Tom Cruise’s Scientology indoctrination

  • Greg sent me this late last night, and I’m post­ing it right away because it’s very likely that it’ll get yanked off the inter­net REALLY fast. It’s a 9-minute video that Tom Cruise made to indoc­tri­nate new­bies into Sci­en­tol­ogy. The link is HERE.

    Com­ments:

    • Tom Cruise is start­ing to be the new Michael Jack­son. He just keeps get­ting weirder and weirder every time you look.
    • First “huh?” quote: “[A Sci­en­tol­o­gist] has the abil­ity to cre­ate new and bet­ter real­i­ties and improve con­di­tions.” Oh really, Tom? Can he cre­ate a bet­ter real­ity for you than the black turtle­necks you’ve been wear­ing for the past ten years?
    • The value of this for me is to give a sense of who Sci­en­tol­o­gists think they are. Answer (appar­ently): the sal­va­tion of human­ity. Cruise says a lot of things about how “those peo­ple are in trou­ble” and “when you’re a Sci­en­tol­o­gist, you know you’re the only one that can help.”
    • There seems some­thing sin­is­ter to me in the way he goes into this inco­her­ent “Catcher in the Rye” per­ora­tion about sav­ing all those peo­ple, help­ing all those peo­ple and then says some­thing about get­ting those “Spec­ta­tors” outta there. The who? The what? What kind of cult-y jihadist talk is that?

    No won­der Sci­en­tol­ogy puts so much of its wealth and focus into bring­ing expen­sive law­suits against any­one that shows what it’s really about. If they were really going to save the world, why would they have to be so afraid of any­one find­ing out what they actu­ally believe and preach?


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    January 18th, 2008 | Grace | 8 Comments |

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  • DebD 01.18.2008

    I found some of what he said con­fus­ing as he was using jar­gon that I am not famil­iar with (what is KSW & SP???)

    He said unequiv­o­cally that Sci­en­tol­ogy is the author­ity on heal­ing peo­ple with men­tal ill­ness and reha­bil­i­tat­ing crim­i­nals. Lets hook Mr. Cruise up with Charles Man­son then and see.

  • Grace

    That’s right, he did say that. I for­got that bit about reha­bil­i­tat­ing crim­i­nals. You’re right, there’s def­i­nitely room for a good lit­mus test there.

    Yep, I didn’t under­stand all the acronyms either. And Cruise’s “com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills” don’t help much. There are min­utes at a time where he doesn’t even seem to talk in sentences.

  • Mark A Hershberger

    SP = Sup­pres­sive Per­son http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_person

    KSW = Keep­ing Sci­en­tol­ogy Work­ing, a book by L. Ron Hubbard

  • Mark A Hershberger

    Oh, one more thing. In a BBC doc­u­men­tary I learned that in tra­di­tion­ally Ortho­dox coun­tries (Serbia/Yugoslavia and Greece at least) Sci­en­tol­ogy does not present itself as a reli­gion because the orga­ni­za­tion has (for what­ever rea­son) decided that it is not to its ben­e­fit to do so.

    In Greece, they were found to be attempt­ing to infil­trate gov­ern­ment offices while pos­ing as a non-profit “applied phi­los­o­phy” cen­ter. http://www.xenu.net/archive/greece/

  • Tina

    Sup­pres­sive Per­son, often abbre­vi­ated SP, is a term used in Sci­en­tol­ogy to describe the “anti­so­cial per­son­al­i­ties” who, accord­ing to Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hub­bard, make up about 2.5% of the pop­u­la­tion. Another 18% are PTS (Poten­tial Trou­ble Source), as a result of the SPs. (Wikipedia)

    KSW “Keep Sci­en­tol­ogy Work­ing” (Wikipedia)

    These peo­ple are total whack jobs!

  • Grace

    Mark & Tina: Thanks for the info. That KSW thing doesn’t make much sense, but judg­ing from Cruise’s usage, it sounds like some big ‘aha’ moment for Sci­en­tol­o­gists when they feel like every­thing clicks.

  • Tanya

    I found his laugh­ter fits espe­cially dis­turb­ing. I keep think­ing of his child and her future while watch­ing this.…

  • DebD

    Grace I was wan­der­ing through Google News and found this link explain­ing Cruise’s words. I think hav­ing the expla­na­tions make what he said more scary.

    What the Heck was Tom Cruise say­ing?

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