Blood Teaching – Overt vs. Suggestive

by Marvin Shilmer 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  Marvin Shilmer

  Blood Teaching – Overt vs. Suggestive is the title of a new blog article based on newly obtained information. This is in the form of a brief email exchange followed by a letter from Watchtower to a private individual. It took a couple of days to track this information back to its owner, but with permission I share it with everyone at my blog.[1]

  Marvin Shilmer

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  References:

  1. Blood Teaching – Overt vs. Suggestive at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2010/08/blood-teaching-overt-vs-suggestive.html
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  Doubting Bro

  Wow Marvin. Thanks for sharing. I always wondered how the WTS came up with the arbitrary line. So they think that if you had a jar of whole blood, that it would separate into the 4 forbidden components? Where do they get this stuff from.?

  If this is the rationale they've been using, they could easily parlay this into just saying whole blood is forbidden and the rest is a "conscious" matter. To me that the next step out of this mess for them.

  And to think I was once will to die myself and allow loved ones to die because of this crazy policy. It give me shivers just thinking about it.....
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  leavingwt

  Thank you, Marvin. Everyone should read this for themselves. The WT Society is completely nuts.
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  TD

  Illuminating to see it in print. Thanks Marvin!
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  JWoods

  Just as a side point - I saw an Animal Planet episode on venomous animals.

  They pointed out that most snake-venom antivenom compounds are derived from horse blood after dosing the horse with continuous small amounts of the actual venom. This develops specific anti-bodies to the poison.

  It reminded me that there was a big deal over the polio vaccine back when I was a JW kid - many local JWs bought into a rumor that it was somehow made from blood.

  They pretty much put out the news on the local back channels that is wasn't really made from blood after all.

  By witness logic, I suppose that they could eventually make the case that blood sausage is not really "whole blood" because a lot of the volatile elements get cooked out when it is made.
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  Mad Sweeney

  There's more blood in your average steak than in some Borg-banned medical products. The Borg is a publishing company with absolutely NO expertise in science or research of any kind.
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  JWoods

  The Borg is a publishing company with absolutely NO expertise in science or research of any kind.

  Including research of bible translation or religious archeology.
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  TD

  It reminded me that there was a big deal over the polio vaccine back when I was a JW kid - many local JWs bought into a rumor that it was somehow made from blood.

  Funny stuff, JWoods.

  There are actually two poliomyelitis vaccines.

  IPV. In 1952, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine around an inactivated (Dead) version of the virus. (The viral RNA has been destroyed and all that's left is the protein shell.) This was administered as an injection

  OPV. In the early 60's a more effective vaccine was developed around a live attenuated version of the virus. (The virus has been severely weakened through mutatation.) Albert Sabin generally gets the credit for this because the viral strains he developed are the ones that were actually used. This was administered orally.

  The Sabin vaccine is more effective because a live virus provokes a much stronger immune response, but it's also more dangerous in theory because there is a very slim chance that the vaccine itself will actually infect someone with a weak immune system.

  The Salk vaccine was administered in a vehicle of human albumin (0.5% by volume) and also contained ~1 ppm of Bovine serum from the manufacturing process.
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  notverylikely

  Thanks for this Marvin. It truly boggles the mind how they can pretend to know anything.