le link ne marche pas, gawker. fixy fixy pls.

@stew: Yes, because New to Gawker web surfers aren't going to have the patience to find it through the back door.

Also, why did Fox News credit Radar Online instead of Gawker for the video?

HOLY CRAP! This post is dated 11:06PM on Sunday the 20th! This post is from FUUUUUTURE! I suspect the Scientologists are in on it...

@theobviouschild: Anderson Cooper did the same thing. But my guess is that Gawker's constant referencing of the Coop's sexual orientation had something to do with "mistakenly" attributing Radar.

yes the future is scurry

@lionel-mandrake: Either that or Alex Balk is way more influential than any of us realized in our wildest sycophantic dreams.
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@Political Party Girl: I noticed that the time stamps on Gawker posts have been off a lot this whole week... always in the future. Maybe the nearly-two million page views on the Tom Cruise video somehow opened up a hole in the time-space continuum?

It just never gets old, does it?

@Trixie from Toronto: I'd be milking those page views for all they're worth, also. Plus, the video quite obviously is a must-see.

@lionel-mandrake: ABC News credited Gawker in an online video on Friday afternoon that may or may not be still available.
Later that night, 20/20 ran several minutes of the video.

@theobviouschild: Because I am not Tom Cruise, I don't do anything "through the back door."

Are they making you take it down??!!!

Don't do IT!!! Whatever "IT" is....(smirk)..maybe you could ask T.C.?

Love you New Yorker's out here in NorMexico (aka Northern California)

Exactly @Trixie from Toronto: Every time I watch it, the madness still seems fresh from the sea. I honestly don't think it will date - there's just so many layers to it - so much to analyse, to share amongst friends, families, co-workers, household pets and reasonably sentient farmyard animals.
In the near future, I can see parties organised around watching this over and over, with a passable selection of dips. Couples in 2016 will reminisce and rhapsodise about the time they first met at "TomCraze 2011", and share the latest theories about the disappearance of Katie Holmes.
These days - it's not hard to imagine horses whinnying uncontrollably when he approaches them, cats hissing and retreating, dogs rolling over onto their backs and pissing themselves and the now, suddenly barren, soil of a once fertile earth...

@viruswithshoes: You said it. The thing is: we are all aware that we each have our own little personality quirks that the people close to us know about and tolerate. D'ya think maybe Tom Cruise should've thought about what would happen if he stopped preaching to the converted - like perhaps every sane non-Scientologist who sees the video?

@theobviouschild: I have watched it a dozen times and could watch it a dozen more.

@viruswithshoes: So true!!

I have been spending the weekend visiting the debunking sites, reading LRH's biography, a translation on MTV's website of the acronyms and phraseologies in the video, and becoming deeply afraid of what these people believe and practice. I am all for tolerance, but this shit scares the life out of me.
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Hiring somebody to start my car tomorrow.

could someone please found a religion that advocates DIALING 911 WHEN YOU SEE A CAR ACCIDENT? And let me know when it's done, so I can drive again.

Wait a sec, "while you can"? Don't tell me you're contemplating caving on this, Mr. Denton... or have they gotten to you already?

@theobviouschild: Yes. Although I have a little personality quirk that leads me to punch intolerable people who get too close to me - threshold set to "low" with fists set to "stun" - obviously not really a secret anymore.
I also think he's attained a level of úber-pampered celebrity where the basic laws of empathy/cause and effect break down in a way that would have Stephen Hawking spinning in a tight circle trying to understand.
@stew: You'll be glad to know that my "Church of the Fucking Obvious" is now up and running. Wait until I get charitable status, then start your engine...

@viruswithshoes: We've only just met and you've already founded a church in my honor? I'm truly flattered.

@theobviouschild: It's my usual opening line. Breaks the ice, that kinda thing. If you stick with me, baby, I'll get you that unicorn you've always dreamt about..

@viruswithshoes: I just left another message for you on the Britney Spears Restraining Order post. It's an invitation to join a semi-secret echelon of Gawker underground society.

@CasadelCarajo: that's what i'm wondering. "while you can" makes it sound like it's being taken down soon.

fyi: if you want to download the video to scare yourself and others, have a good laugh, remind yourself that you are a SP (sane person), or whatever else at a future date...just type in the url cited in the copyright claim and you can get the flv file. i'm way too chicken (and poor) to put it back online if gawker takes it down, but if someone else wants a hard copy...

@theobviouschild: Is it wrong that I found your request arousing? Something to do with the words "semi-secret" and "underground" and "society?"

I could add "restraining", but that would have given you the completely wrong idea about me.

Well, it depends on the person really - each to their own, as they say.

Anyways, I replied to your gracious (srsly) invitation on the other thread, but quoted Raincoater by mistake. Don't worry, I covered it up completely by immediately highlighting the error for all to see, so no-one will notice.

Laterz etcz - and fanks!

From the Germans: "Tom Cruise is the Goebbels of Scientology."

I'm just waiting for the mash up between Tom Cruise and the Grape Stomp Lady.

"I won't hesitate to put ethics in on someone else...Oww, Oww, Oww, Owwooo..."

I like turtles.

Here are a few links some of you may find interesting.

[en.wikipedia.org]
[en.wikipedia.org]
[home.snafu.de]
[www.factnet.org]
[www.scientology-lies.com]
[www.xenu.net]
[news.bbc.co.uk]
[whyaretheydead.net]
[www.anti-scientologie.ch]
[www.holysmoke.org]
another page on Holy smoke, with TONS of informational links...
[www.holysmoke.org]

You got more links? Post em! Post 'em all here, and let's help educate the masses about these sick sick people.

Seriously, I started looking into these scientologists when I read the Cruise article/video here. I honestly couldn't stop reading. it just goes on and on and on, and these guys are diabolical! It's horrifying to think there's an organization out there like this, with so much destruction of others indoctinated into their very core.

I'm profoundly disturbed. Religious freedom is one thing, this is NOT a religion. And mark my words, we all pay for their lives they destroy....the weak they prey upon.

Go Gawker! This has truely been an education. Might I suggest you keep us updated, since I too, after reading the few articles I've read, am worried for your safety. And how ridiculous is it that so many, in such agreement of fear, that one organization like this can be allowed to continue!?

Might I suggest we all take action, and report them at the FBI's tip page:

[tips.fbi.gov]

Just a thought. Thought I'd share.

Yikes! gawker, take head. these guys don't fool around. Look what happened to this poor guy...

[w2.eff.org]

I think I'll stick with AAA. They come in like an hour and there is a whole lot less mindfucking.

OMG--where can I find that really controversial Tom Cruise video you've been told not to post?!

To N(insert middle initial here)D!

I tried giving The Creepy Faux Military Salute but I just can't pull it off. You'll have to make due with Jaunty Salute.

Scientology is very dangerous. Read up on the story of Lisa McPherson. She was a member of Scientology in Clearwater and it killed her because she was held captive in the Scientology Clearwater compound and was fed for days strange so called nutrient cocktails by Scientologists till she died.

It is by virtue of this so called churches wealth alone that it is allowed it to continue to subvert the truth being told about what they do and who they are.

They have used there money to protect there non-profit status by what I would call venue attrition. Filing multiple lawsuiits in several jurisdictions.

It wore the U.S. States Attorneys down at it can and has financially wiped-out others who have gone up against them.

Don't be surprised if Gawker.com takes down the videos too because these crackpots can wipe you out in what has become in the U.S.A. the best legal system money can buy.

Lastly, here's the first time I heard of Scientology.

It was 1977 and I was a student and living in Menlo Park, California. One early evening I entered my dorm building and as I passed the pay phones on the wall one of them started to ring so I answered it. On the the end of the line was a woman with a comely voice asking me what I was doing. I said I was answering the telephone. She said she was calling for somebody who I did not recognize by name. She continued chatting and then asked me if I'd like to come to a party. I said sure I'll bring some of my dorm buddy's.

Later that night three of my dorm mates and I went to the address the woman gave me. We pulled up to a large home in a very affluent neighborhood. In 1977 it had to be close to a million dollar home. We ring the doorbell and a man and a woman in there late twenties or early thirties answers the door. They greet us asking us if we are here for the party. We said yes and they waved us inside this huge foyer of slate flooring. They took our jackets and put them in a large coat room off to the the left of the door. Then they led us to the back of the home to a large screened in patio where another man was sitting on a couch. We all sat down. The hosts sitting together on one couch; my three friends on the couch opposite them and me in a chair on the end. We asked where's the party, we don't see anybody here but us. They replied, you're early more people will be arriving as time goes on. Then one of the two men started talking about Scientology. I wish I had wrote down exactly what he said because I'm sure it would strike the listener as something that ignites a question as it did for me that evening. I don't remember what it was that I asked but after I asked a question the one guy pontificating on Scientology has the other guy whispering in his ear. The pontificator nods and the other guy gets up, comes over and stands next to me and leans over and asks if he can talk to me as he motions me out of the room into the foyer. I follow him back to the coat room and he says to me, "You're not the type of person we would like to have at our party.

A little jilted I say, Well I don't want to be at your fricking party as I move to get my buddies in the patio room. The guy tells me he'll tell them I left. So I left. In hindsight, I probably should have made sure I told my friends I was leaving. We had no idea who these people were. But being young and dumb and seeing as two of the three other guys I was leaving where 200 lbs. and over six feet I figured they could take care of themselves, so I left alone.

The next morning I see my buddies at breakfast in the Cafeteria and I ask, "So how was the big Scientology party." They all laughed and said they left shortly after I disapeared, they continued the guy wouldn't shut up about Scientology and they got bored with it so they left. They asked why didn't I tell them I was leaving. I told them the other guy told me to leave and he said he'd tell them. They said he only told them I decided to leave. Then we all laughed about it and talked about how similar the whole thing was to another dorm buddy of ours who had just dispapeared and gave himself and all his money to the Hari Krishna's

So, the moral of the story is. Scientology is a cult. What kind of entity recruits people under such methods? There goal is to find very impressionable people with access to large amounts of money who they can gain access to and then limit access of there recuits to others so they can literally infect there brain with the kind of crap Cruise talks about in this video while the fleece them of all there money.

I'm a self-diagnosed "SP". SP meaning "Special Person" who can smell a Scientologist square dance a mile away.

If you have means of accessing large amounts of money, stay away from these people. If you don't have access to lots of money you have nothing to worry about. They won't waste there time on you.

Respectfully,
DW

Here are the best summaries of the beliefs of Scientology. The first is L. Rick Vodicka's animation that is rather astounding. (Can they really be that looney?) The second is a compilation from Trey Parker's South Park Scientology episode, linked on the upper right of the page: [www.yoism.org]

Note: They also have an edited version of the Tom Cruise video there with explanations of the Scientology jargon he uses.

What I find chilling is the realization of how absolutely ripe I would have been for this in my 'teens and early twenties. I have never been more grateful that I grew up in Outer Buttfuck, British Columbia - and when I WAS in the city going to university, I was way too interested in getting drunk and laid to bother. This was the late 'seventies, and I remember reading about it and being pretty intrigued.

Ha! And I thought AA saved my bacon. Maybe the booze saved it earlier.....