You've probably already heard all about about Tom's "shenanigans" recently... the abduction and subsequent brainwashing of Katie Holmes, the couch surfing, the demonization of psychiatrists and medication, etc. Oh and read my previous blog in which there is a link to a clip of the couch surfing. Anywho, as the story goes Tom and Nicole split up. Tom needed a pretty new arm decoration to keep the tabloids from spreading rumors of his homosexuality. In comes Penelope. But of course that didn't last because she wouldn't convert to scientology. So he, either consciously or unconsciously, used the casting call for Mission Impossible 3 to audition a new girlfriend. He calls up Kate Bosworth, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, Lindsay Lohan, and they all say no. He then calls up Scarlett Johannson. She says she'll come in for an audition. He says great, she's gotta come to dinner with him. She then, confused and skeptical, says ok. He takes her to dinner at the scientology compound, all their head honchos are there and the proceed to take the next two hours to tell her all about their wonderful "religion" etc. She politely excuses herself from their innane ramblings of aliens or whatever and gets the fuck out of there. No MI3 for her. Hell no. He calls up Katie, she says yes, she goes to meet him, and disappears for 3 months or so. When she finally turns up she is no longer a devout Catholic, she is now a Scientologist, she's marrying Tom Cruise, and she has a Scientologist following her around 24-7.

Wow. Just wow. Talk about weak willed. If I actually had some respect at all for Katie, which I didn't, it would be down the toilet and swirling away right now. It is proven fact that she has no mind of her own. "Hey Katie, I'm a rich and powerful superstar and I know you had a crush on me when you were 10. I'll let you marry me if you renounce Christianity and join me on my intergalactic space ship." "Sure, Tom. Whatever you say *drools*". Seriously Tom, you should stick to saving the world from aliens instead of joining them.

Yeah I know you're dying to hear me rant about scientology. You know you wanna hear me tear a strip off of L. Ron Hubbard and John Travolta and all the other nutjobs. ;-) Don't worry I won't dissappoint.

I gotta say that I was extremely skeptical about scientology when I first heard about it. I was like "Um... science and religion together? How can that be?? Do they worship Einstein or Aristotle?" Then I found out that it is from a book by L. Ron Hubbard. A science-fiction novel.
I have serious problems with any religion that bases itself off a science-fiction novel.
Ron used to hang around with some other sci-fi authors back in the day and swiped a couple of their ideas and smushed them together to make a sci-fi book that in all honesty isn't that bad... it's far from being a masterpiece but its an alright read in itself if you're reeeeeely bored and have nothing better to do. Problem was that he was poor as shit. He figured out that the perfect way to make millions and millions of dollars is to create your own religion. No taxes! It was brilliant and it worked. So many people got suckered into it, it got even easier to sucker them once you had a few celebs. It went a little like this "Ok everybody, I have the real truth here. We are all aliens from another world and we don't remember it. The mothership will be coming some day to take us all back to our homeworld but space is limited and for a measly few million dollars I can guarantee a seat. Oh and buy all my books, especially this one called Dianetics because this is the rulebook to live your life by. Of course you *must* get all your friends to come in too."

*Shakes head in dismay* oh the stupidity. People need to smarten up. I just find it mental that people would believe this crap. It was obviously a get rich quick scheme but for some reason people aren't seeing it. If some of you haven't noticed I didn't capitalize the word scientology, cuz it's not a real religion. It should not be recognized as a religion for tax exempt status. Some of the rules in their book that people have to live by are very biased, for example look at how they tell you that psychiatrists are bad and vitamins will cure all mental disorders. Psychiatrists are not bad, their job is to try to make you well, even though there are some who prefer just to medicate. No, psychiatry is not a fraud. No, not all Psychiatrists are money grubbing pill pushers. Yes, more psychiatrists nowdays are prescribing medications instead of listening or counselling, however they feel the medications will benefit and help alleviate the symptoms of the disorder. A lot of the time the drugs they prescribe do have a positive effect on the patient but have some fairly nasty side effects. I personally would rather see a psychologist for counselling and then talk to my family doctor about prescriptions. Vitamins alone won't solve anything, that's just naive. Now the grape Kool-Aid, that'll solve everything. Just everybody chug a big ole glass... nevermind that almond smell ;-)

It hurts my head how stupid people can be sometimes.