Tom Cruise In Scientology Video: "We Are The Way To Happiness"

Update: The original embedded YouTube video has now been pulled, but new versions are getting uploaded.

If the YouTube does not work, Gawker again has it

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Update:
Half an hour after posting this story Sunday at 10 pm, about two hours after gawker's time stamp, Huffington Post was alerted that the video content in the story was no longer there or playing. However, there are still excerpts of what Tom Cruise said in what was a 9+ minute video touting the wonders of Scientology. One quote Huffington Post remembers that gakwer does not mention is Tom Cruise saying something roughly equivalent to, "I have no time for spectators. Either get on the field or get out of the stadium." *(actual quote below)

Mark Ebner, the investigative reporter, just emailed us links to some Scientology promotional videos. Morton's central claim is that Cruise, star of movies from Risky Business to Mission Impossible, is the effective number two of the Church of Scientology, the cultish religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard, and subscribed to by other eccentric Hollywood actors such as John Travolta. The videos bear out, at the very least, that Cruise is central to the organization's marketing efforts. In this amazing clip, to a background track of theme from Mission Impossible, Cruise explains how Scientologists are "the authorities on the mind", the only people who can bring peace and unite cultures.

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Update II:
Us Weekly has more of a transcript. A few highlights:

"Look, I wish the world was a different place. I'd like to go on vacation and go and romp and play and just do that, you know what I mean. That's what I want it to be. There's times I'd like to do that, but I can't because I know I have to do something about it.

"I have to do it because I can't live with myself if I don't, and that really is it.

"I have to tell you something - it is rough and tumble, and it's wild and wooly, and it's a blast, it's a blast, it really is fun because, dammit, there is nothing better than the going out there and fighting the fight and suddenly you see things are better.

"I need more help, get those spectators either in the playing field or out of the arena. Really, that's how I feel about it.**

Comments

[lungfish]

"We Are The Way To Happiness"---Isn't that what every religion says?
But I don't think of Scientology as a religion. More like a marketing program with a cult following. Reminds me of "The Secret" only with strong arm tactics and religious arrogance...

[thatsitfortheotherone]

Tom Cruise In Scientology Video: "We Are The Way To Happiness"



Just check your brain at the door...

[goldcoastsailor]

A friend of mine actually bought a mobile home from the estate of old L Ron, before he left the planet. This was out near Creston, California. When he went to check it out, he went to the wrong tailer and found it packed with guns and other armaments. He was quickly surrounded by little nazi's (which is how Hitler tied his shoes...with little nazi's), and led to the proper location. True story.

[Irons]

Do Scientologists believe dinosaurs walked the earth within the last 6000 years, like Mr. Huckabee's religion does?

[Trittydi]

Speaking of Thetens . . . .

http://www.cafepress.com/bettybowers.22946137

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[ResistanceisFutile]

Sounds good to me. Everytime I see Cruise he just looks so damn happy. Unfortunately his wife doesn't look so happy, despite her smile. She actually looks freightened.

[thegreatgiginthesky]

You make your own happiness. If you are someone who is looking to religion to make you happy then you might as well just flush your money down the toilet. No amount of giving money to religious leaders and their organizations is going to change your feeling of self worth. Tom Cruise, James Dobson, Pat Robertson etc are all whores who live to feed off the misery of people.

[Trittydi]

From the marvelous Betty Bowers . . . .

Are You Shopping For a Personal Savior?

http://www.bettybowers.com/pagan.html

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[Trittydi]

This is interesting ~~

Scientology - Blackmailing Celebrities to Control Them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0P2Nd3O0Qc&NR=1

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[pennyfortheguy]

magnolia

[carlgt1]

time heals all wounds. I'm sure Mormonism sounded really crazy 150 years ago, which is why they were chucked out of everywhere. Now, after 150 years, Mormons have a veneer of legiticmacy. I'm sure Scientology will also seem "legit" in 100 years.

[pennyfortheguy]

Springtime for Tom in Germany.
Ja wohl, mein Fuhrer.
At least Tom has a plan.
And he'll brook no interference from whiners.
Wie gehts schatze?

[Trittydi]

Yes indeed -- in NO time at all, YOU TOO will be bouncing on couches and micro-managing your loved ones in a threatening manner.

I could join any religious cult and have that.

But with scientology you have the added delightful kook factor of having to pay through the ass for the privilege of being one of the brethren idiots.
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[radmul]

This is the same nonsense that all revealed religion spews forth upon the world. Why single out this group of whack jobs over say Mormons or Baptists.

[Chandidevi]

The fact that this video has been removed from not only this website, but every other website where it was posted, says a lot about Scientology. DOESN'T IT??? THINK!!!