[PJ-Comix]

After "Top Gun" came out in 1986, Cruise became a Scientologist and discovered the "Study Technology" the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, developed in the 1960s.

That just shows that Cruise is STILL an idiot if he has to draw inspiraction from that crackpot, L. Ron Hubbub.

"I realized I could absolutely learn anything that I wanted to learn," Cruise said.

And he ended up learning NOTHING.

Now the 41-year-old actor is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, a nonprofit group that uses Hubbard's teaching techniques in a secular setting.

Anybody else find this frightening?

"I don't want people to go through what I went through," Cruise said.

You mean like confessing your innermost personal secrets like an idiot to the Scientologists so that they can blackmail you for big bucks for the rest of your life?

[Support Free Republic]

See that good looking dude on the left? He's got FAR BETTER THINGS to do than conduct Freepathons! Come on, let's get this thing over with.

[strela]

You mean like confessing your innermost personal secrets like an idiot to the Scientologists so that they can blackmail you for big bucks for the rest of your life?

Don't be such a cynic. Everybody can benefit from Scientology's teachings (like how to leach major bux from sucker's wallets by hooking them up to a meter made from 5 dollars worth of parts from Radio Shack).

[TheSpottedOwl]

Don't forget that Nicole Kidman(sp?)divorced him. He took right up with another woman. I suppose that's a Scientology teaching.

[mountaineer]

"I want kids to have the ability to read, to write, to understand what people are saying to them, to be able to solve life's problems."

Tom, they do have that ability, although it's probably been stunted by NEA members.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

TOM CRUISE =

Human Lives =

Ant Lives =

Save the Rocks

[jhw61]

Thanks for the first laugh of my day. I love how "stars" exaggerate their "disabilities". Many people are dyslexic (did I spell that right?). Big deal. My brother had it...went to special classes in the public school system and somehow managed to get through school. I believe Cher is another "star" who claims to have the big D. You'd think they had the big C instead.

[solitas]

The BEST scientology-information website there is:

http://www.clambake.org/

Everything you want to know about how they work and how to combat them.
The Man who runs this site truly deserves support to keep it running.

[jagrmeister]

Tom Cruise is not an idiot. He speaks eloquently when interviewed and was one of the few celebrities who refused to criticize Bush during the Iraq war despite being prompted by journalists.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Scientology is not a cure all for dyslexia. They took enough of Tom's money to where Tom compensated his study/reading habits, (anyone can be helped if they are convinced they are helped,) this fool religion took the credit.

[raybbr]

Hey PJ, don't hold back next time.

[BibChr]

Tom Cruise: Scientology Helped Me (...Become The Idiot That I Am)

You left out Burbling, Wild-Eyed, Foam-Flecked, Ankle-Biting.

Just trying to help.

Dan

[friendly]

Scientology is a extremely evil paramilitary bizarro group that uses movie stars to further their exploitation of the naive and weak brained. It is all about money. Their belief system about space aliens from the planet something or other is psychotic.

And L Ron Hubbard was a classic sociopath and nut case, setting the tone for the current evil loon leadership.

[jlogajan]

I find it hilarious when one religion calls another religion "kooky."

[two23]

Waitr till he has to open up his wallet to get rid of the alien spirits that invade his innards...oh geesh. I can't believe people get sucked into stuff like this.

[fortunecookie]

and discovered the "Study Technology" the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, developed in the 1960s.

Let's not forget that his books were written and marketed in the 50's, 60's & 70's as SCIENCE FICTION.

I remember, as a child in the 70's, seeing the paperbacks in the sci-fi bestseller displays (and later self-help) at the mall. My mother recognized it as drivel and cautioned me about it then.

What a sweet deal for all the cling-ons, his pals, who recognized the money potential of the apparently easily suckered 'me' generation and who developed it into and marketed it first as self-help then as a 'religion'. Follow the money trail...

[AdmSmith]

Consider this

"Cruise, who previously was a Bill Clinton supporter, may have been lobbying the White House for the funding of Scientology programs through President Bush's faith-based initiatives program, according to some familiar with the organization."

http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir08-10.html

Dump him!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Tom previously attended one of the Roman Catholic junior seminaries in Indiana, and stopped going. When he stopped, he was virulently anti-Catholic and anti-clerical.

Draw your own conclusions.

[pogo101]

I don't think he's an idiot or airhead, but I do think that he's been taken in by, and in my utterly unproven guesstimation being blackmailed by, a slick, known-by-its-leaders-to-be-fake cult.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Self ping .

[onyx]

Lisa Marie Presley also attributes her sound-footing to Scientology's teachings.........