Tom Cruise Scientology Interview

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pretty unvarnished self-delusion. Wow

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Pretty unvarnished self-delusion. Wow

Aren't most people who adhere to a rigid belief systems that propose to provide people with all the answers?

What is KSW?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pretty unvarnished self-delusion. Wow

Aren't most people who adhere to a rigid belief systems that propose to provide people with all the answers?

What is KSW?

Keep Scientology Working. Apparently.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Pretty unvarnished self-delusion. Wow

Aren't most people who adhere to a rigid belief systems that propose to provide people with all the answers?

What is KSW?

Keep Scientology Working. Apparently.

My impression is that Tom, like most of us, wants desperately to find purpose in his life, and some kind of assurance to the complexities of life. I could never be satisfied with someone 'telling' me the answers. However disturbing and uncertain life is, I accept that much of life is mysterious or beyond explanation.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pretty unvarnished self-delusion. Wow

Aren't most people who adhere to a rigid belief systems that propose to provide people with all the answers?

What is KSW?

Keep Scientology Working. Apparently.

My impression is that Tom, like most of us, wants desperately to find purpose in his life, and some kind of assurance to the complexities of life. I could never be satisfied with someone 'telling' me the answers. However disturbing and uncertain life is, I accept that much of life is mysterious or beyond explanation.

Unfortunately he's rich enough and as a result, eccentric enough to buy into something like Scientology and think he can find the answers himself.

From what I've read Scientology sounds like some sort of Pop-Buddhism, though that's probably an insult to Buddhists.

A couple of my work colleagues have run into Scientologists at various publisher functions - one guy had people following him around trying to flog him L. Ron Hubbard novels and Dianetics.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Unfortunately he's rich enough and as a result, eccentric enough to buy into something like Scientology and think he can find the answers himself.

From what I've read Scientology sounds like some sort of Pop-Buddhism, though that's probably an insult to Buddhists.

A couple of my work colleagues have run into Scientologists at various publisher functions - one guy had people following him around trying to flog him L. Ron Hubbard novels and Dianetics.

I read recently that he's like the number two person within the organization. I always thought it would be interesting to go undercover into the organization and then expose it for what it is.

[wishbone 0]

Infinite human wants and curiosities.

I'll be watching Minority Report this evening.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Unfortunately he's rich enough and as a result, eccentric enough to buy into something like Scientology and think he can find the answers himself.

From what I've read Scientology sounds like some sort of Pop-Buddhism, though that's probably an insult to Buddhists.

A couple of my work colleagues have run into Scientologists at various publisher functions - one guy had people following him around trying to flog him L. Ron Hubbard novels and Dianetics.

I read recently that he's like the number two person within the organization. I always thought it would be interesting to go undercover into the organization and then expose it for what it is.

Someone tried that actually. Undercover journalist for the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6650545.stm

Edited January 17, 2008 by Number 6

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Man, this stuff is bizarre!

One thing - Hubbard became acquainted with occultist, Aleister Crowley. He got involved in ritual magick and then married a woman named, Sara Northrup, even though he was still legally married to his first wife. Both wives alleged that Hubbard would beat them.

Then this part....

Dianetics sold 150,000 copies within a year of publication.[10] Upon becoming more widely available, Dianetics became an object of critical scrutiny by the press and the medical establishment. In September 1950, The New York Times published a cautionary statement on the topic by the American Psychological Association that read in part, "the association calls attention to the fact that these claims are not supported by empirical evidence," and went on to recommend against use of "the techniques peculiar to Dianetics" until such time it had been validated by scientific testing. Consumer Reports, in an August 1951 assessment of Dianetics,[62] dryly noted "one looks in vain in Dianetics for the modesty usually associated with announcement of a medical or scientific discovery," and stated that the book had become "the basis for a new cult." The article observed "in a study of L. Ron Hubbard's text, one is impressed from the very beginning by a tendency to generalization and authoritative declarations unsupported by evidence or facts." Consumer Reports warned its readers against the "possibility of serious harm resulting from the abuse of intimacies and confidences associated with the relationship between auditor and patient," an especially serious risk, they concluded, "in a cult without professional traditions."

The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation was incorporated in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Branch offices were opened in five other US cities before the end of 1950 (though most folded within a year). Hubbard soon abandoned the Foundation, denouncing a number of his former associates as communists to the FBI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

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The guy was a nut!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Hubbard was a weird guy. Crowley was weirder if you believe his rep. I have a copy of his "Diary of a Drug Fiend" kicking around somewhere.

[Don_Joy's Prince 0]

Sorry Tom but you have lost it! I will not watch your movies same way ever again.

The truth?...Tom you can't handle the truth!

[Jason-Sasha 1]

He's a nutjob!

[almaty 19]

he is an attention #######..and probably needs some psych meds..like lithium...appears bi-polar

[ajames79 0]

The only thing I was able to get out of that is that Tom Cruise is there to "Help" and you are either "On board" or your "Not On Board".

I see insanity in his eyes. Seriously.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Sorry Tom but you have lost it! I will not watch your movies same way ever again.

I wouldn't go that far - but clearly there's some deep self delusion being expressed there. Especially that whole thing about being an "authority on the mind" and "getting people off drugs etc."

That BBC article about that organisation, especially the way it recruits, and the types of people it recruits is really quite revealing...

Edited January 17, 2008 by Number 6