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Or, why you should never watch a short independent film about Jehovah's Witnesses on PBS, in between episodes of the "Hellsing" anime.
My mom watched the JW doumentary the other night: pretty good and pretty neutral about JW-ism (the guy who filmed it was raised JW, but he's now an agnostic). Much of it dealt with a young man who'd grown up JW getting a liver transplant without a blood transfusion (and JWs, based on their slightly odd interpretation of a verse in Exodus, don't *do* transfusions); seems that there's a lot of research and experimental surgery being done to find a way to perform lengthy operations without giving the patient a transfusion, since there's been so many problems with contaminated donor blood. Plus, it would allow JWs to have their belief respected by medical professionals (however impractical it may seem to me or anyone else who thinks that way. Me, I'd rather have the transfusion, tankswerrimuch).
Which got me to thinking... what do you do if you're a JW who got cornered by a vampire that turned you? I suppose you'd be flat-out disfellowshipped, and/or your former brothers and sisters in faith would be either trying to find a cure for you or they'd be trying to stake you. I smell an idea for a novel or a short-story, but I'm concerned it might displease some JWs. Hell, why should I worry? How many of them read that kind of stuff anyway, I wonder?
My mom watched the JW doumentary the other night: pretty good and pretty neutral about JW-ism (the guy who filmed it was raised JW, but he's now an agnostic). Much of it dealt with a young man who'd grown up JW getting a liver transplant without a blood transfusion (and JWs, based on their slightly odd interpretation of a verse in Exodus, don't *do* transfusions); seems that there's a lot of research and experimental surgery being done to find a way to perform lengthy operations without giving the patient a transfusion, since there's been so many problems with contaminated donor blood. Plus, it would allow JWs to have their belief respected by medical professionals (however impractical it may seem to me or anyone else who thinks that way. Me, I'd rather have the transfusion, tankswerrimuch).
Which got me to thinking... what do you do if you're a JW who got cornered by a vampire that turned you? I suppose you'd be flat-out disfellowshipped, and/or your former brothers and sisters in faith would be either trying to find a cure for you or they'd be trying to stake you. I smell an idea for a novel or a short-story, but I'm concerned it might displease some JWs. Hell, why should I worry? How many of them read that kind of stuff anyway, I wonder?