Tom Cruise. A bit of a drip?

Scientology is not a religion. When I hear a skunk like Trovalta saying on national television that he can heal people with his hands (positive energy flow crap he farted out of his mouth on a Barbara Walters special) it makes me worry about the influence that Scientology has over the ignorant and weak-minded.

Scientology is a pyramid scheme. Hubbard simply got around the leagalities by making it a religon. And to answer the critics who say it is a cult, he put it in the public eye by recruiting celebrities thereby hoping iot would be more acceptable.

Without this being an endorsement of Tom Cruise or Scientology, I can say that I finally did view the Matt Lauer bit and Tommy did have a point, but I highly doubt he came to that conclusion on his own.

Also, it makes me laugh when people who have no real understanding of theology or the role of religion on the development of societies and cultures find it humurous that people who do know can have an educated discussion on the subject.

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He was good in Top Gun though.

..no he wasn't...he minced around like a bloody pansy.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7f3B1VCYM

You'd think Travolta would have learned the error of his ways after Battlefield Earth tanked.

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I never thought of Tom Cruise as a very good actor and none of his movies ever really blew me away.

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It's a crime that the swift should be held back by the slow, and it's criminal that nothing is going to rectify it.

Top Gun was complete trash. Aside from the outstanding aerial footage, they got not one detail right about it. Charlie Sheen did a much better job in Hot Shots.

On the other hand, the scene in Risky Business when he gets the bill to have his father's 928 repaired will stay with me forever.

"All right, who's the U-Boat commander?"

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Activist != Expert.

Come on what about that bit.... you know the one with the plane in it and... ummm Ok so I've never seen it but I hear it's very good....

Main Entry: re·li·gion
Pronunciation: ri-'li-j&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English religioun, from Latin religion-, religio supernatural constraint, sanction, religious practice, perhaps from religare to restrain, tie back -- more at RELY
1 a : the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance
2 : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
3 archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness
4 : a cause, principle, or SYSTEM OF BELIEFS held to with ardor and faith
- re·li·gionless adjective

it seems to apply to at least some of those

Main Entry: Scientology
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a controversial BELIEF SYSTEM developed by L. Ron Hubbard, based on a person being an immortal spiritual being whose survival depends on him/herself and his/her attainment of brotherhood with others and the universe
Etymology: literally `knowing how to know'

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But "belief" implies faith. Scientology is not based on faith of any kind. According to Hubbard himself it is "built on definite axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences". This denies any room for faith, yet disqualifies it from the realm of science. It is pseudoscience at best, and a malicious brainwashing scheme at worst.

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what do you teach your children about me?
what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

'The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.' -- L. Ron Hubbard.

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most likely the latter, the more i look at it the more you all seem to be right, after all there is even a section on the website "what scientology can do for you" "The Scientology religion is about the individual man or woman, its goal is to bring an individual to a sufficient understanding of himself and his life and free him to make improvements where he finds them necessary and in the ways he sees fit."

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just saw the scene. its hilarious! tom goes through a whole bunch of emotions: first he laughs, next he gets a little anger saying"why'd you do that?", then he goes into his "jerk" fiasco. and he is pressing charges for that? what has this world come to....

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ég gaf ykkur von sem varð að vonbrigðum.. þetta er ágætis byrjun

Just a recap - he isn't pressing any charges, and he isn't suing anybody.

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Activist != Expert.

That is very broad of you--in that case my belief in gravity and air should qualify as a religion.

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