by anonwest 16 Replies latest watchtower medical
While I am not stupid enough to have faith in their blood doctrine, I still shudder at the thought of taking blood.
It has nothing to do with whether or not I am committing an unforgivable sin but it has to do with the fact that I just plain do not trust the blood supply, no matter what they say. If I knew I had to go in for surgery I would make plans to choose the bloodless route if humanly possible.
LHG
What I find annoying about JWs and their blood policy is that when a JW dies, if blood was an issue, they will always try to wriggle out of loss of blood having any contribution to the persons demise.
Surely the surgeon must have done something wrong!
Surely something else must have been the matter!
She/he might have died even if they did have blood!
They swallow the societies 'view' that as long as the circulation is supported, even an exceptionally low haemoglobin level is survivable and of course through one or two examples, whether these are genuine or not, the WTBTS always manages to back this up.
However, damage is done to major organs once there is insufficient blood volume and haemoglobin/oxygen carrying cells.
The Witnesses WANT to believe that they have the best chances of survival than any one else if they deny themselves blood.
Therefore, when someone days from the WTBTS blood policy, they insist on all the other possible reasons being the cause and never, absolutely never the refusal of blood transfusion.
Tort of misrepresentation mean any thing to anyone!
LongHairGal - I agree with you that blood is dangerous medicine, but so is antibiotics! Everything in medicine carries its own risks. But the 'bogey man' of blood has been drummed into our heads. Don't forget, for us blood transfusion will always be something more to be afraid of than anyone else because that 'bogey man' will never be completely eradicated from our minds.
Bye Bye Allison Mallender you idiot. What you've done is accomplish NOTHING. With a capital N
Another dub bites the dust for a book publishing company.
Dismembered
Bye Bye Allison Mallender you idiot.
That's a bit cold man. Grow up.
While I am not stupid enough to have faith in their blood doctrine, I still shudder at the thought of taking blood.
That's an excellent point. Fear of the sight of blood is a very common human fear, so it doesn't take too much of a leap to have less than positive thoughts about taking someone else's blood into one's body. Ugh!!
However, as we know, that's a million miles away from turning an understandable fear into a religious prohibition; yet it may make more understandable the tenacity of the governing body's preparedness to let JWs die rather than to back down on the blood teaching (i.e., the blood doctrine touches on something that lots of people have as fear about anyway). Speaking of fearful thoughts: the idea of being cut open with a knife is possibly an equally off-putting and shudder-inducing thought; yet, most humans are prepared to endure this in the service of a medical operation! Thus, because something may 'naturally' evoke disgust or fear doesn't mean it has a rational basis.
What gets to me is how JWs always get together and go on about how "dangerous" blood is and how great it is that the WTS lets the world know about it...always ignoring the fact that it saves far more lives than it harms.
Good point M.J. I made the same point to my parents when they were going on about the amount of JWs 'saved' from getting AIDS by not having transfusions. I asked them, 'and how many JWs then died when they refused blood?'
They got very flustered and could not answer.
This particular lady might, just might have still been alive if she didn't have to struggle to have enough oxygen in her system as well as the other complications. No one will ever know now.
