“genuinely talented and charismatic movie stars.. Tom Cruise could be one but for his crazy cult beliefs.”
Because of beliefs his talent and charisma don’t measure up. Or are not genuine. You must be sensing some kind of weird connections that don’t exist.
No cult stuff but I’ve got some crazy notions. How about you?
Because his crazy cult beliefs are a turnoff to me. I tune him out rather than pay attention to his life and career as I do actors like Paul Newman.
Scientology isn’t a set of beliefs, unless you count belief in the Almighty Con.
For every star like Crazy Cruise, there are thousands of desperate losers who are virtual slaves of the cult of Scientology. And they’re not happy slaves, either.
(Just for the record, I think anyone who argues about which play-actor has the most moral character should be sent out to eat on the patio. I never suppose someone like P Newman has a great moral character, just a huge army of fame addicts who would see him rob a convenience store and think it was adorable, and attack anyone who tries to talk about it. That makes all the difference, you know.)
Uh, but I digress. If you think Scientology is a belief system and a real church, and la la la, there are lots of anti-scientology sites popping up these days. I was just checking this one out:
It’s a site where ex-scientologists and victims of scientology post. This particular thread is about the “Chase wave” scam that they were running. WERE running, because the law is about to come down on them.
I feel sorry for actors’ kids. That freak Anne Heche has kids. *shudder* Seriously, you know those kids need help. Yes, everybody’s Mommy and Daddy have fights. Everybody’s Mommy and Daddy pretend that everything’s just peachy out in the World so people won’t gossip about them.
But every normal kid’s Mommy and Daddy will sooner or later have permanent consequences from a lifetime of wasting and scr3wing around. These people have armies of lawyers and fans to wipe their chins and shovel them into their suits, and get them to appointments, and cover up their indiscretions.
And get rid of people who cause them problems, of course.
In the real world, Mommy and Daddy can only front for so long before the seams start to split.
The rioting, the shortages, the “having to feel bad about nonexistent problems like climate change” syndromes we are currently experiencing are in large part due to people - talking about everybody on Earth, not just in the USA - due to people BELIEVING the insipid garbage spouted by play-actors in movies, on TV, and worst of all in their day-to-day lives which are so much different than a normal person’s life that most of us still kinda don’t get it.
We believe the insane stuff in movies, we sympathize with actors we like, we read about them and think about them and try to imitate their looks and mannerisms, etc. (Not saying I’m better off than you, btw; sometimes I don’t know where some actor I used to like stops and the actual “me” begins.) We worry about the “entertainment industry” more than we worry about what kids are being taught in public school.
Why do we talk about the “accomplishments” of actors and not the inventors of a revolutionary new type of battery or the eradication of a particular disease? (Again, sometimes cracking on actors is comic relief. At least there’s somebody more messed-up than me! Ya know?)
But all joking aside, we can now see the consequences of ignoring those genuine producers of benefits for mankind and bestowing our approval and attention on actors - those who make their often considerable fortunes from lying and making noobs believe lies.
Lying and being able to make others believe the lies one espouses are counted as great virtues today.