From thesuperficial, "Tom Cruise got Comedy Central to cancel Wednesday night's South Park episode about Scientology by warning that he'd refuse to promote Mission Impossible 3, insiders say. Since Paramount is banking on MI3 to make money this summer, and Paramount is owned by Viacom, which also owns Comedy Central, the tactic worked. The South Park episode - which pokes fun at Scientology and shows Cruise, John Travolta and R. Kelly - was mysteriously pulled at the last minute.Well thank goodness Tom got the episode pulled; otherwise people might start thinking Scientology was weird or something. I don't know at what point Tom became such a jackass, though it's a well known fact that short people are intrinsically evil and must be destroyed. Hey, it's right there in the Bible, right after the part where Jesus flies around around the Earth to reverse time and save Lois."
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Viacom should’ve been like, “Fine, don’t promote it”. Tom Cruise is narcissistic and would never be able to resist promoting himself. Also, it would only hurt him by making him look like a big baby. I liked 2005 better, when we didn’t realize Tom Cruise was a freakin’ nut job.
The movie looks crappy anyway.
I've done a significant amount of research into Scientology over the last few months (mostly reading all the anti- websites). I came away stunned by how evil and dangerous they are.
I think this news story more effectively conveys the nuttiness of Scientology than any South Park parody would. That's why I'm glad Cruise is doing this. I fantasize about the day that he behaves like a movie hero in real life, comes to his senses and publicly tears down Scientology as only he can.
I wrote a paper on Scientology in graduate school and it is indeed a disturbing cult. In addition to its psychiatric misinformation campaign, it's a pyramid scheme. You have to spend more and more $ to take increasingly expensive classes towards your goal of becoming "clear". As you progress in your academic brainwashing, you teach newer people below you. Of course, nobody ever achieves "clear".
It's worse than that. (Of course you know this, having written the paper.) It's profoundly evil because it takes people at their absolute weakest (the "raw meat" Hubbard cynically referred to) who are confused and frightened and in some kind of crisis or on the edge of a growing psychosis or traumatic disorder, and, rather than giving them the care they need, practices established addictive, quasi-hypnotic control techniques (including primitive stimulus/response tricks with the "e-meter" electric shock generator) to propel these people deeper into a sociopathic state in which their subconscious fears are brought dangerously to the fore...all just to get their goddamned money. (And when I say "their money" I mean "all their money;" once you step onto the scientology train you're on it as far as your pocketbook and your life's savings will take you). When I think of all those poor people I get so angry I want to scream. We're supposed to be living in an enlightened age and we've got vile scum like this to deal with, preying on our worst superstitions and fears. If every one of those hundreds of thousands of people got all of their money back and free clinical psychotherapy for life, it would never be enough to pay back what those fuckers have done.
Just reading your post made me pissed off all over again.
Plus which, they shield their celebrity members from the truth of what they're doing. So people like Cruise have no idea of the slave-conditions the Scientology "staffpeople" labor under.
And, since the first rule of a con job is to issue a premptive strike against any reasonable voice that could debunk you (like the crooked salesmen in Glengarry Glenn Ross reacting in horror: "You let them talk to a lawyer?") which is why they have Cruise debunking shrinks and psychotropic medicine. The only hope those people have is shrinks!
It's kind of like the creeping horror of religiosity that permeates the Bush administration. I live in New York and believe me, the last thing everyone needed after 9/11 was a lot of church counseling. We needed shrinks! It's the 21st Century, not the 14th! All that money going to their tax-free scam... *sigh*
My grandmother got remarried late in her life, and John, her new husband, divorced his wife because she funneled something like 50,000 bucks to the Scientologists.
Is there any truth to the story that Hubbard started this religion on a bet with Robert Heinlein?
They had some discussion but I haven't heard about the bet.
Most Hubbard information is wrong; they've scrubbed his bio and liberally re-edited his books after the fact.
He was as cynical about what he was doing as you can imagine. A Palpatine type through and through.
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