I wanted a chance to say that I am grateful of all the comments, messages and blog posts from everyone during season 4! I hope this site made the season more entertaining and informative for everyone! I was particularly entertained and impressed by a group that seemed to form about this site called the FUAFs which I later found out stands for "Fucked Up Ass Fans" for The Dr. Troy Site! I was in awe of all the pictures that were posted and sent in from this group all season long! I see them posting and commenting daily! I want to give you a very special thank you! I have had a slide show made in your honor and because of the FUAFs I will be having a FUAF of the week from submitted photos that will be placed on the main page each week to keep it interesting during the off season starting in 2007!
It appears that the episode 4 spoilers has been mysteriously deleted so here is a re-post. Make a note that is episode was so surreal and amazingly wrote by Ryan that FX decided to make no cuts as it will be extended 4 1/2 minutes longer (those with TiVo make note)
Shari Noble: Shari Noble (Melissa Gilbert) comes in with one of her nipples bitten off, by her dog. She wants it reconstructed before her husband returns from Iraq. Christian goes to a lesbian bar with Liz, where he tries to attract the attention of a woman but she's attracted to Liz instead which will lead to Liz being placed in a dire circumstance. Sean and Christian meet with a kidney specialist for a patient of theirs (Liz). Julia talks with a breast-feeding expert. If you read a blog post were I included "words of the day" you will be able to put together what happens.
Question about Nip/Tuck....? Ask all Questions here Everyone pitch in to answer I will do my best to answer a few of your questions as well...just be patient
Before you read this I want to make this very clear that I did not write the information that I am posting. I also believe that it is every person's personal choice and right to freely select a religion. I am purely posting this for educational purposes.
Yes, I'm aware that this has no interest to some...
Source : Wikipedia
Scientology is a body of teachings and related techniques developed by American author L. Ron Hubbard over some thirty years beginning in 1952 as a self-helpphilosophy, an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. It claims to offer an exactmethodology to help humans achieve awareness of their spiritual existence across many lifetimes and, simultaneously, to become more effective in the physical world. The name "Scientology" is also used to refer to the controversialChurch of Scientology, the largest organization promoting the practice of Scientology, which is itself part of a network of affiliated corporations that claim ownership and sole authority to disseminate Dianetics and Scientology.
A stated goal of Scientology is to "rehabilitate" the thetan (roughly equivalent to the soul) to regain its native state of "total freedom." Church spokesmen and practitioners attest that Hubbard's teachings (called "Technology" or "Tech" in Scientology terminology) have saved them from a plethora of problems and enabled them to better realize their highest potential in business and their personal lives.[1][2] However, outside observers—including journalists, lawmakers, and national governing bodies of several countries—have reached conclusions about Scientology that are sharply at odds with the Church's self-representations. These include allegations that the church is an unscrupulous commercial enterprise that harasses its critics and brutally exploits its members.[3] .[4]
Although some scholars accept Scientology as a bona fide religion,[5][6] it has also been characterized as a pseudoreligion or a cult.[7]
The thetan has lived through many past lives and will continue to live beyond the death of the body.
Through the Scientology process of "auditing", one can free oneself of "engrams" and "implants" to reach the state of "Clear", and after that, the state of "Operating Thetan". Each state is said to represent recovering the native spiritual abilities of the individual, and to confer dramatic mental and physical benefits.
A person is basically good, but becomes "aberrated" by moments of pain and unconsciousness in his or her life.
What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. No beliefs should be forced as "true" on anyone. Thus, the tenets of Scientology are expected to be tested and seen to either be true or not by Scientology practitioners.
Psychiatry and psychology are evil and abusive. [10]
Scientology claims to offer "exact" methods of spiritual counseling to help people achieve awareness of their spiritual existence, while enhancing their effectiveness in the physical world. According to the Church, the ultimate goal is to get the soul (thetan) back to its native state of total freedom, thus gaining control over matter, energy, space, time, thoughts, form, and life. This freed state is called Operating Thetan, or OT for short.
Past lives
In Dianetics, Hubbard proposed that the cause of "aberrations" in a human mind was an accumulation of pain and unconscious memories of traumatic incidents, some of which predated the life of the human. He extended this view further in Scientology, declaring that thetans have existed for tens of trillions of years (several orders of magnitude greater than mainstream scientists believe the age of this astrosphere to be). During that time, Hubbard explains, they have been exposed to a vast number of traumatic incidents, and have made a great many decisions that influence their present state. According to an early lecture of Hubbard's, it is, as a practical matter, both impossible and undesirable to recall each and every such event from such vast stretches of time. As a result, Hubbard's three decade development of Scientology focused on streamlining the process to address only key factors. Hubbard stated that Scientology materials as described in books, tapes, and research notes include a record of everything that was found in the course of his research. Not all things found are stated to have been experienced by all animals on Earth.
According to Hubbard, some of the past traumas may have been deliberately inflicted in the form of "implants" used by extraterrestrial dictatorships such as Helatrobus to brainwash and control humans. Scientology doctrine includes a wide variety of beliefs in complex extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in Earthly events, collectively described by Hubbard as "space opera". There is a huge Church of Spiritual Technology symbol carved into the ground at Scientology's Trementina Base that is visible from passing aircraft or from satellite photography.[14] Washington Post reporter Richard Leiby wrote, "Former Scientologists familiar with Hubbard's teachings on reincarnation say the symbol marks a "return point" so loyal staff members know where they can find the founder's works when they travel here in the future from other places in the universe."[15]
Scientologists who are deemed to have achieved the State of Clear may continue onto what is termed the Upper or OT (Operating Thetan) Levels. These courses are available by Church invitation only and prospective candidates are vetted by the Church based on their contributions to the furtherance of Scientology and their behavior in accordance with Scientology principles. The contents of these advanced courses are held in strict confidence within the Church and individuals who have read these materials may not discuss nor disclose what they contain without jeopardizing their standing in the Church. Presently, there are eight such levels, OT I through VIII, although Church management has promised to release a ninth OT level once certain expansion goals are met. The highest level released to date, OT VIII, is only disclosed at sea, on the Scientology cruise ship Freewinds.
Despite their confidentiality within the Church, excerpts and descriptions of these materials have been widely published in the mainstream press; this was made possible when the confidential teachings were submitted as evidence in court cases involving Scientology, thus becoming a matter of public record. In the confidential OT levels, Hubbard describes a variety of traumas commonly experienced in past lives, experiences that extend many millions of years into the past. He also explains how to reverse the effects of such traumas.
Xenu and Body Thetans
Among these advanced teachings, one episode revealed to those who reach OT level III has been much remarked upon: the story of Xenu and his Galactic Confederacy. Xenu (sometimes Xemu) is introduced as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. The alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. Hubbard called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," and the advanced levels place considerable emphasis on isolating them and neutralizing their ill effects.[16]
Scientologists have argued that the published accounts of the Xenu story and other colorful teachings are distortions of their practice, presented out of context for the purpose of ridiculing their religion. Journalists and critics of Scientology counter that the Xenu episode is part of a much wider Scientology belief that past lives on other planets are a source of negative influences on the mind and spirit in the present. Some of this has been public knowledge for decades. For instance, Hubbard's 1958 book Have You Lived Before This Life documents past lives described by individual Scientologists during auditing sessions, including some that are reported to antedate what modern astronomy estimates as the age of the universe. Internal Scientology publications are often illustrated with pictures of spaceships and oblique references to catastrophic events that happened "75 million years ago" (e.g. the Xenu incident).
While reliable information about Scientology membership is notorously elusive, there is little reason to doubt that most practicing Scientologists have not attained a sufficiently high level on "The Bridge" to have learned the details about Xenu and Body Thetans. Therefore, while knowledge of Xenu and Body Thetans is said to be crucial to the highest level church teachings, it cannot be regarded as a core belief of rank and file Scientologists.
Hubbard stated that the delivery room should be as silent as possible during birth.[17] This stems from his belief that birth is a trauma that may induce engrams into the baby. Hubbard asserted that words in particular should be avoided because any words used during birth might be reassociated by an adult later on in life with their earlier traumatic birth experience. Hubbard also wrote that the mother should use "as little anaesthetic as possible". According to Hubbard, babies should not be bathed after birth.
Hubbard also wrote that breastfeeding should be avoided. Hubbard compared replacement formulas circa the mid-1950s, which he described as "mixed milk powder, glucose and water, total carbohydrate", with what he considered the "skim breast milk from ... overworked mother[s]" that "smoke and sometimes drink"; as an alternative to commercial products, Hubbard offered what he called the "Barley Formula", made from barley water, homogenized milk, and corn syrup or honey. Hubbard claims that "I picked it up in Roman days."[18] He crafted the barley formula to, in his words, provide "a heavy percentage of protein".[19]
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All reviews full be looked over tonight and 2 will be selected and posted on the site by noon on 9/14/06. The feedback has been overwhelming and time needs to be taken to fully read each one.
We are touching on areas that never get explored. A man can love another man without there being any homosexual feelings. It is a quest for me to find Sean's female counter-part that I can share a surpassed intimacy that I have with him. It's about the void of intimacy and my journey fo find it.
By Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY FX's hit plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck is back for fall and more twisted than ever, kicking off Tuesday (10 p.m. ET/PT) with a sexual threesome.
In true Nip/Tuck form, it's no ordinary threesome it's a mother and her daughter, only too happy to hop in the sack with sexy Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), one half of a Miami plastic surgery partnership with Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh).
"That's based on something that happened to a very well-known network president," says Ryan Murphy, creator and executive producer of the show though not John Landgraf of FX, he assures. Murphy is not about to name him.
"I actually sent him the episode last week, and he was appalled it made it in the show," Murphy says, laughing.
But the threesome is not used just for kinky sex. "The whole point of that episode is about intimacy and how hard it is, and I wanted something that for most guys is very titillating," Murphy says. "And yet, it's disconnecting."
He said that at a premiere of the show last week in a packed Los Angeles movie house, during that scene "a guy hollered out to Julian, 'You're our hero!' "
Though edgy sex always has been a big part of the show, guest stars have been only a small part. That's changing this season.
The first episode features Kathleen Turner as a woman who wants a voice lift, Larry Hagman as a man who wants some reconstructive surgery and Brooke Shields as a psychiatrist. Later in the season, viewers will see Catherine Deneuve, Peter Dinklage, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Chamberlain, Melissa Gilbert, Mario Lopez and Rosie O'Donnell.
"I'm always shocked at how many people I meet who are fans of the show and are interested in doing it," Murphy says. O'Donnell, he says, is so obsessed that she flew the set decorator to her house on the East Coast to re-create the giant fish tank in the doctors' office.
Murphy says Season 4 is a particularly good time to have guest stars, because the show and its characters are well established. "It energizes the storytelling," Murphy says, and enhances the stories of the lead characters.
Another key is having the famous people "playing against type," Murphy says. "A lot of the people we are using this year are iconic and doing things and saying things that are quite vulnerable."
Now that last season's "Carver" mystery about a violent slasher wreaking havoc is over, this season of Nip/Tuck will be more of a return to basics, something the cast is very happy about. Viewers liked the Carver story line the identity-revealing third-season finale in December drew 5.7 million viewers; the entire season averaged 3.9 million total viewers, up slightly from last season.
But the actors didn't.
Last season "was just sort of gloom and doom," Walsh said at last month's TV media gathering, when the cast assembled to talk about the new season. "My joke was that we were the only plastic surgeons who should actually wear badges and carry guns, because it felt like a different show for a while." He says he was "relieved" when it was over.
Murphy says the first two seasons of the show were unique. "There was nothing like it on the air. It was very fun and sexy, and it was a procedural and a soap opera. Now you see several of them that are big hits on the air."
Last season, he says, he got away from what viewers expect of the show because he was in a "darker place" personally, though he doesn't elaborate. "Now everything seems brighter and lighter. You can tell on the set it's a much more fun show."
And it will return to the core characters: the two doctors.
"One of the things I've always loved about the show is that it's a heterosexual love story about two men. That's why it became a hit. It was a frank look at how men act and react in a way you'd never seen before." Now, he says, "we've figured out again why we loved it so much." http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-08-30-niptuck_x.htm?csp=34
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