Equipoise, I agree with your entire post but especially with the quoted part above. While others might be getting a good laugh about crazy ol’ Tom Cruise, I was filled with disgust and concern about the true agenda of $cientology. Definitely disturbing and frightening and I hope to hell that the lid gets blown off the true nature of this cult and it’s exposed for what it truly is.
Gawker still has it up. They’re hosting it themselves. Click the link in the OP.
What the hell is the “KSW”?
From what I’ve heard, there are a lot of Scientologist rehab clinics for rich people and celebrities. They go through the program, it works for them, and they give a lot of credit to Scientology.
Anyone know the membership or staff (clergy?) numbers of Scientology? Income?
I wonder just how wealthy and powerful they are…
The sad thing is that for every celebrity Scientologist you see, there are probably several middle-class or working-class Scientologists that are now more or less enslaved to the church to pay for auditing.
As for why there are so many celebrities, have a look at this.
That’s an excellent website for learning about the nastier parts of Scientology.
That would be the greatest prank of all time, and I’d love em so much for it.
But seriously, he’s fucked in the head…
I’ve finally gotten to the middle section of his little rant and wow! That long, insane, movie-villain laugh he does when he starts talking about SPs (suppressive persons), Holy Shit! The light in his eyes as he talks about shattering the suppression… that’s Hopkins-esque acting on the slim chance that it’s not genuine.
Sounds like he was just looking for a higher calling.
Now why couldn’t he have just gone with good old Christianity.
Oh yeah Christianity already has a messiah, so it wouldn’t do for Tom Cruise. The guy sure has one huge messianic complex.
Exactly.
If this was all for distraction, if this was just a clever career-long stunt to get people so focused on that so that they leave him alone about other things or his family and focus only on that, it would be one of the greatest tricks ever pulled. I’m still hoping that when he gets to be about 75 and retires he pulls out all these old documents and certified letters unopened stating that what he is about to embark upon is manufactured insanity in order to create something to hide behind during his career so that he can live a somewhat normal life behind all that. That would be worth everything he subjected us to. But I highly doubt it.
I can still dream, can’t I?
I watched that video last night and I’m confused. I recognized the words he was speaking, but not in the order that he was speaking them. Now that I’ve gotten the Scientology-to-English interpretation here, my immediate reaction is :eek:
The maniacal laugh was bone-chilling and especially scary when I had no clue what he was talking about.
And once more… “Xenu” is NOT the CoS’s God! Xenu is it’s Devil!
Double post
I had always heard this, but since I cannot find a cite I must say I was in error and retract. I mean, he obviously made it up, he just didn’t go on record as saying so, which after thinking about it would have been pretty stupid to tell your followers they’re basically idiots for believing a made up story.
As for Charles Manson, I though HE was God- why would he study another religion?
This happened back in the 70’s, so I don’t know how relevant it is today, but for what it’s worth: Operation Snow White.
Even if they didn’t have wealthy, powerful people in their pocket they’d still be dangerous.
I’m still trying to imagine Pablo Picasso or Groucho Marx as Scientologists. It isn’t easy.
He wasn’t in it for very long, but he learned well. Manson got all his best ideas about how to brainwash his followers from his time in $cientology. He caught on to their bullshit, and sussed out how they were sucking people in and must’ve thought “I can do that!”. Read the book Helter-Skelter, it goes into the Manson cult’s brush with the cult of $cientology.
That makes sense- I was thinking for some odd reason he studied it while in jail, after all the unpleasantness. which wouldn’t make sense.