A bit off-topic, but you've just got to see this. It is a video created by and for the Church of Scientology and features Tom Cruise in all his cuckoo-bananas glory.
He's trying- really trying- to be very very serious about how this Church works. He talks (over and over) about how he and the members of his church get it while the rest of us...well, he doesn't exactly say we're lost, but...the implication is that these are the only people who understand the way the world works and the rest of us are in a haze of uncertainty.
Trouble is...he's obviously off-script, he makes zero sense, his sentences are disjointed, his thought processes (what there are of them) are scattered and, as you may expect, he comes off as a total nutjob.
Seriously, have a look and pay close attention to the comments below the video as some of them are hilarious.
Makes you want to kidnap poor little Katie and take her to a deprogramming facility...
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Yeah, another friend forwarded that to me the other day. I must say I was not surprised at the incoherence and odd communication techniques displayed by Mr Cruise. I mean, we've all seen it in lesser degrees for years. To me it's sorta sad that this man who probably originally had good intentions and reached out for help has been swept up in whatever mania and crippled concepts Scientology promised to provide.
I tried to read "Dianetics" in the 80's--- got a free copy in the NYC subway. And it was basically unreadable. It made absolutely no sense, had no followable chain of events or ideas, and seemed to want to confuse and confound the reader more than anything else. And the book was chock-full of that abbreviated lingo we hear in Tom's speech here.
What to do? Ultimately, nothing, I guess. One of the best things about this nation is that anyone can believe and worship whoever/whatever they decide. Oh, and another nice thing about the nation? The rest of us can laugh our butts off if we find someone else's choices nutty.
Thanks Tom--- you just gave every comedian in range enough fodder to get through the writer's strike.
Just visited this little gem. God, how sickening. I have no fucking idea what he was talking about.
Having spent several years myself in a cultish situation, I can only say that "He be gone, yo!". He may come back one day, and he may not. I'm afraid I don't give a shit!
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