Cruise Indoctrination Video

[arthra]

I wouldn't call it an "indoctrination" video...

Cruise seems to be talking as if with maybe another person who ostensibly shares his views in an informal manner... There were some acronyms used too ... I heard something that sounded like "PPSP" ..not sure what that is but anyway and a few other acronyms.

I found this site of scientology acronyms that really kind of blew me away..

Operation Clambake presents: ARS Acronym/Terminology FAQ

I use to drive by a scientologist place that had a deck of a ship with masts and rigging and people in sailor suits running around.. It was rather strange to me. Some of them also got in trouble for falsifying their income to get loans to pay for lessons and such...

Maybe this is how Cruise sounds in real life... kinda inartciulate and spooky maybe..

- Art

[gp1628]

Yeah he was always overly enthusiastic and childish. People used to think it was charming. Now they think its weird and blame scientology. I think he was always that way. Not even scientologists say "hey look at Tom Cruise"

Its also interesting that of all of the celebs that have tried it, Tom Cruise is the one that dedicated anti-sci people love to bring up. As far as I can see he is the one on the lists that best works as a bad example. But then any group Ive ever been in seemed to have the person that overdid it and made the rest of us cringe.

[greymare]

i wonder would people be half as interested if it was just joe blogs from down the road who was a scientologist and was a convincing speaker. think, just because this guy is famous doesnt mean he is immune to some radical religious rantings. and he has influence with peopel with money and perhaps power. I think he is a looney. pure and simple.

[gp1628]

Originally Posted by greymare

i wonder would people be half as interested if it was just joe blogs from down the road who was a scientologist and was a convincing speaker. think, just because this guy is famous doesnt mean he is immune to some radical religious rantings. and he has influence with peopel with money and perhaps power. I think he is a looney. pure and simple.

Well I cant disagree with that.

But on the other hand I think Ive seen the same with many other groups. I would try not to judge any group by its well known fanatics. If we fell prey to that then Im not sure if any of our belief-systems would stand up well to it.

I also remember that Ive seen some really well done analogies done by some professional trolls on other forums where people think they are talking about one group but you discover later that its another group. Such as scientology but it turns out to be catholism, or satanism but it turns out to be christianity, or a dangerous cult and it turns out to be baptists, or methodism but it turns out to be wicca. (Im not trying to pick on christianity but those particular ones stuck in my mind since they involved groups Ive had past experiences with). In any case Ive found the comparisons to be eye-openers about being led by the way something is worded (even if they were purposely insulting which makes them inappropriate to many forums).

Gandalf Parker

[Lecter]

I don't see what the big deal is. It's just a video about a follower talking about his religion.

Take into consideration the video was made for other Scientologists, I assume.