That man is just a fount of crazy.

OH FUCK, NARCANON??? They're giving city money for this?????

I do so adore crazy celebrities.

Go Tom Go! Bring on the crazy.
Dont forget Bill O'Reilly goin ape shit with GerrrrrrrRRaldo.

It really frightens me whenever I find myself agreeing with Tom Cruise, but I've seen numerous studies that seem to conclude that diet and excercise are considerably more effective in stabalizing mild emotional disorders than prescription drugs. My own experience supports that as well (this is of course entirely subjective, but includes many years with a diagnosed bipolar partner).

It's annoying to watch Lauer being so polite, not once asking Cruise to back up his claims of expertise or to cite any of the reading he claims to have done about psychiatry. Although I'm only a layman, not an expert like Cruise, I too have doubts about the wisdom of prescribing as many drugs as we seem to, especially for young kids, but allowing Scientologists to participate in public discussion about it muddies the waters.

Seriously, it's almost as bad as allowing catholics or women to publicly discuss it.

Rosie O'Donnell is an idiot. I am constantly amazed by the moronic bullshit that come out of her mouth.

And scientolgy is nothing but a scam, a bunch of made up trash that is used to get people's money and control them.

Your bringing up Catholics and women in the same sentence is amusing, considering that the Catholic church doesn't allow women to hold any real position of authourity - they can't even be priests, let alone cardinals - but I guess that's beside the point.

Over-religious people - and catholic organisations are probably the third-guiltiest of this, after Scientologists and Evangelicals - love to feel like they're being persecuted, so they often respond to criticism or hostility to their faith by equating it with racism or sexism. It is NOT the same thing. Religion is a voluntary state; one chooses to follow rigid dogma, medieval superstition or bad science-fiction; one is not born with it in the same way one is born with race or gender. That makes them fair game for ridicule or casual dismissal. My earlier remark about how they make it difficult to debate rationally the merits of something like psychiatry is underscored by Cruise himself and the gibberish that comes out of him on the subject.

offtopic: it's been my experience AS a diagnosed bipolar that when you are a slave to your mood swings and the only conscious action you are able to perform during an anxiety attack is to curl into a tighter fetal position, medication is a boon. it's also been my experience that the combination of therapy and meds together are the best approach, and having been off meds since the new year, i've learned to recognize symptoms and delusions before they take control, so it's a matter of monitoring them, but if i hadn't learned what "normal" felt like, i'd have no frame of reference and would still be out of control.

on to tom cruise: while it seems a valiant attempt on his part, it has (to me) always been shown that these actions by religious groups, while under the guise of philanthropy, usually are based on some attempt to garner converts or somehow impose their views on others. i guarantee xenu or any other crackpot ideas will not be mentioned, but learning about scientology's "misunderstood ideas" as they will no doubt refer to them, will be encouraged throughout the event.

Ok, Ok....I agree. It's just frustrating when people argue without actually looking at what is presented on the other side of the fence. There's so much compelling evidence to suggest an inside job...but yeah, this IS like a soft-core porn site..and we're commenting on the blog. We should really get out more.

Mocking Tom Cruise > Discussing 9-11 theories.

Seriously, that wasn't my attention here.

What this guy's doing is just beyond the pale. It's just plain unethical.