Kirstie Alley Says Scientology's "Fun." Sure, But Only If You Are A Celebrity

Author: Dawn Olsen
Published: April 29, 2008 at 10:49 am

"Fat Actress" Kirstie Alley did a Q & A with Playboy Magazine and of course, she revealed once again, how she lives in a special bubble, for special people, made special for celebs. This is especially true of her faith, which she shills for whenever the opportunity arises.

Here's some illuminating thoughts on Scientology from Ms. Alley's interview in Playboy:

PLAYBOY: What should America pay attention to?

Kirstie Alley: How about the fact that our kids are on psych drugs and that they're in school systems that don't teach them anything? How many kids are on Ritalin? It's bullshit. The same kind of kid who stuck pencils in his nose 30 years ago is now called sick? While we're so worried about street drugs, how much of the population is on psych drugs? And yet we're sitting around wanting to know who's fucking whom?

PLAYBOY: What's left out of everyone's story on Scientology? For instance, what don't the Germans get about it?

Kirstie Alley: That it's fun. Say you have a problem in your life: a compulsion to strangle mice. [Pauses] That just came up. No reason. Anyway, say you wake up every day and you just can't wait to find a mouse, and it's taking up a lot of your time. You'd have a couple sessions in Scientology and soon you wake up and decide you'd rather go to Home Depot. You'd see a mouse on the way and not have any desire to strangle it. You're just, "Hey, there's a mouse." Scientology takes barriers out of your life and lets you have more fun. What I'm saying is that it's fun to have control, to solve problems, to eliminate compulsions. I define compulsion as anything you feel like you have to do that you don't necessarily want to do. It all boils down to whether what you're doing gives you more survival or less survival. If it gives you more survival, then it's a good thing.


PLAYBOY: Sounds like you have all the answers. Where do we go when we di
e?

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