Tom Cruise has gone insane...

Tom Sounds like a really eccentric guy with a shitload of cash that spends it on whatever he wants to...

The Oprah thing still tops it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawUK166cVQ

soulsinging wrote:

i hardly feel poking fun at tom cruise for wanting to build a bomb shelter from aliens on a message board he will never read qualifies as the kind of sadistic behavior deserving of verbal aggression.

I hardly think the things you "rail" against deserve verbal aggression....

Emotions are not logical.

angelica wrote:

If I could not manage my own issues tomorrow and felt suicidal, I would go directly on medication.

i rather wouldn't. although i wouldn't judge anyone for taking medications.... you would just run the risk of having your mental issues worsen.

i just quit my job at the mental health facility last week. that place was so unreal. people would go to that place habitually. they literally had bags of dozens of medications that weighed as much as 2 or 3 lbs. i always wondered why they would never get better.

i found that medications aren't the "ultimate" solutions, in any case. and in some cases, it increases or worsens your illness. to a certain extent.... i agree with scientologists.

not to say medications don't work at all.... they do. but i myself rather wouldn't take 'em. and i hope none of my family will ever have to take them. i feel it's better to use natural things. the sun for instance... it's good vitamin for the brain. the country. a vacation. light-hearted conversations with the family.

I'm not siding with Tom Criuse... but, think about it... how much different are his beliefs than some one who thinks a guy that lived 2,000 years ago will come back to life... from Heaven to take only the people who worship Him as their Saviour? Or someone who believes that Jesus lived in America and His truth was dechiphered from golden tablets through reading stones that only one man could read? Or that strapping a bomb to your chest and walkng onto a city bus and detonating it makes you a martyr and you get to skip the formalities of getting into Heaven and jump to the front of the line?
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To me... all of those 'truths' are not The Truth. They are relative truths to the believer. And if the person truely believes them... and it makes them happy... who am I to question their Subjective Truths? Well... except for the dude that blows himself up with the sole purpose of killing others in mind.
Would things be different if L.Ron Hubbard wrote his book is 63 A.D?

deadnothingbetter wrote:

i rather wouldn't. although i wouldn't judge anyone for taking medications.... you would just run the risk of having your mental issues worsen.

i just quit my job at the mental health facility last week. that place was so unreal. people would go to that place habitually. they literally had bags of dozens of medications that weighed as much as 2 or 3 lbs. i always wondered why they would never get better.

i found that medications aren't the "ultimate" solutions, in any case. and in some cases, it increases or worsens your illness. to a certain extent.... i agree with scientologists.

not to say medications don't work at all.... they do. but i myself rather wouldn't take 'em. and i hope none of my family will ever have to take them. i feel it's better to use natural things. the sun for instance... it's good vitamin for the brain. the country. a vacation. light-hearted conversations with the family.

I fully agree there are better options to mental health meds. The way I see it, by the time one is entrenched in patterns of pain, depression, etc. and cannot change those patterns after trying and trying--medication can provide some relief that can give one some peace of mind, so that the individual is better enabled to solve their life problems and come up with more natural or better and better methods. It's a way to get moving in the right direction.

Here is the problem: People are taught to believe they are flawed when they experience mental health issues. They are degraded. The result is generally that they believe the mental health issues are who they are--they are told it's genetic. They are stigmatized; their character is attacked. Therefore, they are stuck in very ill patterns, and chronic illness is the result. Their thinking processes become disabled, and they cannot rise out of the conditions on their own. They need any help they can find to get out of the patterns. So I support people using any tool that they find WORKS for them. I support people choosing for themselves the tools that bring progress of any sort. And it's SO important that we support people being all they can be, rather than sending them hopeless messages that they are and always will be ill. It's our stigma that creates the hopeless cycles.

For those who wonder why I take issue about the Tom Cruise thing, when he's not going to read this board...there are numerous people who DO read the board, and who have mental health issues. Society constantly sends the message that rather than understand mental health issues, we should be ashamed and degraded for them. I don't accept that.

genie wrote:

well, i came back home. and it's all still kicking off

and what's this all about passive-aggresive and openly agressive??

when i said i liked the way his said "pounce" i meant i liked the word. it's nothing to do with you or with soulsinging. i liked the word because i pictured ( i can't believe i'm writing this in here ) a pretty tiger pouncing on me with it's cute claws out. i don't know... the word seemed sexy to me. i don't understand how i am being passively agressive here.

I apologize if I was off-base, as only you know if you were being aggressive.

angelica wrote:

I apologize if I was off-base, as only you know if you were being aggressive.

ok, i wasn't agressive, and i wasn't intending to be i was just stating my point of view and having fun in some of my posts

genie wrote:

ok, i wasn't agressive, and i wasn't intending to be i was just stating my point of view and having fun in some of my posts

I appreciate your stated intent.