Run For Your Life - It's Tom Cruise!
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lilbangladesh wrote: I didn't find the Tom Cruise video scary, just incoherent. I was like, "And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
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100 million dollars :P -
lilbangladesh wrote: I didn't find the Tom Cruise video scary, just incoherent. I was like, "And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
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100 million dollars :P -
lilbangladesh wrote: I didn't find the Tom Cruise video scary, just incoherent. I was like, "And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
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100 million dollars :P -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]They also do not explicitly state that those who criticize the religion have no rights at all and therefore any and all acts are permissible against them. Such an attitude you only see in cults.
Remember a thing called The Inquisition?
exactly what i was thinking -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]They also do not explicitly state that those who criticize the religion have no rights at all and therefore any and all acts are permissible against them. Such an attitude you only see in cults.
Remember a thing called The Inquisition?
exactly what i was thinking -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]They also do not explicitly state that those who criticize the religion have no rights at all and therefore any and all acts are permissible against them. Such an attitude you only see in cults.
Remember a thing called The Inquisition?
exactly what i was thinking -
The Church of Scientology is suing over this video.
http://gawker.com/5002319/church-of-scientology-claims-copyright-infringement -
The Church of Scientology is suing over this video.
http://gawker.com/5002319/church-of-scientology-claims-copyright-infringement -
The Church of Scientology is suing over this video.
http://gawker.com/5002319/church-of-scientology-claims-copyright-infringement -
lilbangladesh wrote: "And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him? -
lilbangladesh wrote: "And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him? -
rtraindweller wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]"And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him?
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Only if your sitting on a couch. -
rtraindweller wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]"And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him?
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Only if your sitting on a couch. -
Hamilton wrote: [quote=rtraindweller][quote=lilbangladesh]"And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him?
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Only if your sitting on a couch.
i am :shock:
HELP! -
Hamilton wrote: [quote=rtraindweller][quote=lilbangladesh]"And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him?
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Only if your sitting on a couch.
i am :shock:
HELP! -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]They also do not explicitly state that those who criticize the religion have no rights at all and therefore any and all acts are permissible against them. Such an attitude you only see in cults.
Remember a thing called The Inquisition?
Which, and I find this truly remarkable, exists to this day, and was headed by Ratzinger until he became Benedict XVI. -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]They also do not explicitly state that those who criticize the religion have no rights at all and therefore any and all acts are permissible against them. Such an attitude you only see in cults.
Remember a thing called The Inquisition?
Which, and I find this truly remarkable, exists to this day, and was headed by Ratzinger until he became Benedict XVI. -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]They also do not explicitly state that those who criticize the religion have no rights at all and therefore any and all acts are permissible against them. Such an attitude you only see in cults.
Remember a thing called The Inquisition?
D'oh! I realized that I misspoke about an hour after I logged off, but as I was running off to work, I figured all you fearless posters would leap at the chance to correct me.
I was thinking in too narrow of a context. I was thinking about the present-day American context, rather than historically. Whoops. My bad. However, in modern-day America, we DO have the freedom to affiliate or unaffiliate with an organized religion whenever we wish, and to be observant to whatever degree we want to. This is a freedom that Scientology denies its members. Thus, in the context of modern-day America, it is a cult. It also has no sense of irony, wanting freedom of religion for itself, but none for its critics.lilbangladesh wrote:
True dat. He's already managed to turn Katie Holmes into a Stepford Wife. Everyone who interviews her gets really uncomfortable when she talks now.
"And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him? -
Carnivore wrote: [quote=lilbangladesh]They also do not explicitly state that those who criticize the religion have no rights at all and therefore any and all acts are permissible against them. Such an attitude you only see in cults.
Remember a thing called The Inquisition?
D'oh! I realized that I misspoke about an hour after I logged off, but as I was running off to work, I figured all you fearless posters would leap at the chance to correct me.
I was thinking in too narrow of a context. I was thinking about the present-day American context, rather than historically. Whoops. My bad. However, in modern-day America, we DO have the freedom to affiliate or unaffiliate with an organized religion whenever we wish, and to be observant to whatever degree we want to. This is a freedom that Scientology denies its members. Thus, in the context of modern-day America, it is a cult. It also has no sense of irony, wanting freedom of religion for itself, but none for its critics.lilbangladesh wrote:
True dat. He's already managed to turn Katie Holmes into a Stepford Wife. Everyone who interviews her gets really uncomfortable when she talks now.
"And the difference between Tom Cruise and the homeless guy talking to himself on the corner is...?"
that tom cruise poses a threat to the safety and well being of anyone around him? -
The more I see, the more I realize that Tom is nuts. But I see so little difference between his cult and the other cults we call religion.
The "dogma" of ALL of them is more similar than different.
They have rules and practices that are completely made up all in an effort to control people's minds and wallets.
In a few hundred years - or less - the theories, stories, beliefs and practices of Scientology will be just as accepted as all denominations in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The only difference between a cult and a religion is time and power of influence.
Sadly, for every instance of a kooky belief or practice in Scientology, I can give you an equally, but now acceptable, belief/ practice in any of the existing religions of today. I almost want to make a chart/ matrix matching all of them up for comparison.
Maybe I can make a board game and cash in. I'd call it: "Guess Who's Belief System is Nuttier"? At one time, before youtube, weren't Christians thrown to the lions by Romans? -
The more I see, the more I realize that Tom is nuts. But I see so little difference between his cult and the other cults we call religion.
The "dogma" of ALL of them is more similar than different.
They have rules and practices that are completely made up all in an effort to control people's minds and wallets.
In a few hundred years - or less - the theories, stories, beliefs and practices of Scientology will be just as accepted as all denominations in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The only difference between a cult and a religion is time and power of influence.
Sadly, for every instance of a kooky belief or practice in Scientology, I can give you an equally, but now acceptable, belief/ practice in any of the existing religions of today. I almost want to make a chart/ matrix matching all of them up for comparison.
Maybe I can make a board game and cash in. I'd call it: "Guess Who's Belief System is Nuttier"? At one time, before youtube, weren't Christians thrown to the lions by Romans? -
I disagree. It would only be true IF Scientology didn't have its members march like martinets, but the fact that you can't be a casually observant or lapsed Scientologist, like you can be a Catholic or a Jew makes it very dangerous. In this country, we can take or leave religion. Not so with Scientology. And the fact that Scientology has made real efforts to not only subvert our democracy as well as the governments of other countries makes it VERY dangerous, to the extent that organized religions are not.
This is a bit more profound than whose ideas are nuttier. Frankly, that's not really a productive debate because there is no chance for agreement. -
I disagree. It would only be true IF Scientology didn't have its members march like martinets, but the fact that you can't be a casually observant or lapsed Scientologist, like you can be a Catholic or a Jew makes it very dangerous. In this country, we can take or leave religion. Not so with Scientology. And the fact that Scientology has made real efforts to not only subvert our democracy as well as the governments of other countries makes it VERY dangerous, to the extent that organized religions are not.
This is a bit more profound than whose ideas are nuttier. Frankly, that's not really a productive debate because there is no chance for agreement. -
^ What you have just accurately described is radicalism.
It comes in all flavors.
And you are right, it is impossible to come to an agreement in a debate over this...unless we get rid of all of it. -
^ What you have just accurately described is radicalism.
It comes in all flavors.
And you are right, it is impossible to come to an agreement in a debate over this...unless we get rid of all of it. -
last time i checked, you don't have to pay to be a jew, christian, or muslim. that's a big difference, if you ask me.
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last time i checked, you don't have to pay to be a jew, christian, or muslim. that's a big difference, if you ask me.
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mr. met wrote: last time i checked, you don't have to pay to be a jew, christian, or muslim. that's a big difference, if you ask me.
Actually, 10% of your gross works for us.
:twisted:
Tithe, you heathens! TITHE! -
mr. met wrote: last time i checked, you don't have to pay to be a jew, christian, or muslim. that's a big difference, if you ask me.
Actually, 10% of your gross works for us.
:twisted:
Tithe, you heathens! TITHE! -
mr. met wrote: last time i checked, you don't have to pay to be a jew, christian, or muslim. that's a big difference, if you ask me.
You're kidding, right?
We may argue over "have to" or even "pay" and their definition.
But you don't want to go there with respect to organized religion....really, do you?
One example of being forced to pay a tax because you were NOT Muslim:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
That's not even including the prescribed and aforementioned 10% of income that so many Christan churches literally demand from their flocks. I won't even start in on the history of the Vatican....
Please.
They are ALL cults.
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