scientology & celebrities

Maybe I could save him from the evil clutches of Scientology. (Cue crush swells to gigantic proportion again.)

But, yes, you are right, second gen scientologist. Freaky.

lolz

hooooolleeeeeee shiiiiiiiiiittttt

I wish I could romp and play :(

I watched it last night -- he wasn't acting in Magnolia, was he?

he must be stopped

over 1 billion served

You can sit here and wish it were different, y'know, I have to do something, don't I, yeah, I have to do it, because I can't do it myself if I don't. And it's... and that really is it.

I don't care if someone thinks it's hard, or easy. You're either helping, or contributing everything you can, or you're not. I'm carrying my load. As much as I'm carrying, I still feel like I gotta do more. All Right? There's still this thing of... Let's Go.

You can just see the look in their eyes, you know the ones that are doing. You know. And you know the spectators, who are the ones that are going 'Well that's easy for you, or what am I doing'. And it's just, that thing is, I've cancelled that in my... area. My... (Laughter) It's like man, you're either in or you're out. Spectator is something that is, we have no time for.

And I think about those people who are depending on... us, and uh, I think about that. And it does make me feel uh like manic (laughter), we got a lot of work. Get those spectators in the playing field or out of the arena. I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything.

I've cancelled that in my area

Get those spectators in the playing field or out of the arena

they shot the Cruise interview like he's on Entertainment Tonight

Katie Holmes on Letterman last night - I think she's going nuts too. Great legs, tho.

that part where he claims only a scientologist can help at the scene of a car accident has set the wtf bar for 2008.

Is he saying the rest of us either expect God to do something, or are atheists and don't give a shit?

such a horrible person

xpost, no he's literally saying that only a Scientologist can do the right thing: silence any chatter from onlookers that could result in the formation of body engrams, and stop any 'doctors' from administering narcotics or painkillers to the victim

"There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people."

If there's anything better than 9 straight minutes of hearing the Mission Impossible theme on loop, it's hearing Tom say he wishes he could "romp and play". When I heard that I had an image of him dressed as Little Lord Fauntleroy prancing around in a garden.

It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people.

? Jesus was not a little boy when this was purported to have happened.

oh man that is some grim viewing. what a fuck-up.

yeah i could listen or watch but not both

was the mission impossible theme in the original version or has it been added for lols? it was driving me insane anyway.

"Get those spectators in the playing field or out of the arena" -- so chilling.

sp's, the lot of you

read these if you don't know what an SP or FAIR GAME is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_Person

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_%28Scientology%29

You've got to be kidding me, unreal-I find this shit somewhat frightening.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeVideoArt/02/145602.jpg

megalomania is always frightening

It's just like 'pkugh'. And I'm thinking, you know, 'pschew'.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/336316_joel22.html

I was in Pittsburgh visiting a friend over thanksgiving, and another friend came over with some Sc!entology DVD. It was incredible. Apparently he got it from his roommate, whos uncle was a pretty high level 'tologist, but after the uncle died they kept sending shit to his house.

Anyhow, this DVD was like an infomercial, from what I could piece together, it was 3 hours of persuading people who already had all the currently available books and tapes to rebuy all of that same material on CD.

The main speaker was some guy in a gaudy suit and he was speaking in this giant guilded auditorium, it was huge, with like 70-foot tall projection screens behind him which would show bad computer animation of these CD sets flying over volcanoes and shit. And then it'd show L. Ron's face and play a soundbyte of him saying something like, "You can't unlock only half the secrets of the mind. And even if you could, ho ho, I wouldn't want to, would you? I don't think so..."

And then it'd cut to the audience, tens of thousands of people all in tuxedos and evening gowns, Kirsty Ally and John Travolta right up front, standing and applauding. All I could think was, "That didn't mean anything. He didn't say anything, that was complete gibberish. Fucking gobbledygook and thousands of people are applauding it. What the fuck?"

It was 3 hours of that. Dude saying some nonsense, audience applauds, CGI volcano scene, L. Ron soundbite, audience applauds. Over and over. And on top of it all I was high as shit, that evening had been the first time I had toked in like 9 years. Insane. I need to get that DVD. And some pot.

I have a recent Church newspaper that leads with a huge picture of the man next to a huge headline pull quote: "Drug residues can stop any mental help. They also stop a person's life!" - L. Ron Hubbard

it's true

i had conversations like this at college parties at 4am with stoned dudes whose names i never did learn.

"like, you've got to live in the moment, man"

they stole their graphics at the end from the 'starship troopers' commercials

i don't think they do much marketing to mundanes like us.

walk through the port authority subway station sometime, then.

Yeah, scientologists have a big display/stall in the shopping mall nearest to here. They gave me a stress test the other day.

I kind of feel like Tori Amos is so weird she's normal or something.

this is frightening

No more so than the Moonies.

I want to learn this guitar riff to help the people in their zealotry. Also like the random gold steam graphic repeating itself every 16 seconds. (Could not actually pay attention.)

the recent new yorker article about sc!ento!ogy and celebrities was disappointing

What struck me about it was that auditing is suppsed to be about clearing your mind and shit, but Cruise is basically babbling incomprehensibly for most of that, he never finishes a sentence off and appears to be totally fucking nuts! What an advert for the co$, eh.

I don't need no wacko actors to tell me that being positive, assertive, and pleasant to all other life in the world is productive to the human race.

Is scientology just a 'religion' stating the obvious?

why am i even asking that?

I drove past a car crash on the way to work this morning and the first thing I thought of was what would Tom Cruise do if he was here?

Smile and wave

yeah that part was mind-bendingly arrogant "we are the ONLY people qualified to help @ at a car wreck"

he's probably stand there and say 'you brought this on yourself by being mentally WEAK" or something

Do all scientologists train as panel beaters? Because that's what the crash that I saw needed more than anything else.

Is scientology just a 'religion' stating the obvious?

Not unless you think it's obvious that 75 million years ago an alien ruler of the Galactic Confederacy named Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs, and that their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living and continue to do this today, and that we must isolate these alien souls and neutralize their ill effects.

oh right, lol

A trawl around suggests that the tom cruise clip is just an extract - that there's more than an hour of similar batshit insanity out there? Wow, man.

The beeb have caught him just right...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44359000/jpg/_44359314_cruise_grab_203.jpg

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3979687

NB haven't d/l-ed this myself yet, will do so after dinner.

So weird

https://tonyortega.substack.com/p/shelly-miscavige-more-about-the-place

You need to be an LA Times subscriber to read it but none of this is surprising.

Submitted in a downtown Los Angeles court as part of a years-old civil lawsuit against Scientology, the document referenced a purported effort by the church to “derail” the criminal proceedings against Masterson.

“Defendants and their agents engaged in a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at one of the prosecutors assigned to Defendant Masterson’s trial,” the declaration from civil attorney Simon Leen read. “That prosecutor’s home and car windows were broken, the prosecutor’s home electronics were tampered with, and Defendants’ agents surveilled the prosecutor....

But it was not the first time the church was quietly — and publicly — accused of attempting to interfere in Masterson’s years-long legal saga.

In a speech last fall, L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Reinhold Mueller delivered remarks that contained allegations nearly identical to those from the lawsuit, according to a video reviewed by The Times.

In the speech, given after he received an award for his work on the Masterson case, Mueller told hundreds of colleagues, including former Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, about a pattern of disturbing incidents he allegedly experienced in late 2022, ahead of the sitcom star’s first trial.

Mueller said he was “run off the road” and that his home was vandalized, according to the video. He also said that cellular and internet service had been inexplicably knocked out at his residence.

LAPD detectives on the case were also “stalked,” Mueller said in the video, and had their “photographs taken while they were off-duty.”

at my former house, there was an unassuming-looking guy who lived across the street with his wife. my understanding is he was a former scientology member. this guy was just an HVAC repair guy, driving an old blue van, living in a very basic gray stucco duplex probably about 700 sq ft in size. he would have scientology foot soldiers coming by once per week, knocking on his door, peering in his windows, walking around the back trying to see if he was around. a couple times he answered the door and reluctantly (or so it appeared) let them in. they'd always show up in teams of two or three. it was one of those really creepy glimpses into their endeavors, like if they'd devote that much time to one random guy how much effort would they put into more important figures?

knowing what we know now, it's just insane to me that anyone would voluntarily join this 'church'