The cause of the zombie apocalypse?

[GoFigure]

Nanites... or the wizard did it.

[Mr_Penguin]

Face and body lift gone wrong. Doctors prescribed wrong prescription for pain. oops... conspiracy theory.

[fananora]

"The day when there will be more room in Hell, the dead will wander on earth ..." lol

[Imran51408]

U r a racist fuck!

[Imran51408]

Originally Posted by Walnutters

Terrorists in the middle east developed the virus, or what they called "Their gift from their god" They released a package in the U.S, containing the virus. They knew it would engulf the world, so to prevent becoming zombies themselves, they stuck magic pencils in the sand all around their country borders. They believe to be safe now .

U r a racist fuck?

[JordyLicht]

Not really, he's not insulting a certain race of people, but rather terrorists who come from the Middle East. It could have been Ireland, America, or any other country.
It's just a fact that there is a lot of terrorist activity in the Middle East, that doesn't mean ALL people from the Middle East are terrorists. And that's not what he said.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by JordyLicht

Not really, he's not insulting a certain race of people, but rather terrorists who come from the Middle East. It could have been Ireland, America, or any other country.
It's just a fact that there is a lot of terrorist activity in the Middle East, that doesn't mean ALL people from the Middle East are terrorists. And that's not what he said.

1.) He is making an assumption that terrorists from the Middle East are Muslims
2.) He's making an assumption that Muslims are stupid and believe in magic, because pencils are apparently protection
3.) There's a lot of terrorist activity in the Middle East? There's a lot of terrorist activity everywhere. More acts of terror occur in India than in Saudi Arabia. So strange that the initial assumption is that the terrorists come from the Middle East.
4.) "It could have been Ireland, America, or any other country." But guess what, it wasn't, because the author made an assumption about people from that region of the world.
5.) For any reader from the Middle East, you two jokers have provided an example of how people assume religion, likeliness to be a terrorist and ignorance to be characteristics of people from there. Because guess what, that comment wasn't made about the Netherlands. Which used to be a pretty tolerant place 600 years ago.

[JordyLicht]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

1.) He is making an assumption that terrorists from
the Middle East are Muslims
2.) He's making an assumption that Muslims are stupid and believe in magic, because pencils are apparently protection
3.) There's a lot of terrorist activity in the Middle East? There's a lot of terrorist activity everywhere. More acts of terror occur in India than in Saudi Arabia. So strange that the initial assumption is that the terrorists come from the Middle East.
4.) "It could have been Ireland, America, or any other country." But guess what, it wasn't, because the author made an assumption about people from that region of the world.
5.) For any reader from the Middle East, you two jokers have provided an example of how people assume religion, likeliness to be a terrorist and ignorance to be characteristics of people from there. Because guess what, that comment wasn't made about the Netherlands. Which used to be a pretty tolerant place 600 years ago.

Wait, what the fuck just happened? I am a joker for standing up to the Middle East post? Why the hell are we arguing, since we have the same opinion?

1) First of all, I am not defending this guy's remarks, but isn't it fair enough to assume that terrorists from the Middle East will be Muslim? I don't have the facts or figures, but I'm guessing a high percentage of inhabitants of that area are in fact Muslim. So purely going on statistics, there's a chance that they might be Muslim.
Then there is the so called Jihad. Officially meaning 'struggle', it's been used as a 'holy war' against the 'West' many times. The term 'holy' pretty much describes the religious side.
Many of them believe that they're going to a better place, even sacrificing their own lives for the greater good. A lot of times there will be spiritual leaders next to combat leaders.
Yes, I am pretty sure not ALL terrorists from the Middle East are Muslim.. ofcourse not. I don't know enough about the reason terrorism exists in that area, to know if it's ALL based on religion.

2) Agree with you here. This wasn't the correct way of voicing his opinion. I don't like any religion, so I've had a lot of complaints as well, and I have learnt my lesson on how to voice an opinion vs. just pissing a lot of people off.

3) Again, I agree that there is a lot of terrorism in other places in the world as well, but we weren't talking about them at that point. I know India has a lot of terrorism, probably even more terrorists than in the Middle East. I was only trying to say there's a difference between being a fullblown racist and saying there are terrorists in the Middle East. There are terrorists everywhere.

4) Agree with you again, hurrah. I wasn't defending his remarks about the Middle East, I said you could exchange the Middle East with any other country, because there are terrorists everywhere.

5) I didn't provide any examples other than saying maybe there are a lot of Muslims living in the Middle East. There will be more Christians living in the USA than Muslims, as will there be more Muslims living in the Middle East than Christans... It was purely a statistic.
I didn't say ANYWHERE that the Muslim faith automatically means you will be a terrorist. That's fucking absurd! I don't have any problems with any people anywhere, as long as they don't mess with my life.
Yes, I DO have a BIG problem with religion as a whole, but this is purely my own opinion, and this was NOT voiced in my post.

I'm still not sure why you were attacking me, or where you found hateful speech or a dislike of the Middle East people.

[Toasty]

Originally Posted by Zombies are Awesome!

i think its something religious, only because they mention religion many times in the comics and TV show

I don't think it has anything to do with religion. I think the only reason why they mention religion is because they want something to believe in while their own world goes to hell.

Like in the TV show when they find the church in season 2, they all pray in front of the statue hoping that things to back to normal. I don't think religion was the cause, but more of a safe haven to allow them some hope.

[Bcroft]

I think the only 2 reasons that make sense to me would be airborne virus, which would have infected a mass population, and a drunk driving accident could turn into 4 zombies, explains the spread so fast, or like they've referenced a plague sent down by god

[Manzaroon]

We have to understand the following:
1. Everyone is infected
2. Everyone turns after death
3. Zombie bites cause death, turning(?)

If everyone has it, the most likely answer is probably that it's a waterborne pathogen That remains latent in the body until after death, which triggers the pathogen to assume control of the host. In the matters of getting bitten, perhaps the pathogen changes once it takes control of a body, so that when it bites a human, it actively works to kill them and then have them turn. There is no cure because it was already in all of us by the time we figured out the cause.

Also, religion as the cause is ridiculous. Zombies are a symbol of human flaws, e.g greed, corruption, materialism, etc.

Science, bruh.

[Bcroft]

ok mr. science, it would be impossible to infect the entire planets water supply, thus airborne makes alot more sense, calling religion ridiculous makes you look like a total jackass

[aaron1290]

I think that god just installed a new sims 3 expansion pack ( supernatural ) and he's just messing around with it

[aaron1290]

Originally Posted by Imran51408

U r a racist fuck?

' U r a racist fuck ' is a statment adding a ? at the end makes it a really weird thing to read...

[aaron1290]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

1.) He is making an assumption that terrorists from the Middle East are Muslims

I think they're calling muslim extremists or something
im tired so excuse my spelling

[Mark$man]

I wrote stories of the Walking Dead for Writing.com, and my guess was basically this, generalized to fit in all situations:

I had a power-hungry politician of a foreign country develop a virus and catalyst. His planning was to unleash the catalyst into the water, infecting most inhabitants of the town, country, whatever works. Then he would give one person the virus and letting him/her run lose, throwing the country into chaos. He didn't forsee the side-affects (reanimation) and so figured with the disease killing everyone, he could ascend to power quickly and easily, having what was known to be a cure to the catalyst, at hand, making him a savior and would give him control. This information was ratted out, however, and quickly came into attention of our government through officials of the foreign land. The U.S. would quickly arrive to help, sending in an elite team to deal with the threat and secure the virus before it reached it's destination.

**Note: I would figure the U.S. would have to of known ahead of time, for in the Walking Dead some characters did seem prepared or knew ahead of time what was going on.

Anyway, the corrupt politician and his followers and hired associates were headed to a small town to test out his creation. However, while nearly halfway there, they were attacked by militia who wanted the man dead. The driver of the vehicle was shot and killed and the vehicle went out of control, crashing into the nearby lake; the catalyst's(and we are talking ALOT of it) containers were damaged and the contents were spilled into the lake, which so happened connected to the ocean. This would infect ANYONE who drank from the water of the ocean and it's connected lakes, rivers, streams, etc. while the catalyst could remain, which should take awhile.

**Note: Think of it like a dye, slowly spreading throughout water. It pollutes the water (in a sense) completely, turning it all that color. Eventually though, it will clear, but it would take some time.

My idea for the disease was that it was a regular sickness, but with the catalyst would make it undoubtedly lethal, and would of course make them turn. If they had the catalyst and died regularly, they would turn( Allowing the bite to not always be the cause). The catalyst would never clear the body's system, kind of like certain diseases. It would simply go dormant until the inhabitant was infected with the virus.

My idea on how it spread was that those inside the vehicle when it crashed into the lake were exposed to both infections, and so after dying, turned. Those of the convoy didn't know how to handle the walkers, and so perished as well.

The catalyst I imagine would basically be similar to the virus, so that in the case the person with it died, by turning they essentially contained the virus.
You could say the catalyst inside the dead mutated and so would infect those they attacked after reanimating.

Idk, I like this idea, and I think it could easily work, and would leave loopholes as to where characters could somehow be immune and survive a bite or scratch and cause extra drama, such as others wanting their blood like military or other survivors. If I have a weak point, which I am highly sure I do, lemme know. Thanks

[Mark$man]

And Bcroft, you don't know if it infected everyone. There is no way to tell that. Yeah, the scientist or 'Ben' from the game or other people may say that EVERYONE is infected, that isn't necessarily true. If you shoot yourself in the head you obviously won't turn. If you don't wait to see if they reanimate then you don't know, unless you check every single person's blood. But there is no way to do that. Kirkman says alot of things and writes alot of things that aren't true or are just mean't to bring you off trail, like how some of Woodbury were surrounded by walkers, or how Kenny from the game was surrounded, how Lee was bitten and left to die or shot. YOU DON'T KNOW. Kenny was 'lost'. Lee is honestly not confirmed; you see him faint/black out or see Clem shoot him, doesn't mean she shot the head, you do hear breathing. Lori from the show is not confirmed, her body was not seen. It is only said to be so that most people will give up hope when they get bit or will automatically get shot in the head when they die(which I can understand, you don't want to find out). You just don't know. People have lived this long, and there is always an exception to the rule. Who knows, maybe there is one person out there in the Walking Dead world who is immune, or has a cure, or knows what it all is. He could be a protagonist, or antagonist. Could have died already. You don't know anything lol

[Sodawasser]

You are all wrong. The infection is caused because of Nazis who have learned from Aliens. They sent this weapon to earth to whipe out the weak and to create the 4. Reich.

Seriously there are only 2 possibly things for such a story: Supernatural things or biological/scientific things. If I think about supernatural stories, I see demons, witches and so on. I don't like those things in a zombie-story. That is why I prefer the scientific way. A virus needs living cells to replicate.. So in my story these are fungi cells which take over the body of their host. Because of evolution/science/whatever they became that dangerous. They just have myceles in the whole body of the host and can controll them in that way. The zombies decompose that slowly because the fungi inject antibiotics in the dead cells and other molecules which create a kind of metabolism in the dead cells. Anyway the fungi also need food -> the corpse slowly decompose (but not that fast if the zombie eats flesh). Living people may be already infected by these fungi but the natural immune system is too strong for an outbreak. Because of the fact, that they are dead, zombies have a lot of toxic bacterias in their rotting mouth (not in the body itself because of the fungi) their bite kills you too.
Yeah thats my explanation :P

[SoldierX]

Maybe the zombie bug spread to humans from those bugs that kill ants?

[Epic Kiwi]

As we now know, the phenomenon resulted from the use of a highly-

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