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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:41 AM
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Church of Scientology supports Cruise's support of Church of Scientology
Cruise gets support from Scientology

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8133773/



A group billing itself as a “psychiatric watchdog” is backing up Tom Cruise’s controversial comments to Matt Lauer about psychiatry and psychiatric drugs. Oh, and by the way, the “watchdog” group was formed by the Church of Scientology.

On a recent “Today Show” appearance, the “War of the Worlds” star angrily blasted the use of drugs such as Ritalin, and told Lauer that there’s no such thing as a chemical imbalance that leads to maladies such as depression. On Monday, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights issued a statement saying that the high-profile Scientologist was right on with his diagnosis.

“Tom Cruise’s remarks on NBC’s Today Show represent a growing public awareness about the national crisis of children and adults being prescribed mind-altering drugs,” it said, going on to back up specific points made by Cruise: “There’s no biological imbalance,” it quotes a medical expert as saying. “When people come to me and they say, ‘I have a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There are no lab tests. So what’s the biochemical imbalance?”

“This looks like a very carefully orchestrated PR campaign,” says a source — and he wasn’t referring to the push for the film. “Tom Cruise seems to be proselytizing his church’s positions.”
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:47 AM
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1. Tom really needs to change his black T-shirt sometime
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praxiz Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:48 AM
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2. He's a loon.
Like most ... eh ... ok shutting up now.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:49 AM
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3. I agree ritalin is way over-prescribed
but Mr. Cruise is making a fool of himself when he, for example, faults a woman for seeking psychiatric help and medication for post partum depression. He has the simple ramblings of a person brainwashed in a cult.

JAYSUS I never thought I'd see the day when I was as fed up with Tom Cruise as I am with Michael Jackson.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:54 AM
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4. Hey Tom - when people come up to me and say "I have body thetans"
I say "show me your body thetans" There are no thetans, so where are they?
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:59 AM
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7. You haven't paid enough to see them

You need to pay to pray
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:56 AM
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5. duh
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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:57 AM
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6. He is batshit fucking crazy.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:50 AM
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8. Gotta say, I agree with the guy on this one
Talk therapy is just as effective as pills.
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:51 AM
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9. I like Tom Cruise.
He's just starting to get interesting.
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