I’ve been reading a lot about Scientology lately and I have to say, if you haven’t heard the epic story of the “Space Opera”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera_in_Scientology_doctrine, you’re missing out. It turns out that 75 million years ago the cruel dictator “Xenu”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu of the Galactic Confederacy brought billions of Thetans (that’s what we are) to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. That’s how we humans (temporary hosts of Thetans) came to be here. At least, that’s how it is according to L Ron Hubbard and those who’ve chosen to subscribe to his particular version of reality. If you’ve got a spare half hour or so and looking for something to drop your jaw, go and read about “Scientology”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology, its “founder”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard and the “doctrine”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditing_%28Scientology%29 so fiercely defended by people like Tom Cruise.
Speaking of Cruise, there has been a lot of internet tongue wagging going on surrounding his most recent “public defence”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0 of his religion. Before you go all hot and heavy to watch Tom Cruise crack up on camera, I have to warn you that it is VERY boring and aside from using a lot of acronyms (“KSW”:http://www.xenu-directory.net/glossary/glossary_jkl.htm#KSW, “SP”:http://www.xenu-directory.net/glossary/glossary_s.htm#SP, “LRH”:http://www.xenu-directory.net/glossary/glossary_jkl.htm#LRH, etc…) and insisting that Scientologists are THE authorities on the mind, he doesn’t say much. Still, if you insist as I did to see that entire thing, “here it is”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0.
Not wild about watching Tom Cruise ramble on rather crazily about his being the only one to be able to save people? Over at “Perez Hilton”:http://perezhilton.com they have a “dance remix version”:http://perezhilton.com/2008-01-18-the-tom-cruise-scientology-video-the-dance-version that might be more appealing.