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About Damien Daville
Greetings..
I am a 48 year old primarily empathic vampire now living near the Austin area of Texas in the States. I also like elemental sources, and am a sanguine vampire with the right donor. I first learned of my vampirism as a teen in high school around 1970, and have developed its needs and abilities ever since. I have worked in some way helping others understand real vampirism for about thirty years. I came to the internet about 1995 and worked online in the few vamp forums around. I founded the Darkfear Network in early 1997, and then the Vampire Church in 1998. I also founded Web Alliance. In 2001, I founded the Texas
Vampire Association, to better bring real vampires together in the state of Texas. I spend most of my time now, working in the offline vampire community and in the public, helping other people to understand real vampirism. The Vampire Church is active both online and offline.
Damien Daville
Damien is the founder and elder of the Vampire Church
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Question: What is the one thing about the community you would change, if you had the ability? and why?
Greetings,
This is an interesting question.. I am going to do a reality check
here that offers a different look at this question and the problems
it inevitably brings up. I have been online working in the online
community for near ten years. And as many would say, there has been
a lot of bickering and redicule between different groups and
individuals here. I have observed this problem for many years and I
believe that it will always exist in some way because of the nature
of some who have no interest in community harmony. I say this from
my own experience with working with not only different groups but
many people on the internet where this problem is widespread. I
believe the internet is a unique area in that it is easy for some to
mask identities and so prey on others and create discord hiding
behind a computer keyboard. I am still hopeful that there will be
more community effort at working together as we all are trying to do
similar things. There are groups that exist and try to help bring
people together in dialogue, but this has been a difficult task with
the continuing discord and redicule that comes from some people.
This makes for a continuing problem and unless people can become
more selfless and leave egos behind, it will continue. I focus most
of my time working in the offline community setting up meetings and
other events for the vampire community and to help the public better
understand vampirism. I have believed for many years that that is
the area I can make the most difference without the discord and
redicule found on the interent. The interent is of course a needed
tool to bring people in touch with each other and enable offline
meetings. We do need both mediums and to work better to bridge
differences in a mature way, We need to use our resources to offer
the help to the community that is needed, and that requires effort
in the face of those who do not care.
Dark regards,
Damien Daville
Elder and Founder
The Vampire Church
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