Cruise: "I Believe in Aliens" (but apparently not psychiatry)

Cruise: "I Believe in Aliens"

It's all fine and dandy to believe in life in outer space. What I find amusing is word choice "arrogance." As in it's ok to be arrogant about your unfounded beliefs in medicine and psychology - but it's not ok to be arrogant in thinking we are the only species in the universe.

"No, there are many things out there, we just don't know."

Yes, Tom - and rather than be ARROGANT about them, we should be accepting of all possibilities. Pot, meet kettle...

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Hollywood actor Tom Cruise believes in aliens - claiming it would be arrogant to think we, as humans, were alone in this universe. The movie star is currently promoting his new film War Of The Worlds, which sees him on the run from extra-terrestrials who cause havoc on earth. In a interview with German newspaper Bild, Cruise says, "Yes, of course (I believe in aliens). Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know." Cruise is a long-time follower of the controversial Church of Scientology and is believed to be converting his fiancee Katie Holmes to the religion.

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Well I also think it's condescending of Tom to imply the interviewer didn't believe. He says "Are you really so arrogant as to believe..."

Why not "Are people so arrogant" or "There are people who are so arrogant as to..."

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You do that, nmartin. And I thought I was arrogant because I wore a baseball cap! (see other thread)

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We'll all chip in for the cost, nm!

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He really needs to be put back on Ritalin.

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They won't have him, beacon. They sent him here to punish us.

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Rathnait, what has been done to these other beings to deserve so horrible a punishment?

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Well, now we have one. Make Tom Cruise shut up.

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Even better is this page 6 story:

June 29, 2005 -- THE new religion embraced by former Catholic schoolgirl Katie Holmes — unlike her original faith — actually encourages abortion. As The Post's Philip Recchia has re ported, the Church of Scientology assigned Tom Cruise's fiancée a full-time handler, Jessica Rodri guez, 29, who is a member of the sect's elite corps, the Sea Organization. Like all Sea Org members, Rodriguez is discouraged by the sect from ever giving birth. And if she does get pregnant, chances are she'll have an abortion. A former high-ranking Sea Org member now tells Recchia: "It is estimated that there have been some 1,500 abortions carried out by women in the Sea Organization since the implementation of a rule in the late '80s that members could not remain in the organization if they decided to have children. And if members who have been in the Sea Organization for, say, 10 years do decide to have kids, they are dismissed with no more than $1,000" in severance. Our source's ex-wife was also a Sea Org, and she was pressured by the church into having an abortion.

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o...kaaaaay. I am a pro choice guy. I have no problem with women having abortions. But this is scary.

And as for the voodoo woman, I'm curious as a voodoo practitioner what she'll do n.n

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So does anyone else think Michael Jackson is thanking the heaven above that CruiseGate has pushed him completely out of the press?

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OMIGOSH...that hits an all time hi (lo) on the jaw-drop meter. What the heck is this Sea Organization's purpose that they can not have children/family. Are they allowed to marry?

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Is anyone else anticipating the headlines to soon read:
"Cruise's Publicist/Agent Jumps Out Window?"

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