Another of our Special Correspondents was inspired to send in a report about the state of St Louis org.
This is of course home of the mighty “101st Airborne” fundraisers (cringe) and part of the first “ideal continent” (because the main part of the city is West of the Mississippi and so arbitrarily is part of the “WUS continent” of the scientology world).
This article appeared almost exactly 6 years ago. And that was already 6 years in to the “ideal org” ponzi scheme as the single most important thing all scientologists were supposed to be working on.
You can see a shot of the article here and then the text follows in italics. My highlights are in red script.
BY TIM BRYANT • [email protected] > 314-340-8206 Sep 10, 2010 (2)
Work begins to rehab old German House in Lafayette Square
Sept. 7, 2010 — Work has begun on the old German House on the corner of Lafayette and Jefferson in St. Louis. Workers carry away old material off the stage of the auditorium. The work is being done by the Anderson Building Company. J.B. Forbes [email protected]
By spring, restoration should be complete on the ornate auditorium of the German House, the 82-year-old Lafayette Square landmark where the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra recorded in the 1950s.
The four-story brick and terra cotta building, at 2345 Lafayette Avenue, has been vacant most of this decade. Opened in 1928 as a German cultural center called Das Deutsche Haus, the building later carried the St. Louis House name and was home to two Christian schools before it was boarded up and seemingly forgotten.
The Church of Scientology, which paid $1.9 million for the building in 2007, is reviving it. After a year of planning, work began this summer to restore the building’s main auditorium, a smaller side auditorium and the entrance facing Lafayette.
The main auditorium’s marble wainscoting and terrazzo lobby floor will be freed from layers of paint or dirt and returned to their original gleam.
Seth Mayer, project manager of Anderson Building Co., which is overseeing the work, said gilded pilasters and intricate plaster work on the walls, balcony and over the stage also will be restored.
Still shining in sunlight are west-facing leaded-glass windows depicting the faces of German composers. The stained-glass skylight in the foyer needs only minor repairs. Original Egyptian-style lighting pendants also survived. They will be removed from storage, cleaned and rehung.
The exterior needs some tuckpointing, repair of terra cotta ornamentation and a good cleaning, Mayer said.
“Structurally, the building is in fantastic condition,” he said.
After thieves took copper gutters and downspouts, water leaked through the roof last year and ruined much of the auditorium’s maple floor, which must be replaced. Mayer said the original ‘sleeper” floor system of lightweight concrete and wood supports beneath the maple also will be replaced.
The specially built floor and 28-foot coffered ceiling contributed to the excellent acoustics that led the St. Louis Symphony to use the auditorium as a recording studio in the mid-1950s. During the same era, “minor league” opera companies also performed there, church and Anderson Building officials said.
The restoration will cost $940,000, plus about $100,000 to deal with lead paint.
Chad Lane, the church’s executive director in St. Louis, said the nearly 65,000-square-foot building is the ideal size for expansion in the metro area.
“It was quite a search we did,” he said. “We have very specific requirements on the square footage and such.”
The Scientology center at 6901 Delmar Boulevard in University City will remain open.
Once auditorium and foyer restoration work is done at the German House, work will begin to renovate the rest of the building for Scientology classes, counseling and administrative offices, Lane said. Church officials hope the entire project will be done in about a year.
The total cost has yet to be determined, but Lane led a fundraising effort that generated about $4 million. After roof repairs were made last year, detailed planning on building restoration and renovation got under way.
Hedda Hall, who lives a block from the building on Whittemore Place, said church officials went door to door three years ago to tell residents they had bought the structure. Hall, 38, said Thursday that she was glad it is being returned to use.
“My impression is they have a lot of money, so they have the ability to do a nice job,” she said.
Linda Skinner, president of the Lafayette Square Restoration Committee, said the project will eliminate a neighborhood eyesore. She added that she approves of the church’s decision to allow outside groups and individuals to use the auditorium for weddings, meetings and other events.
“It’s nice that someone is taking ownership of it and actually restoring it,” she said.
Typical scientology empty hype and false promises. Surprise, surprise – this building remains empty today and nobody is working on it.
St Louis Org has been fundraising for a decade – they started at $4,000,000 needed for renovations. They are now up to $12 million plus.
So much for the rocketing expansion they keep announcing, saying it is demonstrated by new orgs opening everywhere.
Our Special Correspondent also sent in the “completions” page from St Louis org mag.
Of course, we know from Denver “ideal” org that they keep publishing the SAME completions for 3 mags in a row. And St. Louis is not even an ideal org, so one can imagine these completions have been stagnant for 6 editions of the mag.
Well, if this was 2 months worth of completions it would be pathetic. A year’s worth is a joke.
But wait, there’s more.
According to our Special Correspondent, 99% of the names on the list are STAFF and children of staff.
And even then — 4 individual Grades completions, One Student Hat, 2 individual Academy Levels and one Dianetics Course. And Roy Brock read some books.
This is the impact on a metropolitan area of 2.8 million. And St. Louis is the only org in Missouri (population 6 mil) and also serves Iowa (3.1 mil) and Arkansas (2.9 mil) because there is no scientology org in either of those states in this era of massive 63X international expansion. That is 12 million people. They are not even reaching one in a million.
But, if you listen to them, they are making planetary clearing a reality.
In truth, the only thing epic and monumental in the world of scientology is the level of delusion under which they operate.
To add a followup here, the St. Louis ideal org project did not show up in a lineup of US ideal org campaigns in progress in a PR piece put out in March 2018 (and also seems to be missing from Scientology’s website, though there had once been a rendering of what it was supposed to look like when finished), and would appear to fit the description of one that has been completely abandoned, with the building being put up for sale:
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/millions-and-millions/#comment-213548
The amount of money raised piques my interest. Beginning with 4 million, now up to 12 million and counting. Does it really cost this much to restore this particular building? Is there ever any itemization of the ideal org reno costs made public, and is it possible that the money raised for these buildings is actually going to something else?
I’m not sure who’s the more pathetic pack of criminals here in STL, the last handful (literally) members of the mob family who’ve been reduced to running gambling rings for the elderly, or the last dozen scientilogists begging more money to provide “services” nobody wants. At least the mob knows these are their last days while the latter continue drink the mighty midgets koolaid in complete denial of reality.
Bit off post but if Ron Dolitte is reading this check out this video
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/everything-rich-man-trick/
It’ the one I tried to find for y’days reply but couldn’t.
It’ the most thought provoking thing I’ve have ever seen, even if 50% of it is speculation only it will still make you cringe at what the rich of this world get away with.
Acknowledged.
I really love Saint Louis. I went there when I was a kid. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the U.S. Not too big, not too small, and the arch everyone associates with Saint Louis. All the phone wires are under the ground. There are not telephone poles or wires above the streets. It sets Saint Louis apart. The Church of Scientology will get ripped to shreds in a town like that. They will get ripped to pieces in 2 weeks. If not from their own out-ethics, then their O/W’s. And that is the sad thing about that church. Why can’t they just be a church and be happy with their tech? 🙂
The last thing a Scientologist can ever be is happy.
I’ve been to Saint Louis twice in my life and liked the place. The history there is wonderful, start of the old western trails and being on the Mississippi (really grand river) and such. Even found a partial porcelain doll in among some old ruins, one can only imagine the stories it could tell if it could speak. I hope you are right and they turf Miscavige and his “church” back to whence they came.
Scientologists are not welcome in a lot of places around the world. They cause themselves to become unwelcome with their lies. Saint Louis is no exception. And never will be. 🙂
Talk. In scientology it has always been only about the spoken word. Incessant rapping. I suggest they round up round up some latent musician Sea, Orgers and call’m RonDMCruise
Well they call me white chocolate and you know that’s right
Cuz I can bust rhyme late into the night
Now I know what you’re think in’ he’s old and he’s white
But his rap is pretty good and he’s kind of outasight. Yo!
At the current rate of 47X expansion, plus the projected increase in that number to 1,078,876X by 2018, $cientology will have Planet Earth cleared, according to my Ideal calculations at 2:04:16 AM Eastern Standard Time 8/04/18.
This is so exciting!!!!
What would be the legal barriers to prevent someone who contributed substantially to the renovation, and is now out, from suing for an accounting of the $12 million that’s been paid in to be spent on the building?
I don’t know what the legal barriers would be but it would result in one hell of a sec check.
The barriers would be the (no doubt) dozens of documents the donors signed indicating that they were religious donations that the Co$ could use however they wish, even if it was not for the renovation of the St. Louis Org and waiving their rights to any refunds or accounting thereof.
Just wondering: Might the cult be down to 15,000 worldwide? Or, am I just a dreamer?
OSD,
I thiink you are correct.
Subtract 3,000 in SO leaves 12,000 bubble dwellers.
Oh! Be still my heart!!! Don’t tease me Jose!
They’re counting me Jose so make it 11,999.
OSD the 15,000 number was from years ago. You have to keep in mind the 47X expansion last year and 65X expansion so far this year. Doing the math the number of members are now 45,825,000.
Aha! I thought I put comma in the wrong place! But, 48 + million does seem a bit low. Remember, they are mankind’s only hope…
I think it’s way less than that. I think it’s only staff members and a few public. I believe most members are UTR now.
Mike Rinder might be able to tell from his blog stats, traffic viewing, if on an increase. But then again, once a scientologist in good standing has done a thorough research of the internet, they may not post on these blogs or view them anymore, and just walk away silently, not wanting anything more to do with it. Lots of factors to consider.
It takes some guts to post of the blogs. And it’s kind of ironic how scientology is supposedly all about communication. The first time I posted I was shitting bricks and yet I had done lots of TR’s.
If you look at SD and Denver orgs as samples– they have about 150 people at most, including staff and all children, then multiply by the number of orgs I think that number would be close.
OSD, if you remove full time staff and only count those on service in a year it would be FAR less that 15,000. Maybe 5,000
Well, technically, the Loo isn’t the only org in Missouri. The Kansas City Org is on the Missouri side of the river. However, the point still stands. KC’s catchment area would include Nebraska and Kansas, along with the western half of Missouri. St. Louis Org has to deal with a “continent” split, servicing the Illinois suburbs. I don’t think that even they can get away with telling people in southern Illinois to drive five hours to Chicago or Cincy (okay, Florence, Kentucky) instead of going to St. Louis because of some weird-ass arbitrary division.
By the way, I drove by the Future Chicago Idle Morgue on Sunday. It’s still abandoned and rotting nine years after purchase. Looks like the Cusanos and their rapidly-dwindling flock are stuck in their shitty storefront on Lincoln for the foreseeable future.
That is good news Esiando,the more the flock dwindle the brighter we all glow.❤️
Spell check messed with me,Espiando.
“Well, technically, the Loo isn’t the only org…” Do you realise that by using the word “loo” that you are really saying that the Kansas City Org is a toilet? Loo is a slang term here in Australia for toilet.
So the COB has an Opera House.
OK, Al Capon had soup kitchens.
Ponzi Scheme well describes this scamming of people’s hard earned money so Slappy Miscavige can live his lavish “enurement” lifestyle while the clubbed seals “give all” and go broke for absolutely nothing of value to humanity and in fact – they are a huge liability – those Scientologist’s who don’t leave and continue to stay in DENIAL and DELUSION. Most of the clubbed seals can’t work or function well when they leave Scientology – they are disabled and broken.
I would like to start a non-profit where the money helps people who have been harmed by destructive groups such as Scientology. Perhaps be the 1st REAL non profit where 100% of the money is used to actually help people in need.
Scientology disables the able….and these fools still in $ciendollatry are truly disabled if they can’t see through the ponzi scheme by now.
“Scientology disables the able.” Whoa! That’s the best definition of the cult I’ve ever read, WAO! Exceptional post! Bravo!
At the org I went to on Wednesday night…the night before Thursday’s 2 PM stat insanity, all manner of strategy was used to get stats up. Parents with little kids suddenly appeared every Wednesday evening to get BIS (Bodies in Shop) up. Short videos were played to count as some kind of service done.
One time they even counted a baby still in the mother’s womb for BIS……nah I made that up…but wouldn’t put it past them.
It was all bullshit and I called them on it. They’re response: What’s the matter with you….you don’t want to play the Birthday Game? F*ck the Birthday Game. F*ck LRH. F*ck the midget and f*ck $cientology.
TICK TOCK.
Harvey, PLEASE don’t hold back! Just let ‘er rip. A baby in the womb? Thy name is desperation…
Amen Harvey! I think that the baby in the womb should count …… it is a body in the shop ….so to speak!
Harvey,
Could be twins !
That’ll send their stats into the stratosphere…
HYSTERICAL HARVEY!! Pretty soon the CULT of SCIENTOLOGY WILL COUNT EGGS IN WOMEN’S OVARIES AND SPERM IN MEN’S TESTICAL’S AS Bodies in the Shop and RAW MEAT! LOL
I think that’s already going on.
And over half of them declared already. It ain’t safe no place!
Yes Harvey, I can dig that.
Thank (insert name of favourite deity here) they don’t count sperm, if they did their membership would be in the billions. I’d like to see how the regge’s get money out of them. Oh jeez, mind going in strange direction: maybe they’d take them to the sperm bank and make withdrawals.
So, the church bought an very old, masonry building near one of the most deadly earthquake fault zones in the Continental U.S. F’ing BRILLIANT!
They should have built it right on the fault so they could demonstrate their super pooper powers in stopping any quake. I’d pay good money to see that!
I believe Roy Brock is the former Snr C/S at Narconon Arrowhead, who left after the string of deaths. Anyone confirm?
I believe that is correct statpush. I met him in Clearwater. He has been married a few times and divorced. What is he doing in St Louis again? I thought he moved away cuz he did not have ARC with St Louis Org.
WTF Roy Brock?
What is Roy Brock doing???
He is playing Musical Chairs and it is actually a “rundown”…. it is SOP in $ciendollatry. I watched those clubbed seals do it for years. I even did it….it is trying to get some relief…from the constant pain from being invalidated and nullified by $cientology, INC.
It keeps the clubbed seals in confusion – they move around from Org to Org …Post to Post – never stable. They are connected to a very evil and destructive SP and SP Group. The truly 2.5% is David Miscavige and his minions that keep the criminal organization working.
Yes, same Roy. After Narconon he went to work for Clearwater WISE consulting firm Measurable Solutions working with Physical Therapists. He was fired from there though many years ago.
Interesting Aaron, I had also heard back in 2012 that he signed a staff contract at the London Org (of all places) to be their Snr C/S (I don’t think that ever transpired). The timing was interesting. Arrowhead was being investigated and Roy was conveniently out of the country.
Looks as if Roy Brock did a FULL CIRCLE – spinning down the DWINDLING SPIRAL of nothingness that SciendoLLAtry deems peopLe to be – nothing.
Doesn’t it seem that scientology is outpacing the Flat Earth Society meetings, the Christian Science reading rooms, and Mlm aloe vera distributers in inplodingness?
Yep! Especially Christian Science reading rooms…
More lies more deceit. The truth about the church of scientology is that it is about lies and deceit. Years and years and years of it.
All I see at this stage of the game is outright lies from the church and probably a fair number of parishioners who are outright lying that they are scientologists.
…decades & decades of it….
Scientology takes lying to a whole new level. Lying to oneself is the major accomplishment. The koolaiders do it with aplomb, like we all did at one time. Don’t know if anyone remembers Hubbard saying in one of the PDC lectures, “You should be able to lie.” I’ve never forgotten it.
I know my comment is a “duh?” Lol! I’m preaching to the converted.
In 2011, they claimed that some of the work had been completed.
Several area construction projects advance June 10, 2011, Tim Bryant, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I guess her fairy-godmother didn’t show up to wave a wand and make it all happen.
She just didn’t postulate it.
Nah. She’s CI. With overs and withholds…
Well that’s the problem when you attend the Our Lady of Eternal Enurement Church.
I was a faithful member once….I’m sad to say.
Note to self. Never start a construction project with these words on your lips: “The total cost has yet to be determined,…”
OVER RUN!
Don’t you mean, “The total cost will never be determined,…”
Too bad that noticing outpoints in the Scientology bubble is considered an “enemy line”. One major outpoint here is “added time” but this is explained when you consider that “added money” is (a pluspoint) senior to completing cycles of action. That’s why these projects take 10x longer than if any other company was in charge of getting them done. Milk local parishioners for as much and as long as they can. If Scientology really did deliver what it promised, Miscavige would take those IAS billions and instead of putting it toward defending his crimes and harassing whistle-blowers, he’d “straight up and vertical” the buildings so that the masses could get cleared. But Miscavige has proven that a) he is incompetent and b) he’s content to continue raking in millions while forcing local parishioners and big whales to continue to fund something the IAS could have put there 10 years ago.
If I were a Scientologist, I’d not donate one more dime without being able to look at the IAS books to see where they are wasting people’s hard earned money. Of course, even asking for transparency is an “enemy action” and would land one in ethics about as fast as mentioning Mike Rinder or Ron Miscavige.
The church is notorious for wasting other people’s money. Poor planning, no training and lack of experience, and of course, “Make it go Right” – results in additional charges, fees and penalties – because they need it NOW NOW NOW! So, no expenses are spared to arrange a special flight for rare African wood paneling, while staff can’t pay their rent, buy food or maintain an acceptable standard of living.
GETTING MONEY IS ALWAYS SENIOR TO HELP in the Church of SCIENTOLOGY!
“If I were a Scientologist, I’d not donate one more dime without being able to look at the IAS books to see where they are wasting people’s hard earned money. Of course, even asking for transparency is an “enemy action” and would land one in ethics about as fast as mentioning Mike Rinder or Ron Miscavige.”
Amen to that! I guess the prospect of being booted off the Front Porch of their Eternity is just too much to contend with.
Fear makes people stupid…so stupid, in fact, that they don’t even notice they are indeed being blatantly and cynically manipulated through threat, coercion and obvious lies.
The human capacity for denial and self-deception is astonishing and heart-breaking…so many deluded souls, giving all for paper statuses, garish bowling trophies and the approval of their fellow cult members.
When that bubble finally bursts for them I sure hope they have non-cult family and friends to support them and at least one bank account that they’ve hidden from the cherch.
I’m confused. They bought the place for roughly $2 million. They said it would take roughly $1 million to renovate two auditoriums and an entrance. They had already raised $4 million, and are now up to around $12 million. But no work is being done. Why? They have the money.
Why? Because shut up and get your ethics in!
Hahahaha! Good one!
Thank you for setting me straight on the path to true enlightenment,Thomas.As a sheeple once upon a time,I had strayed from those true big beings Ron DM & TC.❤️
Shut up, you CICSDB who walks on Hollywood Bl.
Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Those renovation funds are a tempting target for someone who needs to get their stats up this Thursday, and it’s not like they have to show the books to anyone.
I think the Toronto Org’s fund was drained at least twice for other projects.
They can’t plan anything. The only thing the cherch understands is an emergency and when one happens (which one does now each week at too!) all they can think of is to print TWTH Booklets and fundraise!
Yo Dave,
Ever since you cut loose your non See Ogre Idle Morgue team your Hole program has flopped. I suggest you get back to the wild west days (yes, You Dave can dress up like El Con for a photo shoot) and see if you can rehire the James Gang to help out Mark Pisani and your other beat downs to git-er-done.
And don’t forget, you will need more money. Always more money. And more scotch. Always more scotch!
Do it Dave!
which part of “Ponzi scheme” did you not understand?
The only victims left for the criminal organisation to mind-fuck are those who cannot bear to separate from their loved ones and those who enjoying making loved ones separate…
Studius Judius – congrats…you have the EEE PEE of ScienDOLLAtry…..they have the money yet continue to CANNABALIZE the SHEEPLE! Heh – it worked for the SUPER POWER SCAM – 20 years of scam and 225 MILLION for SLAPPY’s COFFER
When you reach your eeee peeee, they give you a bottle of piss from the dwarf….
One sub subject I think maybe should be researched are those category of Scientology executives who have built orgs or Missions up from a starting point of 2 or 3 people, and then built for real those orgs or missions.
The stories of how execs of orgs or missions started small and grew, and the human staff costs in terms of hopeful staff joining, leaving, along the way, and the overall methods of that “growth” are important.
There has to be those factors to start off a small group of people, launching into this growth cycle, and the fact that always, there is the decline and disintegration phase for those orgs and missions, it really is important to the story of all Scientology orgs and missions, that they fail.
Scientology Hubbard focuses on the building and maintenance (managing) parts of this cycle of org and mission growth.
Scientologists take on the challenge of building up orgs or missions, some Scientologists were good at it.
Most Scientologists have experienced the deterioration phases of orgs and missions.
The failed endings and periods of dismal falling apart in the histories of orgs and missions is revealed in the ex member chat sites and in books by ex members.
I wonder what all LRH was thinking when he admitted to Sarge at Creston that LRH felt he had failed.
In the early 1950s in the Mary Sue Hubbard article, “The Way Ron Works” Mary Sue tells how LRH thought that it all was worth his while to continue doing Dianetics and Scientology.
I wonder more about those final moments of LRH’s life when he was in despair that he had failed (what all did me mean by “failed” when talking to Sarge).
I hope someday Ray Mitoff goes public, and Pat Broeker goes public, those two are the last still alive who saw LRH at the end of LRH’s life, and they may know more details of LRH’s final mindset. (When is Jesse Prince’s book coming out, already! Marty too went up to Int right after LRH’s death, didn’t he, and Marty may know what Ray said about LRH’s mindset and “case” and outlook there at the end. )
David Mayo is the one. Forget Ray and Pat.
And also a book from Jesse wouldn’t be good at all. He definitely has the wrong personality to be creditable enough.
Imagine Tommy Davis – this would be a big fat bullet.
Mayo ain’t the one to get info on LRH’s final mindset. He left in early ’83, was removed from post in ’82.
yes, that is a question, what does he mean by he failed, but I believe in the same topic he said he wasn’t coming back. And yet all the orgs have a office for LRH. I wish all public and staff would get that statement by Sarge.
Wow, never ceases to amaze me. After reading the first section I expected to see next an empty renovated building. Oops, is not even renovated.
On reding the Completions list I thought ‘wow, one month to read the original thesis!!!!”, this guy must not have done yet the altered version of GAT Student Hat (otherwise he will never have finished any book).
But look, fraudulent activities are a hallmark of miscavige – why end the renovations when a few brainwashed parishioners continue to give money?
In fact, miscavige most suffer a loss overtime he opens a new org as that means less income for him…tsk, tsk.
“Original Egyptian-style lighting pendants also survived. They will be removed from storage, cleaned and rehung.” But they’ve been back in The Hole since 2010 because of their suppressive lightbulbs.
Your comment made this day! Thank you.❤️
Glad to be of help 🙂 But be sure to keep an eye out for PTS chandeliers, like Miscavige does…
I once ran into a PTS chandelier. It didn’t enlighten me one bit, Dr.
I am thrilled to announce the discovery of long lost LRH documents. They pertain to the Organizational Board or Org Board for short.
As written in His own handwriting and verified by his holiness COB hisself let it be known that His Beneficent Midget will hereby forward assume the responsibilitiess of:
LIC – Liar In Charge
PIC – Predator In Charge
DIC – Dick In Charge
So in addition to COB please add the following abbreviations to all communications to His Midgetness:
LIC, PIC and DIC.
That is all.
I vote for Dick In Charge! Why? Well….he’s just such a dick! And…always has been.