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A Couch Tom Cruise Won't Jump On
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| Saturday, June 25, 2005; Page C01
| Richard Leiby
Posted on 06/25/2005 11:10:01 AM PDT by echoBoomer
Okay, should we address him as Dr. Tom Cruise from now on? Or will the Rev. Dr. Cruise suffice?
Whatever: Anybody who watched the actor's performance on NBC's "Today" show yesterday witnessed an unsettling transformation. The movie star, who has long embraced Scientology, launched a full-bore assault on the psychiatric profession, sticking to a script that his church (founded, mind you, by a hack science fiction writer) has been promoting for decades.
"Psychiatry is a pseudoscience," he told host Matt Lauer, later saying: "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mattlauer; mentalmidgetsx2; scientology; tomcruise
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To: echoBoomer
You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do.So he's an expert? And the only expert? Wow, what an ego. Or he's just cuckoo. I suppose he's got a pharmacology degree as well, since he's been advising his interviewers about the dangers of medicines. Oh, wait, no he doesn't, because he's an ACTOR. An actor who's 'losing it'.
To: echoBoomer
Yes Rev. Tom, I will drink the kool-aid, we will all drink the kool-aid. Whoa! what just happened? where am I! AHHH!
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posted on
06/25/2005 6:45:57 PM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(My tagline is currently being blocked by Congressional filibuster for being to harsh.)
To: two134711
Tom Cruise wanted to be a Priest?
Add that to file,
To: Checkers
Cruise desperately wants something from Matt Lauer:
To: EdHallick
Everyone I know in Hollyweird who has anything to do with show business claims Cruise is a homosexual.
I have heard this for two decades now.
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posted on
06/25/2005 6:57:44 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Can anybody tell me how to post from Gannett?)
To: wardaddy
Is he a member of the Film Actors Guild?
To: wardaddy
I work with a guy who is gay and he says it`s well known in the gay community what Tom is. What happens is if any of it leaks out, Cruise immediately sues the living crap out of them, so everyone shuts up. He`s a freggin` joke. Him and Travolta are both on the homo/bi side and they are involved with this Scientology nonsense exactly because they think it will cure them of it. Read this...
http://www.skeptictank.org/travolt3.htm
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posted on
06/25/2005 7:20:25 PM PDT
by
EdHallick
(It`s time to play the feeuuud! "Name something evil" "Hitlery" ..Good answer good answer "Survey say)
To: EdHallick
Interesting
My mom's best childhood pal went Scientology in Dallas back in the early days....60s.....nuts.....absolute nuts.
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posted on
06/25/2005 8:37:39 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
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To: echoBoomer
It is entertaining to see two socialists/liberals argue about what is true, what the truth really is...............it is also nice to see Lauer being reminded of what it feels like to be lectured to...........Cruise's time would be better spent working on his own family's problems instead of trying to micro-manage other people's lives (Jimmy Carter Syndrome).
To: EdHallick
You're making too much of this.
Tom Cruise is no different than anyone else who is profoundly loyal to their belief system...whether it's religion or politics.
He is no different than Barbra Streisand speaking out on her political views. They do it with confidence bordering on arrogance...sort of the way we feel about posters on the DU site.
To: bobdsmith
It might be too cooky to claim that Michael Schiavo was a
Scientologist. It might take things too far to suggest that Judge George W. Greer (a Lutheran) and George Fellos were Scientologists. These things can be said:
(1) the scientologist's philosophy is very, very pro-euthanasia... in fact, to Nazi-like extremes.
(2) The scientologists probably have more political, legal, and economic power over Clearwater than the Mormons do over Salt Lake City. Many say that Scientology has a wide influence over the political landscape of Florida. When the Clearwater Bar Association presented Judge Greer with the John U. Bird award, May 15, 2004, Scientology attorney Wally Popewho represented his "church" in the Lisa McPherson casewas the individual selected to bestow this high honor on Judge Greer! Wally cited high ideals, personal character, and judicial competence. This prestigious award, which is the Clearwater bar's highest honor for a judge, was granted to Judge Greer for the way he has handled himself while overseeing the Terri Schiavo case!
(3) The scientologists have long been in the habit of using the judiciary to accomplish their goals (political, economic, philosophical, etc).
I will not say (although there is plenty being said on other blogs) that there is a conspiracy to influence the body politics of Florida by the financial power of Scientology. I will say that there is a cultural impact that seeps itself into the body politics.
To: jonrick46
"(3) The scientologists have long been in the habit of using the judiciary to accomplish their goals (political, economic, philosophical, etc)."
Greta Van Sustern is a known Scientologist.
To: Bar-Face
I know next to nothing about Scientology but I do know that even Tom Cruise has the RIGHT to practice any damn religion he wants to and for some writer from the Washington comPost to make fun of it is or should be a crime. If he did that to a practitioner of the religion of peace, he would be tarred and feathered Sounds like you need to relax. Do some reading up on Scientology. You'll discover it's impossible NOT to make fun of unless you're a real kook.
Check out the 2nd link in TheOtherOne's post #7.
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posted on
06/26/2005 4:28:27 AM PDT
by
demkicker
(A skunk sat on a stump; the stump thunk the skunk stunk; the skunk thunk the stump stunk.)
To: Ladysmith
OMG, I had to stop reading the link you provided. I almost got physically ill when reading:
Parents are encouraged not to comfort or nurture young children because Hubbard believed children are small adults, able to think and fend for themselves from a very early age.
For example, a child who falls and hurts himself is taken to the place where he was hurt and the injury is pressed against the object that caused it. It is believed the pain can be made to flow back into the object.
"That's called a contact assist," Teresa Summers said. "There is also a fever assist. We were discouraged from seeking medical help or giving medication, even Tylenol, to bring down a fever.
"Instead, you get the child to hold an object still. That's supposed to bring down the fever. When it doesn't work, it's because you aren't doing it right or didn't repeat it often enough. I tried it on my child. Naturally, it didn't work."
Some parents who left Scientology also report they neglected their children because they were kept too busy with church programs, instruction and work. They had little time left for child care, they said.
IMO, Scientology is nothing but sick and dangerous cult.
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posted on
06/26/2005 4:56:51 AM PDT
by
demkicker
(A skunk sat on a stump; the stump thunk the skunk stunk; the skunk thunk the stump stunk.)
To: mowowie
I have a feeling that Cruise admitted some things to the scientologists during his "clearing" or "auditing" or what ever that they now have on tape and he definitely doesn't want getting out. maybe there now blackmailing him or something. like telling him to dump his PR person and start pushing the all the cult crap. I don't thin k it's good pr for the COS though. Their Scam is now being talked about all over the net. To learn about Xenu and the Thetans used to be a big secret and cost much money to find out about, Now everybody knows. I definitely think you're on to something. The cult knows all of Tom's dirty little secrets and has him by the balls. It's apparent Tom is being fed some funny stuff in those vitamins along with being programmed to find and recruit a young gullable rich wife for Scientology.
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posted on
06/26/2005 5:03:28 AM PDT
by
demkicker
(A skunk sat on a stump; the stump thunk the skunk stunk; the skunk thunk the stump stunk.)
To: EdHallick
Wow, I'd never heard Travolta was gay. Makes one wonder how in the hell Kelly Preston could ever fall for him. *shiver*
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posted on
06/26/2005 5:10:00 AM PDT
by
demkicker
(A skunk sat on a stump; the stump thunk the skunk stunk; the skunk thunk the stump stunk.)
To: ShandaLear
I looked up the Landmark Forum. It's est reincarnated. I had an aunt involved in est back in the 70s. I loved her dearly, but her family was the most dysfunctional in the bunch--big time. I don't blame est for that--the problems began long before she got involved, but new-age coping stretegies were not what they needed.
I think the main difference between est and scientology is that they were profit centers for two different men. Otherwise their techniques sound pretty similar (although I think scientology is more sinister).
To: mowowie
There is an old saying--there is no such thing as bad publicity. Scientology is getting millions of dollars worth of free advertising. I'm wondering how Spielburg is taking all this---I imagine he wants the movie to get all the attention.
To: stands2reason
I hadn't heard about that. Good for Miss Scarlett!
To: Yaelle
Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words! Crusie is confrontational and violating the neutral "space" between he and Lauer. It almost looks like a physical attack. Cruise is trying to physically intimidate Lauer--who is BTW not backing down. He is maintaining pretty intense eye contact. Lauer actually did a pretty good job in this interview. It's called giving TC anough rope to hang himself!
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