i'm still waiting for the mothership to arrive, and oh won't it be a phantasmagoric experience! you think they'll let john travolta fly it? he is a pilot ya know. what an odd bunch of pilgrims these scientologists are.

For most people, I think its pretty obvious that Scientology is total science fiction making it basically pure comic book trash. Even founder, creator and mediocre SciFi author L. Ron Hubbard admitted that the best way to get rich is to create a religion. I have also long suspected that his creation actually serves as a kind of career clinic for actors and others who depend on popularity and public opinion for a living. I also very strongly suspect that it serves as a type of corporate beard for closeted gay folk who find it more profitable to appear straight. In general though, too many of the well-to-do faction of the Scientology fame and fortune machine clientele became involved and started to depend on its magic when their careers were in a slump or all but over. Its all just a bit too convenient and way too much of a coincidence. Among those who appear to have profited through this association are people like Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Jenna Elfman, Lisa Marie Presley, Leah Remini, Greta Van Susteren and many more. For a more comprehensive list go to www.nndb.com and call up one of the above and then click on Scientology. Combine this with the fact that on the flip side there are tons of little people marching around Clearwater, Florida (headquarters) in strange little para-military uniforms (they look like Air Force without hats) with spacey expressions on their faces supporting the cause, and it doesnt tak e much to see them as a gigantic ant farm. Only this one has Queens and Kings for their worker ants to serve. To borrow a line from Penny Lane; very strange.

Hah, remember that South Park where they parodied Tom Cruise and Scientology. What a bunch of freaks they are anyway. I used to like Cruise until he became such a wus.

Anything with TomKat is annoying.

About 5-10 years ago now, there was a big scandal about countries that had emerged behind the Iron Curtain were discriminating against the Scientologists. I watched a gaggle of Hollywood types appear in front of some committee with some kind of oversight--I think it might have been House Foreign Affairs with Tom Lantos in a leading role. I can only remember three stars--Travolta, Cruise and Isaac Hayes (for racial balance, don't you see?) Cruise was able to speak without a script, but Travolta struggled and poor Hayes--it was embarrassing. Someone on the committee bounced a question off him, and he was absolutely inarticulate. I was chagrined that they would even expose someone so stupid to public ridicule. Without its potent publicity machine, this church would be in the marginalized kooky class. It is way passed its prime and now in a severe decline. It stands for nothing and that is its downfall. It revolves around the almighty me.

Jim Jones act-alikes without the Kool-aid.

What would one be seeking to actually fall for this nonsense?

Hokey, even dangerous, beliefs masquerading as personal empowerment. Just proof that there is always room for new religious hooey and there are always willing and ignorant consumers of these ideologies. Ugh.

Bunch of sheep shaggers

What the heck is that book? Diuretics? Well, that's about the quality of what flows from it.