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With all that's going on with Tom Cruise in the press lately, many people are wondering just what is Scientology. The core beliefs of Scientology are a very closely guarded secrets but thanks to the internet, you can find out the "big secret" from people who spent years on the inside before defecting.

It should be noted that the religion of Scientology was founded by a former science fiction writer i.e. L. Ron Hubbard. Are you ready....you're not gonna believe it....but here we go...

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Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.

Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyze them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralyzed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.

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Well what did you think of that story?

What? You thought it was a stupid story?

Well, so did I but believe it or not, that is the core belief or Scientology. I read Dianetics years ago and thetans are definitely discussed in the book. The above story is only told to you when you reach one of their super secret levels called OT III. It takes many years of "auditing" (brain washing that you pay to have done to you) before you reach OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level or you have to work very hard for the organization on extremely low pay for many, many years.

So now you know the big secret of Scientology. Is it really surprising that Tom Cruise would believe there's no such thing as a chemical imbalance knowing he believes it (or at least has been told) the story above?

Links to articles about the evils of Scientology

• http://www.xenu.net/archive/media/time910605.html

• http://www.xenu.net/archive/secret.html 

Brooke Shields finally fired back at self proclaimed expert on all things Tom Cruise who publicly criticized her for taking anti-depressants to cure her postpartum depression. Cruise (who is a high school drop-out) commented to Matt Lauer on the Today Show that (a) he knows the history of psychiatry, (b) there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and, (c) claimed that all ailments could be cured with vitamins and exercise. He also went so far as to call psychiatry "a psuedo-science" [begin jp sarcasm] unlike Scientology which has the word science right in the title. [end jp sarcasm] If there's really no such thing as a chemical imbalance, how does Tom Cruise explain his bizarre behavior as of late?

Shields called Cruise's comments "a disservice to mothers everywhere" in an opinion column for The New York Times.

"To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general," the actress wrote. If any good can come of Mr. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease."

I say bravo for Brooke for standing up Scientology bully Tom Cruise and his uninformed and irresponsible comments. How the hell does Tom Cruise know anything about postpartum depression anyway?

This is one of those 'ruin your day' links but the reason I'm posting it is because it will radically change your opinion about wearing fur as fashion...well, if you have a soul that is. I'm no fan of PETA cause I firmly believe in eating meat and using the by-products of animals which are put down properly but what is being done to these poor creatures simply for their fur is beyond sickening, it's morbid and evil and anyone that owns any fur should see this. It literally made me want to jump thru my screen and begin killing the humans in this video. I've never been a fan of fur but I think I'll be a lot more passionate about this issue for the rest of my life now.

Apparently this video has come to light in protest of the teen fashion store Wet Seal who uses the fur of bunnies, baby seals and the creatures in this sickening vid to make fashion fur clothing for small children and teens. If you are anyone you know shops at Wet Seal, well, watch the video to see what you're wearing!

Warning: The video links below are pretty upsetting and will most likely make you want to throw up or cry...or both....again, if you have a soul.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

• Helpless creatures being skinned ALIVE and left to die in agony

• Helpless baby seals being clubbed to death for their fur

Urge Wet Seal to STOP SELLING FUR NOW!

Joel N. Waller, CEO
Wet Seal, Inc.
26972 Burbank Street
Foothill Ranch, CA 92610
949-699-4734
949-206-4977 (fax)
Joel.Waller@wetseal.com

~ DON'T WEAR FUR! BOYCOTT STORES THAT SELL FUR! ~

Some more fun links to check out...

• Rag Doll - Fun little flash movie where you can throw a flexible girl around...this has nothing to do with violence against women.

• Musical Mario - Watch this totally sick bassist play Super Mario on his 9 string, Pac-man themed bass.

• Photoshop Master - this might be a repost but it's still pretty cool...it's a time lapsed rendering of a girl being drawn Photoshop. I wish I was this good.

• Politically Incorrect Stamps - Leave it to the Mexicans to create a stamp that would cause a meltdown here in the U.S., I wonder how long before Jesse Jackson has to put his two cents in?

• Jerry Seinfeld In Oz - If you're a fan of the sitcom Seinfeld, you'll love this clip where Jerry gets sent to OZ....but be warned, it's a LONG download even over DSL.

• Real Men of Genius - Foot Long Hot Dog Inventor

• Real Men of Genius - Taco Salad Inventor

• Real Men of Genius - Silent Gas Passer (Very Funny)

• Someone Hates Horses - This is the weirdest blog I've ever seen...this person really, really, really, really, really hates horses. I don't really know why but I think he hates horses too much. I personally don't have a problem with horses. (Warning: Very Explicit Language!)

• Doctors Find Dead Fetus In Young Boy - You have to read this to believe it.

• Who Wants Catfish? - A man in Thailand catches the world's largest known catfish at 646 pounds. And to think, this would be pretty normal if we (mankind) weren't here.

It goes without saying that I'm a huge Star Wars nut and so it came to pass that I made my first lightsaber this week...made in Photoshop that is. I was doing some graphic work in PS earlier today when the epiphany hit me that I could create a lightsaber using a few simple effects and a little imagination. I grabbed my office stapler, struck a quick, goofy pose in the bedroom, applied a little Photoshop magic and voila...my first lightsaber pic. Yes, this was done while I was on the clock but I don't think my boss will fire me...ha! Not unless he's schitzo! (Get it?!?)

Of course I'm going to improve on it now by getting a real Jedi robe and taking some shots in "more realistic" settings. If anyone knows where the nearest Death Star is in the Los Angeles area, let me know!

I'm sure some of you are thinking how silly this is...and it kinda is...but life is all about having fun and not taking everything so seriously all the time. I'm not scared to be serious about things that are going on in the world but I'm also not scared to be silly and (heaven forbid) have some fun! If I can get some of you laughing at me in the process, well...great! :^P

10 TRUTHS BLACK AND HISPANIC PEOPLE KNOW---BUT WHITE PEOPLE WON'T ADMIT

1. Elvis is dead
2. Jesus was not white
3. Rap music is here to stay (...that sucks...)
4. Kissing your pet is not cute or clean
5. Skinny does not equal sexy
6. Thomas Jefferson had black children
7. A 5 year old is too big for a stroller
8. N'Sync will never hold a candle to the Jackson 5
9. An occasional BUTT whooping helps a child stay in line
10. Having your children curse you out in public is not normal


10 TRUTHS WHITE AND BLACK PEOPLE KNOW---BUT HISPANIC PEOPLE WON'T ADMIT

1. Hickeys are not attractive
2. Chicken is food; not a roommate
3. Jesus is not a name for your son
4. Your country's flag is not a good car decoration
5. Maria is a good name; but not for every daughter
6. ''Jump out and run" is not in any insurance policy
7. 10 or more people in a car is considered too many
8. Buttoning just the top button of your shirt is a bad fashion statement
9. Letting your children run wildly through the store is not normal (AMEN)
10. Driver's tests are actually useful before you operate a vehicle


10 TRUTHS WHITE AND HISPANIC PEOPLE KNOW---BUT BLACK PEOPLE WON'T ADMIT

1. OJ did it
2. Tupac is dead
3. Teeth should not be decorated (DUH!)
4. Weddings should start on time
5. Your pastor doesn't know everything
6. Jesse Jackson will NEVER be president
7. Red is not a Kool-Aid flavor; it's a color
8. Church does not require expensive clothes
9. It's stupid (and just plain rude) to talk to the people on the movie screen
10.Your rims and sound system should not be worth more than your car

10 LONG-WINDED TRUTHS JIMMY KNOWS---BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO KNOW OR ADMIT

1. Islam is an evil religion made up by a anti-Semite pedophile who killed Jews and married a 6 year old girl named Ayesha when he was 53. He consummated the marriage when she was just 9 and he was 56. She was the favorite of his 11 wives.
2. Wearing your pants half way down your thighs doesn't make you look cool, it merely illustrates how stupid you are and easily identifies you to police.
3. Fat girls shouldn't wear low rise jeans and crop tops. There's nothing sexy about a girl showing off her fat belly which bulges out over her waistband...it's disgusting.
4. Evolution happened. Just because your Bible says the earth and all life was created in 7 days doesn't mean that millions of scientists and educated people are living in a grand fantasy. The Bible doesn't say anything about dinosaurs but does anyone believe they weren't here?
5. Democracy has failed in America. Everyone knows George Bush is an inarticulate moron but our only other choice was John Kerry. Choosing between the lesser of two idiots is not democracy...it's just sad.
6. No one cares who killed Tupac or Biggie. The world is a better place without them.
7. Wal-Mart is bad for America. Sure the prices are great, but when most of their products come from overseas and they only hire the young, the elderly, and the poorly educated and pay them low wages with no benefits, they are not helping people achieve the American dream, they are destroying it.
8. If you move to America, you should learn to speak English...or leave!
9. Giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants is a good idea. When an illegal immigrant comes into the DMV, they should be given a driver's license with a special homing beacon embedded inside. Allow them to leave and track the beacon. Stage a raid in the middle of the night and deport the whole illegal immigrant family.
10. People who live in the city do not need Hummers! (vehicles that is) Americans complain about high gas prices but then turn around and buy bigger and bigger vehicles that use more and more gas. It's your fault that gas prices are so high!

Now smile and have a fantastic day! :^)

I watched Team America: World Police this weekend and have to say it was totally awesome! Made by the same guys that do South Park this movie was loaded with every politically incorrect thing you can imagine which was right up my alley. Some of my favorite parts where how they portrayed all the liberal Hollywood actors as being in the Film Actor's Guild or F.A.G. for short. The puppet sex scene was historical and the puppet throwing up for like 5 solid minutes was totally gross...I had to cover my eyes and my ears. Too bad their isn't a real Team America policing the world! Ha!

Tom Cruise is all over the news these days and he seems to be losing his "cool factor" faster than Michael Jackson on his way to K-Mart after hearing that boys pants are half off. Cruise was interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today Show last week and he acted like a real ass at one point saying that psychiatry was essentially evil and telling Matt Lauer that "You don't know the history of psychiatry, I do." He also went on to say that "there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance" and that "mood disorders can be cured with vitamins." He even went so far as to call Matt Lauer "glib" and tell him that he didn't know what he was talking about.

It should be noted that Tom Cruise is a high school dropout with no college education what-so-ever...much less a degree in psychiatry or medicine.

He's also a self proclaimed expert on prescription drugs and criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants to overcome post partum depression and one can only assume that he must be an expert on that subject as well. Seeing the way he talked to Matt Lauer, I immediately started to wonder what chance poor, young Katie Holmes would ever have in winning a "discussion" with him. I think she's already been steam-rolled by him because it ain't every day that a young girl who's been raised her whole life as a Catholic switches to Scientology in the space of 16 days.

I think there's something very wrong with this whole Tom Cruise / Katie Holmes affair and there seems to be a whole host of websites (some comical, some serious) pointing to this as well including my favorite called FreeKatie.net, a routinely updated site chronicling the events of this twisted affair.

• FreeKatie.net - All the latest news about Tom, his weird behavior, and poor, brainwashed Katie Holmes.

• Tom Cruise Kills Oprah - He's joined the dark side!

• Katie Holmes Brainwashed - For those that haven't heard, before Katie Holmes hooked up with Tom Cruise, she went to LA to meet him about a role in MI3 and disappeared for 16 days. She then resurfaced as his new girlfriend, along with a new best friend, a new manager and a new religion, Scientology. Don't you think that's a lot of change in the space of 16 days? Something very fishy about this whole story.

• Another blog about the Today interview - has some transcripts of Tom's ranting about the evils of modern medicine.

If you'd told me five years ago that I'd spend more of my Saturday nights in Barnes & Noble than in a club I would have told you that you were insane but oddly enough, that is the case these days. One of the great things that me and Kim both have in common is that we both love books and despite plans to go to the movies last nite, we somehow wound up in Barnes & Noble until 11pm when they finally kicked us out. We weren't the only ones though. We saw a few other couples in there too and we joked to one another that we should befriend these other "nerdy" couples.

If I ever left the West coast, one of the things I'd miss most is the beautiful sunsets. There really isn't anything like a sunset at the beach and I got a lot of great shots this weekend including this one. I'm sure that sunrises on the East coast are pretty too...but who wants to get up that early? :^P

There was a street festival going on this weekend in nearby Riviera Village and luckily I wasn't required to photograph it. For once, Kim and I got to go to one of these events and actually enjoy it cause I'm normally working them. We cruised around this fun event, which is staged in the swankier part of town, enjoying all the arts and crafts and picking up a few small ticket items. There were a couple of sculptures there that we really fell in love with until we saw the $4600 price tag. I'm all about art but even I'm not ready to spend that much money on one piece of home decor yet. We still had fun and even went for a short walk on the beach afterwards which was nice.

Our good friend Abbey came by to visit us Friday night which helped break us out of our normal routine of sitting behind the computer all night like the computer geeks we seem to be. We spent most of the night trading "war stories" from our childhood and I think Abbey left realizing that while I'm a nice enough guy today, I was a pretty mischievous kid...and probably why I can never run for President.

It's pretty rare for me to leave the house during the week despite the freedom to do so but I took Kim to lunch on Friday since it'd been a while. We went to Macaroni Grill in El Segundo for nice little lunch on a beautiful, sunny Friday. It was a nice little precursor to our weekend. Believe it or not, I've never been to the MG (I live a self-imposed sheltered life sometimes) and the food was good and I especially enjoyed the crayons and drawing paper. You'd understand if you've ever been there.

Yeah...it's been a busy week and I haven't had a chance to update my site much but here's a few things that are making me laugh this week;

• Tom Cruise Kills Oprah - He's joined the dark side!

• Katie Holmes Brainwashed - For those that haven't heard, before Katie Holmes hooked up with Tom Cruise, she went to LA to meet him about a role in MI3 and disappeared for 16 days. She then resurfaced as his new girlfriend, along with a new best friend, a new manager and a new religion, Scientology. Don't you think that's a lot of change in the space of 16 days? Something very fishy about this whole story.

• Oprah Turned Away - I love how rich celebrities think they own the world and expect stores to let them even after they're closed. This must have happened before Tom Cruise killed her.

• TV Reporter Has Gas - This is why me and Mike can never be on TV together.

• Kung Fu Fighting - This is a SWEET clip of a white kid that knows kung fu taking it to some ghetto trash. Everyone is laughing at him like he's silly but once things finally start he dodges all the punches thrown by the other dude and then knocks him out cold with one punch!

• Farting Preacher - This is the fourth installment of this but it's still very funny. Freaking TV evangelists get on my nerves anyway.

I've been riding my bike a lot lately and lots of people in our neighborhood have flowers planted all over their yard. I figured I should take my camera the other night and snap some but that damn ocean breeze is always blowing and the flowers won't behave and sit still. Ha-ha! In spite of of their refusal to sit still, I did manage to get this shot the other night. It's a little too "noisy" to make a good print but good enough for a wallpaper. Enjoy!

I wish I would have run across this link two weeks ago. Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog paid a visit to all the morons stationed outside the courthouse during child molester Michael Jackson's trial and dogged them big time. VERY FUNNY!

Click on the link below and then the "watch now" link.

• Triumph vs. The Michael Jackson Supports (updated)

It was another beautiful weekend in the South Bay but despite our big plans to "do something" this weekend, we wound up being bums for the most part. We did our normal Friday night routine of crashing on the sofa, watching a little TV and having a few cocktails. Saturday was our day out of the house...I was dying for some Swedish meatballs so we went to IKEA for lunch (yes, you can do that) and we strolled around the store afterwards. After that we went all over the place running little errands and picking up little things we needed around the house. We spent several hours Saturday night (the night you're supposed to party) organizing our MP3's proving our geek-hood once and for all. We cleaned up around the house on Sunday and Abbey came by for a little while to hang out which is always nice. So that was our boring little weekend. I'll be itching to do something fun next weekend fo sho!

We watched another episode of Hit Me Baby One More Time and Wang Chung got robbed big time. They did a great job on their classic hit "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and then did an amazing cover of Nelly's "Gettin Hot In Here" which brought down the house but at the end of the show...Irene Cara won despite the fact that she didn't sound very good and her cover song was mostly sang by her other band members. I've never been one for conspiracy theories but the crowd was going off for Wang Chung and the online poll had Irene Cara receiving the least amount of votes but she won according to the "studio audience". She actually came in dead last according to the online poll so how she won is a little fishing...especially considering Entertainment Tonight just happened to be doing a story on her. Things that make you go hmmmmmm?!?

Kim experienced her first quake yesterday and it was the second one for me. The clarify a little bit, Kim went thru the first one but didn't feel it but yesterday's was a little bigger and longer and to show how pc addicted we are, within 5 seconds of the quake ending we were both instant messaging each other going "did you feel that?!?". The quake was a good ways away from us so we only got a little shake and not enough to tip anything over or shake anything off a shelf or anything...but enough to feel.

For all my hard line attitudes when it comes to politics and everything else, I'm a real softy when it comes to Mother Nature. I heard all the finches that reside around our place chirping like crazy earlier today and looked out the window to see this poor fellow struggling to stay afloat in our pool. I rushed out and scooped him out of the pool and put him in the sun to dry off. He was pretty dazed so I took a few shots of him before he regained his fear of humans. His mom flew down and helped him preen and along with me, watched over him while he got his strength back and tried out his wings some more. Pepe (yes I named him) eventually perked back up and then he was gone. Maybe we'll see him again one day.

Here's a Walgreens I'd like to visit. Let's see, they have Kingsford Charcoal, Extra Detergent, and oh yeah...a MILF for $2.49. It says so right on the sign;
    
WOW! 1 GAL MILF $2.49
    
Too bad they only have one at the price, I'd buy a whole dozen! (Just kidding Kim)

I'm a self proclaimed Star Wars nut but I've never been too much into girls in Star Wars costumes...never asked Kim or any other girl to put on a  Princess Leia costume or anything dorky like that...but I gotta say this is pretty hot. It's a storm trooper outfit made just for the ladies with a bare midriff and sexy stripper boots! If all the emperor's henchmen looked like this, I don't think their ever would have been a rebellion. Ha! But seriously...where can I get one of these for Kim?