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Tom Cruise is crazy as hell...

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I admire anyone who tries to make a positive difference in the lives of others. The problem is, fanatics never do. They abandon their own ability to independently investigate truth and become blind to the reality of the world around them.

I was amazed by his comment about having to stop at an auto accident because only a Scientologist could help. I found myself laughing at the look in his eyes, the silly beliefs about only Scientologists having the answers for every world problem, the tough guy act asserting that he won't let others talk Scientology down (yeah, they're shaking in their boots that you might jump on their couch, Tom).

Then, I just felt sad that a person with so much potential to help others, and a clear desire to do so, allowed himself to become so deluded. Must have felt nice to have all those people tell you that you were single-handedly saving the world, while their cash registers rang up the profits.

On a personal level, I believe that religious teachings can have incredible value in people's lives. But L Ron Hubbard was a convicted fraudster and conman and Scientology is no major religion. I feel so incredibly sorry for anyone who is under the spell of a cult leader. What an incredible waste!
 
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My contribution there:

"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."
- L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949; quoted by Eshbach in OVER MY SHOULDER: REFLECTIONS ON A SCIENCE FICTION ERA, Donald M. Grant Publisher. 1983
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"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."
- L. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418
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You go, Tom.
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