"Scientology, like lots of organized religions tend to be, is total bullshit. Weird, alien-worshipping bullshit"

When asked about a possible Dawson’s Creek reunion, she seemed to be really open to it:

“I love everyone from the show and we have kind of talked about it here and there, but what do you do? Maybe we’ll go on a vacation, that will be fun… and just film it!”

Helping her along through her break from Scientology, Katie is starring on Broadway again. She sings!  She dances!  She eats pizza!  During rehearsals for the show, Dead Accounts, Katie was busted eating some pizza that was meant to be a prop in the show.  She laughed it off by defending herself:

“We didn’t have an audience yet!”

She was very jovial and even kind of delightful throughout the entire segment, which you can watch here.

Throughout the past five or six years, Katie Holmes has made her rounds on the talk show promotional circuit few and far between.  Because she hasn’t had a whole lot to promote.  Because until earlier this summer, Katie Holmes was a robot.  The fact that she’s moved along so quickly in her recovery leads me to believe that she pretty much always knew deep down that Scientology, like lots of organized religions tend to be, is total bullshit.  Weird, alien-worshipping bullshit.

Obviously Jimmy Fallon isn’t the talk show to appear on if you’re planning on discussing serious subjects related to your mental and emotional well-being, so I can only hope that Oprah will get her to spill her guts on a sunny afternoon in a vineyard sitting on wicker furniture.  There’s no doubt that Katie’s divorce settlement involves one hell of a gag order, but if anyone can find a way around that, Oprah can.

According to factnet.org, post-Scientology behavior can be pretty fucking crazy so if you want to become a healthy member of secular society you should try and follow these suggestions:

1.) Avoid judgmental people and groups.  This means Katie Holmes would have to leave Hollywood entirely, and you know Suri ain’t having that at all.

2.) Seek out rational, mature adults.  While this would mean avoiding Hollywood people entirely, I suggest anyone who isn’t Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Will and Jada Smith, Leah Remini, etc.  Because they are more about Xenu and less about rationality.

3.) Cultivate humor.  Jimmy Fallon appearance?  Check.

4.) Look for the goodness in people.  See number 2 for list of people to avoid.

5.) Try to learn to forgive.  Oprah will probably have a better handle on this than I do.  Because I make it a point to neither forgive OR forget.

6.) Reclaim your right to self-reflect.  Shoe-shopping and restaurant-hopping with Suri?  Check and check.

7.) Get involved in projects or tasks.  Make a movie!  Record a Christmas album!  Do a TV cameo or two!

8.) Resurrect your humanity.  You and Suri can wear matching designer galoshes and rubber gloves and help “Restore the Shore”?

9.) Link up with other ex-Scientologist support groups.  See number 2 for the list of no-nos.

Read more: http://crushable.com/entertainment/katie-holmes-scientology-dawsons-cree-suri-cruise-jimmy-fallon-558/#ixzz2CQcuMCyS

Movie review: We Are Legion, the Story of the Hacktivists

BY JAY STONE NOVEMBER 16, 2012

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Director: Brian Knappenberger

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Those of us who don't know a lot about 4chan and DDos-ing and all the other touchstones of cyberlife will be happy to know that hackers who want to fight against power still turn to an age-old prank: they order pizza.

Sending pizza to people who don't want it - and sometimes covertly watching from behind the drapes as it's delivered - has been a technique of harassment since the days of rotary telephones.

It's still part of the arsenal of Anonymous, the worldwide group of loosely connected pranksters ("the rude boys of activism," they're called in the documentary We Are Legion, as well as "the final boss of the Internet") who are at the vanguard of a new kind of social activism.

Anonymous is famous for their DDos (that's Denial of Service) of PayPal when the company withdrew its services from WikiLeaks, an organization Anonymous approves of. The many computer hackers who call themselves Anonymous - and wear the Guy Fawkes masks from the movie V for Vendetta, a face that has become symbolic of mass protest - overwhelmed PayPal's computers until they crashed.

They also went to war against the Church of Scientology because it dared to pull down a video of Tom Cruise bragging about the powers of its members, a video that fit right into the Anonymous culture, i.e., they made fun of it. They take some credit for the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, where they helped keep the Internet going when despotic regimes tried to close them. They helped overthrow right wing radio host Hal Turner.

They did it through hacking and marching - thousands stood outside Scientology buildings around the world, chanting, "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" and "Brainwashed" - and, in several cases, by ordering pizzas to be delivered to people's houses. You get the feeling that if they could have soaped people's windows on a website, they would have done that as well.

We Are Legion is an encyclopedic history of the movement that began - in spirit anyway - with a bunch of MIT students putting cars on the roofs of buildings and has become a formidable force for . well, it's hard to say what exactly. Freedom of speech certainly, political justice sometimes, or just cruel fun occasionally.

When Anonymous found its political muscle in the Middle East and in assisting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a spinoff group ("stop ruining our bad name") did things like hacking into an epilepsy website with flashing images that would cause seizures.

That's one of the few negative notes found by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, who traces Anonymous from anything-goes websites like 4chan and /b/board - where photos ranging from cute cats to perverse sexual acts provide an illuminating window into the human psyche - to the more serious ends of Anonymous.

The Cruise video helped galvanize them into a "Declaration of War" that stated, "We are Anonymous. We are legion."

It became a sort of electronic arm of the Occupy movement, a loosely connected group of people that, according to the film, include many attractive young women as well as the expected collection of 23-year-old men living in their parents' basements. Someone says a lot of them had sex for the first time thanks to their Anonymous activities.

The connections, not to mention the technologies, are sometimes confounding, but We Are Legion keeps them mostly straight. It places the Anonymous movement in the context of traditional political protest: overwhelming an objectionable website is compared to sitting in a segregated lunch counter in Alabama, denying service to others. And if that doesn't work, order the pepperoni.