The book study tonight was all about abstaining from blood. The usual nonsense which we've all heard before, but I thought I'd share some amusing comments from the completely misinformed and delusional brothers and sisters there tonight. I wish jwfacts, TD or any of the other board blood experts could have been there tonight to hear this, now that would have made a good study!
Sister fruitloop - 'They can screen blood for diseases like AIDs, but they can't trace other diseases like malaria and hepatitis'
Brother kiss-ass wannabe elder - 'Apparently after a blood transfusion you can pick up personality traits from the person who donated the blood.'
Sister elderette - 'There have been women who have had blood transfusions from blood donated by a man, and afterwards, they grew body hair.'
And my personal favourite:
Brother Conductor - 'I knew a bloke who had a blood transfusion, and shortly afterward, he went completely bald'
Really, these are all true! It was hard to hold back the laughter... What was really remarkable was how everyone just laps it up like it must be some kind of scientific truth... It's a bit sad really.
Book study funnies - blood
by Zico 23 Replies latest watchtower medical
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Zico
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Jourles
I'm sitting here laughing, not because I don't believe it, but because I know it's absolutely true.
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hambeak
Didn't anyone point anyone to a public library or the internet I enjoyed the post I think you take this and almost make a sitcom from it
It reminds me of the British sitcom about the department store with all the nitwits working there. lol
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katiekitten
It reminds me of the British sitcom about the department store with all the nitwits working there. lol
"Are you Being Served". I used to love that. It was the only programme you could watch as a JW where a joke about a pussy was made every 5 minutes and no-one thought it was too rude to turn off (because of course it was refering to Mrs Slocombes cat).
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TD
That's too funny, Zico --Sort of a cross section of every wacky thing the JW organization has taught about blood over the years.
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RunningMan
I guess it takes longer to unlearn things than to learn them. At one time, every one of those goofy anecdotes were official doctrine, and printed in the literature. The society has become slightly more reticent on some of the really dumb stuff recently, but since they never actually recanted, it is still "current truth".
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Dismembered
Greetings Zico,
Thanks for the post. I needed a good laugh. Those quoted remarks did it.
Dismembered
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hambeak
THANK KATIE KITTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of that program. I can just see Mrs Slocomb and the rest of the gang at the book study sipping tea and making those profound remarks what if you get a black mans blood will it make you bigger lmao
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under_believer
Amazing. I missed our book study this week, it would have been interesting to see if that stuff got spewed around at mine too.
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garybuss
I know a woman who got a blood transfusion from a contractor and she left the hospital, bought a Ford pickup and built a house.