Did you hear about the Scientology lectures Tom Cruise is giving?

This is not from the Onion.

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Continuing his vigorous advocacy for Scientology's solutions to mental health problems, Tom Cruise will deliver a series of four lectures on topics related to "The Modern Science of Mental Health" beginning next month. Co-sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the lectures will be held at Scientology's Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles. All lectures will be free to the public. Due to limited seating at the Celebrity Centre, tickets will be available only to Scientology parishioners and selected members of the press, but the lectures will be simulcast on the web, and a live video feed will be available for broadcasters who wish to cover these highly informative presentations.

The first lecture, set for October 15, is titled "How Psychiatry Invented Schizophrenia, and What Scientologists Can Do About It".

The second lecture, tentatively scheduled for October 22, is on "Handling Sexual Dis-Orientation: Out of the Closet and Into the Auditing Room".

The topic of the third lecture, in early November, will be "Diagnosis and Treatment of So-Called Clinical Depression with the Hubbard Mark Super VII Quantum Electropsychometer".

The fourth lecture is "Neuroanatomical Changes Resulting from Chronic Methamphetamine Abuse: Can Narconon's Sauna and Niacin Treatment Program Help?"

Transcripts of each lecture will be made available after the broadcast.

just above the web between the thumb and index finger, in a murky blue that looks like those roller copymaking machines of the early 70s. Homemade looking tats, very small, like three dots or something.

Yup. The meaning differs between ethnic groups, but very popular with gangs.

The second lecture, tentatively scheduled for October 22, is on "Handling Sexual Dis-Orientation: Out of the Closet and Into the Auditing Room".

Tom Cruise is giving this lecture?

::dies::

Or maybe all our shrimp would get sucked through the rift....

As long as that rift ends at my house, knock yourself out.

I just signed up from my 401K plan. WOOHOO!

I have GOT to read the transcript after the sexual "dis-orientation" lecture is given.

The second lecture, tentatively scheduled for October 22, is on "Handling Sexual Dis-Orientation: Out of the Closet and Into the Auditing Room".

Um... Ok, that actually makes me feel kinda' sorry for him....

Hubbard Mark Super VII Quantum Electropsychometer".

So much better than the Super VI.

Tom Cruise will deliver a series of four lectures on topics related to "The Modern Science of Mental Health" beginning next month.

If Tom Cruise hadn't existed, our sense of the absurd would have had to create him.

the Hubbard Mark Super VII Quantum Electropsychometer

This just makes me laugh and laugh and laugh. I see it strapped to Wile E. Coyote's back and him crashing into a GIANT rock.

The meaning differs between ethnic groups, but very popular with gangs.

Hmm. I wonder if I'll ask the krav instructor who has one. He's very colourful. I've also noticed it here at work on some of the cafeteria staff.

Randomly, I just learnt that this used to be a Chumash area. I hope I don't get the funny syphilis.