Thanks once more to Beyond Blue reader Larry Parker who obviously reads the newspaper and online sources more than I do.
If you've ever wandered what, exactly, Tom Cruise believes, here is your chance to find out! I tried to embed the video into Beyond Blue, but wasn't able to. So click here to go to Gawker.com to see it there with an accompanying article of interest:
You have to watch this video. It shows Tom Cruise, with all the wide-eyed fervor that he brings to the promotion of a movie, making the argument for Scientology, the bizarre 20th-century religion. Making the argument is an understatement. The Hollywood actor, star of movies such as Mission Impossible, is a complete fanatic. "When you're a Scientologist, and you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you're the only one who can really help... We are the way to happiness. We can bring peace and unite cultures." There's much much more. Let me put it this way: if Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch was an 8 on the scale of scary, this is a 10.This video's been passed around privately by reporters and writers investigating Cruise's ties with Scientology. Most reporters have been wary of taking on the Scientologists, because they have a history of both litigation, and the harassment of critics. The publication of Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise, which claims he is the second most powerful person in the cult, has seems to have opened the floodgates. Several indoctrination videos were available on Google Video, on Sunday, and showcased on Gawker, before being removed by the person who had originally posted them. Yesterday, for a few hours, the clip of Tom Cruise discussing his beliefs as a Scientologist appeared on Youtube, and was republished by Radar and Defamer. That video is no longer available, most likely after the Church of Scientology sent in a copyright infringement notice. Gawker is now hosting a copy of the video; it's newsworthy; and we will not be removing it.
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I am not an advocate of Scientology and I agree it sounds scarey. I guess my question or observation is: Tom Cruise is the only one who acts as a fanatic when it comes to his belief in Scientology. There are other stars, such as, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, and John Travolta (plus others, I don't recall) that are very quiet and unobtrusive about their memebership. Is Tom using his belief as a means of getting more publicity? What is his problem? His whole behavior has become quite objectionable and I don't care to see him in his movies let alone on the boob tube. He is total and pure ego as far as I am concerned. Ego always heads for a fall, sooner or later.
To see a clip of Tom Cruise going up to the stage and presented with a medal of high honor within Scientology, along with saluting the picture of Ron L. Hubbard gave me the creeps.
When Tom spoke at the podium, and his demeanor is not what we see on some of his movies; that nice, likeable guy, it was downright scary.
His facial expression and stance reminded me of the Matt Lauer interview he had and he spoke of the Psychiatric field. It was the intensity that had me thinking - this man, Tom Cruise, needs some psychiatric help, severely.
I have been so extremely turned off by him from the Oprah couch scenario, but particularly the most recent clip of him within the confines of the Hall in the Scientology Church.
I wanted to believe it was a bad movie; not a real event. I said to my husband, "Do you see that? Do you feel his intensity through the screen?" To me it wasn't passion.
Nancy L.
**To me it wasn't passion; it felt evil.**
Could not be more succinctly stated, Nancy L. from N.J. (who's not nuts, unlike a certain actor married to Katie Holmes ...)
Could not have been better stated, either.
A self-plug -- hey, if Cruise can do thousands of ads for his movies, I can do one for my blog entry about Mr. "Top Gun" (HTTP://)
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I was introduced to Scientology in the early 70s. It is, in a nutshell, learning to control your thoughts and achieving powerful results. Our minds are powerful, that's a given, but we've heard this truth through the ages. That's nothing new, is it?
Whether or not Tom Cruise is a fanatic or scary or evil is not the question here. Why does he seem scary to us? What is fueling our fear? Why do we have fear?
I am a Christian because I decided to follow in Jesus the Christ's footsteps. Scientology had nothing new to offer me, except to make me aware how unaware I had been until then.
I say, just realize that just because something has been given a different name - mindfulness, presence, intent, believing, enlightenment, whatever - the reality continues to be that we are created in the image of God and as that creation, we have access to all the attributes of that creator and that creation. We decide to be aware of our own power and we decide to put that power to good use though our own actions. Whether we admit or not that God exists doesn't change the fact that we do what we do and are what we are because of the "godness" in us. We wouldn't be, we would not be, or even be aware that we are, without the creator. Our words are powerful, our thoughts are powerful, our beliefs are powerful.
"Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." Mat18:19
I say, Live and let live. Be at peace, let not your heart be troubled. Walk in the certainty of who you are - a beloved child of God.
Sunshine
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