David Miscavige is back for the big “New Year” bash at the Shrine Auditorium in LA next Saturday (Dec 16th — they do everything differently in scientology).
It seems, that in the “Scientology capital of the world” they are worried they cannot scrape together enough scientologists to fill the auditorium.
It only holds 6300 — and yet they are going to extraordinary lengths to bring in out of towners to make sure they at least the lower level of the Shrine.
Chicago can’t get 100 people to a local event, let alone shipping them off to LA. But the pitch — from CO FSSO less — “we all need to go to Los Angeles.”
Think about the fact that the number of Sea Org members in LA alone should be able to fill the Shrine: The Flag Bureau, SMI International, WISE International, ABLE International, ASI, Scientology Media Production, Celebrity Centre International, Bridge Publications, CLO WUS, AOLA, ASHO, LA Org and they also always bus in the staff from Golden Era and CST.
Don’t forget the other entities in LA: CCHR Int, Way to Happiness Fdn, Youth for Human Rights etc
And then there are the “Ideal Orgs” in LA — each of which should have 10,000 staff and public: Pasadena, Valley, Orange County, Ventura and Inglewood. And down the freeway San Diego.
With this array of scientology powerhouses available, why are they needing anyone from out of town? Aren’t they afraid they won’t have room for people who have flown in from the East Coast to attend and will have to be put in an “overflow hall” to watch it on a tv screen?
Apparently not, because they are very serious about bringing in out of towners — they have lined up 3 hotels to give special discounts to scientologists who fly in for the event.
Scientology, the fastest shrinking cult on earth.
A large contingent of TikTokkers will be live-streaming the event.
This is an organic movement of individuals that witnessed Body Routers taking advantage of tourist and non-English speaking immigrants and decided to speak up.
Yes I watched them as they announced over their bullhorn to the arriving SO members “The Aftermath Foundation can help you leave the Sea Org”
It might be fun to have people check the three event hotels a day or two before the event to see if they have rooms available. The Delphi has 207 rooms. Loews Hollywood has 628. And the Hilton Checkers has 193. Research shows that the current downtown LA hotel occupancy rate is around 72%. So that means that there are a total of 288 rooms that are likely to be available at these three hotels above and beyond the 72% that will be booked in the ordinary course of business. That means that the recommended hotels are likely to hold no more than 500 Scientologists who are traveling to this event. Of course, people are free to stay anywhere and there are 100,000 hotel rooms in the LA metro area to choose from. But if there are tons of rooms available two days before the event, that probably means that the campaign to fly people in isn’t going all that well.
Second, the problem with holding this event at the Shrine rather than at a hotel ballroom or convention center is that you can’t change the size or layout of the room if you’re having trouble filling seats. The last thing you want at an event like this, which is a major event for “the world’s fastest growing religion” is to show that you’ve got empty seats. They were able to adjust the tent size, seat spacing and stage size in the tent at the recent UK IAS event to cover the lack of attendees.
The Shrine holds about 6,300, of which about 2,700 are on the main level. The balcony holds about the same number, and there are boxes that hold another 300+. So Scientology has to fill the entire lower level or people are going to wonder if something is wrong. The cognitive dissonance of Dave talking about how people are flocking to Scientology while he’s looking at an auditorium with hundreds of empty seats is going to be noticed. They can probably get away with not filling the balcony, but they absolutely have to fill the main level.
I wonder if they’re losing the ability to bus in staff from around the LA area to fill seats. With the recent defection of Mitch Brisker at Gold and the ongoing losses of staff, they might be concerned about people blowing if they’re brought out of isolation to mingle with mere public. Also, it won’t be a good look if public who are wearing their Sunday best are seated next to Sea Org drones who are in threadbare, shabby civilian clothes. If I am a rank-and-file public and I’m surrounded by elderly staffers rather than my peers, I may not think about it consciously, but I would eventually figure out that something is off.
Those are very interesting points. I was wondering why they didn’t just bring sea org members from gold base in
Fred, I’ll drink to that!
I just had to tell this story: I remember the insanity of management targets re event attendances. We were once ordered/targeted, back in the 90’s, to have 200 at our local org event. I believe 3 showed up, along with a few disheartened staff. What was really wild was that we no longer even cared, as with all management targets, they were just ludicrous.
That night, though, two Sea Org inspectors arrived to view our attendance. imagine 100 chairs with 3 attendees. It was all such insanity at that point that the inspectors didn’t care either. They knew it was all just BS too.
I think the targets these days are just PR stunts…ordering 100 to show somehow means to them, and their devotees, that 100 showed, despite what is right before their eyes. Delusion can run quite deeply
I don’t remember the cult having too much trouble filling a large venue when Hubbard dropped his meat sack and area scientologists were ORDERED to attend. I was at Orange County org at the time and it wasn’t too difficult to make the trek up I-5 to LA.
With the self reported vast and unprecedented expansion of the cult since that time it seems to be harder and harder for them to fill just about any venue. Yet, at the same time the unwashed masses of WOGS fill sports stadiums by the hundreds of thousands every weekend in SoCal and pay good money to do so.
For some reason, even the highly dedicated OSA net nannies reading this and other anti-cult blogs can’t seem to catch a clue that they are being lied to. Or, maybe they think the hordes of ‘OTs’ out there are just watching ‘exterior’ to the venue so they don’t have to go to the trouble of getting their MEST-y meat sacks to LA.
(Puts on magic prognostication hat and starts waving fingers in a mysterious spooky (more likely trying to loosen cramped fingers) way.) Yabba…yabba…I forsee $camatology casting spells and using…ooh…eeh…ooh…the wizardy of…ooh…ooh…BBUURRPP…ah, that’s better…photoshoppus cheatus…ooh…ooh…
Don’t forget to bring the checkbook. (Or do they take credit cards now?)
They make you sign up to new credit cards, and then max them out!
Chase Wave: https://tonyortega.org/2021/12/20/insider-how-the-chase-wave-began-and-how-it-crashed-leaving-scientology-in-chaos/
Scientology has been shrinking since the 1980’s. I think the downward trend is guaranteed to continue at this point. Their criminal behavior is too well known.
I had to put on my reading glasses so as to read the part about what luxurious accomodations have been secured for out-of-towners.
It’s all about status, and stroking Miscavige’s itsy-bitsy ego.
After 37 years in scientology, I’ve realized that as a scientologist, I lost out on what the general population calls “life .”
Life and livingness outside of that cult includes reeducation as well as being educated on subjects never touched upon before.
My current education includes “What is a narcissist?”
It would behoove anyone still in that cult to read up on that subject, because your Miscavige has narcissist traits.
My best advice to anyone still in that cult is to go NO CONTACT immediately (that is, leave and never, ever have anything to do with scientology again). By doing so, you might miss the New Year’s Eve event.
Here’s to a better life for all of us, something I can drink to.
Narcissists don’t know how stupid they look.
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otherles,
Forrest Gump agrees: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
David Miscavige: Inadequate Behavior.