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Who asked Tom Cruise for advice?
Ryan Nyburg
Pulse Editor
June 30, 2005

Goddammit, Tom Cruise is beginning to piss me off. I'm not talking about his much ballyhooed "romance" with Katie Holmes, which I consider as important as a cat fart in the wind, but rather his idiotic mouthing off about his beliefs concerning psychology.

In case you missed it, Cruise has appeared on a number of talk shows to promote his latest film, "War of the Worlds," but has spent much of this time using the interviews as a forum to discuss his Scientology beliefs, in particular rallying against Brooke Shields for using antidepressants to combat post-partum depression. Cruise has stated that psychiatry is a sham and that antidepressants have no psychiatric basis. By the way, Scientology teaches that all humans are the reincarnated spirits of beings banished to Earth 75 million years ago by roaming intergalactic tyrants. So there you go.

Tommy Boy seems to think that all Brooke needed were some vitamins and an expensive auditing course with his group. Really? In her new book about her depression, "Down Came the Rain," Shields describes a time when she felt she wanted to crash her car into a wall, taking her own life. Yeah, vitamins. That'll keep me from murdering myself in a fiery auto wreck.

Cruise has also called psychiatry a "Nazi science," and said that methadone's original name, Adolophine, stemmed from Adolph Hitler. The first claim is based on utter bullshit and the second is an urban myth. Yet this asshole still gets to spout his mouth off as if his opinions mean anything to anyone. What a world.

What is most infuriating about The Cruiser's whole religious trip is his arrogance about the whole thing. "I know the history of psychiatry, you don't," he proclaimed to Matt Lauer.

He has stated in public that psychiatry ought to be outlawed. What a dick. This vapid little bastard nets a few hundred million playing a block of wood in a few crappy action films and somehow his views have merit? I would no sooner turn to Tom Cruise for mental health advice than I would turn to a chimp for a prostate exam.

Scientology is the biggest load of crap currently festering in America. Of course people have a right to believe whatever they want to believe. And I have the right to tell them that what they believe is stupid. End of religious persecution argument.

What really sets this load apart is the frightening extent the Church of Scientology will go to protect its image. They are a highly litigious group, have sued various publications, including Time Magazine, and had a well-publicized tiff with Germany when the country decided it didn't want Scientology around. The Church tossed around Nazi accusations (again with the Nazis) and threw a general overall bitchfest that was really hard for anyone else to sympathize with.

The true humor of the whole Scientology biz is that it is based on the writings of one of the most arrogant sci-fi hacks of the past century, Mr. L. Ron Hubbard. Did you think "Battlefield Earth" the movie was bad? Try reading the book. Hubbard had no original thoughts and was a terrible writer to boot. He couldn't even master basic verb agreement, let alone create a believable character or situation. As for his "scientific" books, such as "Dianetics," they're even more painful to read. Anecdotal evidence sits in the place of actual research, the conclusions are thin and unfounded and none of it shows that any of this has been empirically proven. You can't trust any religion that makes you read such awful literature.

So pretty much we can just write these schmucks off as nothing more than no-talent ass clowns. But apparently we still have to listen to them. Goddammit!

ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com

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