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are they on crack

― anthonyeaston, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and they cured its dyslexia , total crack !

― anthonyeaston, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think "auditing" makes some actor-types (w.natural insecurity issues) feel better abt themselves

― mark s, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and they cured its dyslexia , total crack ! and he has no personality, he is liek this v. fuckable automan.

― anthonyeaston, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Anthony, I attended a few of the Scientology classes, as my sister was a member, and found it a money grabbing crock. A great place for the actors to throw money away I suppose.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I HATE SCIENTOLOGY. ITS RIDICULOUS AND STUPID.

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I HATE CHRISTIANITY. ITS RIDICULOUS AND STUPID.

― Venga, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's not fuckable Anthony. He's just not!

― Nicole, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

most fuckable scientologists: isaac hayes, nicole kidman, giovanni ribisi, jenna elfman (???)

― ethan, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You got your "engrams" on the one hand, your "demons" on the other. "thetans" on one, "souls" on the other, "coatings" on one, "bodies" on the other. All in all, Scientology is just a trekkie's version of Christianity. More practical, maybe, because if throw enough money at the situation, someone might declare you "cleared" while you're still alive instead of waiting for judgement in the after-life.

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

touche el rono !

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

alt.religion.scientology is always an interesting read.

― chaki, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

From here

"In Hubbard's opinion, a person is possessed with alien beings which limit his development. This is supposed to be a consequence of the settlement of earth 75 million years ago by galactic Lord Xenu with spaceships full of beings. The understanding of the texts, from the Scientologist perspective, requires a development of awareness which can only be obtained through expensive courses offered by the organization. It is for this reason that the writings with the titles of OT and NOT are strongly secret. "

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry folks Scientology is Not a religion. ( although some think it is.) I don't have much use for anyone who puts a man on an alter in the in the Lord's place and you can't think you can honestly compare Scientology to Christianity, when Ron L. Hubbard was a novelist, not a God. If you want to watch something about Religion on the other hand watch "The Hour Of Power." Dr Schuller" This is Religion to me. :)

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gale, without getting into the whole of Scientology, I suggest this link as a humorous overview. It has an interesting point about what scientology is and what religion is. I don't think they believe L. Ron Hubbard is God, do they?

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is Beck really a Scientologist? I've heard that rumor for years. I know his dad's one, but does anyone have real proof that Beck is?

Tom Cruise is hideous beyond belief.

― Arthur, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The bible was written and rewritten by a whole bunch of amateur novelists, wasn't it? What's the difference between LRon and the Pope, other than an extra 2000 years of indoctrination?

― ogden, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LRon was a decent novelist by comparison (unless I'm losing something in the translation). The pope didn't even write the bible, yet he remains a Godhead for one of the biggest cults in the world. Kneel before his Holiness, kiss his ring. Whatever you do, don't put him in a pair of blue jeans.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

tom cruise compares buddhism to scientology

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://news.aunz.yimg.com/xp/afp/20040110/06/987325522.jpg

Tom Cruise compares hand to plant

― i have a hand, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

OT8:Clear
Reactive Mind:Substantive
Diagnosis:FloralDigit

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

He's not exactly my type, but I wouldn't call Cruise "hideous beyond belief" !!

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

But would you audit him clear of subalien-Xenu particulate matter?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What, you wouldn't?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

no comment to your overt enslaving antimotivant sequences.

― bow to me, mere thetan! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Boohoo! Weeper!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

Hey now.

― Tom Cruise, Friday, 22 October 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This is not Tom Cruise. It's Hank Kingsley.

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I am a bit worried about how many Tom Cruise threads have been started on ILX, now that they are all out in full view.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's just more Friday PM hijinks.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, sorry K3rry, but Tom Cruise can't be Pre-Menstrual because he's a man, baby!!

PWNED!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Tom Cruise forces hollywood execs to tour Scientology facilities if they want to distribute his huge money-making films c/d?

ny times
Tom Cruise Mixing Business and Church
By SHARON WAXMAN

LOS ANGELES, March 21 - Actors use their power in Hollywood to various ends. Some demand money. Some want to name a director or veto a co-star. Lately, doing business with Tom Cruise, one of Hollywood's most bankable actors, means a bow in the direction of his religion, the Church of Scientology.

Increasingly public about his long association with Scientology, Mr. Cruise a few weeks ago invited film executives involved in distributing his summer movie, "The War of the Worlds," on a four-hour tour of three different Scientology facilities in Los Angeles. About 20 managers from United International Pictures, which is distributing the Steven Spielberg-directed film abroad for Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG, took him up on the offer in late January. That required some of the executives to extend their stay for a day, according to several who took part.

Andrew Cripps, president of United International Pictures, said the tour was useful because the news media often asks about Mr. Cruise's religious beliefs. "Genuinely, there is an interest level among our managers who have to field questions, to understand and learn more about it," he said. Mr. Cripps said no one was forced to attend, though at least one executive who took the tour - who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared repercussions at work - said the visit was regarded by some as an unwelcome business obligation.

The encounter came after Mr. Cruise had sponsored a "Scientology tent," offering what his spokeswoman, Lee Anne De Vette, called "assists" - a kind of massage administered by volunteer ministers - along with religious literature, on the "War of the Worlds" set. Also, the star had recently sent out a holiday greeting that included Scientological precepts on a plastic plaque. Notwithstanding Mel Gibson's very public declaration of faith with his "Passion of the Christ," Hollywood insiders typically shy away from open discussion of their religious beliefs. But Ms. De Vette, who is Mr. Cruise's sister, said he had been inviting colleagues to learn more about his religion in order to combat what he viewed as prejudice against a group that some critics have branded an exploitative cult.

Scientology has not been recognized as a religion in many European nations and remains under federal surveillance in Germany, where it is regarded as a dangerous sect. Adherents say Scientology is a method of counseling and courses that helps individuals break free from negative emotions and lead more rewarding lives.

"It's lack of understanding that breeds bigotry," said Ms. De Vette in discussing the United International Pictures session, which followed a similar tour for the company's executives in Brussels last year during the release of Mr. Cruise's "Collateral." "We're being asked questions about the religion, and he said, 'Rather than me stand here and explain it,' " he would organize a formal tour.

Ms. De Vette added that Mr. Cruise hoped to have the same kind of tour for American-based Hollywood executives. "He would like to do the same thing over here," she said. "A lot of it, frankly, is time. If we can find the time to do it, he would like to do it."

Ms. De Vette is herself a member of the church. She replaced Mr. Cruise's long-time publicist Pat Kingsley, a powerful Hollywood veteran, in 2004.

Founded in 1954 by the science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology has long had a close connection with celebrity. Contending that artists "are a cut above man" - according to a church Web site, www.celebritycentre.org - Hubbard said, "He who can truly communicate to others is a higher being who builds new worlds."

The church has celebrity centers in several cities where actors and other famous figures come to study and meet. (John Travolta and Kirstie Alley are among the best-known Hollywood adherents.) At the centers, according to the Web site, they are promised "the best in service and care, for those are the people who are sculpting the present into the future." (And Mr. Travolta in 2000 starred in a widely ridiculed pet project, "Battlefield Earth," a space-invasion story based on a novel of the same title by Hubbard.)

In the last several years, Mr. Cruise has spoken more freely about Scientology in his many interviews promoting various films. And, increasingly, executives who do business with him have found themselves spending time at church facilities.

Thus, top managers from Paramount, which has backed many of Mr. Cruise's films, including the "Mission: Impossible" series, and from the Creative Artists Agency, which has long represented the star, have graced one of his tables at an annual gala in the group's Hollywood center. Last August, Sherry Lansing, at the time Paramount's chairwoman, and Donald De Line, that studio's production chief, attended the organization's 35th anniversary celebration.

A spokeswoman for the studio declined to discuss the executives' encounters with Scientology. But Mr. Cripps of United International Pictures, who attended both the Brussels and Los Angeles tours, acknowledged that he still was not quite sure what the religion is all about.

"I think religion is a really personal thing," he said. "I admire the work that they do in terms of their programs, that was an eye-opener to me. But what it actually means to be a Scientologist, I don't think I fully understand."

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Passion Of The Cruise

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it'd be fun to see how Tom Cruise's people would interact with Mel Gibson's people.

xpost yeah, that too.

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha I might have to rethink my "Tom Cruise is worthless" stance because this is really hilarious to me.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the whole "artists are a cut above man" = celebritycentre thing is one funky little schism there.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Waxman known and been sued for making shit up in interviews? I think she was sued by David O. Russell most recently. It's still amusing, none the less.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

tom cruise frightens me

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I drove around the Scientology center on Staurday and just stared at everyone I saw thinking "you're a Scientologist, and YOU'RE a scientologist, and YOU as well!...".

― Victor Mackulous (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

that also frightens me

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

uhh.. huge and complete dud!`

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

david o. russell supposedly challenged her to a fistfight. i love him.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're walking through the subway station in port authority and somebody asks if you want a "free stress test," they're a scientologist.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

really? I thought those were prostitutes!

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.seethink.com/n_darkon.html

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

prostitutes never offer anything for free.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

There is rife speculation across the interweb that Tom Cruise's increasing fervency for Scientology might have played a not insignificant role in his break-up with Nicole Kidman, who was apparently somewhat less enamored of the group.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Was the Q source really just Battlefield Earth?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I glower at the scientologists on Tottenham court road every day. They no longer offer me stress tests.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, sorry K3rry, but Tom Cruise can't be Pre-Menstrual because he's a man, baby!!
PWNED!

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), October 22nd, 2004 2:16 PM. (jaymc) (link)

Did I really say this? At two in the afternoon?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

H, at the UNion Sq station they have free stress tests too and I figure whoever falls for that deserves it because there are like, 50 copies of Dianetics on the table.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad had a copy of Dianetics for a really, really long time. He never read it, and it was always just sitting on a coffee table. I think a friend gave it to him. I didn't learn until much later the horror that sat so close to me.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember the TV commercial for Dianetics from the 80s with the erupting volcano and it looked exciting because I thought it was about real science. But no.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You should totally see that IMAX movie about volcanoes!

Oh... wait. Forget I said anything.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

There is rife speculation across the interweb that Tom Cruise's increasing fervency for Scientology might have played a not insignificant role in his break-up with Nicole Kidman.
heh. that and the fact she'll fuck anything that moves. but hooray for anyone who could walk away from them unharmed.

as for beck, here's an obsessive essay on the subject. having personally spoken to some people very close to him about this in the past, the article seems surprisingly accurate and thorough.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Anything that moves" = Philip Roth?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

brings new meaning to the title "the human stain"

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"a kind of massage offered by volunteer ministers" ?????

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(She is supposedly getting with Roth, though, right? I mean, if so it's great news for the public profile of writing in general.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

as creepy as scientology is, the level of "he/she's a SCIENTOLOGIST, GASP!" witch-hunt hysteria is becoming almost as creepy, too.

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone noticed how every omgfamous Scientologist seems to be a really nice and genuine person?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't support Scientology at all btw, it's just an observation.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably an erroneous one at that.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I hate how people see a Christian Science church/building/shop and go "OMG SCIENTOLOGY FREAKS FUCK OFF", and flatly refuse to believe me when I explain they're totally different organisations.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone noticed how every omgfamous Scientologist seems to be a really nice and genuine person?

-- Autumn Almanac (ada...), March 22nd, 2005.

well, yeah thats the image they want to project.

still, a lot of these 'anti-cult' people have their own agendas and axes to grind. a large portion of them are fundamentalist christians trying to stamp out the competition!

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

will Nicole Kidman REALLY fuck anything that moves? like really???

― rive.r (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Cruise doesn't strike me as particularly "genuine" at all.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope so : (
(xpost)

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - or nice. Neither does Travolta. Maybe Isaac Hayes makes up for both of them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Disingenuous, perhaps?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate Cebrano seems so sugary that it has to be insincere.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Members of bands who toured with Beck, like the Flaming Lips and Dashboard Confessional, may provide interesting information about the control Scientology holds over Beck. According to their interviews, the Lips did not have a happy tour with Beck in 2002. Dashboard Confessional quit mid-tour for unknown reasons while opening for Beck in 2003."

OMG! It was all because of his Scientology! And not from him being a primadonna rock star or the bands having their own lives and problems!

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.blueannewe.com/clubhouse/images/clubhouse-left.gif

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

obv. if those bands opened for Isaac Hayes they'd be just fine.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to read a Hubbard book, just to see wtf they have to do with Scientology [which I don't know much about either].

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

battlefield earth is like a 2000 pages or something...no tank ewe

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really care if a celebrity is a Scientologist. The main problem with Scientology, as I see it, is that it's a swindle and a super-rich cult. OF COURSE it appeals to celebrities. WHO CARES? They can afford it, it makes them happy, they don't go around making speeches about the right to live, so what the fuck ever. All that talk about Scientologists being evil and killing Sonny Bono and etc is just talk, near as I can tell. My conspiracy theory detector goes off on that one. ASpart from that, Scientology is just a wacky, highly involved, and disasterously expensive self-help regimen. Asshats like Tom Cruise are tailor made for it, and who is it hurting. You? Piss off.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

still, a lot of these 'anti-cult' people have their own agendas and axes to grind. a large portion of them are fundamentalist christians trying to stamp out the competition!

alot of people that speak out about scientology are ex members that had their money and soul fucked with majorly. seriously dude dont defend this scam.

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

scientologists also maintain an enemies list. theirs is a litigious organization so watch what you say..

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

IM NOT DEFENDING IT!

And fuck them if they were stupid enough to fall for something like Scientology anyway.

i just dont like religious bullshit. i jus talk like Scientology is the biggest problem we have now. it isn't. its a big stupid greedy cult but its influence doesnt really extend far outside of the entertainment industry.

unlike some other religious movements.

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

true. everyone prety much knows its bullshit now anywas. now that OT 3 is available to the pulic and everything.
(L Rons super secret hand written, drug addicted, rambling, Scientology manifesto that deals with galactic rulers and blowing up planets which are kept "secret" until you've been in the church for 10 yrs or given them alot of money)

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/Otiii1.gif

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

So Scientologists believe in science fiction and pay loads of money to be in the club. Trekkies believe in science fiction and buy all the DVDs and merchandise and costumes. Which is more offensive?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if it was just a scrapped chapter from a novel of his:

"damn, this shit i'm writing is awful! im, throwing it away. no, wait...im gonna start a cult with this!"

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

trekkies dont sue you and protest in front of your house with big signs for talking about them on the internet

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

But they do have bad breath and weigh 136 kilos and wear skin-tight uniforms.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I think I'd prefer that.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you know, it works.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

delete thread please

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a Xenu?

― L Ron Hubbard (dec.) (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I think hating on those speaking against Scientology is a bit naive and misplaced. According to many documented court cases and personal stories, Scientology really can make people's lives miserable. You could say dummies who fall for it deserve it, but everyone has weaknesses and makes mistakes and saying someone deserves bankrupcy, endless lawsuits, and intimidation for the rest of their life for once trying out something dumb is pretty insensitive. They also threaten and try to destroy people who criticize them or try to alert others about the danger. Even if you have a general distaste for religion, celeb fads, or self-help scams, Scientology goes above and beyond in terms of scary abuse of power.

― , Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

unlike the Vatican of course

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

but really im just being lazily misanthropic.

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

jon was right.

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I've never been offered a stress test!

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

i saw them giving a stress test at my local street fair last week... TO AN 11 YEAR OLD!!!

― charleston charge (chaki), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Poor kid, he'll end up with herpes.

― Leon Jones Reynolds (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

"So Timmy, have you discovered your engrams yet?"

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Carlos D is a Scientologist.

― Leon Jones Reynolds (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Herpetologist

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Who knew the e-meters were inserted there?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Did you guys see this douchebag give his half-hour interview on Entertainment Tonight last week? All about praising scientology! I thought I posted about this, but I coudlnt' find it in the search so here's a quick recap:

1. Tom was acting nuts-- on the verge of a breakdown, but pretending to be happy, clapping his hands and throwing his head back in laughter, as you would see him do in the movies. It appears either he's acting happy now in the interview (lying) or else his laughter is exactly like his fake laughter in the movies.

2. He said he helped a kid get off his ADHD medication and that kid grew "7 inches within 4 months," he said with dramatic intensity. "No exaggeration."

3. He slagged psychiatry and psychology, saying there was absolutely not one shred of scientific evidence to back either. They are both "a farce" and "a sham."

4. He called Brooke Shields "irresponsible" for writing a book about how drugs helped her through post partem depression. He said, "Look at her life. Is she really happy? Look at her career." When asked if he was saying she isn't happy or if he means her career is a wash, he said, "I wish her all the best. It is irresponsible for her to promote these drugs she knows nothing about. She doesn't know what they are. It is irresponsible."

5. When asked why he is so passionate about preaching the message of Scientology, Tom says, "Why? Because I care, man. Because I care. About you... (pointing now to various people on-set but off-camera)... and you and you and you. And I'm not just saying that. That's a promise."

Not only is Tom's laugh exactly the same as in the movies, but his passionate, fiery speeches are as well! What a fuckin' nutjob!

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

I saw the recap of his Oprah appearance on Best Week Ever and it was pretty insane.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

clapping his hands and throwing his head back in laughter, as you would see him do in the movies.

he was doing exactly that on an interview i saw on Parkinson (UK TV) - his maniacle laugh reached it's height when Billy Connoly (the guest who followed him on the show) was talking about how Tom was gorgeous and "i mean i'd even snog him myself, look at him" at which point Tom started acting as if he was almost breathless with mirth and started slapping his thigh! he's nuts.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Heh... the new Sammy Maudlin.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

well he has to do that to keep himself from masturbating furiously every five minutes

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Scientology has rendered him unable to express real emotion, obv.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

he has to do that to keep himself from masturbating furiously every five minutes

I wonder if this could work for me, too!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

you must UNLEARN the tug of self-love

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

If you think about that one Philip K. Dick movie he was in, it's funny that there was a guy who can't differentiate fantasy from reality playing the role of a guy who can't differentiate fantasy from reality.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I think you're thinking of "Vanilla Sky," which is not Dick. (ha! In more ways than one.) "Minority Report" was the Dick adaptation.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

I also liked the weird phrasing "I care about you... And I'm not just saying that. That's a promise."

That's a promise? That he cares?

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

xpost yeah, vanilla sky's what I meant. (I actually liked it better than minority report")

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure that's what he said to Nicole, too. Fucking asshole.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Did Nicole ever fall for that Scientology bullshit?

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

xpost http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/Qryztufre/random/sig/mastur.jpg

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

2. He said he helped a kid get off his ADHD medication and that kid grew "7 inches within 4 months," he said with dramatic intensity. "No exaggeration."

scientology is an ALL NATURAL growth enhancer

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I think scientology may have been one of a few reasons that Nicole Kidman bailed on TC. I think there was some disagreement about how the children would be raised. Also, Tom couldn't get cocks out of his mouth long enough to show his wife the attention she deserved.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

He goes through beards like I do boxers, I swear.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

well you and those golden gloves boys, my stars

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

A girl I work with got totally turned off Tom by one interview in which he praised himself as a father. We were just talking about this the other day. Her paraphrase of him was: "I'm a great father. I mean that, I really am. I wish my father was half the father I am."

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

that's totally an undie rapper line right there

I go through beards like Mike Tyson goes through boxers!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

but isnt Nicole just a lez / paid beard by the Scientology people. and didnt she refuse to have her kids to be raised Sci, so she broke the "arrangement" and was forced to leave?

do u think its some secret Sci-ritual that gave Katie Holmes those herpesque lips from last week ?

― Vichitravirya XI, Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

http://hiptop.bedope.com/hunt3/rockdream_l/pics/1099253658989BA81-0.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Lips that look like an ass. What every woman wants.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

(BTW - the "danger of masturbation" pic is not possible. If you only work out one side of your body, the other side of your body builds muscle to compensate. Something hard-coded in us, having to do with bilateral symmetry, I guess. Little more science.)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

whew!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

i mean, how interesting!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

how can it not be possible if there's a picture of it?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Can science explain this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/mmothra/Hasselhoff1.gif

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

HOFFRA!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I love that gif. I imagine him to be driven by explosive farts at regualr intervals.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

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