Temple of the Vampire, while understandable in the gist of it's credo "believe nothing, test everything" it seems like part of this Kantian subjectivity (at least from an Ayn Randian perspective-- see Philosophy: Who Needs It) which voids meaningful discovery. Belief is for what necessitates it. Beliefs (such as trying to live forever) are only useful should they be adaptive and beneficial, utilitarian. This however creates a very narrow framework for going about situations in life, except as a belief it's seen as a concrete opinion; concrete drys and traps the crutch of beliefs. One must imagine Sisyphus happy... fake it till you make it, so to say. Every belief is self-contradictory in that people are self-contradictory inherently but at the same time it's a syncretic contradiction.