Translating Tom

  • Deb help­fully sent me off to this MTV page to trans­late some of Tom Cruise’s Sci­en­tol­ogy jar­gon from this video. As she says, some of the stuff still doesn’t make much sense. But at least I got an answer on the mean­ing of that bit about ‘get­ting those spec­ta­tors out of there.’ Sure enough, “spec­ta­tors” are non-believers.

    I took the trou­ble to tran­scribe a bit from the video:

    You can just see the look in their eyes. You know the ones that are doing it and you know the spec­ta­tors who are the ones who are going “Well, it’s easy for you” or “What am I doing?”, and it’s just … that thing is, uh, I’ve can­celled 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 is, … we have no time for it now…..

    Get those spec­ta­tors either in the play­ing field or out of the arena. You know? (laughs) That’s, y’know really, that’s how I feel about it.

    Seri­ously…. what a weirdo. Every Chris­t­ian knows the feel­ing of want­ing to evan­ge­lize and feel­ing frus­trated with the state of the world. But I don’t know any Chris­t­ian that would talk this way. “Can­celled that in my area”??? Good grief! Has any­one checked the miss­ing per­sons reports? Who knows how big Tom Cruise’s “area” is. A guy with an ego that size might have cleared all the non-Scientologists out of a cou­ple city blocks around him.

    And then there’s this bit. Accord­ing to the MTV page, “an SP is some­one who com­mits sup­pres­sive acts, like mur­der, crit­i­ciz­ing Sci­en­tol­ogy or alter­ing LRH’s teach­ings…”  Mur­der or crit­i­ciz­ing Sci­en­tol­ogy — I kind of wish they’d have put a lit­tle more space between those two actions. But any­way, Tom says:

    (laughs) … and uh, they said, “So like have you met an SP?” (laughs a LOT) And I looked at them. And y’know, and I thought, “What a beau­ti­ful thing.” Because maybe one day it’ll be like that. You know what I’m say­ing. Maybe one day it’ll be that “Wow, SP’s”, like they’ll just read about that in the his­tory books.

    Or maybe not. Maybe the peo­ple who don’t believe in quasi-religions founded by sci-fi writ­ers will be the ones who con­tinue to write the his­tory books. And we won’t bother to write about Sci­en­tol­ogy, because no one would believe it anyway.

    Can­cel that from your area, Tom.

    Another good take on excerpts from this video is over HERE at Infi­nite Monkeys.


    Related posts:

    1. Tom Cruise’s Sci­en­tol­ogy indoctrination
    2. A post about Tom Cruise
    3. The per­va­sive­ness of the Chris­t­ian idea

    January 20th, 2008 | Grace | 3 Comments |

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  • Word­mama 01.20.2008

    Dear God, that’s sad. Why are the pretty ones always insane?

  • Grace

    Well, you can be pretty and insane and kind of make it work, right? I like to think that we’re liv­ing proof of that. The prob­lem with Tom is that he’s VERY pretty and VERY VERY insane.

    So once again, the rule is: All things is moderation.

  • Word­mama

    Well, I don’t know if I per­son­ally am exactly pretty or nec­es­sar­ily insane; I’d go for pretty insane, though. (harf)

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