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Cruise: I'll eat placenta
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FoxyKaye said:Actually, what I found more disturbing was the Scientologist practice of "silent birth." Like L. Ron Hubbard ever actually gave birth...
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This part makes sence, most people don't know how to deal with pain very well.
People think that pain is something to panic about and that you can't control it, the opposite is true, you control pain by just pushing it to the back of your mind.
I used to be a bit of a softie, but my wife has taught me otherwise, I can walk 20 miles in a morning through the mountains with bleeding feet, I once sat in a canyon for 5 hours waiting to be resuced with a dislocated ankle and broken tibia and fibia (the whole bottom of my leg was at right angles sideways), got a bunch of metal in there now and another time chopped the end off my little finger. No crying or screaming from me, you just push pain to the back of your mind, easy.
My wife is hard as nails though, she gave birth to our daughter with no painkillers or drugs at all and she didn't make any sound except when she finally pushed little Keisha out and then she only made a bit of a grunt, she said she only grunted because she had to push really hard and not because of the pain.
But eating placenta, man I've seen that stuff come out and I wouldn't eat that for a million dollars, well maybe I would for a million dollars, but I'd want to see the money first.
Yeah - I happened to move over to yahoo just after going through this thread and there it was. Apparently they want peace in the Middle East...its a Hebrew/Persian name or something like that.max_altitude said:Oh wow, I didn't know that she had given birth.
Suri is an interesting name, and I just googled it to see what it meant. I laughed when the first thing that came up was "Suri Network" which is all about alpacas.
Silent birth is keeping the room quiet, not the mother. Suri means "princess" in Hebrew, and red rose" in Persian. Linky-poo.
According to CNN: "The name Suri has its origins in Hebrew, meaning "princess," or in Persian, meaning "red rose."
A perfect name for someone who'll have to spend her entire life apologizing for her father's bizarre behavior.
"Hello, I'm Suri."
"Yeah, so are we."
A perfect name for someone who'll have to spend her entire life apologizing for her father's bizarre behavior.
"Hello, I'm Suri."
"Yeah, so are we."
I think it is important (like others have posted) to retain a certain level of cultural relativity-- food, that is, items people in a given society deem edible, is a culturally constructed system.2nyRiggz said:Thats just nasty...
The Yanomamo of South America were horrifed at one anthropologist who ate his meat medium rare as well as when he ate peanut butter and crackers.
I don't see what the big deal is. I am sure you don't see me eating placenta, but this is part of what he believes, or atleast something he wants to do. Who can it really hurt? If he likes the taste, or atleast thinks he should do this, then why should it matter? It shouldn't, atleast not in my humble take on the issue.
I'd try it. Apparently it is supposed to be a bit like black pudding as it is quite vascular. I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. The bigger question is what sauce would you eat with that: mint is to lamb, horseradish to beef, apple to pork, cranberry to turkey, XXXXXX to human.
Please don't say ketchup - just because it goes with everything doesn't make it right!
Please don't say ketchup - just because it goes with everything doesn't make it right!
Even more important – which wine would go best with placenta? It would be all too easy to make an embarrassing faux pas when one's entertaining...jimN said:
I honestly think he beats Katie. I use to love Tom cruise when I was younger but now hes just turned into a egotisticle (SP) maniac. Hes ***** crazy.
It's just the media telling you what to think. He didn't really eat the placenta, and he never planned to.
Except it's more than just tolerating pain - if it were just that, I wouldn't find it so creepy, just in the sense that it's an odd way of silencing women. Folks handle pain in all sorts of ways, some grit their teeth and others scream. But "silent birth" is also about not breast feeding, isolating the baby immediately after birth, and a whole host of other stuff that reminds me of The Handmaid's Tale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology#Silent_birth_and_infant_careThe Mad Kiwi said:
Silent birth is done so as not to associate words or commands with the pain during childbirth. Scientologists believe that during such moments of pain or painful emotion, words and commands spoken are recorded into the mind and affect a person's thinking when a person is later reminded of the incident.
It is fully explained in the book Dianetics.
It is fully explained in the book Dianetics.
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Phobophobia said:
Scientologists are more insane than I thought.
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Actually, it's acknowledged by many psychologists that there is a subconscious part of the mind that causes reactions when put under stress. Scientologists are able to explain this further.yg17 said:
According to them, part of the mind records painful moments called "incidents". The part of the mind that records them is called the "reactive mind". Pain stored in incidents that were recorded by the reactive mind will affect a person's thinking when reminded of the incident.
Here is an example: A person is stung by a bee at an early age. Immediately the reactive mind begins to record everything that is going on. The color of the bee, the feeling of being stung, the disappointment and crying, his mother's voice saying "What happened?" and other things going at the time are all recorded.
Later on in life, whenever that person sees a bee he feels sad, afraid and is reminded of the pain of being stung. It is caused by the reactive mind. As are many other irrational phobias.