Compound?

Posted By: anon on 2009-01-18
In Reply to: My best wishes to Katie Holmes - Kaydie

I thought the scientologists all live in their own homes; not some compound?? This is very disturbing. I am amazed at how gullible people can be. We know that some people are more easily brainwashed than others. Maybe Katie is one of the more enlightened ones. How many of our friends and family hang on to every word of their doctor, having lost the ability to think for themselves? In my mind, that's a form of brainwashing as well.

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My best wishes to Katie Holmes - Kaydie
- OMG are you gullible or what? - NM
- People do not ACTUALLY believe these - sm
  - Of course they do, it's the dumbing down of America... - gullibleamericansabound
    - Do you feel it makes you a big person putting her down? - Not very smart of you.
      - Put on some thick skin....my gosh, - gullibleamericansabound
    - The Enquirer has been in publication since 1926, my golly lady! - Sallie
      - My, aren't we defensive about our reading material... - gullibleamericansabound
        You're just showing your own - insecurity. Really sad.
        Lets just say I am well read - Sallie
        hmm, let's see, no kids either, great life too... - gullibleamericansabound
  - Actually, some of the stories are right on - Reader since early age
- Katie - anon
- Compound? - anon
  - They do live in their own houses - LinK
    - I get the majority of the tabloids and I read this - Trudy
- Sounds a lot like it is a cult. People say no. But - HolidayMT
  - He did have medications - Happy MT Robin
    - But if 1 medicine does not work, what do you do? - Mary
      - Why does everyone presume to know what the Travoltas did and didn't do for their son - LinK
      - Maybe they did - Happy MT Robin
        And you last sentence, it says - Mary
  - About the death of that child - Cindy
- OMG, no kidding??!! sm - GhostMom
  - OMG I was wondering the same thing - gmta
    - Quit wondering- she made it there - Cindy
    - Where was the article? Not a tabloid I hope. - LinK
      - a tabloid - anon
        She was at the compound right after the play for detoxification, according to a nontabloid article. - HolidayMT
        Timeline doesn't work - Happy MT Robin
        No, Robin...You're the VOICE OF REASON on this topic and - The Travoltas!!!
        i agree - anon
        Anyone here really know about autism? - I met this kid

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She was at the compound right after the play for detoxification, according to a nontabloid article.
I scanned the web and came across of articles including MSN that said she needed to go to detoxify from being a mother and working a play and all the stress that goes with it. So, right after the play, when Tom was at the GG, she was detoxifying with the scientologists. This includes some kind of ritual in which there are some kind of vitamins, saunas, etc. There are some gossip sites that say she is able to hold her hand over fire because of the scientologists, but that is based on some kind of ad campaign for fashion design she appears in right now. It could all be publicity to draw attention to this fashion ad campaign, to make us pay attention. I often think their whole marriage was a publicity stunt to help Tom in his ratings when War of the Worlds came out, and they like many people used Oprah to boost the affair. Anyway, cults are not to be fooled around with and like the poster above, I think the death of Travolta's boy had something to do with lack of parenting skills and responsibilities because of the cult beliefs. Dangerous slope when so called role models adopt lifestyles which can easily rub off on so many people. Ruse, publicity, or whatever reason, it is a shame because human lives are eventually involved. The Karma, well, that is what they have to face, if they do not act responsibility. I would not want that kind of Karma at all, personally.