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isaacbowman writes "Dr. Charles Bridges, a Pennsylvania Hospital cardiologist, says says regarding new bloodless surgery options - "Among the benefits are reductions in recovery time, hospital stay, cost and complications -- as well as an estimated $20,000 in savings per patient." Advances in medicine have made this possible and Dr. Bridges also says, "There's no downside to it that we can see, and there's certainly no downside that's been documented." Dr. Patricia Ford, director of Pennsylvania Hospital's Center for Bloodless Medicine & Surgery, further states, why blood transfusions are dangerous, saying that they are "like getting a transplant; they can be risky and should be a last resort.""
An image of 144,000 Jehovah Witnesses leaping for joy.
*lol*
I know this is off topic, but when seeing the parent posts being modded down, I had to try to put their reactions into perspective. They have come out of a belief where you are taught that God is going to destroy the world. Contact with outsiders is strongly discouraged outside of business/preaching to them. And if you leave the religion, contact with all members, friends inside is forbidden. It is extremely strict.
1 142efa3cead5e738c1a9774d22f47 .. and this is really just a start.
Perhaps this small list of the many, many support and recovery groups out there will give people who are actually interested an idea.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/default.ashx
http://www.jehovahswitnessonline.com/
http://www.network54.com/Forum/128637/
http://www.kent.steinhaug.no/forum/index.php?s=6d
http://b26.ezboard.com/bexjehovahswitnessforum
http://www.towerwatch.com/phpBB//
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/CanXJW/
Not my intention to start a flame war, but this IS important to put into perspective. There are thousands of people who suffer in silence. I'm an ex-victim myself.
Hey, do you think that between clutching to stone-age beliefs and handing out your crappy magazines to people, you could learn to spell ARTICLE properly? I mean, ARE-TEE-KAL sounds retarded, even for a religious person.
The Jehovahs Witnesses are a cult, countless people have died as a result of their foolish blood policy. While there may be some risks with blood transfusions there may not always be the equipment needed for bloodless surgery if you are in an accident. They banned their followers from vaccines and organ transplants many years ago then changed their mind a few decades later. The only reason they maintin their dangerous blood policy is because if they changed their mind their organization The Watchtower and Bible Tract Society would be sued out of existence by the relatives of the people they have murdered. They also sue websites that host evidence that exposes their ever changing doctrines and abuse of their followers.
Here are some sites about what the JWs really get up to:
http://www.silentlambs.org/
http://www.reexamine.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/
godless scum? ...dumber than a monkey?
dear asshole...you're a great example of the hate-filled religious self-righteous that people want to escape from.
like the poster implied...no big loss in removing oneself from the likes of you...blood ties notwithstanding.
better a dumb monkey than a religious zealot with his head in the sand of his own delusions...
Funnily enough all the JWs who come-a-godbothering around these parts are clean shaven. So they're hypocrites. They believe one part of the bible but choose to ignore another. So what's the big deal with a blood transfusion? If you can choose to ignore other parts (perhaps discarding them because they are absurd), then you should be able to with transfusions. Especially when it is likely to save your life. Or your kids life.
As for JWs being able to prophecy anything... This is the group which has predicted the end of the world how many times?
According to the quote... "Dr. Charles Bridges, a Pennsylvania Hospital cardiologist, says says regarding new bloodless surgery options...
Yup, when doctors can't even get their own terminology right (Now the few are/ares that show up in my statements are purely computerized game shit, his statements make a broad generalization of human nervous systems in general on a broad level,) Shit like this scares me. I've had six years of Latin - anything you say that is Latin-based, I will fight against it if it is wrong in it's true definition - and if you refuse to recognize it - I will discredit you for everything you are worth, for ignorantly misleading our entire species, and un-necessarily putting our planet in Danger. IN OTHER WORDS I WILL KILL YOU.
And that simple promise of SELF-DEFENSE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE SS TO EVEN BOTHER ME, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP TROLLS. Our constitution says we have the right to life - they mention NO OTHER EXCEPTIONS. Choose another, safer path if you don't like the bulk of America waking up and waging war against you. (And this post is specifically designed to test for ignorant, self-destructive behaviors that show 9/11-style posts. Yes, I'm trolling for government idiots and standard non-paid idiots. If you have a problem with this intelligent trapping, then I suggest you NOT reply - as those that truly have a HUGE problem ith this will reply, and will still have no effect upon any of us that have *half* of a brain. Yes, I'm seriously trolling. Mark e sa a troll - watch your self-created society drown in it's own ignorant inhibitions.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.