Tom Cruise and Scientology: there's more

Guardian UK ^ | 11/19/09

[Nachum]

A new book claims the Top Gun star had a tendency to chat to ashtrays, bottles and other inanimate objects

Just a teeny tiny amount of space left to say, hey, guess what? Tom Cruise? He's a bit fricking weird! Yuhdoansay.

In Blown For Good, the latest book by an escapee from the Galactic Confederacy, AKA Scientology, Marc Headley claims that Cruise would talk to inanimate objects "for hours". No, not Nicole Kidman's face, but ashtrays, bottles, books. "You tell the ashtray, 'Sit in that chair.' Then you actually go over and put the ashtray in that chair. Then you tell the ashtray, 'Thank you,'" is Headley's account of Tom's personal teachings. And to all of you out there thinking, "Well, telling an ashtray thank you sounds a lot more fun than having to share a set for God knows how many weeks with Dustin Hoffman banging on about Qantas," I got there first.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcfNmGrb4vo

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

If ‘Blown for Good’ is the same person on forums I’m thinking about.....it ought to be good.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

http://blownforgood.com/

[FredZarguna]

Scientology: Sure it's silly and expensive. But it's his money and he doesn't have to blow other people up to reamin a member in good standing. Count your blessings. He could easily be giving his 30% to World Wildlife, Earth First! or any one of a dozen other libtard outfits that do way more harm.

[Tennessee Nana]

DUH

[SERKIT]

Art imitating life?

[D-fendr]

There are things worse than supporting and promoting a criminal enterprise that abuses people and their families, but I don’t think WWF qualifies yet.

Scientology is far from harmless.

[dog breath]

Cruise is evidence that a person can even get too weird for Hollywood. The larger populace across the country that actually supports the outlandish Hollywood lifestyles by going to movies has it's limits. His career is in a death spiral and he is too vain and nutty to understand the why. It's a shame really for he is a fine actor.

[tet68]

There are things worse than supporting and promoting a criminal enterprise that abuses people and their families, but I don’t think WWF qualifies yet.

I just don’t know how people can watch that wrestling stuff.

[D-fendr]

Hehehe.

Now, UFC is a whole ‘nuther thing.

[GOP Poet]

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[Finny]

He was GREAT in that movie. Put him in a whole new light and redeemed himself quite a bit in my eyes!

[Caesar Soze]

Sounds like a Tone 40 exercise. Not exactly Operating Thetan level stuff, I think they learn this in the Comm Courses. Either that or the regular pre-auditor stuff. Auditors have to thank the auditee after every interaction.

[FredZarguna]

I didn't say it was harmless. What I did say was that there were worse causes that he could waste his money on. As a skeptic of all religions, including atheism, I think they're all harmful. Until Reform Christianity made its debut -- fifteen centuries into the process, no less -- the Roman Church routinely tortured and murdered people in the name of God. Even so, it took another two hundred years for what was largely a secular Enlightenment to fully suppress the demons of Christianity's darker nature. If Scientology is still around in 1500 years -- a prospect I highly doubt -- we'll see if it has done as much damage.

[SpaceBar]

from a week ago...

Coast to Coast AM 11/14/09: Scientology Revelations

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Acting is a weird life/profession. Look at people like Heath Ledger as exhibit A. Modern acting, to be good and compelling requires that the actor go deeper and deeper into very strange places in their soul. The result for that person is not always good. We enjoy the fruits of their labor, and then sit back and bemoan the fact that they went off the deep end.

It obviously doesn’t happen every time to every one, but it happens enough to make me say it’s no coincidence.

There have always been actors and there always will be, but in some sense it’s a dangerous mental journey.

That’s my take on it, anyway.

The business with the ashtray and talking to it - I could very easily imagine that that could be an exercise given to acting students just as easily as it could be prima facie evidence that Cruise is nuttier than squirrel poop.

[ErnBatavia]

Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards used to have the office suite next to our seafood importing place....great and normal people.

They moved to new digs down the street, but continued to invite us over for their Christmas party - Cruise's production office was across the hall, and his staffers would also show up......a very strange crew; like something out of Mad Magazine.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Great story!

[D-fendr]

Where to begin..

Scientology is not a religion - except for tax purposes. I realize that in your view that’s a feather in its cap.

The “Enlightened” French Terror was quite demonic as was the “secular” Stalin and Mao.