Holy. Shit.

Tom Cruise channels Cheney:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/telnaes/telnaes_main.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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;-)

or so I hear around here :rofl:

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From everything I've read, Scientology seems to be a "personal responsibility" cult just like the Republican Party, declaring war on anyone and anything that dares to differ, with no consideration or tolerance for biological and environmental influences. :thumbsdown:

donated $1,000 to Hillary's Senate campaign in 2000.

It's unfortunate that L. Ron did not keep writing science fiction instead of starting his own cult. He could have been as fondly remembered as Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein.

from Wiki
"Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York,<5> the son of Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer...
When Cruise was twelve, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sister Lee Anne with her.<12> Cities in which Tom lived included Ottawa, Ontario (where he attended Colonel By Secondary School), Louisville, Kentucky, Winnetka, Illinois and Wayne, New Jersey."

It's all fine and good to make fun of someone's religion, as long as it's not yours. Personal responsibility means that taking responsibility for dumb decisions, and not blaming it on some one else. Not everything that happens to you is not your fault, you have to take responsibility for those things that are your fault. And yes, Scientology does focus on the individual, because only you can decide for yourself what is right and wrong. Your responsibility resides with you first, then your spouse/family, then your group (which could be anything, like Democrats for instance), then mankind, then all life forms, then physical universe, then spiritual being, then god. If you, yourself, sits on the couch for the rest of your life, you help no one.

zalinda

What say you about that?

Honestly!

considering that its founder admitted that he started it as a way to make lots of money. Greed is one of the world's oldest religions, but it is not one that I feel the need to respect.

Hear!

I guess there still is a calling for exorcists.