I found this video today. It was taken off you tube and google video, per request of the Church. http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress
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Tom Cruise speaking about Scientology--Video
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be careful what you say about scientolgists. they will come and get you
Everybody is entitled to their beliefs, but for crying out loud, doesn't the fact that the religion was founded by a science fiction writer tip you off?
I actually posted a link to the vid a few entries earlier.
There's a new book out about Cruise and Scientology. Very trivially enlightening.
SP stands for suppressed person. I know because I is one.
He sounds crazy---not because of the religion, but the way he is talking. I don't think there's a coherent sentence in that interview.
Any different then a religion founded by a carpenter? :)
I'm not sure exactly why, but something about Cruise gives me the creeps. I think it was his tirade against Matt Lauer.
"You're glib."
According to wikipedia -"According to Hubbard, some past traumas may have been deliberately inflicted in the form of "implants" used by extraterrestrial dictatorships such as Helatrobus to brainwash and control the population. Hubbard's lectures and writings include a wide variety of accounts of complex extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described by Hubbard as "space opera." There is a huge Church of Spiritual Technology symbol carved into the ground at Scientology's Trementina Base that is visible from the air.78 Washington Post reporter Richard Leiby wrote, "Former Scientologists familiar with Hubbard’s teachings on reincarnation say the symbol marks a 'return point' so loyal staff members know where they can find the founder’s works when they travel here in the future from other places in the universe."79
Scientologists who have achieved the State of Clear may continue onto the Upper or OT (Operating Thetan) Levels. These levels are available by invitation only after a review of the candidate's character, ethics and contribution to the aims of Scientology.80 Individuals who have read these materials may not disclose what they contain without jeopardizing their standing in the Church.80 Presently, there are eight such levels, OT I to VIII.81 Church management has promised to release a ninth OT level once certain expansion goals are met.82 The OT VIII designation is only granted at sea, on the Scientology ship, the Freewinds, which was established to provide a "safe, aesthetic, distraction-free environment" for this purpose.83
Despite the organization's claims to confidentiality, excerpts and descriptions of these materials were published online by a former member in 1995 and then circulated in mainstream media.80 This occurred after the teachings were submitted as evidence in court cases involving Scientology, thus becoming a matter of public record.84[85] In the previously confidential OT levels, Hubbard explains how to reverse the effects of past-life trauma patterns that supposedly extend millions of years into the past.84
Among these advanced teachings, one episode revealed to those who reach OT level III is the story of Xenu (sometimes Xemu), introduced as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy." According to this story, 75 million years ago Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living and continue to do this today. Hubbard called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," and advanced-level Scientologists place considerable emphasis on isolating these alien souls and neutralizing their ill effects.86 Scientologists have argued, however, that published accounts of the Xenu story and other teachings are presented out of context for the purpose of ridiculing their religion.80
Scientologists also don't believe in psychiatric problems, and believe that people 'choose or not choose' to be gay. John Travolta is under fire by many, because his son is believed to be Autistic (he carries this getting larger every year child) but Scientology doesn't recognise Autism as a valid medical condition - he's in denial. Also because of Travolta's role in Hairspray, he's pissed off more than a few gays.
Scientologists believe in 'auditing' which is another word for brain-washing & employes the same methods of sensory depravation.
posted by starling02 on Jan 19, 2008 at 09:41:53 pm #
I agree, the Jerry O'Connell video is really funny.
You know, I can't say anything about Scientology because I know nothing about it. I also am not a person who believes that everyone needs to have the same religious beliefs. But when I look at Tom Cruise in that video and I think back to the Tom Cruise that danced around to Old Time Rock and Roll in his tighty whities, IT SCARES ME! I also can't help but wonder what thoughts go through Katie Holmes' parents minds every day about their daughter and their granddaughter! I don't know, I honestly don't know!
posted by justsimplyholly on Jan 16, 2008 at 07:43:36 am #