Infinite MonkeysEveryone knows Tom Cruise is a weird f**ker, right? And Scientologists are all weird f**kers too?
Okay. Then this won't sound so weird (From Acess Hollywood):
Tom and Katie are likely to follow the church's "silent birth" guidelines during delivery [of their spawn], which means no music and no talking during the birth, which also means no screaming during the pains of labor for the mom-to-be.
Really? No screams of pain? How goddamned brainwashed do you have to be to tell your wife to shut the f**k up while she's birthing a baby?
The doctrine also states that newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or even spoken to for the first seven days of their lives, believing that babies go through so much pain during the birth, they shouldn't have to experience any further discomfort or sensory experience that could return later in life to haunt them.
Well at least the kid will have some peace and quiet for awhile before he/she has to spend the next 18 years listening the the inane babble of these two losers. Sad.
I tell you, this Scientology cult is just messed up.
Posted by JamesPh. at April 12, 2006 11:14 PMOK, how messed up is that?? Don't talk to your baby for the first seven days?? Uh, I don't know about the rest of you sentient beings out there, but here's what I take from these "silent birth" instructions:
1. (Babies recognize their parents' voices from the womb. So...) Let's refuse to let babies hear the voices they know and recognize in order to get them over a trauma.
2. The best way to deal with a traumatic experience, when you've got no idea what's going on, is to be subjected to the silent treatment.
3. One of the most painful experiences known to (wo)man should be endured without medication and without making a sound - and without any kind of distraction, so you can pay FULL attention to the pain.
Riiiiiight.
Is that a cuckoo clock in the background or has Cruise come back into the room?
Posted by: The Random Yak at April 13, 2006 12:18 PMScientology- the collected ravings of a lunatic. Or is that Islam?
Posted by: Exeye at April 13, 2006 08:38 PMTom just recently said he was going to eat the placenta right afte the birth. Weirder and weirder.
Posted by: John Hay at April 18, 2006 07:48 PM