It’s just too damned embarrassing.
Even though they STILL haven’t made their “ballpark figure” to able allowed to get started on getting a final figure for construction, it seems Uncle Scrooge McDuck is going to chip in the last few million and get them rolling.
(Though it could be that this is just another of their numerous false promises about how close they are to being done….)
But it seems unlikely because this is the pattern happening around the world now. They will keep squeezing the local orgs for everything they can get out of them, but in the interim, Scrooge has opened the doors to his vault and is funding a steady stream of “ideal org” ribbon yankings. It is literally all he has got to show the shrinking crowds at his increasingly vacuous events. Somehow he has to keep them convinced he is really lording over the greatest expansion in the history of milestones.
So, after more than a decade of trying, they have thrown in the towel on getting the largest concentration of scientologists on earth to fund THE most important and epic ideal org evvveeeerrrr.
All that remains to be done is to move their old junk out of the new building (how typical of the masters of the only workable administrative technology on earth).
Dear Friends,
Last Saturday we started moving out the org items we had stored in our new building. As I mentioned in the previous email, the beginning of Valley’s PHASE ONE CONSTRUCTION is right around the corner and we have to get everything out now.
With the help of some incredible volunteers, we made a huge dent in the target and then some! These guys were awesome beyond belief!
This coming Saturday the 22nd we are back at the building to finish up the rest of what needs to be handled and complete this target. This mainly consists of throwing away items that are no longer needed and moving the remaining items to our current org – but nowhere near the amount we had last Saturday.
But, once again there is quite a bit to do so I can use as much help as possible.
Therefore, I am writing to you to ask if you can volunteer some time to help so we can fully wrap up this cycle and have the building ready for the Phase One Construction to START!
We will meet at the new building – 11455 Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood – this Saturday the 22nd at 10:00 am.
Please hit reply to this email and let me know if you will join us. ANY amount of time will be appreciated.
ML,
Susan
Last Saturday we started the move of org items out of our new building as the beginning of Valley’s PHASE ONE CONSTRUCTION is right around the corner! Literally… in only the next couple weeks (or less)!
Interesting. DM must be truly desperate. If the Ideal Orgs are being opened without the necessary fund raising being completed, then why would anyone (anyone with any sense at least) donate any more? And, of course when they are opened and people can see that the shiny new building is not doing anything, why would they continue to contribute to pay the rent, pay the utilities and maintenance to keep it open? Are we in the middle of the end?
I can’t help but notice how repetitive this letter is. It says the same thing several times over, yet always contradicts (or at least obfuscates) what was said before:
“With the help of some incredible volunteers, we made a huge dent in the target and then some!” I would interpret that to mean: We are ahead of target.
“This coming Saturday the 22nd we are back at the building to finish up the rest of what needs to be handled and complete this target.” I would interpret that to mean: The target is incomplete.
“but nowhere near the amount we had last Saturday. But, once again there is quite a bit to do so I can use as much help as possible.” I would interpret that to mean: There is so much work to do that you should feel very obligated to show up and help. On the other hand: Don’t worry, it’s not really all that much.
Conclusion: This letter is extremely telling. It demonstrates that once you’ve been telling lies for years (such as about the progress of Valley in times of incredible expansion), it becomes impossible to utter straight talk about even a simple subject, such as cleaning out a bunch of trash.
And these are the people offering communications courses? Really?
They can throw out all those useless books that Hubbard guy wrote. DM has deemed it all off source.
Doug, smart people were throwing those books out YEARS ago.
The end of Scientology that LRH saw before his death in 1986 was probably seeing the crash after the 1982-3 mission holder wipe out….organizationally, cash was up but new people was down…
So, squeezing more money out of fewer and fewer “elite” people was the growth engine of Scientology since then. The big bumps in stats since 1982 were: IAS institutionalization, “tax exempt” status, Tom Cruise, the building donations con and culminating with the super con of Bob Duggan
These have all run their course, except the “super con”, because “stupid” has no limits.
Is the end of Scientology empty, ornate buildings with young good looking Russian staff inside and guards standing outside keeping nosy SPs from entering to see the empty rooms?
The more buildings DM builds, the harder it will be to fill them for photo shoots to fool the sheeple.
Oh right, there is always that foolproof back-up plan for click farm Internet Scientology. Sheeple will buy that one for sure……
Good evening Robert, I’m afraid that scientology will expand financially. The “smart” money went to real estate about 24 months ago. In the coming months we will see inflation again, as a result all this real estate the “squirt” has purchased will turn a profit, of which I’m certain he will take a percentage. I’m a little vague on how he intends to sell the buildings with all these ideal orgs in place but that’s why he gets the big bucks.
As for fooling the public that has been SOP for many years. I was always a big supporter of the “end justifies the means”, looking back I can say I was mistaken. IMO with 20/20 hindsight we should have allowed the church to go into receivership in the early 80s, vacated a worn out hospital, called the attorneys for a new name and got back in business the following day. Coulda woulda shoulda, Thanking you in advance for your kind attention, Henry
Correct Henry. Actual inflation has been running several %/year for about 8 years now. Anyone holding their wealth in cash is a fool. A poorer fool than they were just a few years ago.
Once Demented Microman separates the “Duchess” from all her money he’ll dump her.
🙂 I love it. In traditional organized crime syndicates, the head ringleaders are loath to open up their off-shore bank accounts to pay anything to try to keep the crimes going, they usually fall among themselves in to fighting about which ringleader has to pay what in order to keep it going. When the frauds unravel and it’s obvious the crooks have to put something back in to try to salvage their frauds, they fall to fighting since every ringleader points at the others and demands they are the ones who should fork it over.
Yet with the Scientology crime syndicate, how many head scumbags are there? Obviously Miscavige and perhaps 4 lawyers who are the putative copyright holders of record which are, in any event, symbolic. Any of the scum whose names are associated with the copyrights can be put in the hole or otherwise dispatched by David, he’s the only scum that matters in the syndicate right now.
So who has to get money transferred from his bank accounts in off-shore countries and fork it over? Who actually caved in and screamed, “OKAY! I’ll do it!” and made the phone call to transfer the stolen money back in to the fraud?
Volunteer Ministers, no offshore accounts needed to be tapped for this. Onshore accounts have plenty for this small of an Op…
“Dwarfen Furor”…giggle, giggle…..guffaw sequences into belly laugh.
Bob Duggan has been on the Fleecewinds for 5 straight days, with 2 more to go. Did some happy reg get him to ‘up his status’? Or did Tom Cruise ‘share’ some of his MI5 money?
The clampire needs to keep all the clams busy, otherwise they might start to think for themselves. Moving boxes and sweating out the toxins is just the thing to keep any ‘downstat’ thoughts out of their little heads.
Clampire! Empire of the Clams! I love it! Jed Clampett would have loved it too. Someone should make a movie out of it. Come a listen to a story….
I used to think Scientology would fail (and then eventually be saved) when it ran out of money due to DM’s Squirreling. I thought when they ran out of money that Div V would step in and save Scientology… hahaha… was I wrong!
Today David Miscavige is NOT running out of money, on the contrary, he is rolling in it like Scrooge McDuck.
But, what he is running out of is paying public at the bottom of the Bridge…
It’s like DM lit off a neutron bomb* that wiped out all the public and left only empty buildings staffed by 3rd world young people…
How do you hide empty buildings from the kool aid drinking public? I have no idea.
*neutron bomb invented in cold war to kill off only people and other life forms and save the buildings…
Many thought that way Robert. But for that to have come true scn would have to have been expanding when DM took over. It wasn’t. It had reached its peak inflow onto the bridge when Davie was a teenager. DM is simply squeezing out the maximum $ for the minimum effort from the already brainwashed masses. He simply did it in a more in your (public) face manner than El Con did. If he had simply let things alone the then existing public would have gone up to OT VII if a relatively few more years and found it to be a dead end with no OT powers obtained. They would have quit paying and the church would have a lot less $. NOT a good business plan. 😉
John Locke
Yes, I fear you speak the truth,,,,,
After more than 40 years, I am still sorting this out…
Hi Robert Almblad,Good to meet you. After 42 years in 2016 I am still sorting it out too.I am glad you may be able to help me along the sorting out path.Just when I think I have it done, the sorting out bit, a nightmare comes back to bite me.Take Care,Ann B.
Not to toot my own horn, but I figured out a few years ago that The Owner would run out of parishioners long before he runs out of money. I even had a plan for him — Pay people cash money to show up. Reverse the flow. He could fill his buildings in a flash.
hgc 10
You were right… and
the Anointed One is sort of already doing what you predicted with his 3rd world staff showing up at their shrinking Nuremberg Rallies
Dave,
If you borrow a pair of high-powered binoculars or a telescope from your old-school Eagle security personnel, you should be able to see the weeds growing in the parking lot of the most historic site near you, through the bullet proof glass of your office in building 50 at your club med desert mirage on the outer fringe of Hemet.
It is only proper that the IAS should purchase and finance an Ideal Org at the abandoned Walmart building where Claire Headley hailed her Taxicab to Total Freedom. This is as big as Rosa Parks refusing to sit at the back of the bus.
As time passes, your delusional catbird seat becomes more of a cat turd site.
So they made a “_huge_ dent”?
One definition of “dent” online is “a slight hollow in a hard, even surface made by a blow or by the exertion of pressure.”
“Huge dent” is just another oxymoron spoken by someone whose native intelligence has been dulled down to the moron level by cult retardation.
Oxymoron. Isn’t that a stupid steer?
“Throwing away items that are no longer needed” Er, let me see, what could these be? OEC Volumes. Tech Volumes. Hat Packs with PLs and HCOBs. PC folders. Supervisors. Technical staff. The list could in actuality go on and on. Wonder if in all Idle Orgs there is a furnace as standard for burning “old” LRH books and Tech/OEC Volumes? Well, St. Hill has one after all – successful action for raising the GBS (and thus the 10% commissions)! All replaced with “Big League Sales of Donations Gathering” packs. That’s all they need these days!
Hey Foolproof! You forgot books that Hubbard wrote! I believe staff and members are forced to turn them in or have them burned. Now who would want to burn perfectly good books by L.Ron Hubbard???? Hmmmmmmmm…………
Ideal Orgs have to be made very slooooooooooooooooooooowly just as progress up the bridge has to be very sloooooooooooooooooow and protracted and filled with hurdles hurdles and more hurdles, (tollbooths actually). The reason is because empty promises have to be delayed and delayed and delayed so the followers can be conditioned to thrive on anticipation instead of results. What is scientology if everybody is up the bridge and all orgs are ideal? It’s FINISHED.
Hey Roger! Do you think a snail crawls faster than Idle Morgues are made? Just wondering…
@OSD I can answer that question for you. A snail obviously crawls faster – you can see the progress a snail makes.
Nice, Valerie! Dagger to the heart!
TELL US MORE, ROGER! TELL US MORE!!!
Dear Susan,
Let me help you with this: I pay plenty already to gain enlightenment and status from this group. Stop bothering me about manual labor. I have enough to do with my time. Hire some goddamn movers and just let me see the results.
NSML,
Clam
I have a question. So the Dwarfen Furor is going to fund Valley. I get that. But how can staff make a living selling rundowns to staff and all the old time members, who have done those rundowns 2, 3 or maybe even 4 times before? Am I missing the big picture here?
OSD, for the most part, staff have not ever made a living working in class IV (V) orgs. They either had 2nd part time jobs or had a spouse with a regular job. I can count on ONE hand the number of orgs who were able to pay their staff a consistent minimum wage. And that was back in the 70’s when Scn was “booming”.
I was in, in the 70s in Hawai’i. Maybe the org was doing ok, but, our little crummy mission wasn’t. Doug Herring, who graded the OSA tests, had to cook up chili so we’d have something to eat. The most I ever made in one week was $100. Now for a staff member, THAT WAS HUGE! However, we also had weeks where we got NOTHING. Or, just $5, $10 or $15. And, on top of that, we were yelled at by the ED (some SO guy) for low GI! It was ALWAYS our fault. That gets tired real quick.
OSD, ah the good ol’ days. I knew the Zwers from Hawaii org. The Org in the 70’s didn’t pay much better.
Dwarfen furor does not pay for anything
he just harpooned a couple of whales
who wanted to do OT 8 who had
some really great folder stuff in their sex closet
( worthy of double shots of D.M.s finest scotch)
Hmm. Mike you are either prescient or, DM is consistently responding to your commentary. It will be fun to watch and see how long he can keep the “game” going.
Hi ron lumberg, Good to meet you.I have been told I was a spoiled repulsive child more than once in my younger years and I must admit when I first read your post I felt annoyed because this is the only place outside The Sea Org and here the feelings are real not Ron’s World feelings,this is the only blog where I have been able to share my story & the bond I found here is something rare indeed.I make a donation also plan to do it again at Christmas.Always Ann B.
Hi Ron lumberg,I forgot to say Roger Hornaday is one of my guiding lights and not like the soap opera of the same name.He can be magical with his posts.Ann B.
Hi Mike, I had to add a PS to my post where I said I would send you a donation at Christmas,Take that David, this blog may be on the fringes of the Internet but we are Mighty!Look for Santa!XO Ann B.
I miss the posts that are real stories . . . not just commenting on the same emails and flyers that get sent around the bubble world. It’s kinda same shit different day. Having said that, I know you’re a busy man and are not obligated to do any of this. I enjoy the blog very much. And maybe there’s just not much to report on right now . . . I’ll check Tony O.
ron lumberg you sound like a spoiled complaining child and it’s repulsive. I hope you don’t fall back on the “I’m just being honest” line because honesty is a virtue deserving of way better representation.
I KNOW! It really is repulsive! I should kick my own ass. How can we work together to make it better, Roger?
Yes, ron, let us work together. You bend over and I’ll kick your ass.
LMAO! Hey, you guys can kick my ass if you want! I haven’t had a good ass kicking in decades. Of course, I’m no spring chicken now. So you’ll have to go easy on me…
Ron , it might be just speculation on my part but this blog is reaching a variety of view points , people in different stages of discovery and research. Never know which item is going to help someone.
Fair enough, Marie. And you’re right. Thanks for your response and thank you for being polite.
Ron, this is simple economics that you have some control over..
Can I assume you are making monthly payments to this blog, like many of us that read Mike’s blog everyday? I make payments so Mike can spend a little more time entertaining me and less time working at his regular job. I think it’s a fair exchange. I get a good belly laugh from him or one of the commentators almost everyday. Even at 50 cents a day, its less than my Starbuck’s tip everyday..
my Starbucks Grande Pike is about $2.25 and I drop the $.75 in the bucket
And, it does does NOT make laugh! I just get jittery and need to take a Tums.
Yes. I do make donations . . . not monthly but fairly regularly. As I said, I love this blog. Perhaps my words were taken the wrong way or I didn’t clearly express myself. Or I am a spoiled, repulsive child. That’s possible as well. Regardless, I read this blog daily and I have nothing but respect for Mike. In fact, the only person I respect more than Mike is Roger Hornaday.
You know, ron, talking about somebody while they’re present is the height of bad manners but sometimes the nature of the comments can cause the offense to be a tolerable one, enjoyable even.
Wimp….
@ron lumberg: I’ve got a challenge for you. This is not meant to be mean or anything. For one month, Wake up every morning and come up with one interesting sentence off the top of your head and write it down first thing in the morning. You have no choice in the matter. Just do it. Every. Single. Morning. Only one sentence. Remember, each sentence must be different than the interesting sentence you came up with yesterday.
Remember, everyone is judging the sentence you came up with. Remember hundreds, no wait, thousands of people will be judging the sentence you just wrote. But hey, no pressure, enjoy yourself while you do it.
I sometimes have interesting things to say. I’m lucky. I can say them when I have them to say, and when I don’t I keep my mouth shut. No one cares whether or not I comment on this blog, well, maybe they do, but they won’t really miss me if I go away for a few days, and they will still interact with me when I get back.
Mike, however gets to get up every morning and has something to tell us. I usually get something out of what he posts. I appreciate the fact that he takes the time to post anything at all. I wouldn’t have the stamina to do it. No matter what kind of donations he receives, it’s a thankless job.
And yes, you are a spoiled, repulsive child, but there’s a bit of that in all of us, so we love you anyway.
Hi Valerie,Thank you for your honest post I love your posts because you cut right to the chase and straight through the crap that cos spews out.As I posted to ron lumberg I have been called a repulsive spoiled child more than once in my life and y’all let me come play with you on Mike’s Blog the best blog in all universes.Love U Ann B.
What I really enjoy reading, regardless of the content of the blog, are the comments which even on a slow news day might be very entertaining. Mike Rinder is a man of courage making amends for his innocent transgressions (done with good intentions). His sense of humor is worth enjoying for it’s dry sarcasm alone. But I come here everyday also to find great comments which proporionately I believe are more worth reading than the sometimes casual talk banter I watch at The Bunker, which I at least browse once a day. When I read the NY Times or the Wall Street Journal, I learn from the debates in the comments section. So a tip of the hat to Rinder’s commenters, several who also comment at the Bunker.
I second your emotion
I used to bring assorted candies to work every day and put them in a bowl on my desk to share and invited anyone in the office to partake and have a few.
One day a woman in the office poked through the candies, didn’t find anything she was enthused about and complained to another worker who was standing beside my desk: “she never brings any good candy”. I replied: “it’s better than what you brought” which shut her up quickly, because, of course, she had never brought any candy to the office to share, of any kind.
No room to complain then. So let’s compare Mike Rinder’s blog to… ?? Who? Is it better than yours? Has more relevant stories? Interesting articles? Time spent by Mike in maintaining the site and moderating comments? Insightful commentary? Thursday funnies we all look forward to? The sheer genius of the “Regraded Being” Comic that makes us all laugh and cry at the same time…?
Do you even have a blog? But you can always just stand beside the desk and complain.
Hi Ron, if you are looking for real stories you could always read one of the many fine books written by exes. There is also a plethora of reading material on the internet, including Tony O, along with you tube videos, and podcasts to listen to. This could help to fill in the gap on a ‘slow day.’
If you’re looking for new, breaking stories, well, aren’t we all? It’s always exciting to see new developments.
I understand the need to find out as much information as possible and wish you well with your journey.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Give your money, then, give your time, give your children.
Give us your blood, your sweat, your tears.
In return you get back heartache and debt.
Your enlightenment comes when you realize that you have been a fool.
Huzzah!
Let slip the braying of the clubbed seals.
I recall you predicting this months ago Mike.
Who knows what they are up to? It could just be a ‘busy activity’ to keep the key people doing something – anything, and to keep their thoughts trained on the Ideal Org program. The cult is good at keeping their Sea Org doing MEST work and occupying them with menial, redundant tasks for 16 hours a day.
How much will the Valley Org cost in the end? They must be over 20 million now. Ridiculous. It makes perfect sense that when the flock is tapped out and a few million short, The King of the IAS and the COS will cover the rest and no-one will even notice how that couldn’t have been done much earlier before.
Nancy Cartwright has been hoodwinked. So has the public of The Church of Scientology, who thinks that the church needs every penny it can get because it’s a minority religion and needs to ‘keep expanding’ to meet the demands of the future and to stop the ‘dwindling spiral.’ Ha! If they only knew how much money is being hoarded this very moment, and under the exclusive control of David Miscavige – their King.
Toadally phase one! Like yeahhhhh!
I wonder how much pressure came from local authorities to do something with the eyesore?
You have to take the “What Brought this On Test”
1.Nancy Cartwright showed up at Flag wearing a rain barrel with suspenders.
2. Valley org building over run with Plaque infested squirrels.
3. Valley Org OT committee each bought a Ferrari with church reserve money.
4. building funds were in Chinese bond market certificates.
Addition to above.
5. ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Well isn’t this special…..I bet the valley public are REALLY excited.
Do you think her highness of the valley was/is one of the volunteers?
Nah that is for the low life’s with no money. Don’t wanna risk a blister
on the hands of the most beautiful people in the valley.
She’s not that beautiful…
And what makes her even more unattractive is being a spokesperson for a vicious, evil, toxic, militant cult.
But, hey, I do love The Simpsons! So don’t have a cow, man!
Budapest Org reached the same step last week. They are emptying out the new building now and getting ready to start the renovations.
There was also an astonishing development – ex-FSSO staff member Kea Verweij stepped forward and donated a huge sum, i.e. one half of the entire budget, somewhere between 2-3 million USD. How she got that money I have no idea. She was penniless when she was kicked out of the Sea Org. She is now the CEO of a small company that sells “double helix water” (which sounds like a scam too), but that simply cannot account for such a vast increase in wealth (btw, she also complete everything up to OT V recently).
Correct Peter. “double helix water” is a scam being perpetrated on those who are totally clueless about basic chemistry. Fortunately the product (plain ol’ water) is harmless. It is also worthless. The scam has been growing and is now almost global (first world). If she spearheaded this in her geographic area she could make a lot of money as the product costs almost nothing to produce. In relation to its selling price.
Are you referring to Kangen water? I know people that are into that. I always thought it was a scam also.
No idea Doug. Never heard of Kangen water. If you google “double helix water” that should tell you.
I’m surprised they haven’t turned into a MLM (multi level marketing) like Amway (cult).
“Kangen” water is a brand name, not a “type” of water, made by Enagic, a Japanese company. The product is ionized water, specifically to provide alkaline water as well as cleaning out a lot of the stuff which is poured into water to keep it “safe”. We’ve tried it and it had a particularly salubrious effect on my lady, who suffers from CFS. The machines come in many levels of cost and results. The better ones have between 9 and 11 filters. They tend to be pricey, Kangen leading the pack. Keeping one’s body alkaline is wonderful as things like cancer – and other diseases “starve” in an alkaline body. So much of what the public eats is very acidic and diseases thrive on such an environment.
Artificially alkaline water (kangen) only neutralizes acidity where it has direct contact, like the stomach and upper bowel. When consumed daily, the upper bowel in particular becomes overly alkaline and side effects begin to appear. Most common are erratic heart behavior, hypertension, nervousness/anxiety, urinary tract and bladder infections, and stabbing side pains.
That’s interesting Peter. Thank you for your report. Financial irregularities will most likely appear more often as the number of true believers continues to decline.
Maybe Kea also got a Duggan kid. Plenty to go around, I believe.
This has got to be the most amazing scam ever! How on earth do you get DNA into the water (from my 1st year mole bio classes there is so little in a sell its got to be crazy plus you have to centrifuge it down from the rest of the celluar material) and what bloody good it would do from a nutritional POV is beyond me.
I am guessing it is just some water and protein but then that would be amino water or am i missing a new scam.
“Throwing away items that are no longer needed”, like Royal Governess Cartwright?