Tom Cruise: Scientology Helped Me (...Become The Idiot That I Am)

Yahoo! News ^ | July 11, 2003

[PJ-Comix]

NEW YORK - Tom Cruise said he learned to overcome his learning disability through Scientology.

"When I was about 7, I had been labeled dyslexic," he told People magazine for its July 21 issue. "I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb."

After "Top Gun" came out in 1986, Cruise became a Scientologist and discovered the "Study Technology" the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, developed in the 1960s.

"I realized I could absolutely learn anything that I wanted to learn," Cruise said.

Now the 41-year-old actor is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, a nonprofit group that uses Hubbard's teaching techniques in a secular setting.

"I don't want people to go through what I went through," Cruise said. "I want kids to have the ability to read, to write, to understand what people are saying to them, to be able to solve life's problems."

[PJ-Comix]

After "Top Gun" came out in 1986, Cruise became a Scientologist and discovered the "Study Technology" the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, developed in the 1960s.

That just shows that Cruise is STILL an idiot if he has to draw inspiraction from that crackpot, L. Ron Hubbub.

"I realized I could absolutely learn anything that I wanted to learn," Cruise said.

And he ended up learning NOTHING.

Now the 41-year-old actor is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, a nonprofit group that uses Hubbard's teaching techniques in a secular setting.

Anybody else find this frightening?

"I don't want people to go through what I went through," Cruise said.

You mean like confessing your innermost personal secrets like an idiot to the Scientologists so that they can blackmail you for big bucks for the rest of your life?

[Support Free Republic]

See that good looking dude on the left? He's got FAR BETTER THINGS to do than conduct Freepathons! Come on, let's get this thing over with.

[strela]

You mean like confessing your innermost personal secrets like an idiot to the Scientologists so that they can blackmail you for big bucks for the rest of your life?

Don't be such a cynic. Everybody can benefit from Scientology's teachings (like how to leach major bux from sucker's wallets by hooking them up to a meter made from 5 dollars worth of parts from Radio Shack).

[PJ-Comix]

The Scientologists have a VERY ELABORATE travelling display that they send out to college campuses around the country. They say it is for educational purposes but basically it is a shrine to L. Ron Hubbub. And the Scientologists who accompany these displays are very well dressed but sleazy types. Actually they look a lot like Terry McAuliffe. The same kind of sleazy appearance underneath a false patina of well-dressed respectibility.

[Saint Athanasius]

Great Title for the Article!

[PJ-Comix]

Have you ever seen Tom Cruise interviewed? The few times this happens, he STILL comes off as a complete IDIOT.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Don't forget that Nicole Kidman(sp?)divorced him. He took right up with another woman. I suppose that's a Scientology teaching.

[mountaineer]

"I want kids to have the ability to read, to write, to understand what people are saying to them, to be able to solve life's problems."

Tom, they do have that ability, although it's probably been stunted by NEA members.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

TOM CRUISE =

Human Lives =

Ant Lives =

Save the Rocks

[jhw61]

Thanks for the first laugh of my day. I love how "stars" exaggerate their "disabilities". Many people are dyslexic (did I spell that right?). Big deal. My brother had it...went to special classes in the public school system and somehow managed to get through school. I believe Cher is another "star" who claims to have the big D. You'd think they had the big C instead.

[PJ-Comix]

He took right up with another woman. I suppose that's a Scientology teaching.

Actually that was to dispell those nasty rumors about him. Of course, the Scientologists probably have tapes of Cruise confessing all to them. Which might explain the rush to supposedly take up right away with a woman.

[Saint Athanasius]

As bad as Mariah Carey? Have you ever seen her interviewed?
She is a barrel of laughs... sometimes I laugh so hard I fall out of my chair

[strela]

You touch only upon the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the corruption and evil that is Scientology. "Parishioners" such as Lisa MacPherson who end up dead after a minor traffic accident with cockroach bites on their lifeless bodies in Scientology "care" facilities, non-celebrities who end up in a charming garden spot known as the RPF for the most trivial offenses, harassment and abuse of the legal system against critics by Scientology's hordes of pit bull-like lawyers. These people personify evil and hide behind the freedom of religion we enjoy in the US to do it.

I thank God every day that neither I nor anybody in my family ever got mixed up in this wackjob UFO cult.

[solitas]

The BEST scientology-information website there is:

http://www.clambake.org/

Everything you want to know about how they work and how to combat them.
The Man who runs this site truly deserves support to keep it running.

[jagrmeister]

Tom Cruise is not an idiot. He speaks eloquently when interviewed and was one of the few celebrities who refused to criticize Bush during the Iraq war despite being prompted by journalists.

[GOP_Proud]

I agree that he's not an idiot, but I do think these people are easily led. Anything that this group did that helped with his dyslexia can be done without them. People are treated for it all the time and have success. Geesh. To credit it to that bunch is just being foolish.

[jhw61]

"Tom Cruise is not an idiot. He speaks eloquently when interviewed and was one of the few celebrities who refused to criticize Bush during the Iraq war despite being prompted by journalists.".....................

You're entitled to your opinion.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Scientology is not a cure all for dyslexia. They took enough of Tom's money to where Tom compensated his study/reading habits, (anyone can be helped if they are convinced they are helped,) this fool religion took the credit.

[raybbr]

Hey PJ, don't hold back next time.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Nobody is an idiot, not even Forest Gump.

Tom is a fool IMO, though.