Scientology???

why is it so popular with Hollywood types?

 

They have money.

 

gotta love a good cult.

 

Not just Ellison - Theodore Sturgeon is the gradnfather of one of my best friends - and he always talked about how his grandad laughed all the time over an early conversation with Hubbard about making a million bucks starting a religion.

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/scientology/start.a.religion.html

 

yeah, you have to take classes and they cost lots of money.

i don't know why it's so popular with stars. maybe it's a matter of them targetting people like that to help spread the "faith". or perhaps it's something about people who want to be stars in the first place. i mean, i think a lot of stars tend to be into some very eccentric behavior and scientology is very prominent out here so it's a convenient form of delusion.

 

With, what appears to be, a huge amount of information de-bunking this, why do people still believe it?

 

Anyone know what they believe about life after death and morality?

 

did you miss the part about them hating psychiatrists?

 

morality? i think they fit the norm here -- basic golden rule stuff, i believe. not sure about their views on extended morality, tho i think they're more concerned with the idea of self than many other "religions" which makes me think it's geared towards live and let live.

given the very bizarre creation myth, i suspect they have a strange afterlife myth as well, but maybe they don't go there. i seem to recall that they try to let people remain faithful to their own religion AND adopt scientology. if you can't beat them, at least try to get their money, too.

 

speaking of Mr. Cruise.....



Posted on Mon, Jun. 13, 2005


Katie Holmes converting to Scientology
Associated Press


LONDON - Katie Holmes says she's converting to the Church of Scientology, embracing the religion of her boyfriend, Tom Cruise.

Holmes, in London to promote her new film, "Batman Begins," said Monday that she's excited about her lessons in Scientology, a religion founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

The 26-year-old actress and Cruise went public with their romantic relationship in April. The former Catholic and star of television's "Dawson's Creek" grew up with a poster of Cruise on her bedroom wall and has said she grew up wanting to marry him.

"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true," Holmes said.

Cruise was in Tokyo Monday for the premiere of his new film, "War of the Worlds."

In an interview in the June 17 issue of Entertainment Weekly, the 42-year-old actor was asked if Holmes is curious about Scientology.

"Yeah, absolutely. She digs it," he tells the magazine.

In response to a question about whether he'd asked Holmes not to do "Factory Girl" - about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol - because of the drug use in the movie, Cruise says: "I don't even know what `Factory Girl' is."

He adds: "Listen, the thing you've got to know about Katie is that she's an incredibly bright and self-determined woman. She makes her own decisions."

Cruise was previously married to Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, and dated Penelope Cruz for several years.

Holmes and actor Chris Klein recently called off their engagement, after dating for five years.

When asked by Entertainment Weekly if he plans to propose to Holmes, Cruise replies: "It's gonna happen, man. It'll happen."

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