TeeJay410 Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 Tom Cruise may be a superstar in Hollywood, but in the Church of Scientology, he's positively supernatural.The 50-year-old Rock of Ages actor's devotion to the controversial religion was one of the contributing factors in his just-settled divorce from Katie Holmes -- who bitterly objected to parenting their 6-year-old daughter Suri under the unusual guidelines of Scientology.PHOTOS: Tom's ageless face from the 1980s to todayFounded in 1954 by the late L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology ("the study of truth") has 10 million followers worldwide in 159 countries, with more than 6,000 churches, missions and outreach groups, and with reportedly billions of dollars in holdings.Cruise (with John Travolta landing a close second) is the most well-known followers of the faith -- and, according to "Inside Scientology," an in-depth Rolling Stone investigation from March 2006, the Oscar nominee is known as an "Operating Thetan," or an "OT."PHOTOS: Tom and Katie's romanceHaving practiced Scientology for 30 years, Cruise has traveled the so-called "Bridge to Total Freedom" to achieve, through intense "auditing" sessions and other practices, a rarefied sense of enlightenment.Scientologists mark the path to the "Bridge" with ascending grades or stages, and, Janet Reitman's Rolling Stone story reports, Cruise is at the very advanced "OT VII" stage. Operative Thetans, Reitman says, have "have total 'control' over themselves and their environment. OTs can allegedly move inanimate objects with their minds, leave their bodies at will and telepathically communicate with, and control the behavior of, both animals and human beings."VIDEO: Tom and Katie's cutest momentsThe more advanced Cruise and other Operating Thetans become, Reitman reports, they reach a God-like state: "At the highest levels, they are allegedly liberated from the physical universe, to the point where they can psychically control what Scientologists call MEST: Matter, Energy, Space and Time."Read more: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/scientologists-think-tom-cruise-has-telekinetic-telepathic-powers-2012107#ixzz20NvjD8fKScientology makes you able to move inanimate objects with your mind? Fuck it sign me up. Quote
AxlisOld Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 Thetans and midichloreans are the same thing I bet. Apparently scientology is to blame for the prequels sucking so much ass, too. Quote
The Sandman Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 Yay for Tom!Reprise of Stacee Jaxx please. Quote
Guest Len B'stard Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 What i find hilairious is all these people that leave Scientology and they're like "oooh, they follow us around, our lives ain't our own no more", i'd be fuckin' waving my todger at em from the front bedroom window Like those fuckin' Matrix rejects are something to be scared of, mental fuckers.And i have yet fuckin' come across someone who can explain scientology to me, what the fucks it all about, eh? Billion year contracts and fuckin', all that Buck Rogers bollocks, fuck offff. Quote
shades Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 I'm not a Kate Holmes fan either,but if this is the crux of the divorce grounds, I can see how she may feel it is time to escape, before Tomstarts sliding the sugar bowl across the counter with his powers.A mothers instinct maybe to run and take her children with her Quote
Angelica Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 What i find hilairious is all these people that leave Scientology and they're like "oooh, they follow us around, our lives ain't our own no more", i'd be fuckin' waving my todger at em from the front bedroom window Like those fuckin' Matrix rejects are something to be scared of, mental fuckers.And i have yet fuckin' come across someone who can explain scientology to me, what the fucks it all about, eh? Billion year contracts and fuckin', all that Buck Rogers bollocks, fuck offff.Watch the 'Trapped in the Closet' episode of South Park. It explains it quite neatly. Quote
PappyTron Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 Sounds no more strange than Christianity, Catholicism or Mormonism. Quote
TeeJay410 Posted July 12, 2012 Author Posted July 12, 2012 Sounds no more strange than Christianity, Catholicism or Mormonism.In all fairness to those, none of them imply that you will become magneto/have access to the force if you pay enough money. Quote
Chris1989 Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 OTs can allegedly control the behavior of, both animals and human beings."He was doing a shit job at controlling Katie Holmes as she ran out the door. Quote
Dazey Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 (edited) I'm not a Kate Holmes fan either,but if this is the crux of the divorce grounds, I can see how she may feel it is time to escape, before Tomstarts sliding the sugar bowl across the counter with his powers.A mothers instinct maybe to run and take her children with herYeah but the mother's a Catholic anyway so out of the frying pan into the fire it seems. Edited July 12, 2012 by Dazey Quote
Black Sabbath Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 I have no problem with any of this. Makes him even cooler. Quote
dalsh327 Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 There's 2 things in Hemet, California - meth addicts and Scientologists. Quote
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