tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post5266831760340974038..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Scientology 4: Cruise and the GermansBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-37629828445468735092009-05-20T12:28:03.494+00:002009-05-20T12:28:03.494+00:00Africa is rich in resources, why is it poor?
Beca...Africa is rich in resources, why is it poor?<br /><br />Because it lacks infrastructure.<br /><br />London businessman Saifee Durbar wants to change that.<br /><br />He plans to link Africa’s coasts by building a railway from Cameroon to Sudan, via the Central African Republic.<br /><br />Updates on the project can be found at:<br /><br />http://saifdurbar.wordpress.com<br /><br />http://Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-21425577677235442232007-07-07T09:23:00.000+00:002007-07-07T09:23:00.000+00:00The crazy thing is that our government will grant...The crazy thing is that our <A HREF="http://atlanticreview.org/archives/735-Crazy-German-Government-Pays-for-Tom-Cruise-Movie.html" REL="nofollow">government will grant subsidies</A> worth $6.5 million to this Tom Cruise movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-72070973999050016932007-07-06T17:00:00.001+00:002007-07-06T17:00:00.001+00:00mastersmastersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80071069661798179022007-07-06T17:00:00.000+00:002007-07-06T17:00:00.000+00:00Keep that master-slave relationship with reality g...Keep that master-slave relationship with reality going there, Joel. It's heartwarming when the slaves are under the impression their masers are feeding them the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-26392828260896208452007-07-06T14:16:00.000+00:002007-07-06T14:16:00.000+00:00Imagine that. (I did, actually, somewhere upthread...Imagine that. <BR/><BR/>(I did, actually, somewhere upthread.)Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-15381153200805090262007-07-06T12:44:00.000+00:002007-07-06T12:44:00.000+00:00"Just look up things like the disconnection policy..."Just look up things like the disconnection policy of Scientology where a member of this society( formed by a paranoid con-man) is ordered never to meet anotehr person again, the other person typically being a family member."<BR/><BR/>Now you have made me want to join! Are you allowed to reject multiple family members if you wish because I can think of more than one family member who would Tom P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05638283790763940692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-18765613700135261422007-07-06T09:13:00.000+00:002007-07-06T09:13:00.000+00:00Ah but my nuclear ideology remarks, Susan, are act...Ah but my nuclear ideology remarks, Susan, are actually the absence of an ideology or intellectual formula, but instead simply an interest in reality as an absolute in itself. These various ideological espousers would probably, up to and above their eyes in delusions as they are, claim something similar but this merely because they've lost all sense of reality, due to said being up to and above Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80719530846330921172007-07-06T02:39:00.000+00:002007-07-06T02:39:00.000+00:00Andrew, you always do this to me! I want to make a...Andrew, you always do this to me! I want to make an amusing little remark, but before anyone can play off it, you come in with the nuclear ideology attacks! Aargh!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-65403403037645560672007-07-05T16:54:00.000+00:002007-07-05T16:54:00.000+00:00Regarding secular blasphemy, burning the nation's ...Regarding secular blasphemy, burning the nation's flag would perhaps be seen by some as something matching that description. Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony seems to have been received as something like secular blasphemy, failing to be the heroic paean to glorious victory in war that was expected by the party, and I htink it became a banned work. <BR/>It would seem secular blasphemy is certainly Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-27687344703290562052007-07-05T16:52:00.000+00:002007-07-05T16:52:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-3957825688173846722007-07-05T16:18:00.000+00:002007-07-05T16:18:00.000+00:00I want this film to be made because Bill Nighy has...I want this film to be made because Bill Nighy has been cast in it! (He got his start playing a Nazi many years ago and looks very hot in an S.S. uniform.) Tom Wilkinson, another fave, was also cast. Ditto Kenneth Branagh (who could probably play Hitler with a good make-up artist working him over.)<BR/><BR/>I'll bet the German film council is going crazy at the thought of the billions of bucks Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-77931984267486315142007-07-05T16:06:00.000+00:002007-07-05T16:06:00.000+00:00I'm delighted you love it, Tom. Just look up thing...I'm delighted you love it, Tom. Just look up things like the disconnection policy of Scientology where a member of this society( formed by a paranoid con-man) is ordered never to meet anotehr person again, the other person typically being a family member. I'm afraid Scientology most certainly harms others very quickly in its practical form.<BR/><BR/>Yesterday the National Coalition of Human Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-55827138878778961592007-07-05T15:06:00.000+00:002007-07-05T15:06:00.000+00:00True form? I love that. Someone could argue that...True form? I love that. Someone could argue that any religion that makes you happy and doesn't harm others is completely rational. I'm not sure exactly how Tom Cruise is being exploited by Scientology but I wish I could have a piece of his being exploited. Traveling around the world, staying in the best hotels, living in a mansion sounds like a very nice way to be exploited.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03908645839407793850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-4188256212223784152007-07-05T14:51:00.000+00:002007-07-05T14:51:00.000+00:00But someone could argue that Islam & Christinaity,...But someone could argue that Islam & Christinaity, whatever about Catholicism, are not explitative in their true form. Historically they provided very deep and necessary responses to very difficult circumstances, Chrsitainity perhaps in an especially philosophical sense, & Islam from an extremely self-destructive violent social situation. Scientology, however, would seem to be expoitative in itsAndrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-61196952740207063412007-07-05T12:51:00.000+00:002007-07-05T12:51:00.000+00:00"Scientology is viewed as a cult and, worse, total..."Scientology is viewed as a cult and, worse, totalitarian and exploitative"<BR/><BR/>Unlike those other religions like Catholicism and Islam. <BR/><BR/>As far as Claus von Stauffenberg, the Germans should find a better role model. It wasn't the militarism or even the execution of Jews that offended him but rather the military incompetence of Hitler. If German troops had marched through the Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03908645839407793850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-56178143145591827992007-07-05T12:09:00.000+00:002007-07-05T12:09:00.000+00:00only if you concede, first there was man, then fol...only if you concede, first there was man, then followed god. blasphemy against a thing which <I>man</I> reveres, so yes, I would say there is secular blasphemy. not that I worry about it myself - a bit like Himself, I suppose.<BR/><BR/>hey, wasn't judas cast in that role by the director, god? you think the devil put up the big money and Judas got the part because they were related?!Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-55479505298488103972007-07-05T11:52:00.000+00:002007-07-05T11:52:00.000+00:00The Mormons have a very strange background also. T...The Mormons have a very strange background also. Their founder up there with L Ron Hubbard as people you don't really want to be followingAndrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-30638927884043239062007-07-05T10:30:00.000+00:002007-07-05T10:30:00.000+00:00But not the 'reality' of religion: see the current...But not the 'reality' of religion: see the current Spiegel which has a glowing peaen of praise to a German Mormon: and that is not a slip of the pen. Read and believe. If Tom had only chosen another barking mad faith!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80998651142192115402007-07-05T10:11:00.000+00:002007-07-05T10:11:00.000+00:00I'd suggest the Germans have a very good idea abou...I'd suggest the Germans have a very good idea about the reality of Scientology, Chris.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-58963221614088150732007-07-05T10:10:00.000+00:002007-07-05T10:10:00.000+00:00maybe Tom C could play Napoleon?maybe Tom C could play Napoleon?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-59379768143579144792007-07-05T07:20:00.000+00:002007-07-05T07:20:00.000+00:00Johnny Depp, would have provided a bit more creden...Johnny Depp, would have provided a bit more credence. Might be, that the Germans are showing a level of artistic criticism. It would be equally hard to see TC as Wellington.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-15358805638898454102007-07-05T06:51:00.000+00:002007-07-05T06:51:00.000+00:00It's surely flattering to have TC play VS. And I a...It's surely flattering to have TC play VS. And I am sure there is a way round the height problem. At last a film about a 'Good German' - who sadly failed, and was treated even after the war as a traitor. The Germans have a completely irrational obsession with Scientology: why is this any more of a cult with lunatic ideas than Protestant Christianity? Is Sci Fi religion any less believable than Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-59222337180984369582007-07-04T23:15:00.000+00:002007-07-04T23:15:00.000+00:00There you go again, Bryan! Mentioning Scientology ...There you go again, Bryan! Mentioning Scientology or Tiny Tom in less than glowing terms can be dangerous to your health, your pocketbook, and your freedom.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-48222451754582281702007-07-04T21:16:00.000+00:002007-07-04T21:16:00.000+00:00I'm worried about your views on commas.I'm worried about your views on commas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5409384102789673232007-07-04T21:07:00.000+00:002007-07-04T21:07:00.000+00:00Poor old von Stauffenberg, what he must think of b...Poor old von Stauffenberg, what he must think of being played by Tom Cruise. You might as well cast Bruce Willis as Queen Victoria. I wonder what the German for "It's hammer time!" is. Scientology sounds a very minor detail of this story.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.com