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Kirsten Dunst has been seen out reading Karl Sagan, the late scientist whose book Demon-Haunted World is a practical treatise against everything Scientology stands for. It doesn’t seem like the 26 year-old actress really understands Sagan’s logic (which is clearly outlined here if you’re interested). She reveres the teachings of Scientology so much she has a framed and laminated copy of Scientology’s code of honor, which its founder, baby-napper and wife-beater L. Ron Hubbard, doesn’t seem to have heeded much in his personal life. The code was a gift from Tom Cruise, so it’s not like she personally had it framed though. That’s the kind of gift that you keep in the back of the closet and only take out when the person is visiting.
Dunst graces the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, which includes the detail about the Scientology code in their accompanying interview:
“Everyone goes through a hard time in their life,” Dunst says in the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “They just don’t have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I’m lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself.”
She adds: “Now, I’m great.”
Though she hesitates to go into details about her stint at Cirque Lodge, a rehabilitation center in Utah, Dunst says prior to going to rehab she was “enormously co-dependent.”
“I wasn’t taking care of myself emotionally. I wasn’t expressing my anger,” she says. “I was making nice all the time.”
She even got words of wisdom from an old pal – Tom Cruise. The actress keeps a plastic-framed copy of L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology Code of Honor in her home, which was recently given to her as a gift from her former Interview with the Vampire costar.
The 26-year old is not a Scientologist but appreciates the advice; something she can use as she develops her own projects, including a documentary called Why Tuesday? about the electoral process. She also stars in the upcoming comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.
On the home front she’s busy, too. The actress is selling her LA home and says she will be in her apartment in New York City, which she purchased in 2007, in a year. And her love life?
“Listen, I’m happy single or not single,” she says. “Now I love me, so I’m okay.”
[From People]
We’re not big Dunst fans, and she didn’t have to do much more to thoroughly annoy us. If Tom Cruise gave you some Scientology paraphernalia after you worked with him as a child actor, wouldn’t you ditch it once you realized what it really stood for? Maybe she never put two and two together.
Some of L. Ron’s pearls of wisdom in that code of honor vary from the ethically questionable: “Never fear to hurt another in a just cause” to the baffling: “Never permit your affinity to be alloyed.”
Here’s Dunst out with Justin Long on 9/1/08 despite claiming in the Bazaar interview that she “doesn’t know him from Adam.” As someone pointed out in the comments, it’s possible she hadn’t really started dating him at the time the interview was conducted, although I wouldn’t put it past her to fib like that.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Cults, Kirsten Dunst
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Well now, that explains alot……
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What does it matter if she “lies” about her relationship with Justin Long? It’s her business. I don’t understand why people are getting their knickers in such a knot about it!
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Scientology’s Code of Honour
Surely a contradiction in terms.
I like Dunst, hope she HAS got her shit together though and passes on this because there’s nothing the scientos like more than a vulnerable, needy person.
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Tom keeps recluting them .
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Her comments about depression, co-dependance and learning to be ok by herself are pretty mature. And they don’t read like a repackaged version of the same ol’ same ol’. I guess I am trying to say it looks to me like she has gotten herself together. I read elsewhere that she attributed her codependence to growing up in a profession that expects her to perform, and that she was likewise performing in her personal relationships. That’s pretty insightful.
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With all the money that girl has, why can’t she fix her teeth??!!
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“That’s the kind of gift that you keep in the back of the closet and only take out when the person is visiting.”
No, that’s the kind of gift you send right back or trash it in a bin. If the sender is Tom Cruise, returning it is the same like binning it.
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All together now…
ZOMG XENU ON A ZEBRA
Kiki is not my favorite, but her Xenu-tendencies do seem limited.
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I’ve been meaning to share this, but quick fact…..L.Ron was budding partners with Anton LeVay…from the church of satan.
Just something to think about.
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What’s a budding partner?
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@ lola – I don’t want to come off sounding rude, because I mean this but, go and google it. There’s too much to say and too many avenues to research pertaining to this.
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“And yet, the article ITSELF is completely rude, attacking, baiting, uncivil, mean-spirited, petty and insulting to Kirsten Dunst, Tom Cruise, and the Scientology religion in a very hateful and ignorant way.”
It was most likely meant to be. Scientology is not a religion, it’s a money-making scam and most countries recognize it as such.
When they stop charging for advancement, make their message open and accessible to anyone free of charge, stop using church members for indentured servitude, encouraging psychopaths to go off their meds, and comparing doctors and psychiatrists to Nazis – MAYBE we can THINK about calling it a religion. Until then, take your Xenu-spewing propaganda and don’t let the door smack you on the way out.
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Anton LaVey had his problems – he was a power-monger, a misogynist, and a vindictive manipulator, to name a few. But he was transparent with the dealings of his church, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say for L. Ron. No pun intended. The CoS was, is, and always will be, a staunchly atheistic and pragmatic organization.
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Kristen was zapped!
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@ spree: I think what that means is that we should only be bitchy towards celebs, not the other commentors who are posting. I think they’re trying to avoid those annoying “comment wars” that happen sometimes. That’s my take on it, at least.
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Methinks Spree is “on-course” and trying to stay “upstat” on her media monitoring duties.
Frankly, Kirsten Dunst has always struck me as very Kooky, so none of this comes as a surprise.
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I like her, shes a talented actress which is more then we can say for some. Shes had a few bad projects but who hasnt? Someone get Anon and inform them about this Scientology shit.
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Well, there’s another actor whose movies I’ll never watch
. Pity.
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“Ignorant”? No, Celebitchy knows (as do we) plenty about the Cult – apparently more than you do, spree.
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Everyone say hello to ‘Clam Spree’. You and Clam Lola should get along famously.
“Hi, Clam Spree !! ”
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“Don’t desire to be liked or admired.”
Gee, I sorta think Tommy C. is failing horribly at his own code of honor.
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When is Kiki going to take a shower?
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oh no: they got her, too?
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Yeah stuff Islam, No Scientology centre at Ground Zero!
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