"How Is Your Heart? … The heart, nevertheless, is intricately connected with the brain by the nervous system and is well supplied with sensory nerve endings. The sensations of the heart are recorded on the brain. It is here that the heart brings to bear on the mind its desires and its affections in arriving at conclusions having to do with motivations. In reverse flow, the mind feeds the heart with interpretations of the impulses from the senses and with conclusions reached that are based on the knowledge it has received, either at the moment or from the memory. There is a close interrelationship between the heart and the mind, but they are two different faculties, centering in different locations. The heart is a marvelously 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. The new heart is still able to operate as a pump, it having its own power supply and timing mechanism independent of the general nervous system for giving impulse to the heart muscle, but just as it now responds only sluggishly to outside influences, the new heart in turn registers few, if any, clear factors of motivation on the brain. To what extent the nerve endings of the body and the new heart are able to make some connections in time is not clear, but this cannot be ruled out as one of the several factors causing the serious mental aberrations and disorientation that doctors report are observed in heart-transplant patients. These patients have donor-supplied pumps for their blood, but do they now have all the factors needed to say they have a "heart"? One thing is sure, in losing their own hearts, they have had taken away from them the capacities of "heart" built up in them over the years and which contributed to making them who they were as to personality." (Watchtower, 3/1/1971 p.133-139)
How Is Your Heart?
by Qcmbr 10 Replies latest watchtower medical
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nicolaou
More pseudo-medical clap trap from a bunch of untrained non experts! Someone should post this to a heart specialist or consultant.
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AudeSapere
I remember sitting in the audience at either Mets Shea or Yankee Stadium for that talk. There were giant replicas of both a brain and a heart on the stage.
What can I say? I was 11 and easily steered.
-Aude.
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avidbiblereader
With such information, since the JW's now say it is ok to have a transplant and if a witness does get one and then acts differently after the transplant do they DF the person or go after the dead organ donor?
abr
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truthsetsonefree
I remember sitting in the audience at either Mets Shea or Yankee Stadium for that talk. There were giant replicas of both a brain and a heart on the stage.
Aude, it was Yankee. I was seven but can't forget. It was a night session if my memory serves me right.
tsof
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ex-nj-jw
QCMBR -
Again the watchtower is WRONG - the nerves that connect the heart to brain exsist so that the brain can tell the heart to pump!!! Just has the brain tells the arms to move and the lungs to breathe!!!
When you have a spinal injury depending on where in the spinal canal the injury occurs will determine whether you will be able to breathe on your own, move your arms, legs and so forth. If you have a brain injury and the brain cannot tell your heart to pump or your lungs to breathe then you will die without life support.
Your desires, feelings and etc do not come from the heart. You may feel heartache upon loosing a loved one, or your heart may race when upset or angy or scared but this original signal comes from the brain. Getting a "new heart" does not change your personality, that originates in the brain.
This is from nursing school and experience, not the WTBTS
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ex-nj-jw
Also the lost of personality is more likely from lack of oxygen to the brain therefore causing some cells to die.
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Gopher
This idea (the heart = the seat of motivation) is one of many quietly abandoned Watchtower doctrines.
Others include that the Bible book of Genesis describes 7 days of 7,000 years each, that vaccinations are immoral and unhealthy, that 1975 is a key year in God's timetable, etc.
Anyone who's been baptized as a JW in the last 20 years will not have any idea that such rubbish was taught as God's truth.
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Balsam
What is really sad is that as a very new JW at the time I fell hook line and sinker for that silly comments about how people could be changed after having a heart transplant. It is so cult sounding now to me, but I remember that really well because I was so gung ho for literally anything the WTS preached back then. And here it is total nonsense. Ignorant people in the sense of medical, scientific, or lacking in education are easily to sway. I know I was because I was totally gullible and trusted that people especially religious people would not decieve me. Little did I know or understand and I paid a heavy price for that ignorance.
But it is never too late to wake up and find out the truth about the so called Truth of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Lumptard
Funny, and at the same time..........................not.