Scientology plays Whack-a-Tom

If Scientology's tech-heavy lore is in need of a Hydra-like villain, it need look no further than YouTube, where for every video of Tom Cruise the church orders taken down, 10 new ones sprout up in its place.  There are so many versions up now that LRH's crew has got to be thinking that the Xenu is out of the bottle. 

Now that a second round of Scientology videos has been leaked (Gawker has 'em, along with its own fresh C&D letter), it'll be interesting to see if the church will try the perpetual decapitation strategy again, or if it'll simply let the videos spread.

After all, they are singing the praises of the religion.  In this video, the voice-over guy -- who sounds bizarrely like he's doing a trailer for the next "Mission Impossible" -- details the church's Cruise-ade warning that "psychiatric drugs are the core of all education failures and ... are wreaking violence across American schoolyards." 

"LRH has given us ... the ability to fight and have the courage to crush these guys," Cruise says in the beginning of the prescription drug video.

Why would you want to suppress a message like that?

--David Sarno

Comments

[Ted]

Tom Cruise while clearly an incredible talent has revealed an imbecilic side to himself. Why doesn't he speak with folks who have benefited from phsychiatric drugs? I was diagnosed ADHD as a youngster and took ritaling for 20 years. Ritalin deserves alot of the credit for getting me through school by allowing me to focus. Otherwise I don't think I'd be where I am today, a successful finance professional. I'm sure he views me as a mental weakling who needed meds to get by. I probably would have succeeded but not along an academic path that's for sure...the point is I suffer not negative repercussions as result of being medicated all those years (part of the time at least). I limited my usage significantly as I got older and have now matured out of it.

It frustrates Tom that others don't share his perspective on this issue. This religious brain-wash stuff is scary!
What makes his viewpoints correct and others wrong.

[Doug]

Tom disturbs me. Katie looks like a follower. They make a great couple.

[Jay Arr]

My oh my. Ever since Tom Cruise went on the Today show he should learn to either total script himself or shut up. Sometimes airhead actors, who don't know any better, come off looking like dorks talking about issues and causes they know little about. Here we have a rambling "actor" rambling on and on and on and on and making no sense. Tom doesn't complete sentences. He turns thoughts around 360 degress without ever saying anything substantial. Smile Tom. Show teeth. That's what you are really good at. Stop talking without a script. Stop kissing Katie up one side and down another in public. Get an education.

[Saul]

Tom Cruise is starting to sound like he needs medication.

[Y'AAAAALLLLLLLL]

the kids all whack! sure he is not on scientology crack!! - dank, it just amazes me how actors step all over their tongues when they want to pontificate, HELLOOOOOO - stick to acting, thats your job, shut-up about everything else, just smile and leave your brains at home, leave politics for the politicians, leave religion to the men in robes, leave medicine to the doctors, leave psychiatry to the loco docs, and please oh please just stay quiet, ever since he started acting up with his antics i refuse to pay to see a box office movie with him, just rubs me the wrong way, he reeks of being pompass, arrogant, showy, all the bad qualities i detest in a person, lost his innocence as he pasteurized in scientology, beam me up thetan

[Lisa]

What is the big deal? He's an actor not a doctor or a preacher. This is a free society; you have right to say what you believe in and make your own choice. So, let him be what he wants to be. And do things that's best for you. Media built him up and media sank him deep down. That's the sad part for this whole story.

[brendon]

The video really shows someone unfamiliar with Scientology what the basic mindset of a Scientologist looks like. Tom having that conversation with another Scientologist would would not strike the other Scientologist as unusual at all. Scientologists believe deeply that they have the tools and "The Tech" to really help mankind and are in fact the ONLY ones who have that. Hubbard told them so, and they believe it. Cruise's comments about helping drug addicts and criminals are straight from the Church's PR on Narconon and Criminon, Scientology based programs that have no independent scientific validation. But the believers believe the Church. It's a delusion to which Scientologists willingly submit themselves to, and critical thinking is not welcomed. They avoid critical thinking in themselves, and too much from others...particularly family, can end up in the member disconnecting (shunning) those "SPs" (Suppressive Persons). And by the way, if you ever ask a Scientologist about Xenu, they'll tell you they don't know what you are talking about. For most Scientologists this is true because, in fact, they haven't made it to the level where you learn about Xenu. And those who DO know will scoff because they can't talk about it. In fact, they think the knowledge about Xenu can harm you if you get exposed to it. Because Hubbard told them so.

[brendon]

The video really shows someone unfamiliar with Scientology what the basic mindset of a Scientologist looks like. Tom having that conversation with another Scientologist would would not strike the other Scientologist as unusual at all. Scientologists believe deeply that they have the tools and "The Tech" to really help mankind and are in fact the ONLY ones who have that. Hubbard told them so, and they believe it. Cruise's comments about helping drug addicts and criminals are straight from the Church's PR on Narconon and Criminon, Scientology based programs that have no independent scientific validation. But the believers believe the Church. It's a delusion to which Scientologists willingly submit themselves to, and critical thinking is not welcomed. They avoid critical thinking in themselves, and too much from others...particularly family, can end up in the member disconnecting (shunning) those "SPs" (Suppressive Persons). And by the way, if you ever ask a Scientologist about Xenu, they'll tell you they don't know what you are talking about. For most Scientologists this is true because, in fact, they haven't made it to the level where you learn about Xenu. And those who DO know will scoff because they can't talk about it. In fact, they think the knowledge about Xenu can harm you if you get exposed to it. Because Hubbard told them so.

[Terryeo]

The video was stolen. Newscasters are placing themselves above the law, to publish a stolen video whose author requested it not be published.

[Bill]

The video may well be stolen but it is newsworthy and the press has a right to broadcast its content. Isn't it ironic how the church of scientology only embraces the parts of our constitution that serve its needs.

[Mark]

I prefer to live my life fully engaged. Drugs / meds or whatever you like to called them generally reduce a person's awareness in various aspects. God bless a pain killer or antibiotic when that is called for and really needed but a lifetime of drug use to control symptoms of a dis ease? Well I happen to know there are other ways.
The pharmaceutical and psychological community and their work is around 100 years old. Most of the drugs produced for consumption has less than 20 years of use history. Most drugs that folks are taking today will be replace within years by something newer and better (and pricier) or removed because it was found to produce more negative benefits than positive ones.
I believe that a fully engaged life composed of regular exercise, 50% raw diet, proper sleep and water consumption coupled with a spiritual practice be it prayer, mediation or auditing will go further to create a fulfilled life than being a guinea pig to a young corporate body that in the end of all things has to make a profit or it will cease to exist.
Ok, now I'm pissed. Do I take the red pill or the blue pill. Na, I'll just have a cup of peppermint tea, thanks.

[Terryeo]

Stolen and published does not make right. For example, if a person copied secret government documents and published them on the internet, that would not be right either. Possible, but not right.