I just asked a follow up question. You bible references seems to refer primarily to "eating" / "consuming" blood. Hence my pointing out that "transfusion" is not that.
So your answer is "no", you can't even use your own blood to give it to yourself when you need it.
This, in and of itself, shoots a MASSIVE hole in your entire argumentation.
Because throughout this thread, you have been trying to rationalize this stance on blood transfusion by trying to attack the medical idea behind it. By trying to point out problems with your body not accepting it, immunity going out of wack due to "foreign" cells being introduced into your bloodstream, etc etc etc... ALL of it, every single argument given, becomes wholly irrelevant once you become your OWN donor of blood.
So really, we can see that this has NOTHING to do with rational arguments against the medical aspect of it, and EVERYTING with irrational religious beliefs about it.
That's it.
I wonder why you go so out of your way trying to argue from the medical standpoint, while clearly that has nothing to do with JW objection to the practice of blood transfusion - since every single one of these 'arguments' becomes completely irrelevant once you are your own donor.
If those 'arguments' are
really the reason for objecting to it, then you should have no problem with it in case you are your own donor.
So for future reference, let's not play that silly game where you pretend as if the problems with the procedure are the rationalization of it, because it matters not at all, clearly.
Off course, the majority of your "objections" from a medical standpoint are already nonsensical because they are based in ignorance and misrepresentation. But even IF we were to accept them at face-value, every single one of those problems would no longer be problems when YOU are your OWN donor.
But even then, you object to it.
This tells us that
it doesn't matter at all how safe or unsafe it is. What matters, is what you believe religiously.
Blood transfusion could be 110% safe in 100% of cases. We could imagine a world where blood is a straightforward universally compatible thing, with no such things as "blood types", with no such things as any kind of "contamination" whatsoever. We could imagine a world where blood is as universal for people as simple water or oxygen is, and STILL you'ld be against it, simply because of what you believe religiously.
So.... let's stop pretending. Let's stop trying to rationalize it with wacky arguments from ignorance concerning the medical context. Let's just be honest and say it like it is: it is purely a religious thingy, with no grounding in observable reality whatsoever.
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