New Aussie Blood card released last night= It will make you sick! Shocking!

by Witness 007 89 Replies latest jw experiences

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  worldtraveller

  I was wondering just what tomato sauce had to do with anything? Really people. Refrain from eating blood. Who's blood? Humans? Cows? Pigs? Chickens? Don't tell me that you are all vegetarians? Just what does eating have to do with a transfusion?

  Confused, very confused?

  Personally I have donated 40 times times @ 3 lives per donation. I think Jesus would be happy- Who gives a shit what the Jehovah real estate corp says anyway ?

  A witness asked me last month how much I got paid per donation. Stupid man.
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  Gavroche79

  I have to agree with JAVA--the truth of the matter is, from the time it was introduced, the no-blood policy has been an act of genocide, and now the higher-ups in the Jehovah's Witnesses/Watchtower Society are trying to clean up the mess they made with this policy without out-and-out admitting the damage they've done through it.
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  jefferywhat

  Mary
  
  TD did make some interesting points, but they were hardly exhaustive, however, he did put forward a researched and considered opinion. I don’t think I have lost the bet just yet.
  And yes I was a little tongue in cheek with the GB comment, you should have know that!
  
  TD
  
  Blood transfusions are a Victorian technology, actually even older , I think the early attempts were the 15 or 16 century, it wasn’t until the 30’s that they worked out that it could be separated, so my statement is true and accurate.
  You said “The new generation of oxygen carrying blood substitutes primarily duplicates the function of red cells”.
  
  At this point there are no oxygen carrying blood substitutes that aren’t derived from bovine or human hemoglobin, I know there was some trials with Perfluorocarbon some years back but I don’t think it has been approved.
  
  You said “ Witness CHILDREN have died from injuries as mundane as a breaking a leg when they fell off a skateboard”. Plural? More than one? I doubt this but welcome proof of such a statement. It seems highly improbable. The rest of your points are true.
  
  Mcsemike
  
  I know the facts , don’t be presumptuous. The fact that you want anyone to have a painful death is a bit scary, time you left the board and booked into a shrink. Have a considered and intelligent position by all means, but to say that is just disappointing and bigoted.
  
  sooner7nc
  
  leave sarcasm to the aussies and Scottish, Americans just don’t get it. And your internet threat is just stupid, why do people do internet threats? So ridiculous. You can shove your stupid tyre kicking comments up YOUR rear.
  
  Rabbit.
  
  As if I am going to think of this thread if I am facing death….oh please. That is just an awful, twisted thing to say.
  
  
  
  
  
  I know the statistics per million etc but the reality is in America alone an average of 23 people per year contract HIV from blood transfusions, that’s not mentioning all of the other nasty things that can happen. I don’t care how you twist it, if you take blood, HIV is still a very real risk. I say educate the crowds and educate yourselves regardless of what the WTBTS say.
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  penny2

  jefferywhat, I found the links very interesting, especially the one from The Australian. Thanks for posting that. And it's good to see you still hanging around (your comment about still being here made total sense to me).

  penny
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  llbh

  The WTS is off the hook, legally speaking.i

  I am not so sure Scully that they are off the hook. it could certainly be argued, and i would that as the format of the blood card is entirely controlled and produced by the WTS that they in large measure are reponsible should someone suffer loss direclty as a result of following the WTS advice on this matter

  David
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  besty

  It won't be easy to set a legal precedent that establishes the 'right' of the WTS to misquote secular facts relating to blood therapy is greater than the right of the citizen to make a properly informed life-affecting choice.

  Why is a religious order attempting to 'educate' on medical practice in any case? And the education they offer is misleading, biased, and dangerously deceptive. http://www.ajwrb.org/whatsnew/church_state.shtml

  If the WTS would stick to Acts 15:28,29 as a simple religious belief, while still suicidally dangerous, it would be much more understandable for the medical community and defensible for the JW's. Having got into a medical debate and sanctioning 98% of blood as allowable (even this allowance made in a mealy mouthed pass the buck 'its up to the individual JW to decide for themselves') they now find themselves in a public relations disaster. Thousands of dead children is difficult to explain.

  All the while self-appointed as God's sole channel of communication - either God needs to read 'PR For Dummies' or the WTS needs to quit lying.
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  besty

  duplicate post
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  Witness 007

  When i was a kid it was simple......no blood or blood products......pour it on the ground as the bible says...today I feel like this is a JOKE.!!!! I resigned from the Watchtower thanks to this stupid...I'm dumb doctirne!!!!
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  frozen one

  While the debate about what fractions of blood are acceptable and which are not acceptable is interesting, until Jehovah's Witnesses are given a green light to DONATE BLOOD, all of them should check the "will not accept" box next to all of the questions.
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  Blueblades

  If you having read "Blood on the Altar" by David A. Reed, please do. If after having read his book, you are not moved, sick or shocked, then, ( you fill in the rest )

  Blueblades