Tom Cruise and Scientology. Maybe he's smarter than you think.
 

Anyone ever think that he may just own a huge portion of it? Maybe he just banks like crazy off it and gets other rich/foolish people to join and throw money at it.

He's not that smart as far as I can see....he's just an idiot...

Idiot who is worth half a billion dollars

still an idiot

If i have half billion dollars? I am genius then..:)

if i was him id become a mormon and marry reese witherspoon for my second wife and start making babies :2 cents:

Isnt the whole thing a tax dodge?

yeah thats a possibility...

Serious, if you where just going to make a religion throw in the multiple wife clause. :2 cents:

you dont see travolta acting like a retard?

Money and fame turned Tom Cruise into a total weirdo.

I've always thought they must use it as some sort of tax loop hole for the rich.. No way that many rich mofo's would be into space aliens for gods and take it serious.

travolta is a retard too, but at least he's a retard that can pilot a commercial airline flight if he wants to. props to that...

He's a nutjob.

nah we just see him kissing men :Oh crap

i just lol'd

yeah cool, he owns a huge portion of a fucking religion

Actually I think Cruise is worth a billion dollars now :2 cents:
There is no hollywood actor/actress bigger then him .
Name someone bigger than cruise plz don't say R.Deniro

tom cruise is an idiot and an alien

he might look like an idiot, but i really don't think he's stupid...

If he's ACTUALLY bought into Scientology, then he IS an idiot. :2 cents: :2 cents: :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

yes , exactly what i think

He's out of his mind...:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

one of the premises of scientology is that once you reach certain levels they reveal certain info to you.. and not to the people on the lower levels.

i always (and not really jokingly) suggested that maybe the info they reveal to you is something like "LOL, we raped you for a lot of money.. this is a biz, nothing more. but now you get revenue sharing." then at the next levels you're basically just buying more equity. almost like an MLM.

that would make scientology the most successful business in the history of the world. no one knows exactly what their assets are, but it's estimated they might control over $100B. think about that.

don't forget that the founder of scientology, hubbard, very early on openly stated that he filed for church status to get tax exemption. now all these idiots following it crack me up

i think it is bullshit..... i don't like that kind of stuffs...

umm are you serious? MEL GIBSON owns him.

Well I think Cruise is more internationally well known
but yah that Gibson prob makes more cash then he
does . They are in the same league though :upsidedow

Scientology is mostly a networking thing...

I don't see Tom Cruise making tons of money from it... but Travolta must be making the bank.

I dunno about that. Tom Cruise movies are huge. Hell, he got a % of gross for all three mission impossibles. He also has a production company. He is easily one of the highest paid actors in hollywood and has been doing it for a long time and still does it. Mel Gibson has been out of the acting spotlight for a while now.

Not that Mel Gibson is a nobody. Passion and braveheart made a ton, but so did MI1/2/3. It's very hard to place exact values here, though I almost positive neither is a billionaire. The didn't makes forbes list. Spielberg and Lucas did, and I know Spielberg has WAAAAAAY more than cruise and gibson, and he was like 1.5 billion I think.

even if he banks off scientology his movie career is slowly dying from it, thats not smart business.

It's not money nor fame; it's simply the religion...

An idiot banging sweet Katie Holmes...

Mel Gibson made a bundle off "The Passion Of The Christ" --something like $500 million.

Tom Cruise would need quite a few $50 million dollar deals to reach that level.

Mel is mos def a bigger nutcase. i prefer a scientology wierdo possibly smart guy making loot, to a drunken australian jackass catholic who says his wife is going to hell.

and god bless south park for ridiculing the both of them :)

gotta love the south park mel gibson episode ha ha

Tom Cruise became sold on Scientology when he was able to overcome dyslexia using their teachings.

Ha is religeouse?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I didn't read the thread but "Scientology" and "Smart" were in the thread title.

I think you'll find his movie career is slowly dying from age, rather than religion. There's only so long you can "realistically" play action/hero roles. When you look at any actor, the older they get the less "blockbuster" films they make. They start playing the older, character driven roles. I'm not sure Cruise has the talent to play character driven roles.

Your pretty close actually, many of the "levels" secrets have been posted and are outrageous bullcrap.. I think you hit the nail on the head, they are supposed to finally get to top level then they are told some bullshit story that amounts to " you got suckered , if you tell everyone you will be mocked as a fool who spent million to be told were all aliens "

is this the truth you speak of?

I stand corrected. Mel is probably worth more than Cruise. Not sure by how much, but he probably is richer.

i'll take Travolta's wife over Cruise's anyday.

i'll take Travolta's wife over Cruise's anyday.

ill take her on a booze cruise