Tom Cruise Scientology video leaked - weird stuff!

dark crystal · 12-10-2012 02:51PM #1

Now, as an actor, I love the Cruiser. However, watching this video of him talking about Scientology and his belief systems, he just comes across as batsh!t crazy.

This interview was given as a pretext to some Scientology award and in it, he rambles on about stuff I genuinely don't understand, disses anti-depressants and will then just randomly burst into maniacal laughter. Weird stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMvAXpq7Xj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWgUPHVEcl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsOtoXwGS0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIl0VYQjaNY

By the end, when he actually accepts the award (part 4, if you manage to make it there), it just all looks like some awful parody!

How anyone can take this 'religion' seriously is truly beyond me. It's scary stuff, particularly their crusade against psychiatry.

yeppydeppy · 12-10-2012 02:58PM

As an actor he's feckín useless (except for maybe Magnolia) and who cares what the scientologists (or in fact any religious types) do or think or say or anything?

jamesjoyce1710 · 12-10-2012 03:00PM

i only watched the 1st 2 video's and it pretty much soaund like any other religion.

he believes his is the right way.

Intensive Care Bear · 12-10-2012 03:01PM

It's just as ridiculous as Christianity or any other religion.

Merkin · 12-10-2012 03:02PM

Katie Holmes had *such* a lucky escape

TheFruitarian · 12-10-2012 03:03PM

You must be still on 56k, that was leaked almost five years ago.

Bipolar Joe · 12-10-2012 03:04PM

Wow, I can't believe it's 2008 already!

dark crystal · 12-10-2012 03:05PM

TheFruitarian wrote: »

You must be still on 56k, that was leaked almost five years ago.

Really? Ah well, I'm kinda slow like that

Spread · 12-10-2012 03:05PM

Just watched the early part .......... has this guy got a functioning brain? Comes across as being a bit slow.

TheFruitarian · 12-10-2012 03:19PM

dark crystal wrote: »

Really? Ah well, I'm kinda slow like that

Or maybe you just always had Biggins on ignore?

Seriousily though, search AH for threads on Cruise and Scientology, lots of 'em where the videos and BBC's Panorama were discussed in depth.

yeppydeppy · 12-10-2012 03:21PM

:pac:

TheFruitarian wrote: »

Or maybe you just have Biggins on ignore

Where is he anyway.

Paging Biggins to After Hours, Biggins to After Hours please.

How does someone with 32 posts know who Biggins is?

TheFruitarian · 12-10-2012 03:25PM

yeppydeppy wrote: »

:pac:

How does someone with 32 posts know who Biggins is?

Opps, that's right: you only have access to the thanks function after 10 posts, get a Sig after 25 and view Biggin's posts after 50 - my bad.

Ya got me and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you pesky kids - shakes fist.

Spread · 12-10-2012 03:35PM

TheFruitarian wrote: »

Opps, that's right: you only have access to the thanks function after 10 posts, get a Sig after 25 and view Biggin's posts after 50 - my bad.

Ya got me and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you pesky kids - shakes fist.

Perhaps too much sugar in the brain from all that dried Fruit

Cee-Jay-Cee · 12-10-2012 03:38PM

I would never ever get tired punching him in the face. I have nothing further to add to this thread.

Boombastic · 12-10-2012 03:41PM

Take a step to the left and then a jump to the riiiiggggghhht,
Put you hands on your hips and pull you knees in tiiight

AlmightyCushion · 12-10-2012 03:42PM

I thought the title said Tom Clancy, that would have been awesome. Scientologists get their hands on a few nukes and threaten to blow us Washington and some secret bad ass military special forces team have to go shoot the place up.

redt0m · 12-10-2012 03:48PM

Can't see coz at work - is this the one Jerry O'Connell did a mental piss-take off? Check it out, it's v funny

Dont be at yourself · 12-10-2012 03:51PM

Great movie star -- don't care what he gets up to in his private life. No more mental than any other religion.

Mocha Joe · 12-10-2012 03:54PM

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Great movie star -- don't care what he gets up to in his private life. No more mental than any other religion.

It is more mental than most other religions though isnt it?

Dont be at yourself · 12-10-2012 03:59PM

Mocha Joe wrote: »

It is more mental than most other religions though isnt it?

You're right. Those scientologists believe in awful auld nonsense. Like an old virgin in a white frock and a beard having the power to literally transform bread and wine into the (again, literal) flesh and blood of a 2,000 year old zombie.

Yeah, scientology is waaaay out there.

humanji · 12-10-2012 04:31PM

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

You're right. Those scientologists believe in awful auld nonsense. Like an old virgin in a white frock and a beard having the power to literally transform bread and wine into the (again, literal) flesh and blood of a 2,000 year old zombie.

Yeah, scientology is waaaay out there.

The creator of Christianity isn't on record as saying the way to get rich is to start a religion, though.

While in simple terms it's no more insane than most religions, Scientology has a much darker side to it and glossing over their sinister nature is a mistake. Most wrongs attributed to most religions are based on the abuse of power. The wrongs that Scientology do are doctrine.

Dont be at yourself · 12-10-2012 04:40PM

humanji wrote: »

The creator of Christianity isn't on record as saying the way to get rich is to start a religion, though.

No, but then the Church pass around a couple of begging bowls every Sunday while holding on to a vast amount of wealth and property, secreted away in Swiss bank accounts. Look at the video in this news story and tell me that the Catholic Church are not revelling in their billions of ill-gotten wealth (and quite ironically as well, going by the content of the news article).

While in simple terms it's no more insane than most religions, Scientology has a much darker side to it and glossing over their sinister nature is a mistake. Most wrongs attributed to most religions are based on the abuse of power. The wrongs that Scientology do are doctrine.

Evil doctrine? Like telling grieving families that their unbaptised baby was going to hell, and had to buried in an unmarked mass grave? Or telling a homosexual teenager that simply being who he naturally is itself a sin that will destin him to the fires of hell if he acts on it? Like telling abused and put-upon wifes that if they wanted to save their souls, they had better stay with their husbands, no matter what? Like telling uneducated sex-workers in Africa that AIDS is spread by condoms?

Listen, Scientology is mental, it's creepy, it's funny, it's sad and it's exploitative. But so is virtually every other organised religion -- you just need to take a step back to see it.

Fizman · 12-10-2012 04:53PM

yeppydeppy wrote: »

As an actor he's feckín useless (except for maybe Magnolia) and who cares what the scientologists (or in fact any religious types) do or think or say or anything?

He's very good in Collateral. Good film.

AnonoBoy · 12-10-2012 04:54PM

This is old.

Gimme some new Cruise stuff.

I wanna see him be more mental than ever!

humanji · 12-10-2012 05:07PM

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

No, but then the Church pass around a couple of begging bowls every Sunday while holding on to a vast amount of wealth and property, secreted away in Swiss bank accounts. Look at the video in this news story and tell me that the Catholic Church are not revelling in their billions of ill-gotten wealth (and quite ironically as well, going by the content of the news article).

Irrelevant. Christianity wasn't started as a get rich quick scheme. Scientology was. As I pointed out, the abuses of the church are because of corruption. In Scientology it's part of their doctrine.

Evil doctrine? Like telling grieving families that their unbaptised baby was going to hell, and had to buried in an unmarked mass grave? Or telling a homosexual teenager that simply being who he naturally is itself a sin that will destin him to the fires of hell if he acts on it? Like telling abused and put-upon wifes that if they wanted to save their souls, they had better stay with their husbands, no matter what? Like telling uneducated sex-workers in Africa that AIDS is spread by condoms?

They're the same beliefs they had when they started off because they're too stubborn to move with the times and don't want to be seen as admitting to being wrong. And even then they occasionally make an effort to try and move on with civilisation. At the time, these were believed to be truths. Scientology was started on a lie and was known to be a lie.

Listen, Scientology is mental, it's creepy, it's funny, it's sad and it's exploitative. But so is virtually every other organised religion -- you just need to take a step back to see it.

And you're looking at everything on the same level, attributing the same history to them all. There's a whole level of context that you're not taking into account.

dark crystal · 12-10-2012 05:08PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

This is old.

Gimme some new Cruise stuff.

I wanna see him be more mental than ever!

More mental than that??

That laugh will haunt my dreams tonight

Lollipops23 · 12-10-2012 05:27PM

I wouldn't put it past him to get into politics eventually, when the film career has slowed down. He goes on like he's this all-powerful leader of the world type already.

It's the smugness and the "we know we're the only ones who see it as it really is" lark that annoys me. Oh and the fact that they despise psychiatric medicine, when they'd be ideal candidates for anti psychotic drugs themselves.

AnonoBoy · 12-10-2012 05:41PM

dark crystal wrote: »

More mental than that??

Yes. I want mental to the power of ten.

To the power of ten I say!

Tom Cruise Scientology video leaked - weird stuff!

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