I'm so curious about what happens at a scientology wedding. (Although not curious enough to read about it.) Anyone out there with info???
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something about a cat, a pan, and a comb being promised for "the girl", and something about "young men should be free and may forget their promises." so effed up I don't know where to start
Yeah, she's clearly bending her knees to look shorter.
Yeah, Sophist is right - there's weird crap about combs and men being flaky. From beliefnet.com:
Scientology wedding ceremonies are collected in "The Background, Ministry, Ceremonies & Sermons of the Scientology Religion." The book has five versions of the wedding ceremony: traditional, Informal, Single Ring, Double Ring, and Concise Double Ring. In the 1950s, L. Ron Hubbard wrote wedding vows that stress the mutual needs of the couple, now referred to as Scientology’s "traditional ceremony." They include such quaint advice to the groom as "Now Tom, girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat. All caprice if you will, but still they need them," and to the bride: "Hear well, sweet Katie, for promise binds. Young men are free and may forget. Remind him that you may have necessities and follies, too."
There are other, less formal ceremonies. In one of the less traditional variations, the double ring ceremony, the Scientology minister holds up the couple’s rings and asks them to imagine a triangle inside them, with Scientology’s core principles—affinity, reality, and communication—as the triangle’s points. The couple is asked to follow these principles in their relationship.
Any man who tries to give me a cat is getting whapped upside the head. Those things make me wheeze.
Honestly, to me it sounds as though the entire thing is an exercise in improv, and Tom's just making it up as he goes along. That's where we get all the eye-rolling moments like "silent birth" and the giving of cats.
Next up, a baptism in twinkies for Suri!
Grrr, you should whip out your Twinkie Cookbook and make a baptismal font for them!
This is my favorite wedding photo (courtesy of Dlisted.com). Tom Cruise's daughter looks as old at Katie Holmes
http://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/cruise2.jpg
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