. The failure of muselums to remember the fears experienced by their ancestors who were not warriors, but were none the less subjected to the brutality of the crusades (there wasn't just one) is hypocrisy. For those in the world of Judaism the unacceptable memory lapse of the holocaust was hypocrisy.

          They tempered their words of intolerance though with a desire to help. Each claimed that if I would only open myself up to their interpretations of their god, that I would eventually come to what they viewed as sane and proper . In other words they simply wanted me to stop being who and what I am and start being who and what they thought I should be. The hypocrisy in all of this is that at some point and time in their histories someone else demanded the same of them.

          At least part of their condemnation though results from their non belief and misinformation concerning those who proclaim vampirism as a belief or way of life. They argue that there is no proof of prana, chi, or any of the other names used to refer to it around the globe. And yet they want me to accept perceived miracles as well as actions as concrete proof of a non visible god.

          Now, don't think the hostile tone of this has escaped me, for it hasn't and was done so on purpose. See I pride myself on being a tough love kind of individual. And as a real vampire as well as a practicing D/s master at that, and societies perception of those things. It has made me understand the meaning of the word hypocrisy. For those reasons alone I strive each and everyday to be tolerant of others beliefs and allow them to express said beliefs in order to avoid the appearance of hypocrisy. Wouldn't be nice if everyone made that same effort. So I highly recommend that those who would deny me my beliefs, take to heart those words written by Mr. Shakespeare so many centuries ago.