I felt the same way about Travolta. I felt like, if he didn't leave? Especially after they treated his friend like that in the prison camp? They must've had some crazy shyt over his head. I didn't realize the people interviewed for this documentary were like, HIGH LEVEL officials for the organization. The fact that one of them had audited Travolta and Cruise countless times and actually compiled the smear PR campaign for Travolta if he decided to bounce from the church was crazy.
The way they got between Cruise and Nicole Kidman when he was drifting from the church? And how they turned her kids against her and reigned him back in?
Overall one of the biggest things I took away was the Hubbard probably ended up believing a lot of his own crazy shyt, and was a crazy person that needed a lot of help. He wasn't in just for the money, he never bounced and ran with the cash, never set up a successor, etc. The guy that runs that church now is so creepy and evil looking. I thought it was good news that they said the membership is lower than ever. I hope this documentary helps out. This shyt is so damaging, and it's clear that it's ruined so many people's lives. I used to always kinda rag on people that fell for cults, and say they were weak-minded, even after some Jonestown documentaries, but for some reason the people in this really made me see that under the right circumstances, this stuff can happen to almost anyone.
Here's that uncut Cruise video where he's looney tunes
South park told that whole creation myth wonderfully. I was wondering how Scientologists early in the game don't see it and question it, but then when they explained that you're usually years into the church and have given them thousands and thousands of dollars and already well indoctrinated by the time they tell it to you, it made sense. Plus, that one guy in there for 30 years said that he'd been discouraged from reading about Scientology online and that he'd never seen one critical video of the religion until he left. Scary shyt.I loved when they revealed the ultimate scientology secret in that briefcase and the one dude's reaction was "WHAT THE fukk?!"
The way they got between Cruise and Nicole Kidman when he was drifting from the church? And how they turned her kids against her and reigned him back in?
True. But I side with Sam Harris a bit in terms of the "Even if all x beliefs are wrong, some can be more ridiculous than others." I know alot of people disagree, and just day "well if it's false, it's false." That's true, and there are ridiculous myths in every religion that make no sense (living inside of a whale, returning from the dead, etc. But people living as they were in the 1950's, millions of years ago, and being frozen by a galactic overlord, flown by DC-8 airplanes and dropped into volcanoes, then exploded with hydrogen bombs, and having the souls inhabit babies as their born, to cause stress and anxiety, needing to be cleared out for sanity----that's maybe the craziest I've ever heard.Yeah this shyt is obviously repugnant and disgusting, but we also have a country where the majority of the people are getting real excited to celebrate Zombie Jesus literally coming back from the dead next week.
