Posted on 11/25/2005 7:13:46 AM PST by Qwertrew
Tom Cruise has already claimed to know the history of psychiatry. Now he's working on getting acquainted with OB/GYN.
The couch-jumping thesp has acquired a sonogram machine with which to personally track the progress of the fetus currently incased in his fiancee Katie Holmes' womb.
Cruise revealed the purchase during an interview with Barbara Walters taped Oct. 30 for the veteran newswoman's upcoming special, Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005, scheduled to air Tuesday on ABC. "I bought a sonogram machine," Cruise told Walters. "I am going to donate it to a hospital when we are done."
Somewhat startled, Walters replied, "Wait, you are going to do your own sonogram?"
"Yes," Cruise replied, chuckling.
Sonogram machines, which use ultrasound waves to monitor a baby's development, can cost anywhere from $15,000 to $200,000. No word on how much Cruise shelled out to purchase his own.
Cruise told Walters he did not yet know the sex of his first genetic offspring.
"Barbara, I would tell you," he said. "I would say, 'I know if it's a boy or a girl, and I'm not telling you.' "
"So what do you see?" Walters asked. "A little baby," the actor replied.
Fascinating, indeed.
The War of the Worlds star also told Walters that he and Holmes would wait to get married until after their child's birth, though it's unclear exactly when that blessed event may occur.
"We are going to get married next summer or early fall," he told Walters. "We don't have a date set yet."
The affianced duo recently departed for Shanghai, where they'll spend a couple of weeks while Cruise films scenes for Mission: Impossible 3.
According to the Shanghai Daily's Website, Cruise and Holmes have been taking in the local sights, including the Chenghuang Temple, a resort featuring old-style architecture, as well as dining heartily on Sichuan cuisine.
Declining moral absolutes statement once again
I hope Katie doesn't get post partpartum depression
As I was saying: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528529/posts
I read on another thread that Stan's dad ended up in there too, but not sure how/why. Also read about the ending credits-too smart! Hope to heck they rerun it at some point.
I still vote that this kid Katie Holmes is carrying is gonna look alot like L. Ron...
Stan is trotted out the front door in front of the crowd and the cameras, wearing a toga and a wreath, to read some excerpts from his soon-to-be published book. He starts to read but decides he can't go through with it. He then tells everyone that we're all looking for answers and sometimes we're willing to believe anything. Scientology is just a world-wide scam. The elder then jumps in and tells Stan that they are going to sue them - that he is soooo sued. The TV announcer then breaks in and says that R. Kelly, Cruise, and Travolta are out of the closet. The 3 come out the front door. Cruise then tells Stan that he too will sue him - from England. Stan tells them all to go ahead and sue. He's not afraid. Then the credits roll...
You can throw out Cruise's Scientology and he's still a nut. He may be a nice guy, but he's still a nut.
BTW, do you put L. Ron on the same level as Jesus and Moses or do you put him with Mohammed and *Sea-Man?
*Don't call me Semen!
Is it true that he and singer Rob Thomas of "Matchbox Twenty" slept together?
My favorite part was when R. Kelley arrived on the scene; I didn't see that one coming, but it was sooo perfect!
Can you put me on your list and hopefully your reminder will prompt me to tape correctly in the future.
I realize I'm straying a little off topic here, but wasn't Tom Cruise going to pack up his kids and move to France because he no longer felt the U.S. was a safe place to raise his kids? Hey Tom!!! how is that move coming?
Some Catholics think the Pope is infallible and don't use contraception. Are they nuts?
Some Jews wear "funny" hats and bob their heads at a brick wall. Are they nuts?
Evangelicals pile into auditoriums and raise their hands in the air as their TV preacher yells. Nuts?
As I said, his fellow Scientologist John Travolta quietly showed up after Katrina with a Lear jet full of supplies. I didn't see Falwell or Roberts doing the same, even in a truck.
Why the pile-on? Why isn't he allowed to practice his own faith without ridicule?
It will be interesting to see if Cruise comes out as pro-life some time soon.
"Using the term "bastard" is punishing an innocent child."
Not using the term "bastard" is telling one not-so-innocent child that it's perfectly okay to have another one. And it's telling the bastard that having a bastard of their own is a-okay!
Cruise established his nuttiness independently of his Scientology membership. And yes, of course Scientologists can be good people. I'm sure most are.
It's in the one of his lawsuits..
I'm not a huge Cruise fan, but I've yet to hear from anyone why he's so "nutty." Robin Williams is nutty, but Tom Cruise?
Are you a Scientologist?
I wonder what penalty practicing medicine without a license carries in the State of California?
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Nutty? You be the judge. I have decided & he is a MEGA NUT!
Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xemu. Xemu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.
Now Xemu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were over-populated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.
Xemu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).
These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xemu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.
The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
As for Xemu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xemu is still alive today.
That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.
Well what did you think of that story?
What? You thought it was a stupid story?
Well so do we. Unfortunately this stupid story is the core belief in the "religion" known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. This story is told to you when you reach one of their secret levels called OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level and do this (or you have to work very hard for the organisation on extremely low pay for many years).
We are telling you this story as a warning. If you become involved with Scientology then we would like you to do so with your eyes open and fully aware of the sort of material it contains.
Most of the Scientologists that work in their Dianetics* centres and so called "Churches" of Scientology do not know this story since they are not allowed to hear it until they reach the secret "upper" levels of Scientology. It may take them many years before they reach this level if they ever do. The ones who do know it are forced to keep it a secret and not tell it to those people who are joining Scientology.
Now you have read this you know their big secret. Don't let us put you off joining though.
* Dianetics and Scientology are trademarks of the "Religious" Technology Centre. This document is not connected with that organisation in any way.
You are either a Scientologist or you know nothing about them. Which?
We FReepers get uppity when the Lefties ridicule our beliefs, so I prefer not to engage in similar tactics with others (such as Cruise) unless they fire the first shot or get in my face. Until then, it's live and let live.
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