From here.
Imagine, building an edifice worth millions of dollars, in which you hide and pray, to protect yourself from an entity who is supposedly returning to Earth to weed out the good from the bad.
I’ve never heard of such a preposterous scheme in my life. What would happen if other people started believing in such a ridiculous fantasy?
Why is he hiding, rather than trying to move himself into the ranks of the good, where he’d be safe? Or is that too much work?
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Imagine, building an edifice worth millions of dollars, in which you hide and pray, to protect yourself from an entity who is supposedly returning to Earth to weed out the good from the bad.
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Catholics have been doing it for thousands* of years. You’ve given a perfect description of a Cathedral.
Or am I being wooshed?
Xenu’s not actually going to help the good. This is Xenu.
I pity anyone who dares to fart in it.
I am torn - do I believe STAR Magazine, or do I believe a crazed, rich Scientologist would do such a thing?
Yep, I believe Tom Cruise is building it.
I hear he picked the bunker staff from guys he met at Gold’s Gym.
I think Cruise is crazy, but heck, if I had a bajillion dollars, I’d probably have a bunker somewhere, just in case. But my “just in case” is vastly different from his, I guar-on-tee you.
Mormons are supposed to take similar precautions for the end of the world, aren’t they? Granted I don’t know if most of them put it 10 million into it, but I seem to recall people pointing out various structures as percautions for the apocalypse when I was growing up in Utah.
We all laugh now, but after World War III, the only ones left will be the Scientologists and the Mormons, ready to duke it out over the remains of the US
That’s awesome. If I was rich, I’d totally build my own bunker and pay ex-special ops types to teach me how to kill 3 people at once using only a spoon. When the zombie uprising happened, I would be king.
Would he have to worry if he was “clear?” Work harder, Tom.
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I am torn - do I believe STAR Magazine, or do I believe a crazed, rich Scientologist would do such a thing?
Yep, I believe Tom Cruise is building it.
I hear he picked the bunker staff from guys he met at Gold’s Gym.
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Where did you hear that? Or am I whooshed too?
Because I’m starting to wonder about these stories. ISTM that Clambo is occupying the same space Michael Jackson did in the late '80s and early '90s, before the first accusation. He came off as erratic, eccentric, disturbed – although not at that time a danger to others – and in general, not sharing the same reality as the rest of the world.
And then years later, I found out that many of those stories were bogus. Elephant Man’s bones? He was never going to do that. Hyperbaric chamber? He told his people to circulate that story, and he’d never stuck a toe into the thing. Constantly trolling for attention, and what people didn’t know at the time was that a much more disturbing issue was behind the smoke screen.
But it got him a lot of free publicity. And so does Clambo when one of these stories circulate. Add in the fact that there’s speculation that Suri is not his, nor Katie’s either*, and I’m shuddering to think what this behavior might be misdirection for. Or perhaps it’s not misdirection; just attention whoring. But in any case, it sounds deliberately outrageous.
*Her supposedly pregnant abdomen changed size and shape randomly, and did not appear to be consistent with the estimated date of conception. Add in the “silent birthing” resulting in no one having witnessed the birth, and I’m open to the theory that Suri is the offspring of a nameless Scieno, who can’t claim her child because according to the rules, they’re not supposed to reproduce. Yeah, I know, Travolta. There would be exceptions for the famous and the higher-ups.
ETA: And is the bunker just for him and his family? Or can other Scienos join them? Not everyone has $10 million to burn on something like this.
My only thought is someday this place will be listed for sale in the local Thrifty Nickel, “7 Bed, 8 1/2 bath, fml dng rm, bmb shltr, Must see!”
Scientologists aren’t supposed to reproduce?
Learn something weird every day.
Hell, why build a bunker when there’s already bunkers available that provide way more protection than anything you’re going to have built for just $10m?
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Catholics have been doing it for thousands* of years. You’ve given a perfect description of a Cathedral.
Or am I being wooshed?
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There was indeed some intentional double entendres in my OP.
If I had the money I’d have a huge bunker myself, stocked with all kinds of food and various tools to farm if necessary, along with various types of seeds etc.
Hell, I plan on moving to Montana or somewhere else up north 'cuz if the government falls there’d be a better chance of survival up there instead of in California.
Tom Cruise travels all around the world. Does he think that the Scientological apocalypse will happen with enough warning for him to get back to Colorado?
For that matter, wouldn’t someone with the ability to travel interstellar distances probably be able to muster enough technology to dig him up?
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Scientologists aren’t supposed to reproduce?
Learn something weird every day.
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So they’re a bit like vampires and werewolves, only able to spread by biting/converting new people. Makes them just a little bit sicker in my eyes.
You know… if I had that kind of money… Fuck y’all, I’m building an emergency bunker.
Is this any different than my piddly ass emergency suppy box, that would get supplied for a week in the event of a natural disaster? Not really.
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Hyperbaric chamber? He told his people to circulate that story, and he’d never stuck a toe into the thing.
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That’s not quite right. He didn’t tell anyone to circulate the photos and he did climb into a hyperbaric chamber. It ws part of an enormous donation ($5 million) he made to a hospital, the Brothman Burn Center, in addition to the $1.5 million he donated that came from the out-of-court stettlement with Pepsi for the accident that burned him while doing a Pepsi commercial.
On a lark, he climbed into the hyperbaric chamber while he was touring the facility. Someone took his photo and sold it to the tabloids.
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If the Tom Cruise allegations are flase, that’s still not a good sign. It means that your public persona is considered so off-kilter that such ridiculous behavior is seen as credible.
