Will Smith defends Tom Cruise's Scientology beliefs

November 18 2007

Will SmithWill Smith has spoken out to defend pal Tom Cruise and Scientology.

The Men In Black actor said he had studied the religion - branded a "cult" by some critics - with Cruise.

Smith said Scientology was just like other religions, and he said that the Top Gun superstar pushed him to improve his life.

He said: "We push one another to be better.

"There's a comprehension of what each of us through that everybody else can't understand.

"I've studied Buddhism and Hinduism and I've studied Scientology through Tom.

"And nobody's saying anything different!"

He went on: "I don't think that because the word someone uses for 'spirit' is 'thetan' that the definition becomes any different."

Smith, 39, made his comments in the new issue of US magazine, Men's Vogue. His new movie, I Am Legend, opens in cinemas in the States next month.

The Official Scientology Glossary defines 'thetan' as "the person himself - not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else".

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No one would mind

No one would mind Scientology if it didn't operate like a cult, keeping people from their families. And the worst and most criminal thing about it is the way it pursues and harrasses and commits serious crimes against those who oppose it. Why do you think it's banned in so many spheres? Take one look at Operation Clambake to learn some of the facts.

Chuck Beatty spent 7 years

Chuck Beatty spent 7 years on the RPF, Scientology's slave labor camp for those deemed a liability. Why are you culties so intent on labeling everyone who leaves a criminal?

-Red Pill

Yes, I took a shot at him

Yes, I took a shot at him and called him Ron-bot because of his unquestioning devotion to L Ron Hubbard. I also provided many factual insights to support my claims. That's a lot different then comparing Nazis to critics of $cientology.

Is the crack I made about

Is the crack I made about "Ron-bots" the only objection you have to what I wrote? Why don't you address anything else that I wrote? Hmm.

Let's see. Will Smith is

Let's see. Will Smith is highly successful, happily married and one of the nicest stars in Hollywood. Tom Cruise is also happily married, is one of Hollywood's A-list actors and also highly successful.

In the tabloids, we see "stars" who are in rehab, or unfaithful, and yet these actions are highly accepted. Yet we never see Scientology celebrities in rehab because the religion does not condone drug use or recreational drugs.

So I ask you, is this something to attack or is it something that, like Will Smith did above, simply something to look at and inspect for yourself, and not through the "hate stuff" one might come across?

If I had a choice between "simply hating something" and being comfortable enough with myself to look for myself, I would choose to LOOK. I judge things based on their actions and their results.

Let's keep it simple: Buy a book, either Dianetics or Problems of Work or Scientology: Fundamentals of Thought.

If that is too much to ask, please go hate something else.

The world needs some comraderie, not more "ooh, those people are bad (because I heard someone else--who didn't really look--said so)."

Scientology helped me a lot

Scientology helped me a lot over 23 years and it still helps me. I did many courses during this time and I have been doing better and better in life. I first came out of a depression and then I have achieved many goals I honestly thought were out of reach for me - my self esteem and habilities have kept increasing and that's the key. I am very interested in its spiritual side and it's a journey full of surprises. It has been funny to read all those invented stories in the media during all these years. That is not Scientology. They are just fabrications and have nothing to do with the actual Scientology that I've known first hand for so many years.

Beatty was tossed from

Beatty was tossed from Scientology on moral grounds and tries to spread misconceptions to justify his ethical and intellectual lapses. Scientology comprises over 30 million words of Hubbards decades of research. It has helped millions improve thier lives, get off drugs, become happier and more productive. The truth can be found in any of Hubbard's books or "What is Scientology".

Will Smith is right, we push

Will Smith is right, we push each other toward improvement. Whether we call ourselves people, spirits, souls, thetans, whatever, we help each other, at least winners do. The first comment suggests that Scientology is about improving the soul. Well, that's not right, it is about understanding what you know. Better awareness then leads to acting more freely.

Yes, for sure, Scientology

Yes, for sure, Scientology is about improving the soul, which Scientology believes that ultimately one reaches the state of "Clear" and then way later down the path, one reaches "Operating Thetan." Scientology is a dualistic cult, where dualism is the belief in body and soul. But Scientology also believes all humans are infested with thousands of clusters of dead souls attached and inside our bodies. Scientology believes earth has a surplus of these bodiless dead souls due to a massive genocide committed by an ancient space character who L. Ron Hubbard called "Xenu", who had billions of people killed here on earth 75 million years ago, and the result is these dead bodiless souls attach to all of us today, and only through Scientology/Hubbard's spiritual techniques can we rid ourselves of these surplus hitchhiking souls attached to all of us. Chuck Beatty, ex Scientologist, 1975-2003, Pittsburgh

I bet Will Smith doesnt know

I bet Will Smith doesnt know what hubbard says about Africans in various 'doctines' of scientology.

"Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there—a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality."

Google 'Pink Munky- What's the matter with you hat?' and listen to hubbards own words as he villifies Africans. Hubbard wrote to his wife Polly, telling her to get a ni@@er to scrub her floors because that is what they were for.

What kind of a 'religion' has a security check that has questions like:
Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?
Have you ever committed culpable homicide?
Have you ever bombed anything?
Have you ever murdered anyone?
Have you ever kidnapped anyone?

Hubbard was run out of Rhodesia for waqnting to perpetuate the aparthied regime he praised South African Prime Minister Dr. H.F. Verwoerd for.

Google 'The Kotzé Report' to begin to see what scientology tries to hide. Hubbard was racist and it is littered through his own doctrines/tenets.

www.xenu.net

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