Posted on 06/24/2005 11:51:03 AM PDT by gamarob1
NEW YORK - Tom Cruise was all smiles talking about his movie and his fiancee on NBC’s “Today” show, but the smile disappeared when Matt Lauer mentioned Cruise’s earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants.
Cruise got very serious and kept saying “Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt” every time Lauer said he knew people who were helped by anti-depressants.
Shields took them for her post-partum depression. As a Scientologist, Cruise doesn’t believe in those kinds of drugs or therapy of any kind.
At one point Cruise told Lauer, “You’re glib” and said Lauer didn’t know what he was talking about. The star launched into a detailed discussion of the use of the prescription drug Ritalin.
“It's very impressive to listen to you,” Lauer replied, “because clearly, you've done the homework. And you know the subject.”
“And you should,” Cruise retorted. He also told Lauer, “You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.”
The NBC anchor told Cruise he had known people who had been helped by psychiatric drugs. Cruise then accused Lauer of advocating the use of Ritalin.
Lauer asked Cruise how he could get more people to understand Scientology, the controversial religion practiced by Cruise and other celebrities like John Travolta.
“You just communicate about it," Cruise said. “If I want to know something, I go and find out. Because I don't talk about things that I don't understand.”
full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344309/
Hey, you wanna see a total Tom Cruise meltdown, let him be interviewed by Charles Krauthammer. Before becoming a political commentator, Charles was a psychiatrist. Just let 'ol raving lunatic Tom try this nonsense with him!
All the "facts" and "knowledge" he has on psychiatry is the muck fed to him by the Scientologists. He has gone around before spouting half-truths and other lies about psychiatry supported by Scientology.
I won't argue with that, but I also don't want to hear about it from the likes of Tom Cruise, with his gerbil-sized IQ and his whacked-out pseudo-religion.
There`s something we have not yet seen here about Mr.Cruise..Nobody would be so foolish to destroy a multi-mill career like this. He says "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance." Is he kidding me? Maybe Mr. Cruise should talk to diabetics. I don`t think "L.Ron" is going to be able to show diabetics how to mentally create insulin.
So tell us, Tom...when the hell are you going to STFU?
Sorry, folks, I'm sick of this guy. Him and that damn Geldof...
lol!! That`s my theory about this whole Tom Cruise thing. He thinks Scientology can cure him of being a homo gay, and the reason he got so excited on Oprah was not because he met this girl, but because he thinks he is cured. I bet you he did a Tony Perkins, he popped his wad for the first time in his life with a girl.
"Sounds like the babbling idiot Tom has the attention span and intellectual depth of a cocker spaniel."
Hey, hey! Whatcha got against poor little cocker spaniels? Once owned one named Henry who was anything but stoopid. Okay, so he was probably schizophrenic -- at least he was entertaining. Far more so than Tommy-boy.
My guess is T-boy has psychotropic envy.
You can't throw a rock at a sci-fi convention without hitting a scientologist who will want to talk to you about hovercars.
I'd put Cruise's Drug rehabilitation "philanthropy" at about the same level as Tony Robbins filming himself handing out blankets to the needy in his infomercials. The goal is recruitment, not charity. As for enslaving people, destroying families, and personal bankrupcy, scientology is worse than any drug or alcohol addiction
And it certainly won't help people in the afterlife.
I could not possibly disagree with you more. There are women--thank God, very, very few women--who suffer from post-partum psychosis. Maybe just one unfortunate woman heard what Shields went through and, most importantly, heard that she got the help she needed, and recognized herself in Shields' story. Maybe that one unfortuante woman realized that she, too, needed help. Sounds like a big-ass favor to me.
And meanwhile millions of other women heard her bizarre story and worried.
Did you watch the show or read her book? I suggest you check it out to learn exactly what you're praising.
Agreed!
In the Scientology, man is held to consist of three parts—thetan, mind and body. The thetan is the spiritual being. One is a thetan who has a mind and who occupies a body. As is explained more fully below, the thetan is that which animates the body and uses the mind.
FYI - Mr. Cruise is on record as saying the reason his children (w/Nicole Kidman) are living with her in Australia is because he believes the United States is NOT a good place to raise children. (But he sure loves the money it gives him.) This also makes it very easy for him to be an absent father. More like a visiting uncle, which paves the way for him to meet the "extraordinary" (his words) newest "love" and (already) future wife after, what, 8 weeks of "dating"? Sounds pretty flaky to me. Even Nicole doesn't believe it.
Thetans, cretins...this boy's on drugs!
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