OT: Tom Cruise

[Vermin Boy]

Feh-- Everyone knows the Church of the Subgenius is where it's really at!

[h.p. Love]

I was scanning channels at the right time and caught this over the weekend. Tommy  called the entire psychiatry community frauds and "there is no science to back it up." Also, all drugs prescribed by them are evil and useless. Stop them at once immediately.

Huh. What? Yep. "There is no science to back it up." (tap tap on Tom's shoulder) Uh, Tom. Some guy that looked like George Kennedy came up with a whacky story about 55 years ago and you swear by it? I've got a copy of Dianetics (available in most bookstores' sci-fi section) with a great pic of Hubbard wearing his skipper hat and staring profoundly up at the sky.

Anyone associated with psychiatry is a mutant Psychlo!!!! It's all right there in Battlefield Earth.

[Zapranoth]

Wow.  That scientology stuff is definitely funnier than bad movies, at times.

I've been enjoying reading their official FAQ.

So here's a widgie called an E-Meter and what it does;

And here's the part where scientology equates psychiatry with Hitler's work...

Pretty freakin' cool.  I mean, not just anyone can make up this kind of s**t.

[Yaddo 42]

Off-topic, but, ah, the Church of the Subgenius. "Night Flight" used to play wierd video montages of their stuff all the time, that's where I first heard of them. I remember years later a local junk store/comic shop/cult video rental place called BRAVO (was supposed to stand for Books, Records, Art, Video, and Oddities) used to include the image of "Bob", complete with pipe, in the ads the owner ran. No one I knew had ever heard of it before.

I've heard that ole L Ron's hatred of psychiatry and psychoactive drugs came from bad experiences with therapy/analysis when he was young. Combine that hatred with being a pulpy scifi writer of limited talent (or less depending on who you ask), how could he not start a religion? I read a Kim Newman short story once where an aging Philip Marlowe was trying to recover a runaway teen who had gotten swept up in a Manson Family-like vampire cult and the leader's mad oracle/head toady was supposed to be Hubbard himself.

The closest I ever came to the Scientologists was when I was living in VA, I met a guy in a gamer/scifi bookstore who was passing out fliers for the local branch. He said they weren't trying to recruit him they were just offering him quick cash to hand their stuff out on the street. But he also said they were watching him to make sure he really did the work in order to earn the money. If on the level it was odd.

[trekgeezer]

I am now and shall always be a........Shatnerologist.  If you were all smart you too would bow before The Great Almighty Toupeed and Bloated One named Bill.

[Yaddo 42]

Sorry I've seen too many reruns of "TJ Hooker" where you get to see him run and try to relate to small kids to keep them out of lives of crime. I could never bow down to the man responsible for that stuff.

Although Ben Folds has worked with him so he gets a few cool points in my book from that alone.

[Master Blaster]

I am converted. May Shatner shine warmly upon you brother. Amen.

[Susan]

can anyone see this? my computer won't let me, i can only hear it

Tom cruise kills oprah

[Derf]

So how come no one's mentioned The Foamy Card Cult? Surely celebreties must fear the squirrelly wrath of Master Foamy!

[trekgeezer]

Read this and you might too....Tom Cruise on Today

[h.p. Love]

But he's a scientologist, right? Isn't that also supposed to mean that he's never taken any drugs? Or is that just prescriptions regarding mental conditions? He made a point in the Access Hollywood piece that (paraphrased from memory): "If I had been put on Ritalin as a kid, I would not be where I am today."

What does that mean Tom? That you wouldn't be a scientologist? Or are you truly able to view how various choices in the past would play out in other realities?

He's definitely nuts.

[Master Blaster]

What really sucks about this is there's a movement of credible scientists who make arguments against the use of prozac and ritalin who are'nt scientologists. Having Tom Cruize all over TV acting like a complete freak is only going to discredit their arguments. He's not helping them at all. An actor talking about mental health is like a baker talking about architecture. Of course with celebrities it never stops them.



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[h.p. Love]

Yeah, I agree that prescribing to children is scary and statements should be left to educated experts and scientists.

I'd like to see a real interview with Extremely Outspoken Tom during this interesting manic phase of his.

Q: So Tom, as a scientologis, what do you recommend as an alternative for these children? Is there a facility they can go to for help?

Tom: *jumping on couch*
Drugs BAAAAD. Katie GOOOOOOOD.

[Master Blaster]

Or perhaps, Rittalin Bad! Young Asian men Goood!

Oh yeah, I went there....... I'm a dumbass

[h.p. Love]

Here's a great interview: Hypnotize Tom and make communication with the alien inside him.

Who was that actress that recreated the Tom Cruise oprah appearance when she was on Leno?

And no, I DO NOT watch Leno.



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