Book study funnies - blood (page 2)

Zico

All this has actually been taught as official doctrine? Amazing!

I did wonder where they got it from. And the members think the Society leaders are so clever as well.

rebel8

Sad but true medical myths in wts literature. Didn't know people were still clinging to the personality traits thing. So very sad.

Brochure: Bizarre Medical Myths--Believe it or not!

Zico

Thanks Rebel8,

Some funny stuff in there.

This one: 'Doctors are dangerous, incompetent, evil Jews like those who crucified Christ.' made me laugh the most.

rebel8

Well I think the teaching about Christ's intravenous drug use in the year 2000 rivals that!! I wonder if Christ is in rehab yet?

(sarcasm intended to poke fun at false teachings of wts, not at real Christianity)

I was taught that "personality transplant via blood transfusion" thingee in the mid 1970s. It was outdated even then. Why do they need to dwell on medical reasons not to take blood if it's a Bible-based teaching, let alone make up medical reasons?

fullofdoubtnow

Thanks Zico. If we hadn't been jws, we'd probably never believe people were capable of coming out with such crap, but sadly we know they are in jw land.

Thanks for that link as well Rebel, I like this cure for colds.

Colds are cured by jumping while naked

I usually get a really bad cold around November, so I'll have to bear that "remedy in mind if it happens this yearr.

freetosee

Very funny, but sadly true. THX Zico

Ingenuous

'There have been women who have had blood transfusions from blood donated by a man, and afterwards, they grew body hair.'

LOL! Can you imagine - you're lying on a gurney being told you're about to bleed out and never see your husband, your kids, your friends again, and all you can think is: "I can't take blood, it'll make me grow a beard!"

Little Bo Peep

The sad thing in all this is, they have all the JW's so confused by their vague statements that people like my mom-in-law will check "NO" for all the boxes on the medical directive, or whatever it's called now. One brother on the hospital liason committee told my daughter, the Wt wouldn't have anything on the directive that would be wrong, so you could check "YES" to everything and still be safe. It's a joke that JW's don't take blood, because in fact by taking fractions, they are taking blood, and using blood that hasn't been poured out on the ground.

Little Bo Peep

jwfacts

That is so funny, people will accept any crazy story in order to support their beliefs.Sad thing is that the reason the publishers believe this stuff is that the Watchtower promotes it. Rebel8's attachment is a great summary of insane Watchtower doctrine.

The concept of people taking on attributes of the transfusion was mentioned on CSI the other day in regards to a cannibal, and how throughout history primitive religions believed this. Interestingly o ne reason for the Watchtower rule against blood and transplants was based on this very concept of man being monochotomous, wholly physical. There was a fear that blood and organs contain part of the soul. This is alluded to in the following statements;

Watchtower , September 1 1961 p.564

"The blood in any person is in reality the person himself. ... poisons due to personal living, eating and drinking habits ... The poisons that produce the impulse to commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood. Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes - these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion."

Watchtower March 1 1971 pp.133-139

“The heart is a marvellously designed muscular pump, but, more significantly, our emotional and motivating capacities are built within it. Love, hate, desire (good and bad), preference for one thing over another, ambition, fear-in effect, all that serves to motivate us in relationship to our affections and desires springs from the heart. … It is significant that heart-transplant patients , where the nerves connecting the heart and brain are severed, have serious emotional problems after the operation. "

TD

LOL

The second quote about the heart was part of an interesting chapter in JW history in and of itself.

Starting in 1971, the JW's taught that your brain was responsible for only reason and logic while your emotions came from your literal heart --that muscle in your chest that pumps your blood. And they were completely serious about this.

One of the most memorable things about the 1972 convention was a drama that featured 10 foot tall lighted models of the heart and brain on the stage. When people in the drama were faced with tough decisions, the action would freeze and the heart and brain models would light up and argue with each other.

It was beyond bizarre because again, the JW's didn't mean this metaphorically. They thought the "Good vs. Bad" type of inner struggle that everyone experiences (Sometimes depicted in cartoons as a devil on your left shoulder and an angel on your right) was really a clash between the heart and brain.

Book study funnies - blood

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