Posted on 02/22/2005 8:55:12 AM PST by Nachum
Tom Cruise Wants to Assist With on-set Scientology. In the upcoming Steven Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds, one family fights for survival when Earth is invaded by Martian war machines. But on the set of the movie, there’s been an invasion of another sort: Scientologists! Tom Cruise, the film’s star and the religion’s most well-known adherent, has set up a Scientology tent with a volunteer minister. “It’s a gift from Tom to the crew,” says Lee Anne De Vette, Cruise’s sister and spokeswoman. “You can receive what’s called an assist there,” a Scientologist practice that, as she describes it, seems to be a glorified mini-massage. “If someone has an injury in a certain part of their body, if their back is killing them, they can come in and get an assist. It’s something that helps the body get in better communication with itself.” Actual Scientology literature is available, too, in case “someone walks in looking for a solution.” All of which has caused a certain amount of grumbling. Scientology watchdog Rick Ross says that he’s received e-mails from crew members wondering, “Where are the booths for the Catholics and the Jews?”
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I am certain that cruise and travolta remain in scientology simply because they are being blackmailed about homosexual affairs in their past.
I suggest that any one who is interested read: Scientology vs the Net(herlands), The road to Xenu, or Lonesome Squirrel for the inside scoop on scientology.
Hubbard always recognized the value of celebrities. In Scn PR lingo, they're known as "opinion leaders." There's even a special Church org known as Celebrity Center that caters specially to them. In the view of CoS execs, having prominent mainstream people as members gives you credibility with the general public. PR is the name of the game.
"I am certain that cruise and travolta remain in scientology simply because they are being blackmailed about homosexual affairs in their past."
I seriously doubt they are being blackmailed. I think in the case of Travolta his past is fairly open. Scientology probably does offer him some sort of balance. The bargain is that Travolta is an enabler for the cult's deceptive, intimidating, coercive recruiting techniques and anti-free speech methods. Apparently he gets special treatment and the cult members without fat bank accounts are little more than indentured servants for the A-list cult members. Funny, it seems that the hollywood star system and the scientology star system work in a similiar manner.
Dayum holiwood types are nuts.... a guy bets a friend he can "invent" a "religion" for a $1... and low and behold a few decades later its the official "religion" of hollywood.
"There's a Seeker born every minute!"
xenu.net
is the best source.
I wonder if the "assist" comes with a happy ending, or if that is extra.
That he does, my friend. That he does. /Super Sarcasm
:)
"It was hotter than Heater in Hooker today, and hotter than Hooker in Hellmouth!"
If not for the fact that he was a nut, L. Ron Hubbard might be remembered today as one of science fiction's great editors along with John W. Campbell and Horace L. Gold. Scientology, along with the IRS, is one of this century's greatest scams.
"You see, Scientology doesn't really address the soul; it addresses the ego. What happens in Scientology is that a person's ego gets pumped up by this science-fiction fantasy helium into universe-sized proportions. And this is very appealing. It is especially appealing to the intelligentsia of this country, who are made to feel that they are the most highly intelligent people, when in actual fact, from an emotional standpoint, they are completely stupid. Fine professors, doctors, scientists, people involved in the arts and sciences, would fall into Scientology like you wouldn't believe. It appealed to their intellectual level and buttressed their emotional weaknesses. "L. Ron Hubbard Jr. Interview
Well, isn't that special. Maybe Ross could reassemble his Waco team and have the set gassed and burned.
I've got no use for Scientology but I'd rather deal with girly-boy Cruise than fascists like Ross.
I'm finally clear and it had nothing to do with Scientology.
:)
She used to have a nice place and a good job. Now she has no place (lives in a commune house with other Scientology freakazoids) and had to take a part time job so she could give more time to the cult.
She was only a casual friend to my wife and I but we know other people that knew her from childhood that gave up trying to get her to leave the cult because she was so adamant that they back off and leave her alone. The result has been that she has been left alone by her friends for years, and now she is in too far to leave.
Scientology is a dangerous thing and should be outlawed. Anyone who reads Margery Wakefields diary knows their "Church" scam is just that...a scam!!
I just came across this little gem.
PING.
And, people, lest we forget, 'Dianetics' by L. Ron Hubbard was written and marketed for the first couple of DECADES (beginning in the 1950's!) as SCIENCE FICTION.
I read that book when I was a little kid and loved it *LOL* then again I was a science fiction fanatic.
I liked some but not all science fiction in the early 70's. I was a kid and we read some of it in school. Then I became more interested in 'romance'. LOL.
I am trying to find an old post of mine on a scientology thread. Basically, I remember being in a mall with my mom and seeing the L. Ron Hubbard display. Although still marketed as 'Science Fiction' with Bradbury and the others, they were also showing up (late 70's-early 80's? about the time they hooked Travolta) as 'Self Help' books and Hubbard had been on the talk shows a lot pushing the book 'series'. He had re-edited the 1950's sci-fi into a supposed self-help. On more than one trip to the mall, my mom was very adamant as she 'reminded' me not to read them, not ever, loudly, right there in the store, and that they were a failure as science fiction and worse as 'self help'. And then she loudly commented on the 'garbage' being displayed with the self help. We had borrowed one (Dianetics?) from the library, to check it out, so it wasn't just blind advice on her part.
Total nut case.
And let's not forget, he wrote the original 'Dianetics' in the 1950's as Science Fiction. But it paled next to the 'real' sci-fi guys. So he reinvented himself in the late 70's by 'editing' the book into a kind of 'self-help' gobbled up by the 'self-help' obsessed young baby boomers and then he launched it into a religion. With the help of a number of appearances on talk shows like Donahue and others. If nothing else, he surely had his pulse on the generation and how to part them from their money. And, no dummy when it comes to money, he went after big stars of the era, late 70's and early 80's, like Cruise and Travolta and Linda Evans. He really worked it.
He is now. Not the same at all as in the 'Risky Business' years. Thanks to scientology.
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