Tom Cruises' newest stunt

[chargerboy69]

I have to say the guy has guts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1325517/Tom-Cruise-dangles-worlds-tallest-building-new-Mission-Impossible-movie.html

[bull]

The ghost of L. Ron Hubbard will always be there to protect him.

[Ponch ®]

The ghost of L. Ron Hubbard will always be there to protect him.

Tom is an Operating Thetan VIII, so perhaps he's got special powers to fight off Xenu.

[bull]

The ghost of L. Ron Hubbard will always be there to protect him.

Tom is an Operating Thetan VIII, so perhaps he's got special powers to fight off Xenu.

Special powers = gobs of $$$$$ donated to the Church of Scientology.

[Ponch ®]

The ghost of L. Ron Hubbard will always be there to protect him.

Tom is an Operating Thetan VIII, so perhaps he's got special powers to fight off Xenu.

Special powers = gobs of $$$$$ donated to the Church of Scientology.

I'd donate gobs of $$$ to be an OT so I could  "control or operate thought, life, matter, energy, space and time" whether he has a body or not.".

God-like powers are worth chipping in a few mil, IMHO.

[RD]

i read a lot of the xenu blurb... that is fricken crazy if you ask me.  oh to be the mind of a writer influenced by the 60's revolution and drugs.

[Ponch ®]

i read a lot of the xenu blurb... that is fricken crazy if you ask me.  oh to be the mind of a writer influenced by the 60's revolution and drugs.

We can goof on it all we want, but to be fair, if an alien landed on Earth and he read some of the things that "acceptable" mainstream religions believe, he'd probably double over laughing too.

[Dans 68]

I did enjoy L Ron's works of fiction, though.  

Dan

Oh, and yes, he does have guts.

[bull]

i read a lot of the xenu blurb... that is fricken crazy if you ask me.  oh to be the mind of a writer influenced by the 60's revolution and drugs.

We can goof on it all we want, but to be fair, if an alien landed on Earth and he read some of the things that "acceptable" mainstream religions believe, he'd probably double over laughing too.

I don't know. There is some crazy stuff out there but I think Hubbard's drivel is pretty outlandish. From your Xenu link above: "The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days."

In defense of the thetans though, if I were forced to watch an IMAX movie for a month straight I'd probably be messed up too.

[Mike DC]

                            
                                 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjGmZJu8OnY
   

[1969chargerrtse]

                           
                                 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjGmZJu8OnY
   

That's funny.

[Ponch ®]

i read a lot of the xenu blurb... that is fricken crazy if you ask me.  oh to be the mind of a writer influenced by the 60's revolution and drugs.

We can goof on it all we want, but to be fair, if an alien landed on Earth and he read some of the things that "acceptable" mainstream religions believe, he'd probably double over laughing too.

I don't know. There is some crazy stuff out there but I think Hubbard's drivel is pretty outlandish. From your Xenu link above: "The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days."

In defense of the thetans though, if I were forced to watch an IMAX movie for a month straight I'd probably be messed up too.

yeah, but think about it: does it sound any more outlandish than "if you're bad you are punished when you die and your soul goes to a horrible place full of fire and brimstone that's run by a really bad guy named Satan, and your soul remains at this place suffering for all of eternity".  

[Mike DC]

                         
I don't know if Hubbard's stuff is crazier but the craziness is a lot more compact. 

The lunacy in the Bible is spread over a couple thousand years, hundreds of different writers, unknown hundreds of oral traditions before that, there are a couple thousand pages of text in the final product, etc.  Hubbard seems to have condensed at least as much lunacy into just a few books from a single author in the 20th century.   Reading Hubbard is more like freebasing. 

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Very good analogy.

[bull]

The lunacy in the Bible is spread over a couple thousand years, hundreds of different writers, unknown hundreds of oral traditions before that, there are a couple thousand pages of text in the final product, etc.  Hubbard seems to have condensed at least as much lunacy into just a few books from a single author in the 20th century. 

Yes, this is the typical, oversimplistic rationalization.

[Mike DC]

  
Sorry if I offended.  I'm not meaning to seriously compare Hubbard to the Bible in any real way.  Just poking some fun.  I'm not a religious person but I'm not a Christianity-hater either.   

           

[dkn1997]

In a business dominated by a bunch of phonies, here comes an actor who actually insists on doing his own stunts..dangerous ones. and all anyone cares about is his religion?  I think it's cool that he does it.  He comes off as a quirky bastard for sure, but he makes great movies and the stunt thing has to get him his man card, even to guys like us.   

[bull]

In a business dominated by a bunch of phonies, here comes an actor who actually insists on doing his own stunts..dangerous ones. and all anyone cares about is his religion?  I think it's cool that he does it.  He comes off as a quirky bastard for sure, but he makes great movies and the stunt thing has to get him his man card, even to guys like us.   

Sorry, it was a tangent for sure. Yea, kudos to him for having the nads to do the stunts himself but I guess I thought it was relevant to explore why he might think he's impervious to death.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

 
Sorry if I offended.  I'm not meaning to seriously compare Hubbard to the Bible in any real way.  Just poking some fun.  I'm not a religious person but I'm not a Christianity-hater either.   

           

Since we're clarifying things, I thought I'd point out that I meant the freebasing thing was a great analogy.  Not that the Bible is lunacy.