Hey there,

Below is the transcript of Tom Cruise's infomercial video on Scientology....I don't know enough about Scientology, I've read a couple of books in the early 90's out of curiosity...didn't agree, didn't make sense to me, didn't like it, but I do respect people's religions, but Tom's words and comments about this religion.....well, like I said, no comment....

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Announcer: Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise Scientologist

Cruise: I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist and it is something that you have to earn, and…because a Scientologist does. He, or she has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. Uh, being a Scientologist, you look at somebody and you know absolutely that you can help them. (cut)

So, for me, it really is KSW, and it’s just like, it’s something that, uh, I don’t mince words with that. You know, with anything (unintelligible), but that policy to me has really has gone , boy, there’s a time I went through and I said, “You know what…” When I read it, I just went (noise that sounds like poof), “This is it. That’s exactly it.” (cut)

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it’s not like anyone else. As you drive past, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you’re the only one that can really help. (cut)

That’s…that’s what drives me, is that I know we have an opportunity, and uh, to really help for the first time effectively change people’s lives, and uh, I’m dedicated to that. I’m gonna, I’m absolutely, uncompromisingly dedicated to that. (cut)

Org are there to help, okay, but we as (unintelligible) the public, we have a responsibility. It’s not just the Orgs, it’s not just David Miscavige, you know, it’s not just me. It’s you, it’s everyone out there, kinds re-reading KSW and looking at what needs to be done and saying, “Okay! Am I going to do it or am I not going to do it?” Period. Am I going to look at that guy or am I too afraid because I have my own out-ethics, put in someone else’s ethics. That’s all it comes down to. (cut)

And I won’t hesitate to put ethics in someone else, because I put it ruthlessly in myself. And I think that I…uh…I respect that, you know, in others. And, you know, I’m there to help, and we’re here to help, and my opinion is is that, look, either you’re on board or you’re not on board. Okay, it’s just, if you’re on board, you’re on board just like the rest of us. Period. (cut)

We are the authorities in getting people off drugs. We are the authorities on the mind. We are the authorities on improving conditions. Criminals, we can rehabilitate criminals. Way to happiness, we can bring peace and unite cultures, uh, that once you know these tools and you know that they work, it’s not good enough that I’m just (doing okay?)

Traveling around the world and meeting the people that I’ve met. Talking with these leaders in various fields, they want help, and they are depending on people who know, and who can be effective and do it, and that’s us, that is our responsibility to do that. (cut)

It is the time now. Now is the time, okay? It is, being a Scientologist, people are turning to you, so you better know it. You better know it, and if you don’t, you know, go (sound deleted, appears to be “fucking”) learn it. (Laughs) You know? But don’t pretend you know it and, or whatever. It’s like, we’re here to help. (cut)

If you’re a Scientologist, you see life, you see things the way that they are. In all its glory, you know, all of its complexity. Uh, the more you know as a Scientologist, you don’t become overwhelmed by it. (cut)

(Laughs) And uh, they said, “So, have you been an SP” (big laugh) I looked at them and I thought, “What a beautiful thing,” because maybe one day it will be like that, you know? You know what I’m saying. Maybe one day it will be that “Wow, SP, they just read about those in the history books.” You know? (cut)

I just got through that tech, and it’s literally…it’s not how to run from an SP. It’s (acronym of some sort), how to shatter suppression, confront and shatter suppression. You apply it, and it’s like, boom. (cut)

Because, they don’t come up to be and do that. They don’t do it to me. Not to my face, or anywhere in my vicinity where they feel they can confronted, you know. They just don’t do it. (cut)

I wish the world was a different place. I’d like to go on vacation and go and romp and play and just do that. You know what I mean? I mean, that’s what I want it to be. That’s how, there’s times I want to do that but I can’t because I know. I know. So, you know I have to do something about it. It’s not, you know you can sit here wish it was different and then you look at it and you go “Okay, this is it.” You know, I have to do something, don’t I? I have to do it, because I can’t live with myself if I don’t. That really is it. (cut)

I don’t care if someone thinks it’s hard or easy. You’re either helping and contributing everything you can or you’re not, okay? Because I’m carrying my load, okay? And as much as I’m carrying, I still feel like I have to do more. Alright? There is still a thing of, let’s go. (cut)

You can just see the look in their eyes, you know the ones that are doing it and you know the spectators, the ones who are going, “Well, it’s easy for you” or “What am I doing” and it’s just, that thing is, I’ve canceled that in my area (laughs). It’s like, man, you’re either in or you’re out. That’s spectatorism, and it’s something that we have no time for right now. (cut)

So, it’s our responsibility to educate, create the new reality. We have that responsibility to say, “Hey, this is the way it should be done, because we do it this way and people are actually getting better.” (cut)

And let’s get it done. Let’s really get it done. Have enough love, compassion, and toughness that you’re going to do it and, uh, do it right. (cut)

And I have to tell you something. I really, it is, it’s rough and tumble. It’s wild and wooly. It’s a blast. It’s a blast. It really is fun, because damn it there is nothing better than going out there and fighting the fight and suddenly you see things are better. (cut)

I want to know that I’ve can everything I could everyday and I think about those people out there who depending on us. And I think about that. And it does make me feel like, (laughs) we’ve got more work. I need more help. Get those spectators—you’re in the playing field or out of the arena. (Laughs) You know, really, that’s how I feel about it. (cut)

I do what I can and I do it the way I do everything (laughs). There’s nothing part of the way for me (laughs).

Music: Mission Impossible

Announcer: A Scientologist can be defined by a single question: Would you want others to achieve the knowledge you now have. In answering that question, Tom Cruise has introduced LRH technology to over one billion people on earth, and that’s only the first wave he’s unleashed. Which is why the story of Tom Cruise Scientologist has only just begun.

Graphic: Tom Cruise, IAS, Freedom Medal of Valor, Winner

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Yes, the ability to lie convincingly is the basic tool of all actors. It is part of the toolkit of politicians, salesmen, corporate business big shots, etc. Actors are quite special, however, for they are able to slide into the skins of characters and make these imaginary creatures live and breathe for us. This is a real gift. A gift which they have. And a gift which they give to us, the audience who wants to be entertained.

From what I have read Tom Cruise suffers from dyslexia. This means that he is handicapped when it comes to dealing with the printed word. His brain has problems processing it. The printed word looks, to a dyslexic, like gobbledygook. It is difficult for those of us who read as easily as we walk and talk to imagine that this could be so but my husband suffers from dyslexia and so does my greatniece. Dyslexics can be very, very bright but they will not prosper in academics and many of them will drop out of school. Indeed the school experience is likely to leave these people feeling humiliated, stupid, and depressed.

My own wonderful and very bright husband was trapped by his virtual illiteracy from going on with his education. The two arenas of his academic interest, economics and psychology, remain blocked to him. Nevertheless, he has done well for himself.

And Tom Cruise had done well for himself. He is a fine actor. He is also drifting deeper and deeper into loony land.

Well, when you think about it, even though Scientology sounds pretty wacky to outsiders, Christianity isn't all that much less wacky-sounding. On one hand, you've got aliens. On the other, you've got an all-knowing, all-powerful, invisible entity. Speaking as an atheist, it's pretty much "six of one, half-dozen of the other," as my mom would say.

I tend to agree with you, Laurend, but the Scientologist organization is truly out there, and kinda scary. Back in the late 1980s the organization I work for gave an award to a journalist who had written about Scientology, and we received literally hundreds of calls asking us to rescind the award. It was a terrifically orchestrated movement (and this was in the days before e-mail) that almost crippled my office.

I shudder to think about the personal hell Andrew Morton is going through right now, having written this Cruise biography.

Tom Cruise certainly is deep in loony land. But it might be interesting to speculate what brought him there. It is my understanding that it was one of his very first Hollywood GFs, the beautiful Mimi Rogers, who hooked him up with Scientology.

Now, what kind of person falls for the horseshit handed out by a cult? What kind of person opts to drydock their critical faculties in order to believe in Thetans, to hand over their cash in return for a promise of spiritual clarity and, I guess, a sense of happiness? What kind of person publically turns his back on modern medicine in order to claim that his cult has techniques which can cure medical trauma in the case of accident victims, psychiatric disorders, and addiction issues?

This is what the actor and Scientologist, Tom Cruise, is now claiming, and this is why he is looking like a raving nutbar to most of us.

But why would he believe in all this shit and act like a total arse? Well, I believe that individuals like him suffer from a gross sense of insecurity and feel a deep sense of fear. They want firm answers, they want promises, rules to abide by, and they also want to belong. Membership in a cult does provide each lonely and fearful individual with a family and a neighbourhood. He will receive love, direction, support, companionship, and he will live inside the comfort of the framework of an entirely supportive myth, one which removes him from the existential panic of being forced to examine his own frights more closely.

I think that Cruise became a Scientologist because he was frightened and bewildered and is likely not the most intellectual of kitty-cats. And now we see the poor barstid making an utter hash out of his street cred. I have never found Cruise all that attractive but I do find myself feeling kind of sorry for him now that he is lurching outside of his spin doctors' control. Seems like he is on self-destructo, eh?

I read this a few days ago and it's pretty interesting. Although it did lead me even more to the conclusion that these people are coocoo for coco puffs, it did give me more of an understanding what they are and what they do. It is pretty long but it's worth the read!

Inside Scientology : Rolling Stone

I actually have a book somewhere in my attic written by LRon Hubbard.

I should drag it out for curiosity sake. I think I must have gotten it at

a yard sale.

I actually own a copy of Dianetics and a book called "What is Scientology" compiled by the church of Scientology.

L. Ron was muy loco.

Are "Dianetics" and "Scientology" the same thing?

Pretty much the same. Dianetics is the "psychological" theory and Scientology the full-blown cult. There are quite a few schools and private tutoring centres around that push Dianetics and claim that they are independent of the Church. Mind you, they are fully funded by and solely operated by Church members, so you decide how independent they are...

oh.

my.

god.

I had to load a separate webpage listing all of the scientology 'jargon' to understand what he was talking about. Even then I only understood maybe the last two sentences! OK Tom, we know you want to help. We feel you.

Pretty much the same. Dianetics is the "psychological" theory and Scientology the full-blown cult. There are quite a few schools and private tutoring centres around that push Dianetics and claim that they are independent of the Church. Mind you, they are fully funded by and solely operated by Church members, so you decide how independent they are...

Thanks, Fanny. I was surprised to see a book on Dianetics in the office lending library. This is my office and they are my books so I'm curious who put it there.

I have a hard time thinking of Scientology as a "religion" when they require people to pay tuition and attend classes to learn about it and advance within the church. That's not religion, that's business.

One of my all-time favorite Bono quotes: "The God I believe in isn't short of cash."

It's a lot like Andy Warhol making money off of a commercial soup can canvas. L Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer who made a religion about space aliens and made money. It is a testament to Warhol's and Hubbard's marketing skills that they could sell something so out there. Cruise is equally ambitious and makes a superb living marketing his looks and a bit of talent. It's the American way........

I respect Tom Cruise's right to his own opinion, religion, whatever. However, when he goes so far as to tell another person (Brooke Shields, I believe) that she is wrong to take antidepressant medication for post partum depression, he is crossing the line. Mr Cruise needs to keep his religious beliefs and his celebrity separate. It seems that since he has decided to force his religion down people's throats, his popularity has diminished. It would be in the best interest of his career to keep his mouth shut!

Right on Mrs.Pruett!

I saw a video of him accepting a medal for something.... in the Church of Scientology , the medal was pretty huge.... actually they were making fun of it "The soup" show.... saying that maybe he wants to go after Flava Flav.... you know for the size of the medal..., then he saluted the picture of Ron Hubbard that was on the wall....in a military style sort of way... it was weird to say the least..but religions do have their own ways and traditions that can look weird to others...so I'll stick with my "no comment"....