tom cruise and the idiocy of scientology

what is it about human beings that requires them to grasp onto the irrational and treat it as if it is the rational? i used to have to write paper after paper about this phenomena in barbara kitcher's class that examined kant's critique of pure reason. recently this sort of thing has been popping up in the daily news, the culprit? tom cruise.

what is scientology anyways. if scientology is a philosophy so be it, but it is not, and that is the root of the problem. what scientology tries to present itself as is one man's legacy of melding science with religion, making the world a better place, it strives that we must purge our minds of irrationality, but that's exactly what it is, an irrational body of thought. it's like a dog chasing it's own tail.

scientologists promote their religion by saying they are striving to make the world a better place. that's fine if that's true, but there must be something that sets them apart, every religion to some degree wants to make the world a better place, woopeteefuckingdoo. here's the kicker, apparently some of the truths that you learn after donating about $10,000 is that a long time ago our galaxy became overpopulated and they sent the overpopulated masses to earth and hydrogen bombed them, the souls of these beings entered humans and are the cause of all misfortune, etc. first of all that statement itself has all sorts of unfounded inconsistencies and has lunancy written all over it.

i think it is perfectly rational to believe that aliens visited our planet, you might even go so far as to saying that perhaps they kick started the absolute miracle that turned amino acid soup into organisms. scientology's science fiction is hardly believable. first of all, they present themselves as a tax exempt religion, religion usually has to be based on something, a dusty book, scrolls in a time capsule, the bible, something. scientology is based on the lifeswork of a professor/sci-fi writer, a mr. hubbard. how can the supposed fastest growing religion maintain its members if you are presenting something like alien genocide and invasion of the body snatchers that is based off of 0 factual proof, just one man's 'theory'. people give enough of a bad rap to christianity for following the world's greatest history book, but this? this is insane.

first of a belief in souls is irrational, it is faith. scientology is supposed to be rooted in the science that developed the atomic bomb (as they say on their website, they also claim he was a physicist and war hero). second of all, if their was an overpopulation problem, why send them to earth and bomb them? why not send them to the sun, why not burn them alive, why bother sending them to earth? overpopulation for the galaxy, that's going to be A LOT of organisms. a hydrogen bomb blast killing them off would have to be pretty ginormous, so where is the explosion remnants. oh i get it, it killed off the dinosaurs.

in an interview with matt lauer on the today show he went nuts on him about people using anti-depressants and any kind of drug. "By his account, Tom Cruise owes his cool head, defeat of dyslexia and, in a way, his unstoppable stardom to Scientology."

ok. a. cool head, jumping on a coach on oprah saying your in love with katie holmes is not a cool head.
b. there are two kinds of dyslexia he could have had or still have. primary dyslexia which is a dysfunction of the left side of the brain, which does not change with maturity and is genetic, and secondary dyslexia which is caused by hormone imbalance during fetal development that diminishes during maurity.
it is impossible for scientology to cure dyslexia, taking vitamins and breathing in and out and whatever the hell they do, does not cure gene related dysfunctions. they can be dealt with by alternative learning processes but you don't persay learn like everyone else does. If it was a hormonal imbalance, sorry tom, it wasn't scientology, you just got older.

either way, he is speaking of the impossible, it wasn't a miracle either, there are no miracles in science. the fact that 8 million people are scientologists is disturbing, the fact that their teachings are so secretive is disturbing. why would a religion not want to be public with it's beliefs, while touting it is the fastest growing religion in the world?

this all feels disturbingly similar to the doomsday Aum cult that was responsible for the sarin nerve gas attack in tokyo subway in 1995. how many normal japanese professionals and college students were sucked into that, paying for stupid things that their "guru" said would lead them to further enlightenment, such as a vial of his piss to drink. their uptight workaholic culture prompted that but it is no answer for how rational people gave in to the teachings and beliefs of someone who fabricated the entire thing for monetary gain. we're seeing it again, who are the scientologists and why are so many people believing what they have to say? i don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but i hope that this is a product of tom cruise and his hollywood associates being stupid and not some sort of masterminded plan where our mental faculties are weakened by something in the water.

i dedicate this journal to freeing katie holmes from the clutches of shorty mcshortsalot tom cruise.