by nicolaou 152 Replies latest watchtower medical
Simon, I think our difference came with your words, "There is no reason for them to be unhappy..." Yet I never see it happening that way. Every frigging story about the blood issue ends with someone being unhappy. Otherwise, we are fully on the same page.
You speak logically about the result and I refer to the emotional aspect of it.
For an adult - I would let them know beforehand that if the decision is mine I will allow a blood transfusion. If the decision was out of my hands I probably wouldn't campaign and fight for them to get a transfusion.
Child - I explained to my wife when I faded that our kids would have whatever medical treatment they needed. Regardless of her wishes. I told her, if the transfusion or medical procedure was successful, that she could curse me silently every time she hugged our living children.
I ordered blood for my mother, I was appointed her legal Guardian.
WHat's funny is the day she was hooked up receiving it, some pompous sisters dropped by to visit, of course one reported to the elders and I got a phone call. Let's just say that elders ear was probably burning and ringing a long while after he hung up the phone from what I had to say to him.
Feeding someone poison is definitely not comparable to not interfering with an adult with free will adhering to a decision made over the course of decades.
Hi rebel. I take it that's a reference to my mushroom analogy? Someone else made the same point so perhaps it's worth me clearing it up a bit. The question I asked was;
"If your mother wished to eat fatally poisonous mushrooms because some witch doctor said they'd cure her arthritis would you serve them to her?"
The point I was trying to make was that whether we acted to accommodate a JW's wishes to avoid blood or to serve up poison to a gullible parent we would be taking action that would likely result in harm, even death. What difference does it make whether one is a choice of abstinence while the other is ingestion? In both cases we would be supporting the harmful course of action.
A secondary point is that neither the Witch Doctor nor the Watchtower are qualified to offer medical advice.
Yes. After all, it's their life and their decision.
Oh, the 'blood' issue. This is one of the ways I know indoctrination runs so very deep within me: Still would not give nor take blood.
Perhaps with time that might change.
DY
Nope
I'd sign
Then get df'd for saving someone's life and dubs shunning me for saving their friends life
Ultimate cognitive dissonance
