Posted on 07/24/2005 7:06:10 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated
Don't think so, plenty of new pigeons...
The scary part is that makes sense...
Astute observation.
I read something once about the Scienfrogolists getting kicked out of wherever they were....Texas or CA? I'd have to research it again but will post it here. There's some story how they ended up in Clearwater.
When the American Psychiatric Association refused to recognize Hubbard’s treatment program, called “Dianetics,” as valid therapy, he declared psychiatry a junk science and put its practitioners at the top of his enemies list, calling them aliens from a "fifth galactic invader force" that is currently trying to destroy the planet.
I have a friend who is a psychiatrist (the MD kind, not a 4 year degree pyschologist.) She is very Christian and very conservative and readily admits to what she sees as holes in psychiatry, especially the "I'm not responsible" crowd. Cruise & Co. can beat their chests all they like, but a lot of men live next door to little girls and don't rape them. A lot of women have children and don't kill them.
Twenty years ago all the hollywood elite had a resident shrink. This was post trascendentalism "I'm OK, you're OK" -- but I need a shrink to convince me of that. Somehow that's evolved into "I'm OK, you're not and I don't need a shrink to convince me." All they need is a good "clearing" and the means to write a fat check.
Tom Cat is going to pay the price for his whacko-ness. I used to be a Tom Cruise groupie and wouldn't see one of his movies now if it was shipped free of charge to my house. He's a total nutcase, along with his Scientology buddy, Greta Van Sustren.
Hear hear, Sister! WOTW is one of my favorite stories so I was looking forward to this - until I heard Tommie "The Glib" Cruise was going to be in it. Then it was, "Oh crap. Well, maybe..."
But after his whole BS line about Brooke and drugs, and promoting that pathetic money-grubbing, brain-washing cult $cio, I won't give one stinkin' penny to any of his projects ever again. That goes with some others like Travolta, too.
I live a few miles from Clearwater. Everyone in this area has picked up some of the story. I don't know who told me, but someone did, and at the time I thought it made sense. Take it with a grain of salt. When they came here it rocked the community. People were up in arms over "the cult" buying a landmark hotel in downtown Clearwater. It's quieted down over the years, but lots of people don't trust them. And that might never change.
It will change after they become trustworthy.
And that might never change.
You said it...
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