Don’t the attendants check the tickets before you enter the cinema? They certainly do here.
Where I’m at, they’ll check it if it’s Revenge of the Sith or something superpopular that they know people will go to any lengths to get into. WOTW may or may not count as worthy of having tickets checked.
I think only the upper levels know about Xenu. Otherwise, who’d join?
This site explains it far better than I ever could.
How ironic if Cruise somehow gets injured while rock climbing or whatnot, breaks his leg and the attending physician says something like, “Well, these Percocet would certainly help with the pain…but they ARE sold on the street. Perhaps Xenu wouldn’t want you to use them.”
Or how incredibly stupid will Cruise feel if Katie Holmes has a child and suffers post-partum depression?
WHAT THE HELL DOES TOM CRUISE CARE WHAT DRUGS I TAKE!?!?!?!?
He truly cares for you and everyone else in the world!
Here they check your ticket in the lobby and point you to the correct theatre. The place they check tickets in nowhere near the door to the actual movie. It’s in the lobby. I know kids sneak into see R0rated shows after buying tickets to PG movies.
Yeah, but at most places I’m familiar with, you go behind the attendent after you’re directed: it would be no difficult task to walk into another screen if you’re so inclined. This is, of course, quite against the rules, but movie theater rules are made to be broken. Who hasn’t snuck in a coke under his coat?
I though Cruise had finally admitted the obvious when I saw the cover of People magazine last week: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and some other dude atop the title “Will They Wed”. It’s sad that he’s still batshit crazy.
I see. Here the attendant stands at the door of the actual cinema in which the specific film is being screened. Once you hand over your ticket, you can’t duck off into another cinema.
I guess you could buy a ticket for the one closest to it. And then if they direct you, go into that theater, then come out a few minutes later, use the bathroom, then duck back into the WOTW theater.
That’s how I took it.
I don’t know about “all” Scientologists. The various events in the Scientology world-view are revealed to adherents as they progress through the various levels.
They know it because Hubbard figured it out. The Xenu events and the programming of the thetans are known as The Wall of Fire, and Hubbard claimed to be the first to map a precise route through the Wall of Fire, the only person in 75,000,000 years to uncover the precise sequence of events. (The goal of Scientologists is to remove thetans from your body, which may be accomplished by making them understand exactly what’s happened to them. Hubbard warns that the programming delivered to the thetans contains traps calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to unravel it.)
I don’t have a copy of Dianetics handy, but I do know that it has a disclaimer in the first few pages to the effect of “If you’re suffering from a physical illness or insanity, seek qualified professionally trained help at a hospital”, then goes on to say over and over that it can cure you of anything. The disclaimer, though, serves as a “No Lifeguard on Duty” lawsuit preventative.
They can’t, but at least the sequence of events that lead to their beliefs has been accounted for, or could have been, by humans. Compare 2000 years with 75 000 000. That’s a lot more zeroes and a lot less humans.
If you only learn the “big secrets” once you’ve progressed to certain levels then how is all this information known?
The thing that boggles my mind is that people believe this stuff that was supposedly discovered by a science fiction author, someone who makes up stories like that to sell books.
Scientologists scare me a little. Many years ago I was a voracious reader of all things sci fi and fantasy. I had heard of L.Ron Hubbard but I didn’t really know that much about him. I only knew of him as a famous author so I figured I’d try his books. I saw an offer somewhere to order the Mission Earth series of books at some reduced price. Since I have read some other series and got tired of having to hunt down all the sequels I figured I’d order them. Ever since then I would get offers in the mail for Scientology books and other materials. I never bought anything else but they kept coming for years. Then I moved, and they turned up at my new address and I kept getting them for years again. I moved again, I changed my address with any companies I was dealing with but not the junk mail. I did not leave a forwarding address with the post office since the old address was my parents and I figured I’d still get my mail eventually. Well, they found me at my new address anyway. I think the might be watching me. :eek:
I was thinking, since he claims to have done all this studying about psychiatry…
Why would he be so interested in it unless he himself has a problem? Perhaps he is bipolar or has some other mental problem and that’s why he was so interested in alternative ways to deal with it.
That would go along with other’s ideas that he looks like he’s off his meds.
Off-topic, sorry…
I just wanted to post a little quote I heard from some comedian (can’t remember who).
“Batman uses a mask to fight crime, Tom Cruise uses a beard to fight rumors.”
There are splinter groups in Scientology known as “Free Zone.” They believe in Hubbard’s crap, but reject the dominance of the main church.
The whole Xenu thing is supposed to be a big secret, but it has been so widely publicized that that the cat is entirely out of the bag. I’ve never heard any Scientologist refute belief in Xenu and Travolta’s masterpiece Battlefield Earth is based on the myth.
I’m guessing the story about Xenu came out from people who’ve left the cult.
IIRC, it all got spewed out when a former member sued trying to recover the money he’d spent.
Oooooh, I’d pay at least $15 on PPV to see that. Heeeeeee!
While we’re on the subject, Salon has a very interesting article about Cruise and Scientology today:
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/06/27/cruise/index.html
(yeah, you have to be a subscriber or watch an ad - it’s worth it - do it!)