Posted on 06/29/2005 5:55:29 AM PDT by GPBurdell
1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise not only battles creatures from outer space in his latest film "War of the Worlds," he also believes aliens really exist, he told a German newspaper on Wednesday.
Asked in an interview with the tabloid daily Bild if he believed in aliens, Cruise said: "Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?"
"Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know," Cruise, 42, said in the interview published in German.
Cruise's film "War of the Worlds" is based on British writer H.G. Wells' 1898 story of the invasion of Earth by Martians.
Travolta to a great book and turned it into a really crappy movie.
And I also believe in aliens. To believe that Earth is the only planet with life on it is the height of arrogance.
Not Desmond, Godfrey or Baxter, but Rather.
Run, Katie, Run!
This story even makes Joseph Smith seem sane and believable. Which is saying a lot!
I've noticed the same thing. Many will believe in aliens, fairies, elves, etc, but not in Christianity or someone coming back from the dead...of course, I've also noticed that many Christians don't believe in magic or elves, etc, either.
Just goes to show what different people will believe in, when there's no proof.
Yeah, that will teach all those investors...
He was very good in The Last Samurai and A Few Good Men.
He's a true movie superstar. People are jealous of him that's all.
Is there a reason nobody is posting the actual information here? Is Wikipedia not allowed?
Don't forget the requisite...'Tom who?'
Oh, goodie! Looks like the Scientologists are self terminating. That makes it easy.
Uh, yeah. The estimate for the total number of stars in the universe is 10^21, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Which is more likely jillionty-willions. Or winkity-skittillions. I'm not sure exactly...better ask a movie star.
That's a strange way to argue it. There are another infinite number of prime numbers and etc. that are completely unique other than pi... By your reasoning, then, should there not be a nigh-infinite number of races out there?
Is the existence of life, and a number, anywhere near the same?
Is it "as wacky and unvelievable" that Mary had a virgin birth and that after three days He rose from the dead and then ascended into heaven?
That He raised a man from the dead? That He fed hundreds of people with a couple of loaves of bread and a few fishes?
ThatHe turned water into top quality wine?
IMO, those people too deserve to be fleeced of their money.
Isn't this what scientists who inist there must be intelligent life elsewhere use as their basis of hypothesis? Number crunching and probability?
I read here on FR the other day that the reason these insane quotes are getting out is that Cruise fired the manager he has always had, and hired his sister.
The manager had been successful in keeping him away from too many microphones or magazine interviewers.
Look for lots more of this in the future.
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