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Back in October, I blogged
about how Katie
Holmes was gearing up for a drug-free "silent birth," something practitioners of Scientology do during
childbirth. Apparently Scientolofreaks believe it is "traumatic" for babies to hear their mother scream,
moan, or make any other loud noises when giving birth. They think it can cause “psychic damage," which takes
years of therapy to overcome. Tom Cruise—"following the Scientology tradition of a silent birth" — has had six-foot tall posters (six-freakin'-feet tall, people) placed around his Beverly Hills mansion to remind Katie how to comport herself during labor. US Weekly refers Cruise's latest "directing project" as Mission Impossible 4.
One of the posters allegedly reads: “Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable…”
Just so we're all on the same page, were talking about a person (Tom Cruise) who believes that an evil alien overlord named Xenu "brought billions of frozen people to Earth 75 million years ago, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs." Their souls then attached themselves to living human bodies, and "they are the root of many problems today." Problems that only Scientology can solve.
I'm sorry, but would you let this foolio tell you how to birth your baby?
Free Katie!
[photo: Bauer-Griffin.com]
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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 2)
3-30-2006 @ 9:32AM
thordora said...I'd just like to hear what Katie has to say about all of this. THAT is what creeps me out-her seeming silence.
My husband knew my wishes for birth, and was comfortable with them. I wouldn't want to have a birth plan we weren't both cool with. We discussed it ad nauseaum before hand, and he knew my expectations. At the end of the day, I had veto.
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3-30-2006 @ 9:54AM
suzen said...I don't blame anyone for being outraged
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3-30-2006 @ 10:57AM
Ms Sisyphus said...Also from CHILD DIANETICS by LRH, "A grandparent may not be permitted into the home of the children until they learn how to behave themselves
dianetically"
Translated this means Katie's parents will not be invovled as normal grandparents until they convert.
I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe it just means that Garandparents--or anyone who is to have a meaningful role in the child's life--need to act respectfully towards the beliefs and practices in which the child is being raised. And barring an abusive situation, isn't that what most people expect when the Grands visit?
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3-30-2006 @ 11:37AM
momma2mingbu said...I'm with Ms Sisyphus - I'd give the benefit of the doubt here. "Behave themselves" may just mean respect the choices that the parents make about their child's upbringing.
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3-30-2006 @ 12:32PM
Laura Snow said...Add me to the pissed off list. Katie can make noise.. everyone ELSE needs to be silent! I wish people would stop making crap up! I don't like the 'religion' but I see no reason to make it look more horrible than it already is...
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3-30-2006 @ 12:40PM
Laura Snow said...also wanted to comment on the grandparents thing. It could also mean that if they don't convert, they can't come into the home but perhaps the child can visit the grandparents' homes?
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3-30-2006 @ 12:55PM
Zacher said...Congratulations on being the 1 billionth person to post something that, in essence, says, "Ewwww, somebody who's not the same as me!"
They're happy. They're not hurting anyone. Get over it.
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3-30-2006 @ 5:21PM
Pauline said...I wonder if Tom Cruise's mother made noise when he was born? This would explain a lot. ;-)
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3-30-2006 @ 5:21PM
Pauline said...I wonder if Tom Cruise's mother made noise when he was born? This would explain a lot. ;-)
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3-31-2006 @ 5:03AM
Michael said...what most people expect when the Grands visit?
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3-31-2006 @ 5:06PM
anna said...Pauline, that is cute.
But when he was a kid, he shuted his trap, if I am correct because of his 'strangely violent vagabond' dad and the St francis seminary and the fear to miss a step to the class. I've heard these stories about this school.
Scary nunes
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4-02-2006 @ 8:22PM
Taylor said...Does he know what he's asking? I don't believe he's ever had a child, I think Katie should scream, and also scream out of spite, than take the baby and run!
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4-07-2006 @ 11:20AM
Susan Harris said...I don't formally practice a religion. My belief is to be kind to everyone and that should come back to you. I have had 5 children, with an epidural, with "pain killers" and "au natural". I have to admit I did alot of moaning, but did not scream, even "couched" another gal while we were both in the labor room. I was confused with the epidural, didn't know which muscles I was using. I look back on it and prefer the natural births with no drugs. Concerning Tom Cruise; he was a favorite movie star of mine, now I think of him and its just gross! I wonder what got into Katie Holmes' mind. She made a statement a while back about being "virginal" til she married, didn't she? Why make those statements (check the time frame) if you give in so easily? So she had a crush on him when she was 12, didn't we all have a crush on him at one point or another? And the crazy statements they have made in public? She says, "Tom and I will always be in our newlywed phase". There are statements made out of love, and statements made out of lust.....Tom acting like he's 12 and its going to last forever...come on....He is in his 40's and "couch jumping"...."I'm not going to let woman get away"....that is more like a "stalkers statement". I suppose if he successfully brainwashes Katie, well it might work...forever. The good thing is that Tom and Nicole have set a great example of how NOT to put your children in your divorce. They are great parents!
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4-07-2006 @ 11:32AM
Susan Harris said..."coached"....I hate it when I misspell!
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4-18-2006 @ 9:47PM
davidm said...If you think $cientomogists are only ridiculous, google what happened to Lisa McPherson in the 'care' of the 'church' of $cientology - she's dead, and there was probably a lot of silence around while she died.
EllRon made his 'technologies' into a religion purely for tax-exempt $tatus in the U.S. Check 'em out. Watch the South Park episodes . . . beware.
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