Dat i dnt knw ...al i knw z dat blood transfusion is use to save a lyf.

Can we ever take responsibility for our actions ,decisions,choices and character in Africa

We have so glorified superstition that every thing that happens is because something spiritual has happened

Africa please emancipate yourself from mental slavery

Ingrained spirituality and religion infused with Tribalism is the reason why education is wasted in Africa!!!

only in Africa will you find a man with a Ph.D blaming demons from his village and is ancestors for his problems and will then go to an uneducated ritualist or a dropout who has formed a church for deliverance.

This is why we Africans/Nigerians should embrace indepth research culture. The medical researchers can study this claim (s) while the psychological people can do same independently.

IMO, the blood does not have any characteristic traits. It could all be psychological.

kevoh:
It is more a psychological thing. Your friend needs a psychologist. Your friend has this idea/belief which he has nursed over time after being discharged from the hospital and his mind is now messing up with him. From a scientific standpoint, I doubt if there is any scientific evidence that supports this idea if any one has seen any, he should kindly bring it forward so we all can learn from it. If such idea were true, I'm certain receiving blood donation from the top richest business men and philanthropists in the world go make sense na.

or from cronlado

kevoh:


Different parts (cortex, hypothalamus e.t.c) of the brain control human behaviour not blood cells. The red blood cells carry oxygen, the white cells fight infections and the platelets are responsible for the clotting of blood. These cells have nothing to do with supporting Man utd or using swear words. If anyone has a counter point on the above, he/she should present for us to learn a thing or two.

You are right. Just that you only mentioned the blood cells and their functions. Blood also constitute plasma proteins, enzymes, electrolytes , but I'm not sure if that could lead to such changes due to transfusion as the op claimed. This is interesting indeed

Mosquitoes suck my blood on daily basis and am yet to see any of them becoming gentle and kind as i am...



Chai..... sometimes i imagine how many of us would have gotten HIV/Hep. B if those two deadly diseases were to be transmitted by mosquito bites!

Anyone that came close to dying will have similar tots, I knw he's thinking life is vanity, hed rather enjoy life than dying a boring jackass

Then Op is High cos scientifically that's impossible, i mean he can get diseases from the blood but it can't affect his ACT,unless they have reset or changed his brain cos i'm certain that most part of our actions is been determined by our brain, religiously it can be possible but that i can't provide any points..

kevoh:

You sure? here's the OP's post!

Emescot:
Yeah i think this is right somehow, thats why when some guys have unprotected sex with an oloriburuku, they too become oloriburuku.

lol

kevoh:
It is more a psychological thing. Your friend needs a psychologist. Your friend has this idea/belief which he has nursed over time after being discharged from the hospital and his mind is now messing up with him. From a scientific standpoint, I doubt if there is any scientific evidence that supports this idea if any one has seen any, he should kindly bring it forward so we all can learn from it. If such idea were true, I'm certain receiving blood donation from the top richest business men and philanthropists in the world go make sense na.

You don't need Nigeria politicians blood transmission or Dogara Padding's blood?

pembisco:

You are right. Just that you only the mentioned blood cells and their functions. Blood also constitute plasma proteins, enzymes, electrolytes , but I'm not sure if that could lead to such changes due to transfusion as the op claimed. This is interesting indeed

Yeah I mentioned only blood cells and not the plasma part because I was responding to this particular post below:

goldfish80:

But it could be more than what you think. There are cells present in the blood, the question is if these cells convey character traits which could be transferable?

goldfish80:
This past week, I went to see a friend who had about 7 separate blood transfusions within the 2 months he spent at the hospital due to severe loss of blood.
In our discussion which spanned about 2hrs, he told me he feels like he has about 7 multiple people living inside of him since the series of blood transfusions.

Knowing him as a moderate Christian, I couldn't exactly comprehend how possible this could be and I tried arguing with him how impossible it sounds and from the scientific point of view, but he stood his ground and pointed to me how much he has changed which scares him.
He mentioned some character changes he noticed since the blood transfusions which he suspects could be picked up from the blood donors were smoking ( a habit he detests with passion, but suddenly developed a compelling urge to smoke since the transfusions), using swear words and gutter languages which he would never use before, suddenly developed interest in Man utd and the premiership. These and about 4 other character traits he mentioned.

I decided to create a thread to seek opinions from the scientific and religious view point.
could character traits be picked up from blood donors?
I know Jehova witness doctrine forbids blood transfusion, could this be their reason?

I would like to hear the experience of those who have been recipient of blood through IVR.
All opinions are welcomed.

Blood transfusion would give me the chills though I would do it in case of an emergency.

The life of a person is in the blood. It's actually someone's whole genes getting inside your blood stream and mixing with your genes. But at least they get destroyed by the body after some time so it's only temporary.

This is a sensitive topic. My son was admitted in the Hospital and the Doctor said he needs blood. I refuse to comply with his request for blood for my son. After two days the blood shoot up miraculously.

The life of the flesh is in the blood. Whenever you consume blood, you are consuming the life of that individual. That explains why most carnivores are very strong e.g tiger, lion, eagle etc.

Cheers.

Seriousboy:


You don't need Nigeria politicians blood transmission or Dogara Padding's blood?

O boy wetin I want use criminals blood do na?

buke frnt seat wit pop corn

justmenoni:
Then Op is High cos scientifically that's impossible, i mean he can get diseases from the blood but it can't affect his ACT,unless they have reset or changed his brain cos i'm certain that most part of our actions is been determined by our brain, religiously it can be possible but that i can't provide any points..

At the phrase in bold, if you can not provide any points (or empirical proof) then you should/can not make such bold claim.

goldfish80:
This past week, I went to see a friend who had about 7 separate blood transfusions within the 2 months he spent at the hospital due to severe loss of blood.
In our discussion which spanned about 2hrs, he told me he feels like he has about 7 multiple people living inside of him since the series of blood transfusions.

Knowing him as a moderate Christian, I couldn't exactly comprehend how possible this could be and I tried arguing with him how impossible it sounds and from the scientific point of view, but he stood his ground and pointed to me how much he has changed which scares him.
He mentioned some character changes he noticed since the blood transfusions which he suspects could be picked up from the blood donors were smoking ( a habit he detests with passion, but suddenly developed a compelling urge to smoke since the transfusions), using swear words and gutter languages which he would never use before, suddenly developed interest in Man utd and the premiership. These and about 4 other character traits he mentioned.

I decided to create a thread to seek opinions from the scientific and religious view point.
could character traits be picked up from blood donors?
I know Jehova witness doctrine forbids blood transfusion, could this be their reason?

I would like to hear the experience of those who have been recipient of blood through IVR.
All opinions are welcomed.

Jehovah Witness crew, over to you...

God bless the OP i like topics that make me do some research and learn everyday. What I read summarized below:
https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S37/52/79C38/index.xml?section=topstories

The lead author of the study was Meredith Meyer, a
research fellow in psychology at the University of
Michigan. Other members of the research team were
Susan Gelman and Sarah Stilwell of Michigan. The
findings were recently published in the journal Cognitive
Science.
Leslie said the idea for the study came from a
conversation she had with her collaborators at Michigan
about author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of
the Creeping Man."
In the story, said Leslie, Sherlock Holmes investigates a
famous professor's increasingly mysterious behavior.
"The professor has become aggressive, proficient at
climbing; his knuckles have thickened, and so on.
Holmes figures out that in order to stay youthful, the
professor — who is, as it turns out, is seeing a much
younger woman — has been injecting himself with a
serum derived from monkeys. As a result, the professor
has taken on the characteristics of the monkeys.
"This seemed to us a vivid fictional illustration of
essentialist thinking: the belief that a serum — or blood,
or an organ — transferred from one individual to another
could cause the recipient to become more like the
donor," Leslie said.
From the article, you might get one or two traits from a blood donor especially if you have different character.

goldfish80:

Thanks for this.
Your logic tallies. He said the multi personality lasted for awhile.
I will like to hear personal experiences of blood recipients in this forum. If the mods could help publicise this thread, it will go alomg way.

my brother's wife have never had a househelp that could stay 6 months, after a serious blood transfusion during her last child delivery, the woman has turned to another person. her current househelp is 2yrs and going. even my mother asked if it cud be the transfusion. one thing to note is that science knows very little in human related issues. like science cannot explain charms but yet it exists and works albeit inconsistently

kevoh:
O boy wetin I want use criminals blood do na?

To go to national assembly or aso rock and governor to talk the way they does.

check my signature and make some extra cool cash.

What more can i say, when a yoruba pastor must have worked on ur brain, every thing sounds spiritual to you. Sorry for ur friend tho.

I think we should go into spiritual aspect,

Am not sure and stand to be corrected but I can remember in biology we were told the bone marrow produces blood and they blood dies after a short while maybe a week or a month am not sure and the process continues . But when one loses a lot of blood, the bone marrow production can not meet up with the volume needed and hence the need for blood transfusion. But after a while this blood cells die too when the bone marrow had picked up its work and the PCV has increased so the person will now have just his own blood circulating. So whether a weed man gave him blood or not, if he is still smoking after two months , then he is a natural junky looking for who to blame for his habit

Absolutely Yes! Dere is much more abt it 2 tell. Dere are some geneology dat ave witches or wizard in dier blood stream and it used 2 pass down frm generation 2 anoda, so if dey see som1 or somtin 2 ignite it, it wil fashion out. And so many other things e.t.c

kevoh:


Different parts (cortex, hypothalamus e.t.c) of the brain control human behaviour not blood cells. The red blood cells carry oxygen, the white cells fight infections and the platelets are responsible for the clotting of blood. These cells have nothing to do with supporting Man utd or using swear words. If anyone has a counter point on the above, he/she should present for us to learn a thing or two.

Don't rule all out. If DNA can be traced through a drop of blood, then a whole lots of things can happen. This is beyond human comprehension. All I know is that blood is thicker than water.

LastProphet:


my brother's wife have never had a househelp that could stay 6 months, after a serious blood transfusion during her last child delivery, the woman has turned to another person. her current househelp is 2yrs and going. even my mother asked if it cud be the transfusion. one thing to note is that science knows very little in human related issues. like science cannot explain charms but yet it exists and works albeit inconsistently

Its not the transfusion but the traumatic experience she went through during the process that warranted a blood transfusion. People change

I think it's possible. Blood is something quite sacred... On an elementary level, our character, body shape, features, eywl colours, etc are determined by DNA's and these DNA's are found in one of the components of blood. So mayb one of the donors traits was quite dominant over the recipient's recessive trait. For the fact that you cant scientifically prove it doesn't meant it is false. Science is nothing but man's way of understanding physical & metaphysical phenomena so for the fact that science is yet to get to that level of understanding, doesn't mean it false (afterall there was when people say you wrong to think the earth is spherical until it was scientifically proven). Further more, since children sometimes behave like their parents even before they get to age of learning (eg...an introvert parents most times gives birth to new born baby's that rarely cry) only by mere fusion of their sperm and egg which is not part of the main components of a life force(blood, breath) then what more about when there is a fusion of some else's blood in your system??

So yes, I think it's possible to pick up some traits from a donor. Though not in all cases

#JustMyOpinion

cos i wouldn't say any points doesn't mean it's not possible, we ain't in a court of law so don't pressurize me though.

kevoh:

At the phrase in bold, if you can not provide any points (or empirical proof) then you should/can not make such bold claim.

Abeg u people should leave this Mumu mentality , does he wants to die ? It's blood transfusion and not spirit transfusion .. !!

freemile2ru:

Its not the transfusion but the traumatic experience she went through during the process that warranted a blood transfusion. People change

my brother a 40-year old woman cannot change, please dont follow only science, spirits are as real as the phone handset in ur hand