Will Smith Gives $122,500 To Scientology

[KnightVision]

Will Smith Gives $122,500 To Scientology

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/will-smith-gives-122500-t_n_151873.html

Will Smith gives generously to many causes, and one of them is the Church of Scientology. A report on his charitable foundation's tax return shows that $122,500 was donationed to the Scientology causes, out of $1.3 million given overall.
He also gave a combined $122,500 to the Church of Scientology, broken into these donations: $67,500 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxication Fund, $50,000 to the group's Celebrity Center in Hollywood and $5,000 to ABLE, another Scientology offshoot. Smith and his wife have also supported a private school called New Village Academy they opened this fall in suburban Los Angeles that uses Scientology learning concepts.
Smith has talked about his study of Scientology and also said he is not a Scientologist.

 

[KnightVision]

Will Smith Pours More Money Into Scientology

link: http://gawker.com/5113028/will-smith-pours-more-money-into-scientology

Will Smith Pours More Money Into Scientology

Fox News' Roger Friedman has made an annual holiday tradition of probing Will Smith's tax returns. And Smith traditionally insists he's not a Scientologist, despite showering the cult with money. Especially this year.

Smith is buddy buddy with Tom Cruise, who judging from press accounts can be a persistent, very public, probably annoying "friend." Smith put Cruise's son in his movie earlier this year, he "surprised" him at Smith's Hollywood Walk of Fame "star" installation, and went to the premiere of Smith's "I Am Legend."

Last year, Friedman reported a $20,000 donation by Smith to Scientology's home-schooling system, Hollywood Education and Literacy Program.

The numbers reported this year are much larger: $122,500 from Smith to the Church of Scientology, across these donations:

$68,000 for New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund, for 9/11 responders. Wonder what sort of "toxins" this targets — and whether it's science or Scientology that cures them.
$50,000 for the Celebrity Center in Hollywood. That one doesn't even have a cover story, it's just a straight Scientology HQ.
$5,000 to something called "ABLE."
At this spending rate, Smith might as well me a member.

Either Smith is a secret Scientologist, or he doesn't know how to say "no" to his clingy, still-insane buddy Tom Cruise. And the latter is hardly better than the former, because it means the former will someday come true. Unless the awesome Jason Beghe can somehow do some cock blocking. So to speak!

 

[Pixie]

Will Smith Gives $122,500 To Scientology

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/will-smith-gives-122500-t_n_151873.html

Will Smith gives generously to many causes, and one of them is the Church of Scientology. A report on his charitable foundation's tax return shows that $122,500 was donationed to the Scientology causes, out of $1.3 million given overall.
He also gave a combined $122,500 to the Church of Scientology, broken into these donations: $67,500 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxication Fund, $50,000 to the group's Celebrity Center in Hollywood and $5,000 to ABLE, another Scientology offshoot. Smith and his wife have also supported a private school called New Village Academy they opened this fall in suburban Los Angeles that uses Scientology learning concepts.
Smith has talked about his study of Scientology and also said he is not a Scientologist.

Here we go....

 

[uniquemand]

I'm very happy to know where Will Smith is putting his money. My question is, when will he next put out a good movie? The reason I pay attention to Smith is because he is a movie star, not because he's a genius about spending his money.

 

[SchwimmelPuckel]

So.. My guess is that Will imagine he can dispense with cinematic trickery and stuntmen for the next Hancock movie.. When he's a real OT he just do that stuff!!!

 

[sandygirl]

Hate to say it but..........

TOLD YA SO!!!

I knew as soon as I saw the Doprah interview.

 

[Pixie]

Hate to say it but..........

TOLD YA SO!!!

I knew as soon as I saw the Doprah interview.

You did! And well spotted!

 

[KnightVision]

Hate to say it but..........

TOLD YA SO!!!

I knew as soon as I saw the Doprah interview.

10 Points!

Ain't it a bitch!

 

[Wisened One]

Yeah and wasn't that just peachy how he dramatizes crying on the floor...guess media didn't grab onto that one like they did TC's couch jump tho, huh?

Geez, even the best can be shmooozed, eh?

 

[klidov]

I see Will Smith & Tom Cruise is some bizzare Good Cop/Bad Cop head-game when it somes to Scientology.

Good posting, KV.

 

[SchwimmelPuckel]

 

[uniquemand]

Demonization does not end conflict. Rather than finding targets for rage, release the rage. Rage is consuming. In the end, Miscavige is another human being. He should be held accountable for his criminal actions, and karma will not release him from his overts/withholds. Getting into games conditions with him or anyone else in the Church (or with the Church) will not set you free, and very likely will give you no satisfaction, in the end.

Release it.

 

[Pixie]

Demonization does not end conflict. Rather than finding targets for rage, release the rage. Rage is consuming. In the end, Miscavige is another human being. He should be held accountable for his criminal actions, and karma will not release him from his overts/withholds. Getting into games conditions with him or anyone else in the Church (or with the Church) will not set you free, and very likely will give you no satisfaction, in the end.

Release it.

Good post!

 

[klidov]

 

[degraded being]

Demonization does not end conflict. Rather than finding targets for rage, release the rage. Rage is consuming. In the end, Miscavige is another human being. He should be held accountable for his criminal actions, and karma will not release him from his overts/withholds. Getting into games conditions with him or anyone else in the Church (or with the Church) will not set you free, and very likely will give you no satisfaction, in the end.

Release it.

A lot of the "attacks" (demonization) of Dm and the crap thrown at TC are a kind of PR "balancing the books". TC is a PR icon for scio and attitudes to scio are manipulated by associating scio with TC the film star. I am mentioning TC because you have said on another post something about how it really isn't worth spending time getting all interested in ways to bitch about TC (my paraphrase).
DM is in a similar public postion representing scientology.

The internet is public. If the public never sees that DM and TC can be ridiculed, it may be assumed that everyone agrees that they are the good humanitarians they profess to be and that we all respect them. Which means that the DM and TC control the attitudes that the public has to them.

Demonization can be negeative. But people have, in the past been stopped on expressing disdain for powerful nasty people. And inside the COS even mild disageement will have you in Ethics, AFAIK. If someone wants to call these people fools, idiots, or worse, I say let them. Some posters may have suffered real hardship by not calling them idots a lot earlier.

 

[KnightVision]

Excellent. Some Critic 'corrections officers' think that 'taking care of me' is enough, or they assume that persistent critics are 'stuck' in their behavior. While that may be true for some of us, sometimes... as long as there is light at the end of the tunnel- there is no harm in it, and it can be a noble effort!

A lot of the "attacks" (demonization) of Dm and the crap thrown at TC are a kind of PR "balancing the books". TC is a PR icon for scio and attitudes to scio are manipulated by associating scio with TC the film star. I am mentioning TC because you have said on another post something about how it really isn't worth spending time getting all interested in ways to bitch about TC (my paraphrase).
DM is in a similar public postion representing scientology.

The internet is public. If the public never sees that DM and TC can be ridiculed, it may be assumed that everyone agrees that they are the good humanitarians they profess to be and that we all respect them. Which means that the DM and TC control the attitudes that the public has to them.

Demonization can be negeative. But people have, in the past been stopped on expressing disdain for powerful nasty people. And inside the COS even mild disageement will have you in Ethics, AFAIK. If someone wants to call these people fools, idiots, or worse, I say let them. Some posters may have suffered real hardship by not calling them idots a lot earlier.

 

[lionheart]

With quietened mind we tell what is true
Tom's and Will's words are there to fool you
Bitter the search to explain what we did
Covert the celebs to keep it all hid