Why do some people drink blood on purpose?
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I drink blood on purpose because I find that it helps me with feeling stressed out, or sometimes I just can't help it. It really tastes good - I find that blood type B is the sweetest to me. Maybe I'm just partial to it because I am a blood type B myself XD\n\nTo me, blood is just... Different from most other foods. Its really awesome. When my boyfriend had two of his teeth out to make room in the mouth for braces, the wounds wouldn't stop bleeding. I kissed him then, and all the blood from his mouth flowed into mine - it just tasted great.\n\nIt also helps stressed out feelings, like re-injecting more energy into yourself to face a brand new day. Some may call it a placebo, maybe? But whatever it is, it varies within the individuals.\n\nDrinking blood doesn't automatically make you a vampire!
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I've met several. \n\n First, there are the energy vampires. Everyone gets their energy in different ways if they use any kind of well, power, for lack of a better term. I'm lucky- I get mine from the earth. Some people, however, get it from other people. This is only a problem if they don't know they're doing it. The unconsious energy suckers will drain and drain and never stop and never give back. You've met them, I'm sure- people who for no obvious reason are exhausting to be around. If they know they're doing it, it can be a pleasurable experience for both parties, and they won't overdo it. \n\nThere are also the modern blood drinkers. Many of these are people who drink blood to get the energy from it, but they may also drain energy psychically as well. Many of them base their outward demeanor on famous blood users of the past such as Countess Elisabet Bathory (sorry- her name was not "bloody mary") who was perhaps the most prolific serial killer in history- or Vlad Dracul (Dracula) who is regarded in his country as a great hero- not a monster. \n\nMany folkloric stories about vampires are based on diseases, actually. Slavic folklore does not distinguish between a werewolf and a vampire. Anemia could lead one to appear undead and to crave iron, and some disfigurements can lead one to look somewhat like an animal. \n\nSome kinds of fair folk in Western European folklore have been known to drink blood, as well. As for these and the traditional shapechanging, blood drinking vampires- I haven't seen them, but I don't discredit the stories entirely. The world is a weird place.
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Not in the sense of the popular literature. There are people out there that THINK they are real vampires and can be somewhat dangerous, but they don't need blood, they need treatment.
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your right, its used to reduce the swelling and also stop the bleeding. it's kept in ice and its the cold that reduces the swelling and helps to thicken the blood which slows down the bleeding.
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They can, but through faith choose not to.  It should be mentioned that only 13% of those refusing blood are witnesses.  The Bible says the blood is the soul, so by taking a blood transfusion, you are infusing someone else's soul into yourself.  The Bible also teaches not to take in blood.\n\nMany great medical achievements have happened as a result of their refusals.  Doctors had to develop methods to avoid excess blood loss, always a good idea.  UCLA now does bloodless liver transplants.  \n\n100% of people taking blood experience side affects.  Blood transfusions lowers the immunal response, with large transfusions used to shut down the immune system for transplants.  The immunal response is a lot like that of AIDS.  If you get sick after a transmission, its with a rare illness, not a common one.\n\nIn England, the blood supply is no longer considered safe, due to mad cow disease.  Anyone under 18 can only receive a transfusion of blood imported from America.
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because soft drinks are extremely acidic, paramedics sometimes use it to clean blood off of things including off the street
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it all depends on whom you asks. \nthey say vampires are those people who drink blood. but there are people who drinks blood. some says they drink it because it can give extra ordinary power. just like an assassin in our place a very long time ago. he drinks human blood to muster his strenght and kill somebody. We also eat "dinuguan" which is a cuisine with pig's blood, meat and other internal organs, which is very delicious too. And if you call a person that is asleep in day time and awake in night time is a vampire, how about people with insomnia?\nif you ask somebody with a third eye or a parapsychologist, they will say they believe in ghosts, and how about to those people who can't see ghost, definitely they will say they don't believe in ghosts.\nAbout god, answers will also vary depending on their religions. They say there is only one god, another religion says there are a lots of god, and probably some religion they don't have god but prophets or something. How about a cult or atheist? they don't believe in god.\nTo sum it all up, it all depends on the person you're asking, because for them their answers are correct, precise and based from their experiences.
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yeap.. but they are not the same from a couple of years ago... they still drink ur blood if you offered it to them.. pretty cool
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Sometimes you need a lech to suck out the poison.\nIt is cost effective. But bleeding, purging and vomiting do have there consequences!!
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It is a depressant. It relaxes your judgement and ability to reason (hence the stupid decisions that can result from drinking). It also relaxes your inhibitions, the thing that tells you not to do or say something wrong.\n\nIt is a poison, and that is why your kidneys and liver filter it out of your body. If you drink faster than your organs can filter out the poison, you will automatically throw up to eject the excess poison.
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I believe it is a personal choice, I give blood as i am B positive, I am also on the bone marrow transplant reg, i have left my innards to ever who wants them,  Over the years I have donated over 50 pints of blood.\nYour question is very deep, peoples beliefs are precious to them, think of all the people that want to donate, blood and organs can not because of health issues and religion.\n Two questions for you do you give Blood/plasma are you on the donor register,\nAs my friend can not give blood anymore every other pint i donate i do it for her.
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Because you drink.  Way too much, I imagine.
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a person that checks the flo* in your bottom?\n\n\nThey are Blood people, that draw and take yo* blood..
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One of the various functions of the spleen is a store house for blood.  In the event you have a sudden drop in blood pressure due to the loss of blood or some other form of shock, it can in effect increase your circulating blood volume by forcing blood from the organ into the blood vessels.  It's sort of like giving yourself a transfusion in an emergency.
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I read a whole book of supposed  instances of spontaneous human combustion, and most of the time it was caused by excess drinking in a hot room or near a fireplace. It kinda makes sense because the amount of alcohol in your blood could cause you to be more flammable. Again, none of this is proven scientifically.
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Gen. 9:4 says: "Only flesh with its soul--its blood--you must not eat." \n\nOdindmar says: "Getting a blood transfusion is not eating. It is injected into your system in order to save your life. Not an act against God's will." This is not true. In a hospital, when a patient cannot eat through his mouth, he is fed intravenously. Now, would a person who never put blood into his mouth but who accepted blood by transfusion really be obeying the command to "keep abstaining froom...blood? (Acts 15:29) To use a comparison, consider a man who is told by the doctor that he must abstain from alcohol. Would he be obedient if he quit drinking alcohol but had it put directly in his veins?
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I think he meant in lieu of a free lunch by other means (and mostly likely a dig on your mutual employer for not offering said free lunch).  I could be wrong but the expression, I believe, originated from the fact that some blood centers offer donors a free lunch when donating.  Work bleeds you dry...ergo they should offer you a blood lunch.  That's how I would have read the comment anyway....