Posted on 06/24/2005 7:49:38 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
...Lauer: Katie has mentioned that she is embracing, or at least exposing herself and opening herself up to, Scientology. At this stage in your life, could you be with someone who doesn't have an interest?
Cruise: You know, Scientology is something that you don't understand. It's like, you could be a Christian and be a Scientologist, okay. Scientology is something—
Lauer: So, it doesn't replace religion.
Cruise: It is a religion. Because it's dealing with the spirit. You as a spiritual being. It gives you tools you can use to apply to your life.
We asked Cruise to explain his recent comments regarding Brooke Shields. Cruise created a firestorm when he criticized Shields for revealing that she went into therapy and took antidepressants to deal with her postpartum depression. Cruise has said that, as a Scientologist, he doesn't believe in psychiatric medicine.
Cruise: I've never agreed with psychiatry, ever. Before I was a Scientologist I never agreed with psychiatry. And when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in psychology.
And as far as the Brooke Shields thing, look, you got to understand, I really care about Brooke Shields. I think, here's a wonderful and talented woman. And I want to see her do well. And I know that psychiatry is a pseudo science.
Lauer: But Tom, if she said that this particular thing helped her feel better, whether it was the antidepressants or going to a counselor or psychiatrist, isn't that enough?
Cruise: Matt, you have to understand this. Here we are today, where I talk out against drugs and psychiatric abuses of electric shocking people, okay, against their will, of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of these drugs...
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Wouldn't it be a hoot if Tom's babbeling about Scientology helps tank Spielberg's movie?
Sounds like the babbling idiot Tom has the attention span and intellectual depth of a cocker spaniel. They are perfect knuckleheads these 'celebrities' or why would anything and everything under the sun make such a dramatic impression on them? They are prey to every fanaticism in the world. No emotional or moral rudder...you are PREY to idiots and idiocy! STFU Tom.
Yes, it would be a hoot if Tom's babbling sank the movie.
I read that he insisted on having a couple of Scientology tents installed on the set when they were making the movie. Can't believe they give in to the demands. He isn't as big a star as he used to be... his movies don't make as much.
That's why I like actors like Christian Bale, who hate doing publicity. I just want to see them act. I don't want to hear their views on politics and religion.
I'm not wasting my money on this Cruise film. I do believe it also stars Tim Robbins.
I would recommend seeing "Batman Begins" instead.
Following his graduation in 1894 from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now Iowa State University), Carver joined the college faculty and continued his studies, specializing in bacteriological laboratory work in systematic botany. In 1896 he became director of the Department of Agricultural Research at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), where he began an exhaustive series of experiments with peanuts.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/carver.htm
How old is that picture? LOL!
Reading about TC's antics, I can't help thinking, "Wha-a-a-t?" Or rather, "Why?"
Why is TC being so flamboyantly weird? Is he truly a nutjob? Or an aging actor pushing too hard at publicity stunts?
Or is Hollywood so desperate for attention that they're goading this guy on? (Think of Brangelina, which has also been worked to the ground.) Most of the films out now are so bad that the gossip mags are trying to compensate through celebrity overkill. Any kind of coverage will do, as long as Hollywood can keep the waning public interest.
- L. Ron Hubbard in a 1967 letter to his wife, written during the period when he was creating Scientology's secret "upper levels." (Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. a.k.a. Ronald DeWolf, L. RON HUBBARD: MESSIAH OR MADMAN? Random House 1989)"
I don't know, but he's so ridiculous!
But there is such a thing a megalomania. Tom and Oprah prove it.
Rule #2 for Scientologists: Don't talk about psychiatry.
Rule #3 for insane Scientologists: REALLY don't talk about psychiatry.
Rule #4 for Scientologists: See rules #1-#3.
With any luck, Cruise will kill this cult once and for all.
Re: Ron Hubbard letter where he admits to drinking rum and popping pills.
Good find !
That's because the clambake worshippers don't want psychiatrists peering into their members heads and seeing how thoroughly brainwashed they are.
My sentiments exactly.
We need a photo that shows "STRETCH" pants for something :-)
I've seen some stretches before, but that one was just out there.
Cruise may be a bit wacky, but he's on to something about the drugging of children. Too many parents are willfully shoving Ritalin on kids (especially boys) who are simply being boys. I think much of psychiatric medicine is questionable at best. Thomas Szasz (sp.) has written some good work on this subject.
If only we could shut up Christian Bale's mother-in-law.
George Washington Carver was born a slave in 1860 in Missouri. He graduated from Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State) in 1894 and was offered a position immediately after graduation. He earned his master's degree in agriculture in 1896. He finished his career at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabami at the invitation of Booker T. Washington.
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