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Low-Key Celebrity Scientologists Stay Low... Say it's a Personal Choice...

Submitted by nabashalam on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 17:38

There is perhaps no other celebrity as associated with Scientology as Tom Cruise. The 50-year-old was reportedly introduced to the religion by first wife Mimi Rogers (who no longer practices) and has been a strong member of the church ever since, something that has often worked against him in the media. “If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, ‘He’s avoiding it.’ If I do talk about it, it becomes, ‘Oh, he’s proselytizing,’” Cruise told Playboy earlier this year.

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Great New Hollywood Movie based on Scientology and Hubbards early days...

Submitted by nabashalam on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 18:49

Opening this weekend "The Master" is already starting some "Oscar Buzz". An all star cast should assure some high profile attention and help to continue to grease the slopes of the cults down hill skid and drop in membership...

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Self-proclaimed Messiah Sun Myung Moon buried...

Submitted by nabashalam on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 13:03

source: ReligionNewsBlog.com

Sun Myung Moon — who told followers that Jesus, Buddha, Martin Luther, and Mohammed supported his claim of being the ‘Messiah’ — was buried today in South Korea, following a 13-day period of mourning.

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RECORD LOSS OF ARCTIC ICE MAY TRIGGER EXTREME WEATHER

Submitted by theadminx on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 20:15

Los Angeles Times article by Monte Morin September 13, 2012

Arctic sea ice is shrinking at a rate much faster than scientists ever predicted and its collapse, due to global warming, may well cause extreme weather this winter in North America and Europe, according to climate scientists.

Last month, researchers announced that Arctic sea ice had dwindled to the smallest size ever observed by man, covering almost half the area it did 30 years ago, when satellites and submarines first began measuring it.