#mass marriages

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

A former member’s story about recruiting non-members for a UC mass wedding in Korea.

A former Japanese female member of the Unification Church explained what happened when she was working for the church in Korea at the time of a UC mass wedding in the 1990s.

First some context In Japan more young women join the UC than men. Many young Japanese women are looking for more meaningful options for their lives, rather than what contemporary society is offering them. There are fewer career prospects for women, even if they have a good university degree. Traditionally Japanese women often do not have much status in marriage. Husbands frequently work long hours and socialise after work before going home. In this sometimes uninviting environment, many young women have been seduced by the ideals and propaganda of the UC. During their subsequent indoctrination they are led to feel responsible for Japanese historical “crimes” towards Korea during the 1910-1945 Japanese occupation, and consequently to feel fear for what their ancestors may have done and be suffering for. There are also not enough young men in the UC of Japan for them to marry.

In Korea there is a gender imbalance, and there are many men who have poor prospects of finding a wife. They may be not be very good-looking, or be poorly educated, unemployed, alcoholic or divorced, etc. They may have low paying jobs such as farming or driving, or unstable jobs. Most Korean women do not want to work long hours on farms. The Unification Church have been exploiting this situation for great profit. It has been reported that some individual UC leaders have made money from the ‘marriage’ business.

The problem of the behavior of these husbands has become an issue for the Korean government, who have introduced mental health checks for men before allowing them to marry foreign wives. Some men have proved to have a history of violence.

Japanese freelance writer Kenichiro Ishii: “In August 1995, I was a writer for the weekly magazine Shūkan Bunshun. I saw the words “Recruiting unmarried men and women” on the walls of the church headquarters in Seoul. This was a week before the mass wedding. In the rural outskirts of Daejeon, I talked to a thirty four year-old man who was going to participate in the wedding. I asked “Why did you become a follower?” This was his frank answer: “Because I was told by the pastor of the Unification Church that if I become a believer, I can get married.” (Shūkan Bunshun August 31, 1995 issue)” LINK

Just three days before the UC mass wedding held in Korea in the 1990s, the UC gave the former Japanese UC member the address of a Korean family. This particular family were not UC members, but they had a son who was not yet married. The members visited this family and said, “In three days time there will be a mass wedding and your son can participate and be matched and married to a bride. She may be a Japanese woman.”

The UC also gave other non-Korean members, who were looking for Korean men to come to the matching, pieces of paper with what to say to families written down in Korean.

The Japanese UC members were sent to such families to find potential husbands to come to the mass marriage.

Many Korean families accepted these offers. Of course to participate in the matching and the wedding the Korean families had to pay.

In 2000 the UC pastor in Busan gave out leaflets, advertizing brides would be available at a Unification Church mass marriage. Thirty Filipinas duly arrived and were matched to Korean men. The youngest girl was only 18! The men they were given to were taxi drivers, gardeners and pizza deliverymen. It is not known what fees the men paid for the women. It was a profitable business for the Unification Church.

“I recently met several Filipino people, and when I told them I was raised in the Unification Church, they were concerned. Their knowledge of the Unification Church is of young people in the Philippines on the street, selling rosaries and Catholic paraphernalia, hiding their Unificationist identity. Apparently Moonies over there are known for being young and being controlled by church leaders. This is a well-accepted fact in their country. Moonies are also known for their fasting, rejecting food till they reach their fundraising quota. Also, all these Filipino people, none who ever belonged to the church, told me that Filipino people hate the church for selling off Filipina women to Korean men.”

The mass weddings made hundreds of millions of dollars for Moon and the Unification Church. Japanese UC members have paid huge fees to be allowed to attend. The stadiums were also more full, which added to Moon’s prestige. The long term consequences for the young men and women that he matched and married were not of any concern to Sun Myung Moon.

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UNESCO Report: Korean-Filipino marriages under the UC sparked controversy and animosity

United Nations report:  Perspectives on Gender and Migration (2007) This is an important United Nations document – very relevant to UC members. Suggested reading for members before marrying an oriental spouse.

“Forced marriages can also come in the form of group weddings through the Unification Church’s “matching” practice, as well as through commercial agencies. In these cases, the woman is not given enough time to decide if there is mutual sympathy and understanding between her and her partner.”

#unification church #sun myung moon #moonies #ffwpu #cult #mass marriages

[pvrrhadve]

something something people have always been storytellers, storytelling is a load bearing pillar of the human experience, collaborative creation and dispersal of stories is one of the most ancient of all practices. positioning those stories as being in the film medium from the moment of conception is obviously a new one but i do feel our distant ancestors in this chili's tonight

#i reiterate i'm absolutely obsessed with all the factors at play in the goncharovian texts #the marriage of tumblr's most time-honoured tradition of telling blatant lies with full conviction humanity's most time-honoured #tradition of creating characters and journeys for those characters to go on and the best leavening agent of all... mass hysteria #goncharov

[satancopilotsmytardis]

I thought I was writing a mermaid romance. I think I'm writing dystopian fiction instead.

#misinformation/controlled education for the masses? ✔️ #controlled birth/reproduction rights ✔️ #controlled rights to romance/marriage ✔️ #caste system that disenfranchies and subjugates parts of the population to keep those in power in control? ✔️ #isolationist policies both among citizens in the state and against the outside world? ✔️ #tanco speaks #mer!au

[localravenclaw]

I do.

#good morning my mutuals #your groom awaits #mutual mass grave #sebastian sallow ai #ai generated #my edit #not me squealing when the ai threw this image at my face #i changed my mind about marriage #i wanna be legally bound to this handsome dumbass #YOUR HONOUR I LOVE HIM! #i am ill for this man and there is no cure

[nemo-me-impune]

Mass Effect fanfic based on a trend I've noticed

Garrus and Shepard are arranged to be married to cement the peace for the First Contact War...

Is what Garrus thinks is going on, because he was ordered to show up in his formal uniform to a room full of generals and humans and his father and gets formally introduced to this woman who is the daughter of one of the human admirals and no one actually bothered to tell him what he was there for

What's actually going on is neither Garrus nor Shepard have actually been deployed against the respective other race and therefore have never met a member of the species, and the asari peace negotiator thought it would be a great symbolic gesture to have the daughter of an admiral and the son of a general on opposite sides of a war to meet each other in peace instead.

Cue Garrus spending the entire negotiating period awkwardly navigating his wildly varied emotions at being walked blind into an arranged marriage and also courting Shepard as best he can for the sake of peace...

While Shepard has no idea why the weird turian dude is spending so much time with her after their symbolic bit is done and why he's trying so hard to be nice to her

#mass effect #shakarian #shepard #garrus vakarian #fanfic #arranged marriage

[mdemn]

walk with me here. sarah angelo & alice colletti jennifer’s body moment of “you’re killing people!” / “no. i’m killing boys!”

#ok? OK ⁉️ #ARE Y’ALL WALKING WITH ME ? #sarah who grew up with alice (alice is a few years younger but since she was the only other girl they were forced to play together) #and sarah wanted to be rough and wanted to be ‘one of the boys’ so to speak #like she wanted to be involved in the family. was mad when she wasn’t taken seriously #alice wants to be a Good Girl. goes to mass every sunday. says her prayers. she’s smart n march is ensuring that she gets away frm this life #but also . alice has a MASSIVE crush on sarah #sarah who was her first kiss. sarah who was like ‘well if you’re gonna go off to school and change the world- #- you should at least know how to kiss so you can get you a rich husband’ #and therefore teaches alice to kiss. more than once. in more than a couple ways #because two girls kissing is not against the rules. it doesn’t count. it’s not sex before marriage bc two girls can’t have sex . right ? #and so anyway . alice is in love with sarah and she’s naive . and sarah is a ‘bad girl’ and march begs alice to stay away from her #bc sarah is starting to help the family in some petty crimes. sarah can drink and handle liquor. sarah enjoys being around men. #sarah’s HURT people before. and alice who doesn’t get it who will never get it #i’d like ‘sarah! you’re KILLING people!!’ and sarah who smiles as she’s washing the blood from her hands is like #‘no.. i’m killin’ boys.. :)’ #sarah marino #sarah angelo #alice colletti #mde #mafia definitive edition #post: personal

[lobotomizedlady]

few things frustrate me more than a "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" mf

#accurately describes pretty much the entire democratic party btw. all neolibs #''i love weed abortion & gay marriage but fuck poor ppl & the entire global south'' basically. lol #capitalism requires mass exploitation of vulnerable ppl & the destruction of natural resources #you dont have to be a tankie to see that our current system is not fucking working #(to be clear i also love weed abortion & gay marraige. what i hate is hypocrites who pretend to care abt ppl) #while actively fucking over those less fortunate

[nostalgia-tblr]

feeling rly pleased with myself because i wrote 300 words. not 300 words of the thing i intended to write, but it's still 300 words!!! :D

#it was in another fic where sylvie bangs the lokiverse but post-s2 so she's doing it ~angstily~ #it's either called 'next best thing' or 'the beating of our one heart' depending how twee i feel when/if it gets finished and posted #(yes i heard a roy orbison lyric and immediately went “SELFCEST FIC TITLE!!!” that sort of thing just happens sometimes shhhh) #these 300 words were about the angst of one of the characters getting a haircut OH NO!!! #i currently have TWO works-in-progress where Avengers!Loki avoids his mass destruction era and just fucks himself instead #*slaps roof of selfcest* “this selfcest can fit so much more selfcest in itself(cest)” #fic related #wot if ur lover became a tree so u just found another one of him who wasn't a tree??? #if u were waiting for the next bit of the arranged marriage au... well u can wait a bit longer for that

[therealstonedelephant]

#to clarify. i mean as a gay woman who would be the best character to marry in a lavender marriage #i feel like all are strong candidates in their own way and i need to turn to the masses for answers #jiang cheng #jin guangyao #mu qing #mdzs #tgcf #polls

[my-hot-awkward-turian-boyfriend]

#mass effect #shakarian #shepard x garrus #garrus vakarian #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #arranged marriage au #first contact war

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

June 24, 2011

It was July 1, 1982 and 2075 couples, followers of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, were entering and exiting the second-floor Grand Ballroom of the New Yorker Hotel at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue. There they entered into marriage contracts with strangers whom the reverend, the Korean-born founder and head of the Unification Church, had picked for them. Then, the same day, they walked barely a block and entered Madison Square Garden—most in formal wear—where they were declared husband and wife en masse by Reverend Moon.

Photos of the Moonie marriage ceremony were distributed worldwide. It would be hard to forget—though the New Yorker Hotel would prefer that you did.

...

[the first few words were edited]

#unification church #sun myung moon #moonies #mass marriages #New Yorker Hotel #Madison Square Garden

[femme-et-traditionnelle]

Confirmed and ready to get married soon 🤭💍 🙏

#personal #tradwife #traditional gender roles #traditional femininity #tradfem #traditional #modesty #catholic #catholicism #confirmation #church #Mass #marriage #wedding #military fiancee #military fiance #military girlfriend #military gf #military wife

[clericofshadows]

the dream team is looking clean on Eden Prime!  self-indulgent modding is the best kind of modding :)

#mass effect #kaidan alenko #commander shepard #ashley williams #the only reason ashley doesn't have a scarf (yet) is because it's a whole thing between my shepard and kaidan #aka it's not a scarf its a marriage proposal #regis shepard #cleric's modding stuff

[myblissfulness]

How God makes you happy: embracing Femininity

The truly capable woman -- who can find her? She is far beyond the price of pearls.

Proverbs 31: 10

#traditional femininity #traditional women #traditional family #traditional marriage #traditional values #Headcovering #veiling #catholic veil #Traditional Latin Mass #traditional catholic #traditional catholicism #traditional clothing

[trchyperfixation]

Adam, who Ronan has been dragging to church with him: what do you mean God hates gay people? He had a whole-ass story about how he hated how straight everybody was so he drowned them, put up the gay flag in the sky, and promised never to make straight people again, like that story is considered such a big deal cause that was the story of the biggest promise God ever made to humanity

Delcan: I don't think you read the Noah's Ark story right

#ronan really just married adam so he could invoke the marriage code that now adam has to go to church #adam is like i may go to church but that does not mean i pay attention in church #the first time ronan dragged adam to church delcan and matthew were sitting there already and ronan slides in and adam is following after #and during the readings and homily adam is fiddling with his hands and then ronan gets distracted staring at adams hands so delcan gets mad #and adam is watching delcan get mad so he grabs Ronan's hand and holds ronan's hand and there is a battle of the wills going on and matthew #is just sitting there oblivious still listening to the priest and that is how most masses went until delcan got used to it #and adam holds Ronan's hand so he doesnt fiddle with his hands and ronan actually learned to pay attention and now its the new normal #but also adam and ronan learned morse code so they can talk during mass through hand squeezes and delcan wouldnt know what they are saying #and jordan said no right away when delcan asked her to come to mass with him #adam parrish #declan lynch #ronan lynch #trc #the raven cycle #trc incorrect quotes #the lynch brothers #the dreamer trilogy #tdt #incorrect tdt quotes #incorrect the dreamer trilogy quotes #the raven cycle incorrect quotes

[womenofnoise]

Mass Marriage by Erin Altomare

#mass marriage #noise #women in noise #power electronics