Being on the outside looking for some time now, I've had many people tell me that there is no way they or their family members would ever take a blood transfusion. They have no idea what my beliefs are so are telling me this with no 'strings'. I am friends with the head of nursing in a hospital and she wouldn't allow any of her family to take blood either. What she will do is periodically store her own blood. She says most people who get blood would have made it without blood but the doctors are covering their proverbial ***.
Sorry, I don't believe you. Make sense here, why would the head of a nursing dept not allow her family to take blood? Oh, she will store her own blood. I see. So, why did you bring this up, since she will indeed take a blood transfusion? It doesn't address my comments in the least. And all those people that tell you they would never take a blood transfusion? Odd bunch you run with, but I simply don't believe you or them. Of course they would take a blood transfusion. No one, save for Jehovahs Witnesses (for the greatest part) will die rather than accept blood. Why on earth would anyone prefer to die rather than accept blood, northern girl? This does not compute. Who carries around "no blood transfusion" cards, northern girl? Your worldly friends, or your witness friends?
You really have bought into the JW propaganda about the safety of blood. You really ought to inform yourself with the facts.
And then there is the bible. I'll let you do that research yourself, but I'll touch on it in my next comment.
And then there is the accusation you make of God when you accuse him of wanting someone to die rather than live when blood will save their life. Is god so small and petty? Jesus didn't think so. Does northern girl?
Even so, I agree with the org. that the cong. must be kept clean. If they had welcomed me back while I still smoked, what would have been my incentive to clean up my act.
Uh, gee northern girl..... I guess I can't see any incentive for you to clean up your act. *said in my most bitingly sarcastic dumb guy voice, to point out how completely vapid your statement is*
Gee, I wonder how much money it cost to run an ad on national TV for your stop-smoking patch. Dummies, don't they know they are just pissing away millions of dollars. There are only a handful of df'd Jehovahs Witnesses on this planet who even have a reason to want to stop smoking.
Problem is, there is no biblical basis for disfellowshipping simply because someone smokes. I don't like smoking, but, cut a person off from their family and community because of a weakness??? ASSHOLES, go ahead, you without sin, cast the first stone. Re-frickin'-diculous. Do they df people for having a diet that will kill them and makes them look like a slothful glutton? Hipocrits, offspring of vipers.
But it's even better than that... read your bible where the idea of shunning comes from. Can you follow the bible and follow the JW method??? That would be a big NO. Also, what was the person's sin in the bible story? A man was having sex with his step-mother, and would not stop. It was outrageous and known to the community. He was, btw, reinstated in a few short months, so that he wouldn't be "overcome with grief".
