Blood issu

by happy man 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • happy man
    happy man

    I find this on an US site fore religius disskusion,

    June 14, 2000, Wednesday, FINAL

    SECTION: News; A1 / Front

    LENGTH: 531 words

    HEADLINE: Jehovah's Witnesses okay blood transfusions

    BYLINE: Ruth Gledhill and Petti Fong

    BODY:
    Jehovah's Witnesses are to be allowed to accept blood transfusions after an extraordinary U-turn by leaders of the
    controversial religion.

    Elders have decreed that Jehovah's Witnesses who accept blood transfusions under life-or-death conditions will no longer
    face excommunication from their religion.

    The move represents the biggest climbdown in the movement since the predicted Armageddon failed to materialize as forecast in
    1975. The decision, arrived at by a secret meeting of the 12-member world governing body at the movement's headquarters in
    New York, was dismissed as a ''slight adjustment'' by the religion's leaders.

    This muste bee some form of missunderrstanding , or what?

    perhaps it is that we can not dfd persons whotake blood, but the GB told us to look at them as dfd ,

    i have some weak memory that we have this info on some eldermeting, some here who now?

    then I reead a lot of this Hemopure, what is Hemopure,never heard of it?

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  • A Paduan
    A Paduan

    If it was about eating vegetables even the borg would have looked further into it long ago - fact is, most people aren't into blood, so it's not too hard to put people off it.

    But in the information age, even the dubs will see an end to it - soon enough transfusions will be accepted, not just tolerated, and more so as people in science work to make it even safer - funny thing how that 'new light' just keeps coming.

    paduan

    Edited by - A paduan on 1 September 2002 18:54:4

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  • Farkel
    Farkel

    happy,

    It's not true.

    Farkel

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  • ISP
    ISP

    Thats some feedback following the June 15 WT QFR on blood. The article you quoted was not quite right. The WTS have not U-Turned on blood.

    ISP

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  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    The article is ALMOST correct... it is true that a person will not be disfellowshipped for accepting blood. HOWEVER... the person will be recognized as having disassociated himself.

    The consequences of being DFed and DAing oneself are one and the same: Shunning.

    (Edited to correct grammar)

    Edited by - Elsewhere on 1 September 2002 19:8:23

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  • sunshineToo
    sunshineToo

    Happy, are you related to comfy the Comforter? For some reason you remind me of him.

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