Will Someone Shut This A**hole Up?
Tom Cruise is back on the attack as far as Brooke Shields is concerned, and the star grew testy during what grew into an outright debate over antidepressants and psychiatry with Today host Matt Lauer in an interview that aired on the NBC morning show Friday.
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Noting that Holmes is embracing Cruise's religion of Scientology, Lauer then asked Cruise if he could be with someone who wasn't a Scientologist. He replied: "It's something you don't understand. You can be a Christian and be a Scientologist. It is a religion in that it deals with the spirit, you as a spiritual being."
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Cruise also insisted, "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance," and that through "vitamins and exercise" a person's problems can be cured. "Drugs are not the answer," said Cruise. "I think there's a better quality of life."
Medic's Musings:
- A) Scientology is a cult. Nothing more, nothing less. The more Tom Cruise feels the need to defend it, the more he makes my point.
- B) Your "engagement" to Katie Holmes is a publicity stunt. She needs it to garner support for more general-audience movies and you need it to keep in the closet.
- C) There IS such a thing as neurological chemical imbalances, you nitwit! Or does Scientology advocate we go back to locking up these people in asylums and hitting them up with electro-shocl therapy all day? Or,..how about this Tom,..exorcisms! Depressed people must be possessed of the devil or else they would be like you, runniong around and professing your love (yeah, love, baby, love!) for Katie Holmes every time the camera points at you!
posted by TheBitterAmerican @ 7:52 PM
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3 Comments:
I don't like Matt Lauer either, but why didn't he make Tom look like an ass by telling him he used the word "glib" wrong....
The Scientologists use a machine - I forget the name of it - to discover negative waves or something.
THe thing that makes it a racket (more than a cult, I think. It's a scam more than anything) is that you "graduate" to different levels as you purge the negative waves.
Of course, each level costs you more money. That, plus no one has ever seen the inside of one of those machines and they refuse to allow people into the factory where they make them.
TrekMed! Long time no peruse. In fact, been laying low, making a living. And may I say, I have missed dabbling in the blog world mightily!
So... of course, I had to catch up on yours when I was in "da mode". And on this subject, I'm with Rick. Scientology is one financial racket for sure, altho many members may consider it a cult or a religion themselves. But Rick is correct. There are levels, and monetary obligations associated with your "spiritual growth".
While I'm not a Cruise fan by any means, I do agree on the "drugs aren't the cure" bit. The chemical imbalances doesn't exist statement I think is a lack of his ability to communicate what he meant to say. That being correcting of such imbalances in the body are best done so by diet and exercise, and not yet more manmade chemicals.
I've watched and lost too many, including family members, get overdosed by state administrated drugs in the name of "chemical imbalances" or "attention deficit" crap. There is no doubt that the biggest drug peddler in the country is government and the FDA themselves.... from prozac to whatever.
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