Another week of fun in the bubble.
Eight Orgs-One Cause
Get your money any way we can. Charging $75 for a “convention” featuring a singer, dancer, actor nobody has heard of is a good start. About the same as the Ellie Goulding tickets we bought recently. I know which show I would prefer.
And just a note, why don’t they get Toronto done? They have owned that building since the 70’s. It’s an “ideal building” and they have had it for 40 years…
It’s always about the money
Food, glorious food
Seems to be about the only thing happening in PAC.
More not so glorious food
A bowl of pickle cucumbers? How inviting.
A whole new world…
And of course it is monumental. And they are rolling out the “big gun”… You know if Miscavige had half a brain he would use Ray Mithoff for this sort of thing. If he doesn’t want him to actually DO anything, he could be a tours reg as he would attract a LOT more people than this guy.
Here he is again
This time it’s a “closed door briefing” – the other one in Pasadena (who knows when that one is as they forgot to put the date on it) is for anyone.
What is it with HAPI?
If the “Flag Italian OT Committee” isn’t going to do something about Orlando or Sadlanta or Might My Mammy, they could at least do something for Monza, Brescia, Turin, Catania or the other small and failing Italian orgs… Seems their reasoning for giving money to HAPI is what they see in the movies. Wow. Any gimmick will do if it gets people to hand over money.
Might My Mammy
3 YEARS on staff and she is a Student Hat completion. Tells you everything you need to know about how mighty this place is. And they PROMOTE it!
This is just ridiculous…. What is the point? Proving that My Mammy staff can do things everywhere BUT Miami?
The end of psychiatric abuse “is becoming” a reality
I thought the “global obliteration” of psychiatry as a subject was “happening” a decade ago? Why are you scaling back? Love to see this “movement across the nation.”
A new campaign
This one is pretty sad. I was sent a bunch of these and selected just a handful. Apart from the lie “Fact: 2.5X” and that the real meaning of “a career like none other” is that it is a career of 14-16 hour work days with no pay, I think the median age of these people is about 55. And remember, they could choose ANYONE THEY WANTED. Phoenix didn’t have anyone at all to take a photo of apparently.
The Legendary Grant “ideal org” Cardone
This all makes total sense. Weird. And in this line-up that is saying something.
Clearing Denver
The ‘tactical steps” are recruiting some people as there are no staff in this org. We need to “brief” you. Bubblespeak for “you need to come in so we can try and pressure you into joining staff and if we fail at that we will try to get money out of you…”
Step One for a Stress-Free Financial Future
Avoid scientology like the plague…
The next great civilization
Oh, so THIS is the real finest org ever. And THEY are going to be creating the next milestone. Good to know.
I wonder if these people ever read what they write?
Get in power on the 3rd and 4th dynamics
Give money to the IAS. It works every time. If that is your “go button” they will certify that with your donation you are “in power”…
Recruitment
Someone must have realized they don’t have staff in these “ideal” orgs. Never seen so many pleas to come in to be recruited in one week.
No words
Seriously?
Having arrived on the back porch of Infinity I must say that the smell is far better than on the front porch. Stepping into the back yard now… mmmm
Harlem word-clearing service: Multitude
noun
1. a great number; host:
a multitude of friends are lost when declared SP.
2. a great number of people gathered together; crowd; throng.
3. the state or character of being many; numerousness.
4. the multitude, the common people; the masses.
I think what you meant to write was: few
adjective, fewer, fewest.
1. not many but more than one:
Few artists live luxuriously after getting involved with Scn.
noun
2.(used with a plural verb) a small number or amount:
Send me a few SO recruiters.
3. the few, a special, limited number; the minority:
That cult appeals to the few.
Make a few sentences until full conceptual understanding and then see the registrar to signup for your retread of: “Hubbard: How to Bullshit your Way to Infamy” course.
Poor Snr C/S Flag, looks like he’s just been given the word that DM has a special briefing just for him.
That poor girl in Miami – PPO, man that is the ultimate WORST post in the entire org. I wonder how long she’s had it? A month maybe? Nobody ever stays on that post long. QSH as your post stat – you have to be some kind of masochist to take that post.
Cesar is on a rapid exciting project huh? Won’ be there long will he? Sure I’d love to come in a take up 4 hours of your time trying to recruit me for staff Cesar, call me…
Tools for Financial Security — How to plan your finances so you never go in debt? Wow, that’s a sure fire way to setup the noobs for some cognitive dissonance, well done! I’ll be right over to %%companyaddress%% to sign-up, uh.. wait..
I’m so glad the new Patron has finally found an EFFECTIVE bunch of planetary crusaders to financially rape her.
Seems nobody does KTL any more, at least none of the promo writers, lol
Glad they have a multitude of Harlem staff in LA, I translate that to mean 2-3 and they need even more to send… I guess it’s not a problem having nobody in the actual org because nobody is coming in anyhoo.
You’d think those still in would have had it up to their eyeballs with special briefings and expansion events, I know I was sick of them long before I left — to think of enduring it year after year after year. Gag me with a spoon. So so so so so with googleplex exclamation points and Shermanite adjectives HAPPY to be out of that.
Have a great weekend all
2.5X in the real world probably means that 1.5 people joined staff there by making it 2.5. .5 = bottom half, top half, sliced down the middle and the left side joined or is it the right side? Ah, the bizarre sad world of $camology.
A note about safety. You probably don’t want to post this comment, and if you don’t that’s fine. You mention that you will be attending an Ellie Goulding concert. May I suggest that you have a friend stay at your house while you are away for the concert, as Scientology dirty tricks department might try to vandalize your house, plant drugs or other illegal things to frame you, or plant listening devices in your home.
I haven’t even seen a single light on in the TO Org since they boarded it up – There’s no planning of any kind going on. Personally, I suspect that they will abandon the building, but that’s just me. Plus, the “temporary” digs on Peter St. are grossly oversized for their public as it is.
Regarding “It’s Always About The Money” – I have been doing some reading of the “Shooting Stars” series by “afaceinthecrowd” at the Ex Scientologist Message Board. This guy worked with LRH and tells stories about LRH’s money scams and lots of other stuff. Caution: as well as informative it is also entertaining, a very big rabbit hole. He refers to elron as “Hisself” – lol
Seeing Bruce ‘Not Very’ Wiseman wearing all that IAS gold on his lapels just tells me that the man is gullible as hell to buy into Der Leader’s scams. He must be on anti-depressants!
Most shocking is the photo of the Snr C/S FSO. The slumped shoulders, the bowed head. The posture is a person who have been completely beaten down, dreading the next blow. He looks completely defeated. Everything you need to know about David Miscavige and RTC in one photo.
“He looks completely defeated.” Yep! Just like all the rest of them cult members…..It’s got to be nearly impossible for them to smile anymore. Unless it’s forced…….
” Find out how the end of psychiatric abuse is becoming a reality”
Yea, right. Psychiatry is stronger than its ever been. Once upon a time Scientology possibly had a chance at exposing and cleaning up the psychiatric industry. Now not only are they not a threat, they’re laughed at.
Is that what auditors do these days, is run after Psychiatrists with baseball bats? 🙂
Hi Lawrence, Your post had me laughing,thank you.Love, Ann.
“The end of psychiatric abuse “is becoming” a reality.” This line was big in the early ’90s. I waited and waited and waited for the end to come; and we’re STILL waiting.
I know now what the trouble has been. It’s the baseball bats. They’ve never been used before!
“How to manage people for increased production and profits.” I just ran that line through my Scn translato-tron and got, “How to exploit hapless victims for the purpose of your own material gain and personal power.”
I admit, reading this gave me a laugh. But, only because the reasons are all too real. For example “A closed technical briefing for OT V’s” means of course that the doors to the briefing will be locked from the outside and not opened until the attendee’s wallets are empty. And, the only thing that is taking off in the church’s George Orwell 1984 style expansion is the buildings. Buildings are popping up “everywhere” that belong to the church, but there isn’t any Dianetics and Scientology happening in them. DM Says “Expansion like never before!” and shows pictures of new building he went to the ribbon cutting ceremony for and Scientologists take it to mean Scientology is taking the world by storm. They are sadly mistaken. 🙂 There are more church members in “The Hole” than in the HGC’s and Academy’s of all Ideal Org’s combined nationally. 🙂
If you’ll excuse me, I’m off to attend the latest super-important confidential briefing where I’ve been promised the latest inside scoop from the Church’s top officials. But somehow I get the feeling it’s not going to live up to the hype. More likely there’ll be nothing particularly confidential discussed, and worse, it’s not going to be brief.
At first going to a church event seems like a hip thing to do, for people still on their first introductory TR’s course or something. Understandable. For me that is as far as it went. In the middle of the course they were not word clearing me, but saying “Hurry up” “C’mon you are taking too long to finish”. Hey how long is it supposed to take for somebody to move their bowels on the toilet? Should there be somebody else in the bathroom with them saying “Hey, c’mon you are taking too long to move your bowels”? The Church of Scientology never actually was, so how can it be like it used to be for anybody, unless they are crazy? It is all a matter of time, before a person wises up….. wises up and walks on. 🙂
@Murray Luther When I supervised the Briefing Course a certain celebrity paid the big bucks for the briefing course then was upset when she discovered it wasn’t brief. Really. She’s still in, and still hasn’t done the course.
Hi Valerie, You have me rolling on the floor with your BC post.I could listen to your experiences for hours and enjoy every minute! Love,Ann.
I’ll wager a pack of smokes that dm, that little girly-girl, is buying up all these buildings just to sell them to radical islam. All he has to do is put minarets on top of them and the little dick will make a huge fortune! … I have the gut feeling this little bastard is going to split very soon with everyone’s hard earned $$$!
Nailed it, Lawrence. The Closed Door Briefings: In theory, to keep the wrong people out; in practice, to keep anyone dumb enough to have attended, in.
I have this fantasy that someday, someone gets into a live Int Event, where Gold is filming, with Apple Box Boy up on the stage Shermanizing on and on about the cult’s expansion, and this heretofore considered safe person in the audience suddenly pops out of his or her seat and ROARS, “Sir, do you equate the expansion of the Scientology religion and its orgs with the expansion of the square footage of the buildings which contain them?”
Frankly, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. I’m serious.
Hi Aquamarine, Thank you for a sharp post.I wondered that too, it would be a hoot to see the Sermanspeaker answer your question! He would probably go sit on the Front Porch of Infinity and have a huge Sulk! Love,Ann.
“Multitudes” of staff are being trained, huh? Oh, brother! Very well done on that multitudinous lie, Harlem.
Okay, you’ve thrown down the gauntlet and I’m going to pick it up. I want to audit the Pacific Cafe for compliance with federal regulations governing the use of the term “organic”. If they’re advertising their beef and coffee as “organic”, they have to meet certain standards, and I’ll lay you odds they’re not doing so, because that would mean spending more money on their raw materials, and you know damn well that no Scientology entity will spend extra money on anything if they can avoid it. Get your certs out, Pacific Cafe. I’m going to be in the LA area next week for another audit and I’ve got some free time. Let’s see if you’ve put your money where your mouth is. You’re now in my bailiwick.
I wonder how the Scilons deal with wog health inspectors when they come in to monitor their cafes. Their arrogance isn’t going to cut it with regulators. And wait until next year when the cafes come into the purview of the Food Safety Modernization Act. They’re going to be screwed.
Actually, thinking about it, I’ll be pretty close to Hemet as well. I’ve never seen Int Base. Maybe it’ll be worth the drive.
Memo to the Italian OT Committee: Instead of sending them money, send them food parcels. I’m sure that HAPI has never seen food that isn’t deep-fried (or for that matter, seen vegetables other than potatoes), so it might be a revelation to them.
When I was in Toronto a few months ago, I drove by the Idle Morgue building site. The weather wasn’t amenable to pictures, though, so I didn’t bother with them. All I have to say is that it’s the building site that time forgot. They might as well just pull a Durban and tear the sucker down.
I notice that the event with the King of the Douchebags at Saint Hell is a webinar. I wonder if Grantiepoo is even allowed in the UK. Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise probably has him on a watch list for undesirables. Or maybe if he left the country, the US wouldn’t allow him or his consort back in. I’d pay anything to watch Grant Cardone be the target of a cavity search.
Define “psychiatric abuse”, Bruce Wiseman. If there’s at least one practice in there that’s condoned under DSM-V, I’ll be shocked. They’re still referring to sixty-year-old methods that aren’t recommended today.
The most fun part about the cookie-cutter staff recruitment bumf isn’t the Geritol Brigade in the photos (and none at all in the Phoenix one). It’s the identical quote cited to different people. I’ve heard of a hive mind, but this is ridiculous. As are the flyers.
No, Harlem, the next great civilization begins with putting your first settler on a coastline with plains, building a worker, then building a military unit to defend it. Any devotee of Sid Meier can tell you that.
I’ll lay you odds the big recruitment push is happening because March 13th is only six weeks away, and there’s a mammoth stat push happening for the Birthday Game. That’s the only reason they do things, other than out of sheer greed.
Well, there was a lot of material to work with this week, so I’ll let everyone else have their say. Waiting with baited breath for Regraded Being tomorrow.
I was listening to one of Jeffrey Augustine’s interviews with Aaron Smith Levin and they figured out that the Sea Org spends like 84 cents a meal on food. (this was a couple of years ago, so maybe it’s slightly more now) but Jeffrey said that the church countered the figure by saying they buy in bulk and that everyone is fed organic beef. As someone who buys food for my family and has worked in restaurants, there is NO WAY that they are buying organic beef for that price.
I think it’s much like them saying the church is expanding or whatever. if they say it’s organic, then no one inside questions it. but it’s not.
It’s the organic beans that were grown from the organic shit that came from the organic cow that See Ogres are consuming! Everything is ideally Org anic in the cherch.
Dave,
Just to keep you in the loop: the flogging tour will be in Pasadena on Saturday, January 30th. Let me know how it goes.
The photagraphy on “flag world tour” super fish eye lens… Makes 50 people look like 500.. Just weird like the dutch tilt in battlefield earth.
Bruce Wiseman better wise up to the fact that the current
national discussion is on implementing (or not) a set of
questions that all doctors have to ask their patients if they
experience any type of depression (this is in addition to
taking all the vitals).
Mr Wiseman better move a little faster as his eight ball is
out of telescope range.
Some observations about Thursday Funnies.
Shorter Cesar (who has no last name), in Orange Country for a brief time: “Hello unnamed person! I want to meet YOU!”
Hey Diedre Donnelly, what do you get when you cross your 2nd dynamic with your 3rd dynamic? An orgy! Now, if you want to take that business to the 4th dynamic, I don’t know what you call it, but it sounds really tiring.
About that Scientology Tools for Financial Security Course, when you say “turn every outlay into an investment in your future,” does that mean that when I outlay rent, I’ll have a roof over my head next month, and when I outlay for groceries, I’ll still be alive at Christmas, and that kind of thing? Because when I outlay for Scientology courses, I find that I end up back at the beginning: It’s always give us more outlay. I think youse have a strange definition of future.
Hey Lt Commander Vicki Schwantz (spelling intentional), Why doesn’t Denver already have mgmt to execute tactical steps? Seems to me that if you have to jet all the way in from Int Base just to do something so basic as clear Denver, which should have been done 50 years ago, the tactical steps you should be taking is to close the org. Just sayin’.
2.5x staff joining, over last year. Numbers of blinkered fools joining staff is a generalization. Let’s get specific. What’s the net of those joining and those departing? How much you want to bet it’s <1x?
Crossing your 2nd dynamic with your 3rd then adding it to the 4th not only sounds exhausting but I believe it’s illegal in Georgia (as most enjoyable things are).
I can’t even find my first dynamic, let alone the rest of them…
Proof…..I joined and departed within 2 months and I’m sure I am in that 2.5X figure.
When I said “blinkered fool,” I wasn’t talking about you. 😉
Thank you hcg10, but I did not take offense. I was a fool then but thanks to my “new education” I’m not. 🙂
Bodies. We all have them.
In my line of work I see all sorts of them. For the last two decades I’ve witnessed the deeper problems that show up after years of not taking care of your body.
When I see these photos of older men and women they look sickly.
The men with the giant bellies are at risk of serious ailments that might kill them instantly (COPD, Heart Attack, Stroke).
That’s the public.
Now looking at the staff members and sea org members – lack of sleep, lack of actual exercise with the purpose of exercise, awful nutritional habits, smoking (likely), stress (it’s real people and it kills you).
One thing getting “out” does is gives you time to consider taking care of yourself for the people that are going to be in your life when you need them (family I’d guess mostly).
If you are not one to get out and exercise every single day – just a walk will do you good – please break the habit. Get a FitBit, it helps a lot to actually see how much movement you give yourself.
Those out of this cult need to be stronger and healthier than ever. Mentally and physically.
We should send mirrors to the Sea Org members so they look in it and see how they’ve degraded.
Gee, I’d LOVE to take a course at the Seattle Life Destruction Center. BUT IT’S NEVER OPEN!!!!!! At least when I’ve walked by.
I’m tempted to visit the Seattle Ideal Morgue for shits and giggles though. But the tractor beams…
Brian, they’re completely packed with new public! The org is so full, they are actually turning people away! That’s why they’re keeping the doors locked! I mean, you would too if you were the ED!
But Hubbard said to keep pushing people into the org even after the floor has caved in!
To err is human. To forget that The Man Who Fell To Earth starring David Bowie was a really bad movie is really…um…human.
Bowie just died. It’s too soon. We’re still in the total reverence stage.
That may have been the motivation for the MSP Film Society to show the film.
Nice recruitment push by the cult to fill their empty buildings. DM is a complete idiot, we all know, but when it comes to business and finance, he really excels at his idiocy.
Most companies start off with small, but adequate office space and as they add personnel, they acquire larger offices. This is done usually when their existing offices are close to bursting at the seams. This wanker buys a 4 story building with something like 15 part time staff and 10 active public, forced into buying the same repackaged product over and over. They can’t fill it with public and 3 of the 4 stories stand empty. I guess when the few, brainwashed public that they do have pay a million dollars for an “invictus, maximus, retardus certificate”, they can buy these empty shells. Now if they can just pay their taxes and heating bills.
But, this is all the better to contribute to their demise. Thanks Dave! You go boy!
So that Grant Cardone promo lists “dinner and a webinar”.
Webinars are something your boss forces you to do, but you go along because you’re on the clock, haha.
Does Grant not even show up with his meat body for this things?
Victoria, his meat body is about ALL that will show up (along with a few functioning circuits).
I love the image. A few people sitting around a crappy laptop watching Grant Corleone telling them how to get themselves noticed. Let me save you the webinar fee: Find a crowded location, light your hair on fire, run about in small circles screaming “The BTs are coming!” and you’ll get plenty of attention.
There saved you 50 quid.
Someone must have sent a memo that all PR pieces must have smiling faces. Normally, the staff look tired, sad, dazed and confused. Or they are using stock photos from an airliner.
Italians????
I wonder if they know that I was the first Italian clear (audited the level in Italy) 68/69 Clear 1314. after completing the SHSBC at ST Hill , and Like John Mc Master am out !!!!!
I wonder if they wonder WHY….. so many good guys like me and you all, feel the way we do.!!!!!!!
Often my mother would say to me Michele… hubbaldo will take all your money????/
No ma I would say to her he will not because whatever he can do I can do better than him..
Italians a bit like the Indians by and large would prefer to make love and not war…… BUT they are not stupid……. and they can quickly tell you to …..”Va a fanculo”
I have lived in Durban South Africa…for many years and when Ron came to Johannesburg in the early sixties. I was begged by Jane Kember to go to Johannesburg and hear him out…….
My response???? I will think about it only if he comes here in Durban where I live.
Ciao amici
Mike Moretti
PS
Life Is good and F.ck the rest
Thank you in advance ANN B.
I love you too
Hi Mike Moretti, omg,a wonderful post and I knew you would know how I feel about you.XO Ann.
Wow! Very fresh! I am so very interested to hear and know more.I hope you do find it within yourself to tell more and more.
Hi Mike, Thursday am with coffee and the funnies! The only thing better is RB on Fri.I had a laugh and then felt sad for the juniors and the kids who will now be handled by their elders with less stress.As in if you are a kid and your parents are stressed out why not sign em right up for the Sea Org.Less stress for you and hey what an education the kid will get! As for juniors,I had a few stuffing my mail when I became letter reg but they blew after about 2 months in,so I was my own junior and stuffing plus letter regging was stress enough!All my love & thanks for you and your Blog every day!XO Ann.
Ok, the Harlem promo piece is a joke. 7 pictures of staff and only 2 of them are black. Seems that not many staff coming in from the Harlem community. Hypocrites to the max.
And the quote by Hubbard. With friends like Hubbard who needs enemies.
You had me at the Bowl of Pickles!
Really, Doug? We have a bowl of pickles somewhere? I like pickles! How come no one told me about the free pickles?
Hi OSD, Just found your post.I like hummus and pickles, but I would not trust a bowl of pickles at any Scientology function.Has to do with those darn regges…Love,Ann.
OSD, you of all people should know that nothing in Little Shit Davy World is free, not even the pickles…
I know, I know….but, I just thought I might get, at least, one. Sadly, I won’t…..
I think the Italian OT committee would be better off giving their money directly to Mel Gibson, since he seems to be their ‘source ‘ for their understanding of Scotland.
Zing!
Ouch! Absolutely true, but, OUCH! Nice post Chee!
I’m glad they flew from Miami to Tokyo, Japan to start the Tokyo org, because if they flew from Miami to Tokyo, Jamaica to start the Tokyo org, that would have been the suck, because there is no Tokyo in Jamaica and if they flew from Miami to Osaka, Japan to start the Tokyo org, that would have been a little closer to the target though still wrong, but frankly flying from Miami to anywhere in Jamaica is a lot closer to the org that Ron counted on and sent telexes to than flying to anywhere in Japan, when they could have flown someone from Portland to Tokyo, Japan which is still a long way, but closer than Miami, so what am I saying, I’m saying stay the fuck in Miami and get your own org in order and leave those sushi munchers to tend to their org founding they don’t need any dumbfucks from Miami to show them how to the upside-down wrong thing in every instance, they can figure that shit out for themselves.
Thanks for starting my day with a belly-laugh!!!!! I love it!!!!!
I figure out shit all the time! Does that mean I get to go to Tokyo? I speak a tiny bit of Japanese. And my wife is Japanese-American. Does that mean she flies for free? I need answers here!!!!!
hgc, you’re forgetting how mighty and OT Miami is. Here’s the actual inside skinny: They opened a wormhole to Japan right from the ED’s office in the org. Just stepped through and setup the T org and in a matter of weeks it was St Hill size.
What’s that? You don’t think it was that way? Harumpf. Stop being so CI. I can’t help it if the wormhole actually opened in some other universe that looked quite a lot like Japan. Them’s the breaks when you’re dealing with universal powers. Also note that the ED was a bit miffed about her ratty shag carpet left with a smoking hole in its middle. She assigned all involved Treason. Wasn’t a good day really. She could really scream.
The only way he could bring out Ray Mithoff would be to feed him 5 meals a day for a couple of years and maybe put him out in the sun for a bit too. Last time I saw Ray he looked like hell. Emaciated.
Did you see his soul any where?
Mary, I’m pretty sure most scientologists are actually animated robots. Sure they look real, but, if you can get close enough to look in their eyes, you’ll see wires and small machines.
OSD,
Yes that’s true, made in Japan in male and female models.
Purchased to do routine tasks even carry luggage to rooms in hotels.
The Scientology models work 24 hours a day, don’t eat food or talk back
or think of blowing .They salute and say YES SIR ! when you kick or punch them.
No more HOLE, you put them in a closet with switch OFF when stats are down.
It’s in DM’s office, inside a black jar with an upside-down pentagram printed on it.
Hi Espiando, Now I can’t get that darn upside down pentagram in dm’s lair out of my head.Laughter! Ann.
The Toronto Org building has been closed for over three years now, and they seem in no hurry to get the renovation permits. http://app.toronto.ca/ApplicationStatus/details.do?folderRsn=3676874
Until then, the horror show continues, while they hold banquets at a community hockey arena.
http://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/pix/IMG_20151218_215631.jpg
The Toronto Location keeps on rotting away & the city is still owed property taxes. The Leaside Gardens location is quite convenient, as it is a stone’s throw distance from Pie in the Sky studios owned by Tim & Ayda Bewcyk (Toronto Scientology Mini-Whales) Bewcyks seem to be long time Scientologists who appear to be recruiting via their studio facility. Judging from the often-used hockey arena location they remain active members. Cambridge Ontario church location seems like it recruits a lot of unsuspecting ESL students & new Canadians which is frightening.
http://www.piestudios.ca/#!contact/c24vq
Yep, Leaside Gardens is a local hockey arena. But it does have a meeting room good for 50 people to 300 people. I suspect that they chose this one because the event would be less of a financial disaster than booking a serious hotel downtown for 100 people and having 10 show up. This way, when they book the room for 50 people and only 10 show up, the financial wreckage from yet another disastrous event is much less.
The fact that they’re doing this suggests to me that whoever was supporting loss-making events in the past in Toronto is tapped out or perhaps has blown the cult entirely.
It’s also interesting to note that they are apparently sufficiently embarrassed about their orgs (ideal or otherwise) to not hold events there, where the room rent would be free…
I wonder John P if it doesn’t have an additional motive which is to try to attain charity status with Canada Revenue Agency. I am not sure if them raising the funds and paying it onward to the Charity run Leaside Gardens would or would not contribute to such a status.
Well it would be a lot cheaper if they held them at McDonalds. Plenty of seating, Exquisite gourmet meal just a step away for just $2 you can get a chicken sandwich and fries to ensure your eternity!