[greyfoxx39]

The entire article is fascinating..and disturbing. How could millions of people fall for the rantings of a con man in the belief that they can become the equivalent of God? /sarc

[Da Coyote]

Cruise isn’t exactly at the top of the IQ chain.

Nor in the middle.

Do you get the trend here?

[Fzob]

It’s pretty clear by now that Tom Cruise is an alien. The only question is what planet?

[Tijeras_Slim]

For his part, Cruise believes his true aim in life is to convert all nonbelievers into the church, which, according to Scientology, will result in Earth’s salvation.

Might I suggest a bullhorn and one-way ticket to Mecca?

[Impala64ssa]

Look at another scientologist, Kirstie Ally. She achieved the level of OT, very high up in the ranks which meant she has control over her environment. Well if that’s so, why did she blow up to 200+lbs and the only work she could find was to shill for some weight loss program?

[lacrew]

I saw a documentary on Hubbard once...complete and utter con man, for most of his life.

[bmwcyle]

It like a child with a comic book.

[Morris70]

Are non scientoligists the aliens?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Tom Cruise thinks he’s on planet to vanquish aliens ...

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Well he’d better get busy - seems like we’re surrounded by ‘em.

[lacrew]

Burned in my mind is this memory of Tom Cruise. To paint the picture, its the evening of the Lady Diana crash. The news is so fresh, its not clear that Diana is dead yet. Cruise takes it upon himself to call in to CNN....and to a great extent - its all about him (he starts at 1:44)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUFdMqI9fT8

[RegulatorCountry]

Strictly based upon what I've read, Scientology would appear to possess certain aspects of a mafia, with every member having skeletons in the closet. This means they're controllable. Are there any poor Scientologists?

I'd suspect it's regarded more as an obligation to get ahead and therefore not taken seriously by most, like joining any number of lodges with hokey initiations and rituals.

Then, there are probably the true believers. Tom Cruise was unusually close to the top guy, according to some written accounts. He no doubt got this impression from him, if true.

The world rolled out the red carpet for him, for decades. It doesn't anymore. Depending upon Cruise's level of stability, that could be taken to “mean” any number of things.

[Georgia Girl 2]

He’s a nutty nut nutty but he makes a heck of a movie.

[cripplecreek]

He didn’t do squat to fight the martians. He spent the whole movie running from them.

He did however beat Tim Robbins to death with a shovel so he does get points for that.

[Chipper]

It is Chubby Rain becoming reality (Bowfinger movie reference).

[Astronaut]

So Cruise is a top guy at Scientology. Is John Travolta right under him? Or is it the other way around?

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Tom Cruise spent his formative years in Hollywood vulnerable to those who preyed on adolescent males. That might explain a lot of his problems.

[greyfoxx39]

Doesn’t the NYP come under the normal excerpt rule of the limit of 300 words? I had the excerpt box clicked. Why the edit? Just wondering.

[Moltke]

And here I thought he spends his time packing fudge...a fudgepacker (as per South Park).

Anyway, a thumbnail biography of the late L. Ron Hubbard:

Hubbard Bio at the Rotten.com Library

BTW, Google will not show this page even if you enter the exact search terms...hmmm...

[Hacksaw]

What’s funny is that I read a lot of SF, and I’ve read more that a few books that take a large dig at Hubbard. Greg Bear’s “Heads” deals with a cult who tried to set up a colony on IO (that was quickly snuffed by a sulfer volcano, lol) and Larry Niven deals with a SF author who was sent to Hell for inventing his own religion in Niven’s adaptation of The Inferno.

[svcw]

I am proud to say my husband and I are on their enemies list, going on 35 years now.
Even checked at the local ST office the other day, they were ever so nice until they asked me my name, typed into the computer...........then suddenly they had meetings to attend.
‘-)

[DustyMoment]

The entire article is fascinating..and disturbing. How could millions of people fall for the rantings of a con man in the belief that they can become the equivalent of God?

Seriously!? One word - OBAMA!!

BTW, Cruise is the number 3 man because there are only 3 practicing members of scientology!



(So many jabs, so little bandwidth . . . !)