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Tom Cruise Scares Me

post #1 of 191
1/14/08 at 7:54pm
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I couldn't get through more than half of this. When he starts laughing in the middle, I went from being amused to creeped-out.

http://www.usmagazine.com/tom_cruise..._scientologist
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post #2 of 191
1/14/08 at 8:02pm
Was this extra from the interview in Magnolia?
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post #3 of 191
1/14/08 at 8:03pm
Delusions run deep with this one...


BTW, I love the background music.
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post #4 of 191
1/14/08 at 8:11pm
Tom Cruise kills kittens with his maniacal laughing.
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post #5 of 191
1/14/08 at 8:19pm
This is a joke, right? The music is too much!

I love how Tom says "you're either on board or you're not" and in the same breath says he's a "uniter."
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post #6 of 191
1/14/08 at 8:30pm
I was seriously waiting for him to put on the glasses at the end...
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post #7 of 191
1/14/08 at 8:39pm
Some of you might call that scary. I call it a call to arms.

After witnessing that, I'm prepared to strap on some armor and ride into battle with that kick-ass Scientology logo proudly on my chest.
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post #8 of 191
1/14/08 at 9:04pm
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In Cruise's marginal defense, I honestly believe there are two Scientologies: the one that gets offered to celebrities and seems very accommodating and nice and then the one that everyone else gets which is a cult/scam. Of course, if Cruise had bothered to step outside his nice little bubble, he would understand that. As it is, he gets to play messiah and go to sleep at night thinking that he's truly making the world a better place. Good for him.
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post #9 of 191
1/14/08 at 9:47pm
Y'know, back in the day, I remember a Tom Cruise who was getting bearhugged by Patrick Swayze in The Outsiders. That same Tom Cruise would also pop-up in Taps, All The Right Moves, Risky Business, and damn it, even Losin' It with Shelly Long.

Where has that Tom Cruise gone? Where? And can we exchange today's Tom "the maniacally giggling Scientologst" Cruise for him? Please?
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post #10 of 191
1/14/08 at 9:51pm
Given how vapid and inarticulate Cruise's comments were, I thought this was just a string-out of raw unedited selects...but it actually was the finished intro to his award? Holy Moly!

They might as well have just boiled it down to:

"I'm a Scientologist because only we have the stuff to do the right thing and when you know it, and when you do it, it's like BOOM, you know, and I can't do anything else except get out there and unite the world with it, and teach others what it means to be, you know, like, WHAM, and you're in and you know, and then you do it, and you don't do it halfway, you do it like, WHOOSH, and that only comes from knowing the truth, which is like POW, and BOOM, and you just go. And then you know, it's...it's...but then there's this thing within you and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!"
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post #11 of 191
1/14/08 at 10:57pm
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Originally Posted by Litmus Configuration
"I'm a Scientologist because only we have the stuff to do the right thing and when you know it, and when you do it, it's like BOOM, you know, and I can't do anything else except get out there and unite the world with it, and teach others what it means to be, you know, like, WHAM, and you're in and you know, and then you do it, and you don't do it halfway, you do it like, WHOOSH, and that only comes from knowing the truth, which is like POW, and BOOM, and you just go. And then you know, it's...it's...but then there's this thing within you and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!"
Quite possibly the greatest quote of all time.
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post #12 of 191
1/14/08 at 11:23pm
SP, PTSP?

Am I supposed to understand what he's saying to me?
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post #13 of 191
1/14/08 at 11:32pm
xenu.net for all your Scientology answers.


I know too much about this crazy cult for my own good...
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post #14 of 191
1/14/08 at 11:44pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl
SP, PTSP?

Am I supposed to understand what he's saying to me?
I had to look them up:

SP: suppressive person.
PTP: present time problem.
PTS: potential trouble source.

http://www.scientology.org/gloss.htm
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post #15 of 191
1/14/08 at 11:55pm
IE, an SP is someone whom is not a Scientologist.
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post #16 of 191
1/15/08 at 3:14am
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Originally Posted by Timothy225
Y'know, back in the day, I remember a Tom Cruise who was getting bearhugged by Patrick Swayze in The Outsiders. That same Tom Cruise would also pop-up in Taps, All The Right Moves, Risky Business, and damn it, even Losin' It with Shelly Long.

Where has that Tom Cruise gone? Where? And can we exchange today's Tom "the maniacally giggling Scientologst" Cruise for him? Please?
Hell at this point I'd take Cruise circa A Few Good Men and MI1

This thread has inspired me to rewatch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc_wjp262RY

I reckon this may be the one time Cruise let his Stepford facade slip personally - and its creepy as all get-out I reckon
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post #17 of 191
1/15/08 at 4:56am
If we're whipping out the creepy clips, this one always gives me chills. Angry, just barely under control Tom Cruise is one of the scariest things you can witness.

scaryscaryscaryscary

(Also, can someone please tell me how you do that thing where you make the link one of the words in your sentence? I've been wanting to do that for years, I was just always too afraid to ask for fear of wrath.)

Edit: EUREKA!!!!
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post #18 of 191
1/15/08 at 5:00am
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Originally Posted by billylove
xenu.net for all your Scientology answers.


I know too much about this crazy cult for my own good...
Yeah, I went on a weekend bender researching everything I could find on them once. By Sunday night, I felt vaguely ill. Some of it is inconceivable.

Google Lisa McPherson sometime. It's a lovely story.
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post #19 of 191
1/15/08 at 5:07am
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl
If we're whipping out the creepy clips, this one always gives me chills. Angry, just barely under control Tom Cruise is one of the scariest things you can witness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4Uv...eature=related

(Also, can someone please tell me how you do that thing where you make the link one of the words in your sentence? I've been wanting to do that for years, I was just always too afraid to ask for fear of wrath.)
If you notice, when you use that insert link button in the form the link appears twice in the message you type. The first is the actual url while the second is the text that will appear in the post. You can change the second one to anything you want.

And now for the wrath you feared:
n00b!!!11!
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post #20 of 191
1/15/08 at 5:09am
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl
If we're whipping out the creepy clips, this one always gives me chills. Angry, just barely under control Tom Cruise is one of the scariest things you can witness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4Uv...eature=related

(Also, can someone please tell me how you do that thing where you make the link one of the words in your sentence? I've been wanting to do that for years, I was just always too afraid to ask for fear of wrath.)
When you hit the link button (Planet Earth looking thing with infinity symbol), it will bring up a script asking for the link address. After you input the address, what's inserted into the post comes with a pre-highlighted text section so that you can modify the actual text of the hyperlink.

It's similar to the way it's done in html hyperlinking.

ETA - Nevermind, stelios was on that one.
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post #21 of 191
1/15/08 at 5:12am
I just type the sentence I want linked first, then highlight it and hit the link button, and enter the URL in the box.
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post #22 of 191
1/15/08 at 5:22am
Yes! Thank you everyone, I had the feeling it was something incredibly simple.

I guess I never figured it out because I never use the link button (until now...) I just tend to copy paste my link straight onto the page. But from this day forth, I am enlightened. One of the beautiful people, you might say.

Look what I can do!
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post #23 of 191
1/15/08 at 12:30pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
Yeah, I went on a weekend bender researching everything I could find on them once. By Sunday night, I felt vaguely ill. Some of it is inconceivable.

Google Lisa McPherson sometime. It's a lovely story.
Yeah, several years ago I did a bunch of research on cults for a story I was writing. Needless to say, I got sick of writing after I read the stuff on Scientology. I couldn't wrap my brain around why people fall for this stuff and end up with a maniacal laugh like Tom Cruise or dead. I mean, it can't be this easy to brainwash people. It really doesn't make for interesting story telling.
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post #24 of 191
1/15/08 at 1:59pm
It's too bad the production credits on that video weren't listed.

Music Supervisor: Irony
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post #25 of 191
1/15/08 at 2:03pm
What happened to this guy? He's like Michael Jackson, only it's happening to his brain instead of his face.
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post #26 of 191
1/15/08 at 2:43pm
Well shit...the video got pulled.
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post #27 of 191
1/15/08 at 3:13pm
I was out on patrol patrol when the danger aliens were looking for my nutrition food.
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post #28 of 191
1/15/08 at 3:19pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jared Melton
Well shit...the video got pulled.
Nothing is pulled from the Internet. It is merely moved.
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post #29 of 191
1/15/08 at 3:37pm
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Originally Posted by Matt Goldberg
Nothing is pulled from the Internet. It is merely moved.
True.
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post #30 of 191
1/15/08 at 4:40pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
Google Lisa McPherson sometime. It's a lovely story.

Thanks! That made my blood boil!

I can't stand religion as it is, but when people are THIS uneducated and deluded it just makes me hate it just that much more.
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post #31 of 191
1/15/08 at 5:12pm
"You're a little gnat, and look at the size of this church."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPol_m8wm8Y
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post #32 of 191
1/15/08 at 5:40pm
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Originally Posted by amadeus
"You're a little gnat, and look at the size of this church."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPol_m8wm8Y
Now *that* was truly fucking weird. I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night screaming "What's your crime?"
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post #33 of 191
1/15/08 at 6:09pm
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Originally Posted by amadeus
"You're a little gnat, and look at the size of this church."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPol_m8wm8Y
SP! SP!
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post #34 of 191
1/15/08 at 6:21pm
Very good video about Scientology here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9bC...eature=related
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post #35 of 191
1/15/08 at 8:21pm
What I love about that video is that he doesn't say one thing that actually means anything or makes any sense whatsoever. He's just vomiting a bunch of words that generally resemble sentences.
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post #36 of 191
1/15/08 at 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by amadeus
"You're a little gnat, and look at the size of this church."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPol_m8wm8Y
Well, fuck. If those aren't brain washing tactics, I don't know what is. And they act so much like Cruise (or the other way around) it's scary.
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post #37 of 191
1/15/08 at 11:14pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
There are Scientologists who sit around in Times Square with tables set up to give free "stress tests". They have blood pressure machines and cuffs, as well as stacks of paperback versions of "Dianetics." They station themselves in front of the real tourist attractions, like Tussaud's wax museum and the MTV store, trying to lure the tourists. It's seriously creepy.
Yeah, I saw them a couple of years ago here in Sweden as well. An alarming number of people seemed interested too - I guess "free stress test" sounds more innocent than learning how to get happy by giving away your money.

Oh, and they were set up outside the theater showing War of the Worlds, pure coincidence, I guess.
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post #38 of 191
1/16/08 at 1:37am
How sucky would it be to hang out with someone who is acting ALL the time? God his mugging makes me sick.

I know a few celeb scientologists, and they are fucking crazy. They drive away their friends, gf's, alienate people in the industry. I honestly don't understand how Cruise has made it this far. He must have gotten crazy later on in his career. He speaks like he's a man surrounded with people who say 'yes, you're right' to everything that comes out of his mouth.
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post #39 of 191
1/16/08 at 1:47am
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
There are Scientologists who sit around in Times Square with tables set up to give free "stress tests". They have blood pressure machines and cuffs, as well as stacks of paperback versions of "Dianetics." They station themselves in front of the real tourist attractions, like Tussaud's wax museum and the MTV store, trying to lure the tourists. It's seriously creepy.
Yeah, there was actually a Church of Scientology right across the street from my film school on West Hastings, here in Van. They do that stress test thing everyday right out front.

Many, many people from my class would go there during break to take the test and fuck with the people but I can't even stand the idea of it. You're just encouraging them, I doubt they'd even be able to tell they're being fucked with.
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post #40 of 191
1/16/08 at 2:17am
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Originally Posted by HunterRose
I honestly don't understand how Cruise has made it this far. He must have gotten crazy later on in his career. He speaks like he's a man surrounded with people who say 'yes, you're right' to everything that comes out of his mouth.
He's living proof that sometimes having a publicist - the right publicist - is very, very necessary. I'm sure over half of the meetings he had with his former longtime publicist Pat Kingsley consisted of her telling him to just shut the fuck up and smile.
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post #41 of 191
1/16/08 at 3:13am
Tom Cruise is nuts, but think what its gonna be like for his kid growing up....if my dad was Tom Cruise I would probably beat the shit out of em'.
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post #42 of 191
1/16/08 at 3:50am
By the time Suri is twenty Tom Cruise will, in the public consciousness, have ascended to Christ-like stature, Scientology will be the dominant religion, and something like 40-45% of us will regularly attend mass audits wearing nothing but Ray-Bans, hanes underwear, and perma-smiles. Just you watch.
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post #43 of 191
1/16/08 at 6:04am
"I would like to go on vacation and just play you know, to do just that, you know... But... I just can't cause........ I KNOW...I know... I just know... So... I, go, I , you know.. I just gotta do something about it you know!"

Tom Cruise, 2007
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post #44 of 191
1/16/08 at 6:42am
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Originally Posted by Bitches Leave
"I would like to go on vacation and just play you know, to do just that, you know... But... I just can't cause........ I KNOW...I know... I just know... So... I, go, I , you know.. I just gotta do something about it you know!"

Tom Cruise, 2007
And that is why he had to cut a deal with the writers.
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post #45 of 191
1/16/08 at 7:30am
Copperlock=Witchesbrew=Tom Cruise?
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post #46 of 191
1/16/08 at 7:41am
Can you even drive on L. Ron Hubbard Way? Isn't it lined with bright-red bricks?

Anyway, here's my little Scientology story:

It was time during one of our film classes to experiment and just fuck around basically with the new wireless mics we had to learn to use. We would try and catch conversations off the street or try and take them inside stores and see what the range was.

Someone just kept walking down the street with the mic and eventually landed at the front doors of one of the many Scientology buildings in Hollywood. A conversation was struck between our schoolmate wearing the mic and a Scientologist offering a free tour or whatever.

Realize that everyone's listening in going "YES! YES! DO IT!"

He does. The moment he walks in through those doors the Mic goes dead with static.

DEAD.

The moment he walks out of the building. Boom. It's back on.

Creepiest fucking moment.

We knew something had to be up because people had been walking into buildings minutes before and getting clear signals.
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post #47 of 191
1/16/08 at 12:11pm
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Originally Posted by Mikey
Tom Cruise is nuts, but think what its gonna be like for his kid growing up....if my dad was Tom Cruise I would probably beat the shit out of em'.
Read up on L Ron's son.

This will give you some insight into what may be in store for the kid.
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post #48 of 191
1/16/08 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by billylove
Read up on L Ron's son.

This will give you some insight into what may be in store for the kid.
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologyn...Wolfe07-82.htm

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This, says DeWolf, stemmed from his father’s continual interest in black magic and the occult. DeWolf himself was born prematurely, weighing two pounds, two ounces, and he now tells people, " I wasn’t exactly born, I was aborted. He was trying to do an abortion bit on me. He had one of those insane things, especially during the ‘30s, of trying to invoke the devil for power and practices. My mother told me about him trying out all kinds of various incantations, drugs and hypnosis...His initials for it were PDH — pain, drugs, hypnosis. The use of PDH, coupled with black magic, was an effective for of brainwashing or mind control. You’ll see throughout early Scientology literature, ‘PDH.’"

DeWolf also describes his father as a wife-beater. "He used to beat her up quite often. He had a violent, volcano-type temper, and he smacked her around quite a bit. I remember in 1946 or 1947 when he was beating up my mother one night. I had a .22 rifle and I sat on the stairway with him in my sights, and I almost blew his head off."
wow ...
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post #49 of 191
1/16/08 at 12:43pm
Is their logo really a solid gold shield studded with diamonds? Holy shit, that's bold.
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post #50 of 191
1/16/08 at 6:02pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
There are Scientologists who sit around in Times Square with tables set up to give free "stress tests". They have blood pressure machines and cuffs, as well as stacks of paperback versions of "Dianetics." They station themselves in front of the real tourist attractions, like Tussaud's wax museum and the MTV store, trying to lure the tourists. It's seriously creepy.
I've long wanted to go into the church in Times Square. Everytime I pass it, I get the urge. I feel like if I go in and refuse to buy a copy of Dianetics, I might have to battle a legion of Cruise-doppelgangers to get out.
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