Long-Haired, Freak-Eyed Tom Cruise Preaching ‘Study Technology’
Yet another old video of Tom Cruise being all crazy-like has come to light. Care to watch before it’s removed?
This time, he’s screaming about something called study technology. Kind of like A-Yo, but different. Mr. Trickle, the stage is yours:
I’ve got nothing new to say about this other than the fact that I sometimes wonder if Paul Thomas Anderson knows just how close to the truth he got about certain characteristics of this man.
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So, he hadn't corrected his learning disorder and was still able to star in two commercially successful movies?
Why do the kids need the Study Technology again?
souldecirce
@CorradoJr.: LOL
DipsyDoodle
@belltolls: I admit it. I would join a cult if this guy asked me to.
@Jeff B:
souldecirce
@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Blasphemer! Not while Ted Neely walks this earth. There simply is no other Jesus.
souldecirce
"Sheer determinism."
You mean sheer determination, you ignorant dyslexic fuck.
NickelMD
"Definite physiological reactions occur when trying to educate a person in a subject without the thing actually present or available. A student who encounters this barrier will tend to feel squashed, bent, sort of spinny, sort of dead, bored and exasperated. He can wind up with his face feeling squashed, with headaches, and with his stomach feeling funny. He can feel dizzy from time to time and very often his eyes can hurt."
This paragraph makes me feel sort of spinny.
[www.studytechnology.org]
Is he method-acting for his role in Magnolia II?
LeChevre
Little Tommy is a natural teacher. He's boring and long winded, not quite coherent ("determinism" instead of "determination") and tries to hard too hard to seem cool--just like my middle school health studies teacher.
Frecklepup
@MissCast: hukd on stoody tuck wrkd fer me!
Bold E. Mort
I used to have students who couldn't learn from what they read. They had a learning disability called stupidity.
Cookie Guggleman
sheer determinism?
he made a talk booboo!!
Kenneth Gibson
Don't worry, it's entirely secular. This fact was in Parade magazine last week, so it must be true.
Personality Parade
Q Is it true that Jada Pinkett Smith has started a school based on Scientology?-Shirley Hagan, Henderson, Ky.
A No. Her New Village Leadership Academy in Calabasas, Calif., is secular. Pinkett Smith says the home-schooling program she developed for her and Will Smith's children-Jaden, 10, and Willow, 8-appealed to so many parents that she decided to start a school of her own. It serves 60 students from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade.
@if_i_only_had_a_heart: +1
Paul_Is_Drunk
@WindowSeat: Bring moar friends to respond... I'm zoning toward watching Fight Club... Need moar fun comments!
Bold E. Mort
"Learning Is Fun!"
[www.studytechnology.org]
"It is for use."
...like so many things in our world today.
Banjo-Sea Kitten
"Study Technology" is looking up words in the dictionary. Srsly.
When will the word crazy officially be changed to Cruise-y?
Most high achievers succeed through determination but TC used Determinism, which the dictionary defines as:
"The doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will.... [implying] that human beings have no free will. "
Kind of the opposite of determination.
MissCast
@lacieca01: "determinism" instead of "determination"??? yeah, he's totally over that dyslexia...
CorradoJr.
Can Study Technology remove grass stains and make paper-thin tomato slices?
WindowSeat
@hatchetman: zing!
Bold E. Mort
With a video like this, he's ripe for a top management position at Hachette Filipacchi Media.
hatchetman
Holy Fuck a chance to shit about Tom Cruise!!!!!
You are good!!!!!
Wait, I should read the post.
But still FUCK Scientology!!!
Bold E. Mort
I thought L. Ron helped him stop floofing other dudes goof?
resipsaloquacious
@lacieca01: I envy his ambitions.
So the label "learning disorder" made him feel helpless? I wonder how he feels about being called "absolutely crazy man"
Why do I have a feeling he is not talking about learning computer programming or support skills? WTF is he talking about?
AngelaChanning
+ Watch video
belltolls
if he would just embrace his desire for big strong men instead of fleeing it ...
Looking like that he could TOTALLY use a revival of Jesus Christ Super Staras a comeback vehicle.
Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
I admire his sheer determinism.
this is the most wonderful way to start my weekend.
the best part of waking up...
westward ho
Sorry, but I didn't hear him yell once.
BlackXacto
Um. Who invited the super intense- Top Gun fan -creepy guy with the open shirt and long hair to speak at commencement this year?
@resipsaloquacious: The beard would suggest otherwise.
How can he NOT realize he's in a cult?
@Cookie Guggleman: You're a good teacher. Gawker is FUN!!!
Timothy M. St. John
@Kenneth Gibson: I'm not sure, but methinks no booboo. Alien speak, indoctrinated weirdo nonsense. Like dinosaurs being a trick Satan played. That tricky Satan. He once made me make a poor chicoe involving a couch and some...forget it.
Timothy M. St. John
@MrInBetween: Tuesday
Timothy M. St. John
@Bold E. Mort: No No,wait, that's what I mean. This learning technology-whatever-the-fuck is like a 4 a.m. juicer commercial. Fabio wants you to mash up your vegetables with little or no effort. Chop chop. You just don't get the deciders' determinism because you're not handsome.
Timothy M. St. John
@SugitaAlcimede: Yeah, you TOTALLY get the point.
Timothy M. St. John
@AngelaChanning: He's kinda mostly talking about how awesome he is. He will be selling smoothie-machines in a few years. You, YES YOU, can feel more energetic, younger and ready to face yet another pointless day in your stupid life with...what was it? Botox? No, wait, dislexya...or...botox. Anywho...you,too, can be a pilot!
Timothy M. St. John
I once ate a peanut.
You're glib Tom; Glib.
The course is available.... on CASSETTES ????? LOL LOL
This just shows again what his real problem is: he has a completely stunted sense of humor. That's your fucking handicap, TC, not dyslexia. No facility at all for public speaking, which he seems to believe consists of glaring, scrunching up his face, and Speaking. In. A. Puncutated. Manner. He can't even crack a smile! As you say, TC, "Take a pill!" (4:02)
especially when the learning disorder story is a lie to help spread Co$. He did fine in school, and was a B student who didn't seem to have trouble according to his teachers or his fellow students.
SugitaAlcimede
"...because there are SOLUTIONS" [teeth clenched] "OUTSIDE OF ANGER AND FRUSTRATION!!"
WretchedGnu
Judging my the length of his hair i'd guess this was around the time of The Last Samurai, 2002 maybe?
@lacieca01: What he means, lacieca01, is that it was inevitable he would become an insipid knob.
WretchedGnu
@souldecirce:
Like my grand daddy used to say: I'd rather be lucky than good...
stanhalen
@westward ho:
Hair club for men... With a freaky twist..
stanhalen
@Timothy M. St. John: Chickens? Now I know why one walked to the other side of the road!
Bold E. Mort
@Timothy M. St. John: Ha!
Bold E. Mort
@souldecirce: So I do exist!
Bold E. Mort
What the hell is he talking about? Rosetta Stone?
PRIsNotJournalism
Ugh...I just can't stand his exaggerated pauses between every......single......sentence.
jwick25
I actually kind of like him now. I've thought he was a dick for years, but good on him. Hey, it worked for him, right?
@mmstk101: Seriously. Remember the study that showed the most incompetent people are more certain than anyone else of their own competence? Tom supposedly went from being hyper-impressionable to one of those guys.
WretchedGnu
I still don't understand how studying technology helped him become a pirate. I guess the ITT tech division in my town doesn't offer that program.
Plz2kthx
Ah, Baltar, I've missed you since BSG went off the air.
@MrInBetween: He IS Tom Cruise Crazy, you know:
+ Watch video
Kevin Goodwin
Top. Flight. Actor.
Krashstar
He went to school with several of my cousins at St. X in Louisville, and attended seminary with my cousin John. Both schools were very academically challenging and required standarized admission tests. If his dylexia was that debilitating, how did he manage?
wait for it...almost there...something witty re: Magnolia...
respect the...crazy?
sarclastic_spamtastic
He might be crazy and completely nuts with the Scientology crap, but there's no denying that he has good intentions.
diesel828
@westward ho: ...is batshit in your cup!
I'm not sure I'm ready to get into the same airspace as Maverick any time soon.
Wow he sure was Talking Loud and Saying Nothing. He did seem a bit more animated in this clip, he seems a little "mellowed out" now.
He's talking about this: [www.appliedscholastics.org]
"Based on L. Ron Hubbard's extensive technology, Applied Scholasticsâ„¢ programs enable individuals to handle the literacy and education of the children and people in their communities."
ydmos
Wait...he is a licensed pilot? I may have to go back and rethink a lot of the previous blind items about anonymous gay bathroom sex at the airport...
SerleHamjig
@Frecklepup: Yes, my health teacher was also a closeted gay man.
Dammnit. I missed it.
Sullygulliver
Weren't kidding when you said "before its removed?"...
njoyurride
I HAS BONERS.
deleted?
olly-wang
I found a youtube alternative seen as the video has been taken down already.
+ Watch video
insertname
Creepy. Why do you Americans keep on idolizing this freako and his bunch of dangerous and sick friends/followers?
Play Pause
@Play Pause: Not all of us do, it's certainly getting to be less all the time. I for one don't like him and refuse to line his pockets by attending any movie he is in ever again.
I_b_hatin