From:	rabiola <rabiola@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Giving blood in 205X: common or rare?
Date:	Sun, 24 May 1998 17:04:49 -0500

>> > 2/ I don't think people bother about giving their blood, even in
SR. Most
>> > joe citizens don't know anything about rituals, blood magic and
other
>> > things like this.
>
>I agree here overall. Sure, there are the movies and the trids. But,
as I
>recently ran into with a UPS driver and his family. He has been
teaching his
>kids that "this isn't real, it's only a movie", but unfortunately they
haven't
>learned just yet the difference between a "News Show" and a "Movie/TV
>Episode". Desensitization works wonders, even in the nightmarish
sense.
>
>Oh, and BTW, the "Festival de Muertos" that is mentioned in the Will of
>Dunkelzahn has a LOT to do with how much respect for the dead and the
giving
>of life's value is placed upon such. Among that is "Ritual
Bloodletting". So
>yes, even Aztlan, "Blood Donations" are most likely a pretty common
thing.
>
>Hell, with the topic of "Essence Balance" within a body being such a
BIG topic
>to a magician, it would probably be imperative that good donors be
found, or
>clonal samples be required. Trust sometimes falls to the side in the
realm of
>topics when it comes to the Desire to Live after all.
>


Just a thought, but it seems to me that the blood of a real person would
have much more "power" in if for ritual uses than would clonal types.
Also, seems to me that the different metatypes would have their own
types. Just a lay man's opinion, one who donates platlets/plasma on a
fairly regular basis.

Tony Rabiola rabiola@**.netcom.com
Fourth and Sixth World Adept
Still working on the Fifth...