My personal favorite part: the slightly imbalanced laughter.

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lol

extra lol at how he "can't go on vacation" and stuff because he "knows."

Awesome sift, raven, I knew scientology was ridiculous, but this is just hilariously bad.

"You're either on board, or you're not on board."

Oh man... gotta love the Scientologist mentality.

That's a whole lot of crazy right there.

"I need more help."

Well Tom, I totally agree.

Thanks JAPR One of my fav blogs leaked this a few days ago, but the original source on google got taken down shortly thereafter, so I've been watching and waiting for the last two days, hoping to pounce on it once it resurfaced again!

Hello everyone, this is your captain speaking. I'd like to call for the Bronze Star-ination for the siftbot. He never says a cross word to any of us, always does what is told, and does it without hesitation. Please, let's upvote him so he can get his star and be permanently immune from that one ban thing Bill Orly? rly likes.

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Yep, it's *dead.

Only published videos may be flagged dead - ignoring dead request by Sarzy.

Thanks for beating me to it and making me look like a fool, deedub81!

>> ^siftbot:
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Oh great, my recent comment got knocked out of the Top 5 by this comment from ^that little asshole; a fucking can with shades. Robots: first they take our jobs, and now this. I know what the Cloverfield monster is, and it's got a little handle sticking out of one side. Prick.

dammit! fucking Scientologist operatives! How dare they remove their copyrighted bullshit so we cannot mock them! And just when I had a hit on my hands!

Anyway, here's a transcript of some of the highlights to tide y'all over until I manage to find a replacement vid... and there will be one, oh there will! You can't keep the truth concealed forever! Mwaahaaahaaahaaa...

Err... anyhooo... Those highlights I promised:

Tom Cruise: ...I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn because a Scientologist does... has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. Being a Scientologist, you look at someone and know absolutely that you can help them.

"Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you’re the only one that can really help.

"But that’s what drives me... I know that we have an opportunity to really help... effectively change people’s lives and I am dedicated to that. I am absolutely, uncompromisingly dedicated to that.

"We have a responsibility.

"We are the authorities on getting people off drugs, we are the authorities on the mind, we are the authorities on improving conditions... we can rehabilitate criminals.

"...We can bring peace and unite cultures...

"Traveling the world and meeting the people that I’ve met, talking with these leaders in various fields, they want help and they are depending on people who know and who can be effective and do it and that’s us. That is our responsibility to do that.

"It is the time now. Now is the time... Being a Scientologist, people are turning to you, so you better know it, you better know it and if you don’t, go and learn it, but don’t pretend you know it. It’s like we’re here to help.

"If you’re a Scientologist, you see life, you see things the way they are, in all its glory, all of its complexity and the more you know as a Scientologist, you don’t become overwhelmed by it.

"Look, I wish the world was a different place. I’d like to go on vacation and go and romp and play and just do that, you know what I mean. That’s what I want it to be. There’s times I’d like to do that, but I can’t because I know I have to do something about it.

"I have to do it because I can’t live with myself if I don’t, and that really is it.

"So it’s our responsibility to educate, create the new reality. We have that responsibility to say, 'Hey, this is the way it should be done because we do it this way and people are actually getting better.'

"And let’s get it done. Let’s really get it done and have enough love and compassion and toughness that you’re really going to do it and do it right.

"I have to tell you something – it is rough and tumble, and it’s wild and wooly, and it’s a blast, it’s a blast, it really is fun because, dammit, there is nothing better than the going out there and fighting the fight and suddenly you see things are better.

"I want to know that I’ve done everything I could everyday, and I think about those people out there who are depending on us. I think about that and it does make me feel that we’ve got more work. I need more help, get those spectators either in the playing field or out of the arena. Really, that’s how I feel about it.

"I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything. [laughs] There’s nothing part-of-the way for me."

nothing about xenu or the thetans or whatever?

The whole xenu thing is supposedly a church secret, and only supposed to be available to those member who have paid enough mone..... er worked hard to earn the churches trust. I think south park nailed this "fruity little club" on the head.

>> ^siftbot:
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Of all the things I've done at the sift, this may be my favorite.

Fixed!! Thank you so much Arsenault!

i feel for the guy, i really do. i think his "heart" is in the right place, even if his "brain" isn't.

and honestly, he is a damn good actor, when he's in a script that requires it, which is 2 or 3 of 'em. mostly Born On The 4th Of July and Collateral.

but yeah, Scientology is so transparently *bullshit, that this sadly must be playlisted as such.

if i didn't already know what a twisted fuck he really was, i'd have said that Hubbard probably made up the whole fucking thing, intentionally, just to show people what bullshit religion can be, in the hands of those who would wield it, but have no reverence for it.

*lies, you mean?

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>> ^JAPR:
*lies, you mean?

actually, i was pretending to *invoke my playlist.

but, uhh, needless to say... yeah. big time.

Invocations (lies) cannot be called by my15minutes because my15minutes is not privileged - sorry.

there's just no getting anything past you, is there, sifty.

I fix it for you! *lies

Also, would someone please do me a favor and throw a promote at this thing... put it back to the top of the Sifted list so more people get a chance to watch it before Xenu and his minions find our new source code?

While the specifics are different, he doesn't sound any different than your run of the mill Christian.

No, he sounds no different from your over-the-top creepy zealot Christian.

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Invocations (dead) cannot be called by Laith because Laith is not privileged - sorry.

replacement: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5589268810019059626&hl=en-AU

For future reference, if that one goes down:
Any goldies have enough code-fu to embed the video they're using in this: http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress ? I'd think that by using the view source option on firefox or whatever you could probably figure it out if you have skills...

oh no!


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Fixed Again! Ha Ha, Take that Xenu!!

Let's keep this going people, the truth will be heard!! The world should know that Tom Cruise is nutty-bonkers!! And that his religion has more acronyms than a military organization!

@JAPR... I've never been able to figure out how to steal vids from Gawker... in the source page for their posts the only thing I can find is a java call-up code for their own vid player, and the reference to the filename, but no complete file path for that name, so without that, I can't figure out how to ninja it into our own embed.

i'm sure there's somebody with the ninja skills necessary, if needed. this one should last pretty well since it's entitled "the borg" on googlevideo.

Let's hope so... in the meantime, anyone want to hit this with a promote? I don't usually ask for favors like that, but in this case, the more people who see this RIGHT NOW, the better... am thinking I am going to be forever replacing the embed.

Someone want to make a hard copy save?

I saved it. The Church of Scientology International is ruthless when it comes to lawsuits. That's why it keeps getting taken down so quickly.

I know what KSW is. Keeping Scientology Working.

What's an SP and PTSP? Anyone?

*promote, watch this one while you can!

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, January 14th, 2008 7:20pm PST - promote requested by Zifnab.

siftbot hath received a much-deserved *star point for member applause.

japr, i salute you. thou hast moved the mountain nearer to muhammad.

>> ^siftbot:
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The medal he's awarded at the end reminds me of those crappy 'top site' animated gifs that used to clutter people's websites. That, or the stupid flickr awards that litter the site like confetti.

In case you missed it:
http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress
or http://tinyurl.com/2k6huo

The leak is leaked. Save it before it's gone.

Thank you Zif for the promote!

Thanks for the link Trancecoach. To be fair to Cruise, he was probably bonkers before he joined the Scientology. Also celebrities who endorse the CoS don't get to see the sect-like side of the organization and receive proper psychological help if they need it, as they are extremely valuable to them.
SP = Suppressive Person: An enemy of the Scientology. As L. Ron Hubbard puts it, "SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
PTS is a "Potential Trouble Source", someone in contact with an SP. Maybe that's what Cruise is referring to when he mentions PTSP.

>> ^grubert:
SP = Suppressive Person: An enemy of the Scientology. As L. Ron Hubbard puts it, "SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
PTS is a "Potential Trouble Source", someone in contact with a PTS. Maybe that's what Cruise is referring to when he mentions PTSP.

Okay, if you're all such big smartypants, then tell me what this means (NO CHEATING):

TCLTC

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Dead again? It must be those nasty thetans clogging the tubes of the internets.

replacement!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73VgnemjobU

might be worth uploading it ourselves, with no tom cruise and scientology tags or title. then leaving those tags out on this submission.
also, will save it from constant deletion...
perhaps google have ways of detecting the video anyway i dunno.

Youtube is supposed to be implementing some kind of system that does that, but don't think it's up yet. I suspect someone will have a nice long-term static link that is off youtube if we look hard enough.

Once again taken down. Though it's not a YouTube/Goog Vid, this has not yet been discovered by Tom Cruise's spies and cohorts at your local Scientology™ mission. Now to watch it myself before it vaporizes like a frozen-alien being dumped into a volcano.

>> ^Aemaeth:
Youtube is supposed to be implementing some kind of system that does that, but don't think it's up yet. I suspect someone will have a nice long-term static link that is off youtube if we look hard enough.


I think they actually have something that filters out certain videos that have already been pulled based on title/length and such. I've tried upping something because I noticed the other versions were taken down, and it got rejected in a short one minute time period. Unless they've got a huge amount of staff policing every single video people upload...

The guy is a total egotistical arse... you can see it in his face. Smug beyond comprehension. If his johnson wasn't so damn small he'd be sucking it all day long... coming up for the occasional slimy grin and a breath of air.

fixy
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^ Oops, sorry Fed, I didn't see that new code, so I went ahead and fixed it with an embed from the Gawker site that Linz hacked for me... once again, THANK YOU LINZ! YOU RULE! It looks like we may finally have a stable link for this... at least until the Xenites said their legal squadron after Gawker. Enjoy it while it lasts folks!

You have to love how the internet is so determined not to let this die, and how that has matched their determination to take this down.

If this clip ever gets shown on national news somewhere, just cos, I'd love to hear about it.

>> ^grubert:
SP = Suppressive Person: An enemy of the Scientology. As L. Ron Hubbard puts it, "SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
PTS is a "Potential Trouble Source", someone in contact with an SP. Maybe that's what Cruise is referring to when he mentions PTSP.


That's some scary shit... and you know what, all of us, everyone one of us who has commented on this vid, or voted for it, is now a Suppressive Person... get ready to hand over your property and be beaten by Scientologists... I, for one, am sure they can't wait to get their hands on all my comic books! Bastards!

I declare this the most "un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-undead" post on the sift. SAVE IT FAST FOR REPOSTING LATERZ!

Thylan:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22672109/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322854,00.html

Nice articles Doc! It's good to see this is getting press.

I think one of the most telling facets of the Scientology organization is that they disallow their members to seek psychiatric help... um, hello, could that maybe be because they don't want their members finding out from a third party that they have been brainwashed?

Once again, I beg y'all... if somebody out there has the power and the spare promote, use it! I'd like to see this thing in the top 15 before Gawker gets its' ass sued. And also, if you see this thing go dead, and you have an alternate embed, don't be shy, fix that code toot sweet and get it out of the deadpool! The insanity must be shared!

Alas, my promote and save power were taken as soon as I received them

Wow. How did I miss this? What a LOONEY. *promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 12:43pm PST - promote requested by Issykitty.

THANK YOU ISSYKITTY!

Upvote! Also, the entire (6-part) award ceremony this was taken from is somewhere on the YouTubes. I watched it yesterday but forgot to bookmark it. Sieg heil! Ermmm...to LRH!

^ Would be great if you find the links to that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5XybqKfKyc

There you go. Feel free to submit it anyone. I'm not quite sure how to submit a video with more than one part so that it plays continuously. The claims made are quite extraordinary. No wonder they don't want the general populace seeing this, we're not "ready" for it yet.

All that fervour must get exhausting. It's like he thinks life is a constant ER experience or something. His state of mind reminds me of friends and relatives who were in cults, who saw their daily life as a war zone and who were constantly on the look-out for satan and his workers.

He must have been pretty vulnerable to get tied up with these people. Cults don't usually work on those with a working sense of self. He's got hard slog ahead of himself if he wants to regain his life. Poor bastard.

Good to see this being kept alive!

@AnimalsForCrackers Thanks to your YouTube Link, I found a link to a full length version of the awards ceremony... I was totally all over that, and it has now been sifted:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Entire-Scientology-Awards-Show-Watch-it-Before-Its-Gone

This site and anyone who visits it have been designated for re-education.

This is the real ugly side of Scientology
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Unfunny-Truth-about-Scientology-A-bit-graphic

Tom is crazy.

Tom is wacky

Tom is cuckoo.

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