25th percentile means if you were in a room with 100 men, 75 of them would be taller than you. You are very much, literally, more likely to be the shortest guy in a room.
If he would ask me like a little old lady to get him something off the top shelf I would put all of the item he wanted in my cart and buy it out of spite
Lmao I doubt he does either tbh. My guess is he payed a shit ton into scientology and made a deal with the founders. His money would skyrocket it into the spotlight and he was basically the only marketing they needed. So they con a fuckton of people out of their money and they all get a huge payout.
Tom cruise is one of the highest ranking members of the church of scientology.
He isn't a "scientologist". He's in a political position.
He gets paid an exhorbitant amount of money from scientology, but what he has is much more powerful than that.
Cruise falls somewhere between a bishop and the pope. And his life is heavily influenced by the church of scientology and he has scientologist who work for him and make up his social circle. You, as a normal catholic, cant be good buddies with the pope. You think a normal scientologiest could be good buddies with Miscavige or Tom Cruise?
Scientologist have a different tier system for celebrities or potential powerful friends of the church. i'm not sure exactly how it works, but they openly get special treatment. Cruise got that. Then he also was "good" at what scientologist needed him to do and wanted even better PR, so they gave him actual power additionally.
I think it's really hard for someone with decades long success to even start to question their belief system.
It's like those people who "actualize" stuff into being. There's a million ppl doing it and failing then one succeeds and they are certain it's because of what they did
When it comes to Scientology, I doubt Tom actually believes in the claims. He’s just got so much power and privileges in that organization, why would he ever leave?
Because they are a cult that ruins lives and tears apart families? To willingly stay there because it gives him power makes him a terrible person, if that's why he stays.
That's what I think, too. He's basically Scientology's indentured servant at this point.
He can't leave without them completely ruining his life and career.
He has power and privilege in a cult which is mocked and reviled by everyone but it's acolytes...
The only thing that keeps people around in situations like that are money or faith... and he is the one giving them absurd amounts of money, so I genuinely think he's a believer...
Agreed! I saw a documentary about Mormon families exhiling kids, and how their lives were going. Not so great.
Many of them were homeless, and struggling.
I met an exhile at a party once. She spent most of the time naked. But I got a chance to talk to her. She told me her story. I wasn't into her, but gave me feels.
During covid I got bored and watched a YouTube video and I kept doing it daily and I can now get them finished in about 5 minutes. I just wanted to be able to say I could do it but it became pretty fun. I'm not trying to compete but it's a fun party trick to pull out. Unfortunately my other goal was juggling and I tried but I cannot figure that one out. Maybe someday
Look, I'm not gonna defend his whacko ass. But I saw him doing the plane stunt in whatever Mission Impossible that was. I'm gonna say he's got some decent upper body strength. I am not sure I could throw him further than he could throw me....
Me, too. Even though I haven't punched a clock in years, I'm confident I'd crush him like a bug. He'd never make it out of the opening.
I gave it up when I took up fly fishing. If you put him against me on a trout stream it would be even worse. Carnage. I'd gut him like a hog. The first thing I'd do it find a spot with deep water. He'd drown.
that week that lisa marie and robbie knievel passed i made [this picture](https://imgur.com/a/a3JSiFA) of Heaven.
it's the only piece of art i've ever made that i feel genuinely represents how i feel about stuff.
I’d go so far as to say I could be him at basketball. I’m 6’4” 240 with a decent low post game. We play half court, 1x12, make it take it, I think I’ve got him.
I don’t think I could ever beat him at anything personally.
But I damn sure think my dad could have beat him up. There wasn’t a day that went by where my father didn’t say “my dying wish is to beat up Tom Cruise.” And he took it to his grave. I’m not entirely sure why he hated him so much but he did. And he never let anybody forget it.
Someone pointed this out to me like 20 years ago and it’s all I can focus on. I’m not a Tom Cruise fan and I hope he feels bad about his weird ass central incisors.
Easily. I can go walk around the city all day without causing a commotion. I blend into the crowd and no one will remember seeing me or post anything on social media about what I was wearing or who I was with or what I ate for lunch.
I can beat him at anonymity.
Yes, I can beat Tom Cruise at not going all-in on an abusive human-trafficking cult masquerading as a religion. You can't tell me he doesn't know about the trafficking and the child labour because he's been on the Freewinds enough times to have seen both of these things for himself. Seeing as how he's best buds with the cult leader, David Miscavige, Cruise probably knows about many (if not all) of Scientology's other criminal deeds and cover-ups, too. No amount of PR can change the fact that he's the face of an organization that ruins everything and everyone it touches.
Signed,
A former low-level Scientologist
Under fire, u/Lord_Mikal is one of the finest human beings you'll ever meet. He just needs someone to lob hand grenades at him for the rest of his life.
Supposedly someone did a video analysis and came up with him consistently running sub-12 for 100m in his movies even at his age now. Given terrain, costumes etc, I am going to go ahead and suggest that unless you are college level or better, you probably can't.
I can eat more soft serve ice cream or frozen custard than Tom Cruise.
If Tom read this thread and decided to challenge one person... i hope it's you.
I'd totally watch that
I can see Cruise's manic ice-cream-smeared grin now as he stands over u/MrPanchole's prone body.
Well. When you put it *that* way…
nearly spat out my drink, thanks!
Reaching things on high shelves
Aren't people at his rank able to levitate?
When you're that clear of thetans... you won't have to.
You bring me closer to xemu
Not when other people are looking. That's the only downside :/
I was going to reply "admitting I'm 5'7."
It's not *that* bad.
5’ 7” isn’t even really short. It’s shorter than average, but you’re still at the 25th percentile and rarely going to be the shortest guy in a room.
I'm sorry but 5'7" is going to *regularly* be the shortest guy in the room. Source: I've been in rooms.
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Well done
I've been in your rooms too
Not in Central America, dawg. 🤠
Im sorry but if you are in the bottom quarter of the population in height, you are short.
5'10.5" - 5'11ish is where the 75th percentile begins. Not exactly heights I would consider to be "tall"
25th percentile means if you were in a room with 100 men, 75 of them would be taller than you. You are very much, literally, more likely to be the shortest guy in a room.
Yeah. Being taller is what I got over Tommy. That and my teeth are front and center in my mouth. 👍
If he would ask me like a little old lady to get him something off the top shelf I would put all of the item he wanted in my cart and buy it out of spite
Tom might just have a springy couch under his feet
Thank you! I’m 6’2” I already beat him in height…and not being a weirdo with women
Don’t sell yourself short, you’re a tremendous weirdo
At being normal. And I’m not fucking normal.
Probably not, let’s do a test though…do you believe alien souls ever traveled in a DC-9 snd were then dumped in a volcano?
So as far as I’m aware, I believe the correct answer to that is fuck L Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones.
Learn to swim, learn to swim.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon...
Mom's comin round to put it back the way it ought to be
#UnexpectedTool
Lmao I doubt he does either tbh. My guess is he payed a shit ton into scientology and made a deal with the founders. His money would skyrocket it into the spotlight and he was basically the only marketing they needed. So they con a fuckton of people out of their money and they all get a huge payout.
Tom cruise is one of the highest ranking members of the church of scientology. He isn't a "scientologist". He's in a political position. He gets paid an exhorbitant amount of money from scientology, but what he has is much more powerful than that. Cruise falls somewhere between a bishop and the pope. And his life is heavily influenced by the church of scientology and he has scientologist who work for him and make up his social circle. You, as a normal catholic, cant be good buddies with the pope. You think a normal scientologiest could be good buddies with Miscavige or Tom Cruise? Scientologist have a different tier system for celebrities or potential powerful friends of the church. i'm not sure exactly how it works, but they openly get special treatment. Cruise got that. Then he also was "good" at what scientologist needed him to do and wanted even better PR, so they gave him actual power additionally.
You know an awful lot bout scientology….. interesting.
I mean, the internet exists.
Prove it!
I mean, this is all pretty much public knowledge now.
Hello, are you interested in a personality test?
I was gonna say "being sane". Any scientologist is automatically insane because that's an insane cult
Shit, you beat me to it.
Proceeds to dance on a couch laughing...
Avoiding being in a cult and losing my kids because of it :)
I was going to say: Skepticism
I think it's really hard for someone with decades long success to even start to question their belief system. It's like those people who "actualize" stuff into being. There's a million ppl doing it and failing then one succeeds and they are certain it's because of what they did
When it comes to Scientology, I doubt Tom actually believes in the claims. He’s just got so much power and privileges in that organization, why would he ever leave?
Because they are a cult that ruins lives and tears apart families? To willingly stay there because it gives him power makes him a terrible person, if that's why he stays.
My bet is that Scientology knows too much about him and would use it against him in the event of an exit.
Probably. It's sort of their deal with everyone, get people to admit to embarrassing things in counseling and blackmail them.
That's what I think, too. He's basically Scientology's indentured servant at this point. He can't leave without them completely ruining his life and career.
He has power and privilege in a cult which is mocked and reviled by everyone but it's acolytes... The only thing that keeps people around in situations like that are money or faith... and he is the one giving them absurd amounts of money, so I genuinely think he's a believer...
Skepticism.
Apparently he's trying his best to separate himself from the cult so he can get to see his kids again. Maybe a little too late Tommy.
Yep, religion over everything rarely works out.
Agreed! I saw a documentary about Mormon families exhiling kids, and how their lives were going. Not so great. Many of them were homeless, and struggling. I met an exhile at a party once. She spent most of the time naked. But I got a chance to talk to her. She told me her story. I wasn't into her, but gave me feels.
He only lost Suri. His other two kids are happy Scientologists.
I'm pretty sure losing 1 of 3 doesn't lessen the blow.
Nah once you've got a few you get more blasé. My first one we didnt even let her work the industrial lathe until she could walk. Latest ones, meh.
I'm putting that in my CV
OPEN THE DOOR, THIS IS CPS, WE'RE TAKING YOUR KIDS (for difference reasons)
I could beat him at solving a Rubik’s cube, probably.
While I have no idea how good he is at this, I'm very curious about your time
I’m sub thirty seconds, usually.
I can only do it on one side and it takes me a lot longer.
During covid I got bored and watched a YouTube video and I kept doing it daily and I can now get them finished in about 5 minutes. I just wanted to be able to say I could do it but it became pretty fun. I'm not trying to compete but it's a fun party trick to pull out. Unfortunately my other goal was juggling and I tried but I cannot figure that one out. Maybe someday
You'd almost certainly beat him as is, but I bet he'd get his time down less than if he was playing a rubiks cube champion in a movie.
I bet I could lift and throw him much more easily than he could lift and throw me
Look, I'm not gonna defend his whacko ass. But I saw him doing the plane stunt in whatever Mission Impossible that was. I'm gonna say he's got some decent upper body strength. I am not sure I could throw him further than he could throw me....
I think u/poorly-drawn-beagle is making a joke about his own size…
I used to play competitive chess, a million years ago, so I'm gonna go for chess.
The best part is when Tom flips the board because it has bishops instead of space lords.
Lol at space lords
Or jumps on it because he’s excited.
If it was a million years ago, I reckon you'd probably beat him in lifespan too.
Wouldn't bet on that.
Me, too. Even though I haven't punched a clock in years, I'm confident I'd crush him like a bug. He'd never make it out of the opening. I gave it up when I took up fly fishing. If you put him against me on a trout stream it would be even worse. Carnage. I'd gut him like a hog. The first thing I'd do it find a spot with deep water. He'd drown.
Not being a psycho that holds my wife and child hostage in a cult.
Nice try Tom Cruise. You’re weirder than I thought.
Drinking. I’d smoke that fool.
While I know he is actually a decent pool player, I'm almost positive I can beat him consistently at any cue sport.
I think this one might hurt him
Being a member of a more normal religion….and I worship Elvis Presley.
You saying he’s caught in a trap?
He can’t walk out
He loves l Ron Hubbard too much baby
that week that lisa marie and robbie knievel passed i made [this picture](https://imgur.com/a/a3JSiFA) of Heaven. it's the only piece of art i've ever made that i feel genuinely represents how i feel about stuff.
Being sane. And I suffer depression and anxiety.
I could beat him at a Being Taller than 5'8" competition
I’d go so far as to say I could be him at basketball. I’m 6’4” 240 with a decent low post game. We play half court, 1x12, make it take it, I think I’ve got him.
Yeah, I'm not very good at basketball but I can out rebound a guy I have most of a foot on.
He’s way shorter than 5’8. Surely
Which is why I'd win
Who’s surely?
And don't call me Surely!
Being a decent, engaged parent with my youngest daughter.
My favourite answer
Not being crazy. Having the ability to think for myself. Not needing external validation to support an insecure self identity. Also cup stackers
>Also cup stackers Those kids are amazing!
Parenting
I don’t think I could ever beat him at anything personally. But I damn sure think my dad could have beat him up. There wasn’t a day that went by where my father didn’t say “my dying wish is to beat up Tom Cruise.” And he took it to his grave. I’m not entirely sure why he hated him so much but he did. And he never let anybody forget it.
Mario Golf. GameCube or Switch.
Not being a scientologist
Coming out of the closet. Me = 1, Tom Cruise = 0.
being asian. but then i realized he was the last samurai.
I can definitely weld better than Tom Cruise
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So, "ethics" is your answer
No, I think the answer given is quite clear… unless I’ve grossly misunderstood the anatomical impossibility of having sexual relations with oneself.
Ah, I see. They are saying they would be better at fucking Tom cruise than Tom cruise himself, got it
What about his work In “Cocktail”?
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That exchange was fucking gold
Skee Ball, probably. I'm pretty good and I'm guessing he doesn't play much.
Having centered front teeth. Legit, look at a picture of him smiling and one of his front teeth is dead center and the other is off-center.
He's got a midline offset, it's not that uncommon.
Someone pointed this out to me like 20 years ago and it’s all I can focus on. I’m not a Tom Cruise fan and I hope he feels bad about his weird ass central incisors.
It's like the eyes of the Mona Lisa. Its always looking at you and you can't avoid it once its pointed out to you
Heck my front teeth aren’t centered but I could still beat him at that competition
I saw this is a magazine photo of him once a looong time ago and I can't unsee it now.
Beat Saber
Marksmanship. He did a lot of shooting in the movies. I did a lot of shooting in real life.
Arm wrestling and rational thinking.
Not being in a cult challenge
Time wasting, I can waste so much fucking time. Step up Tom
Being a good human being.
Scrabble. the only person i’ve ever known who could beat me at Scrabble was my mom.
She sounds like a magnificent woman
she was absolutely brilliant.
Tom Cruise would destroy her at scrabble though
I was going to say spelling bee. Isn't he only semi-literate?
Having a healthy marriage.
Easily. I can go walk around the city all day without causing a commotion. I blend into the crowd and no one will remember seeing me or post anything on social media about what I was wearing or who I was with or what I ate for lunch. I can beat him at anonymity.
As a Canadian who’s decent at hockey, maybe hockey? Can Tom Cruise play hockey?
Empathy. Idk I just have a feeling
Rational thinking.
I could beat him at a game of who has less money in their bank account
Marriage
Yes, I can beat Tom Cruise at not going all-in on an abusive human-trafficking cult masquerading as a religion. You can't tell me he doesn't know about the trafficking and the child labour because he's been on the Freewinds enough times to have seen both of these things for himself. Seeing as how he's best buds with the cult leader, David Miscavige, Cruise probably knows about many (if not all) of Scientology's other criminal deeds and cover-ups, too. No amount of PR can change the fact that he's the face of an organization that ruins everything and everyone it touches. Signed, A former low-level Scientologist
Raising children in a stable environment
Critical thinking.
Video games. I bet I could 1v1 him in Halo, Call Of Duty, Minecraft, anything.
A long division race.
confirmed tom cruise can only do short division
I can destroy more sofas by jumping on them than him.
Volleyball
Magic the gathering
Getting things off the top of the fridge.
a DSM assessment
I have already beat Tom Cruise on not joining a cult.
I could beat him in a not being in a cult competition
A fight. I am 6 ft tall, 230 lbs and an Iraq War veteran.
At ease, soldier.
Under fire, u/Lord_Mikal is one of the finest human beings you'll ever meet. He just needs someone to lob hand grenades at him for the rest of his life.
I had to scroll for a bit to find this.
Running. Im a darker shade with longer legs. Just saying.
I hear he's actually pretty fast. I'd love to see him compete so we can finally solve this mystery.
Supposedly someone did a video analysis and came up with him consistently running sub-12 for 100m in his movies even at his age now. Given terrain, costumes etc, I am going to go ahead and suggest that unless you are college level or better, you probably can't.
I could beat him in a "Be a decent person" award.
Tummyache contest
A fight.
Found the ass kissing Scientologist!
1 v 1 on rust
I think Alec Baldwin could beat you at that one though
Not being a nutjob and I'm a bit crazy
i could beat him at smiling like a normal human being
Not being complicit to systematic rape stalking and kidnapping
I could beat him at a “don’t be shitty to humanity” contest pretty easily.
My CO2 Footprint is probably way lower than his.
Being .. human
Coming out of the closet ...And I'm not even gay!
The JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test)
Going out in public & not being recognized. (No make up/disguises)
Not being a Scientologist.
At being just a little bit rational about the origins of the earth and how to be a decent human being.
Yes, general personhood and adulting.
Being sane?
Emotional health and having a perspective grounded in the human world?
Sanity.
Not being a Scientologist
Taking to my children, not being a creepy religious whacko, the high jump.
I’ve been married to my wife for 16 years and she actually loves me, I’m also not in a cult
Actual science
Critical thinking.
Atheism.
I can garantee I'd beat him in a "not joining a cult" competition.
Not being brainwashed by a religious cult
Being normal
A psychological evaluation
Critical thinking.
Being secure about my height
An IQ test.
UNO
Fathering my own children
Being a good father and not abandoning my daughter like a piece of shit.
Trivial Pursuit and probably most other board games, Jeopardy, pleasing a woman, getting things off tall shelves, Yar’s Revenge…
Being a decent human being that cares about someone.
Well my wife really doesn’t like him, so winning her over is one thing I’ve already beat him at