Wacky Cults part 1

[dotinthesky]

Tom Cruise and Scientology's leader David Miscavige, who are rumoured to have had a "very close" relationship over the years.

According to Radar Magazine's latest edition, David built for Tom a special compound in Scientology's Nevada "resort", with all the pleasantries money can buy. Tom and David would spend days alone in this compound, isolated from everyone else, sharing one bed, a small living room, kitchen, and a gym. Tom Cruise has now risen to become almost as powerful as David within the "religion", a step closer to assending to the highest rank.

Scientology Celebrities: Would you watch anything with them on it?

Scientology on Livejournal

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Book 2, Chapter 5, Page 120 says, in part:

"The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically."

When I was in University, I was very curious about this cult (I can't call them a religion with a straight face.) One of my professors was worried about this interest (unnecessarily so.)

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Haha! Very true.

[pirat-ponton.livejournal.com]

on a more serious note, it was interesting reading jenna elfman's "conversion" (or whatever) story - I don't know if she realizes she basically considers "scientology" to be the wizard of oz (in other words, it didn't give her anything she didn't already have)

strange

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That was the impression I had of Scientology from the start: it's a religion that serves to pat these celebrities on the back and tell them that it's ok to make millions of dollars off a movie, that they deserve to be special and "superior" to everyone else. They are there to validate their empty existence, essentially.

According to the article I sited on this post, John Travolta had a whole retinue of Scientologists whose only jobs were to keep the bad news away from him, specifically anything involved with that turkey he released which was based on one of Hubbard's novels.