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Thetans Just Don't Understand(continued)
ACT OF WILL The New York Daily News reported that Smith handed out gift certificates for a free Scientology personality test at the Hancock wrap party. Smith's publicist denies this (Photo: Getty Images) Headley never heard of Smith spending any time there. But he says that a few years ago, he learned from the church leadership that Scientology would try to build its black membership because it felt African Americans were trendsetters for the broader culture. Headley says he was also told that Smith was drawn to the church's study technology, hoping to improve the academic performance of his oldest child from a previous marriage. (That child, Trey, now attends Oaks Christian High, a school that recently received its own share of attention from the Los Angeles Times because of its formidable football team and a student body that includes the sons of former sports stars Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky.) According to Headley, offering to address nagging concerns—whether about a child, weight gain, or anything else—is "a classic road map" for getting new members involved with the church. Smith's publicist says she was unaware whether concerns about his son's academics had anything to do with his interest—but not membership—in Scientology. Headley says he believes Smith when he says that he's not a Scientologist. "I'm sure he is trying not to get in, but [the Smiths] are doing all the stuff that people do when they get in," he says. Headley also scoffs at the idea that the New Village Academy has no ties to Scientology. If the Hubbard technology is being used, he says, fees normally must be paid, and those flow back to the church. We called the school to ask whether fees are being paid in this case. A response came via Smith's publicist, who says that no fees are being paid for use of the study tech. But Headley maintains that uses of the technology are considered "intro routes" in Scientology. A director who has worked with Smith told us he's baffled by the star's ambiguous relationship with Scientology. A prominent producer said that, while he doesn't think Smith's public will lose any affection for him even if they don't much care for Hancock, he considers Scientology to be a bit more "radioactive." "How much it can actually dent him, who knows?" he says. "There's no question that people really hate proselytizing." Smith has always been "impeccable" in his behavior, he says, adding, "Until this, he's like the least self-destructive person in the movie business. I'm really curious to see if there will be another crack." READ MORE • Cult Friction: Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match? • Read more of Radar's Scientology Coverage • Todays Top Stories 
HELP ,,, I am surrounded by sucessful Idiots Posted by: Cornelius Earthling on July 16, 2008 8:46 AM Well, if Will wants to be like Tom Cruise, it'll be years for Will to get to where Tom is, the no long secret OT 7 status, where Tom believes he's covered in "body thetans" (surplus bodiless souls that Scientologists who are above the OT 3 level are trained to believe infest EVERYONE on earth, to the tune of tens of thousands of these alien "body thetans" per person on earth; these surplus souls are the result of L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction mind because Hubbard speaks the details in the leaked tape lecture to the Class 8 ministers, in 1968, Hubbard's own words on the internet lay out the fantasy belief system, it's on the internet, hope Will takes a look at Hubbard's own voice which is online). Will I doubt will make it up to OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 levels, because by then, he'll have been mercilessly hounded by the media for getting into L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction fraud therapy UFO cult. We are NOT infested with tens of thousands of dead space aliens! If people think this is fantasy, they should search around and find the L. Ron Hubbard leaked lecture in Hubbard's voice that will back up EXACTLY the South Park TV episode. Posted by: chuckbeatty77 on July 27, 2008 2:39 PM It is completely ridicule topretend that any percentage of scientology looks the same as buddhism or chrsitianism. Scientology is a form of pseudo-psychology built on palgiarims, on sci-fi inven,tions like the story of Xenu, and on a wholly sadist system of justice wholly designed to make staffs and clients of the cult guilty of anything happening to their lives, while incitating them to think that scientology is the only cause of whatever positive happens to them. Posted by: rgonnet on July 27, 2008 3:09 PM I know first-hand from hiring and having Scientologists as friends that all this fear-mongering about them is just pure crazy. If you want a friend you can trust to never back-bite you behind your back, find a Scientologist. If you want en employee who'll come in early and stay late when you need him, hire a Scientologist. If you want a tutor for your kid; find a Scientologist. Want a business partner who'll out-work you and then make sure all parties get a fair reward from the profits? That's a Scientologist. I've been in all these situations and have come out on top by trusting Scientologists. So all FUD-mongering by this author and this publication is just playing to humankind's lowest common denominators of fear of something new, trying to sow mistrust of new ideas, new ways, new patterns of thought that give the world a whole new--and more workable--model. You want to know what being a Mormon is all about, ask a Mormon. Got any brains left after reading what hate-sites say about Scientology, and want to know what Scientology is really about? Ask a Scientologist. Not the nearest aspiring electronic gossip. Posted by: Him on July 29, 2008 3:49 AM Advertisement Gosh, and i really liked will. Oh well, another one bites the dust! Posted by: stacie01872 on August 4, 2008 2:11 PM I know first-hand from hiring and having Scientologists as friends that all this fear-mongering about them is just pure crazy. If you want a friend you can trust to never back-bite you behind your back, find a Scientologist.
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