From: El Queso <""the_cheese_23\"@(nospam)yahoo.com>
Subject: Pinkeye, V.D. and Tom Cruise
Message-ID: <fLmQa.1759$Je.539@fed1read04>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:47:47 -0700
So Tom Cruise says
> ...In 1986, the year Top Gun came out, I became a Scientologist
and before that - he was functionally illiterate???
Lemme get this straight. He did Top Gun (1986), Legend (1985), All the Right Moves (1983), Risky Business (1983), Losin' It (1983), The Outsiders, (1983), Taps (1981), and Endless Love (1981) - ALL WHILE ILLITERATE?????
So none of the people he worked with or for ever had problems that Tom couldn't read? He must have had a perfect memory for all those scripts.
Did his producers give them to him in picture book format? I guess he just had people tell him his lines over and over again, right?
Someone on ARS should be able to contact some old schoolmate or teacher of Cruise that could show this story for the specific type of bullshit it is.
This is the "I was a stupid cripple before Scientology" breed of bullshit that started with Hubbard himself, back when he said he cured his own blind, crippled ass with Dianetics.
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(http://www.spaink.net/cos/warhero/crippled.htm)
Blinded with injured optic nerves, and lame with physical injuries to hip and back, at the end of World War II, I faced an almost non-existent future. My service record states: "This officer has no neurotic or psychotic tendencies of any kind whatsoever," but it also states "permanently disabled physically."
And so there came a further blow - I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple and a probable burden upon them for the rest of my days. Yet I worked my way back to fitness and strength in less than two years, using only what I knew about Man and his relationship to the universe. I had no one to help me; what I had to know I had to find out. And it's quite a trick studying when you cannot see.
I became used to being told it was all impossible, that there was no way, no hope. Yet I came to see again and walk again.
(Source: L. Ron Hubbard, "My Philosophy", 1965
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the muzzle flash of a deck gun had left him legally blind, while shrapnel fragments in hip and back had left him all but lame. In consequence, he could barely seat himself at a typewriter, could not focus on a printed page and, for that matter, could not discern the pages of his own books.
(Source: Ron - Letters and Journals, 1997)
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Hubbard's extensive medical records paint an entirely different picture.
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(http://www.spaink.net/cos/warhero/crippled.htm)
Hubbard had suffered from "active conjunctivitis in Asiatics since January - receding" and his eyesight in his left eye had deteriorated further to only 8/20. He had also developed hemorrhoids and later suffered from urethral discharges, which are a classic symptom of venereal diseases; sulfa drugs were used in treatment but in excess could cause bloody urine, something which Hubbard's shipmate Thomas Moulton saw him passing on at least one occasion. Hubbard himself later complained about the amount of sulfa he had been fed in the Navy. Former Scientology spokesman Robert Vaughn Young claims that Hubbard's private papers refer to him having caught gonorrhoea from a girlfriend named Fern, which forced him to secretly take sulfa.
In Hubbard's medical files there is no mention of the broken ankle he claimed to have suffered in 1942 ("The Story of Dianetics and Scientology", 1958), nor the bullet wounds allegedly received at the hands of the Japanese (Thomas Moulton testimony, Church of Scientology v. Armstrong, 21 May 1984). As for the eye injury resulting from a muzzle flash, Thomas Moulton recalled that Hubbard had told him that it had been sustained while he was serving as Gunnery Officer aboard the USS Edsall prior to its sinking off Java on December 7, 1941. There are a few problems with this claim: there is no record of Hubbard having either trained or served as a Gunnery Officer aboard any vessel, there is no record of him having had any association with the ill-fated Edsall, and the vessel had been sunk with all hands on March 1, 1942, three months after Hubbard claimed it had been lost. It would seem that Hubbard's case of conjunctivitis, aka "pink-eye", was transformed in his own mind into a war injury.
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Pinkeye, and V.D. - oh yeah - let's not forget the real reason he left the Navy. His mastery over his mental state and emotions had left him with an ulcer.
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(http://www.spaink.net/cos/warhero/crippled.htm)
In view of the recurrence of a duodenal ulcer, and its persistence as demonstrated by x-ray evidence while under treatment, it is the opinion of the Board that this officer is not physically fit to perform all the duties of his rank, and that he should ordered to appear before a retiring board.
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Hubbard's "affirmations" included this bit - When you tell people you are ill, it has no effect upon your health.
And in Veterans Administration examinations you'll tell them how sick you are; you'll look sick when you take it; you'll return to health one hour after the examination and laugh at them.
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So there you have it. "The Source" of all Scientology sets the pattern of "Ah wuz blahnd, but naow ah see." You can find many Scientology dupes using this routine. Travolta was a stupid, emotional cripple pre-cult (what is he now? That fool shold measure his life in pre and post-Tarrantino units). Kirstie Alley and Elvis's dumb little girl both have their "I was a hopeless addict before Scientology" stories that don't include the relapses, divorces, and personal insanity that happened SINCE they found the loving grace of Ron.
Thing that pisses me off about this obvious lie from Tom Cruise is that he's using it to promote Hubtard learning technology. HELP, like Narconon, and the Citizen's Commission for Human Rights (CCHR) are merely fronts to expand the goals of Scientology - a world of unquestioning dupes that give up their lives and dignity to produce money in an unending cycle of submission and humiliation. They're bitter because the world is already like that, but THEY'RE not in control.
Sorry, I'll take the Gnomes of Zurich, the Illuminati, or the Sirius Dog aliens for my slavemaster before I let a limpdicked, dead, welfare-cheat dictate the terms of my reality.
Queso