Comments on: Chicago is Getting DONE!

By: JohnnyB

JohnnyB — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:22:35 +0000

Oh this is funny seeing this.
I remember driving by this “ideal” building over a year ago, to our favorite sushi place.
It’s a nice redone area of the south Loop, and I remember thinking “wow what a dump, Ohhh, Scientology. LOL, ok.”
How many Scientologists are even IN Chicago?
I know it’s a huge metro area, but I’ve been here all my life and never heard anything about it. Not even about any of their “amazing outreach programs” I’m sure they go on about.

By: DOC Boucher

DOC Boucher — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:32:14 +0000

Found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKrOF3Wje40

By: Alcoboy

Alcoboy — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:55:56 +0000

In reply to Aquamarine.

I remember back when I was on staff that FSMs would try to get commissions for routing public onto free services like the introductory films and lectures only to be told that if ya don’t flow money into the org, ya don’t get no commissions.
Yep. That’s how desperate things were. Probably still are.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:10:27 +0000

Scienbollocksy “truth”: what you feed will grow…as in:
Little Lord “Ass Ahoy!” ‘s offshore accounts…and his Hubbardian sociopathy.
It’s a lawyered-up, give-zero-fucks, multi-decade con and international criminal corporation.
Total failure awaits this Chicago iteration of The Borg, and it will be a blessing for those who FINALLY realize that scientology is just toxic garbage and end up walking away.

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:04:36 +0000

In reply to PeaceMaker.

I thought FSM commissions came from selling Bridge but then by supreme luck I managed to avoid being an FSM so I don’t really…though, yes, now that I think of it, sure, FSMs get a rake-off for selling status’s, etc., and since there’s hardly any “Bridge” being done any more then they have to be depending upon straight donos.

By: PeaceMaker

PeaceMaker — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:03:19 +0000

Oh, and about a decade ago the CofS had some sort of PR campaign in cities where empty buildings had at that point been sitting derelict for between several years and a decade, to get pieces in the local newspaper about how the properties would very soon be made into “new” churches to meet demand for services. I think I’ve seen that in at least one place they did that around 2010, and then came back and repeated the claim around 2012; and I can think of one mission that briefly moved to upgraded new quarters, and did the same.

I guess that the demand wasn’t really there and that “expansion” wasn’t really working out as imagined, and hasn’t in all they years since?

By: PeaceMaker

PeaceMaker — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:35:42 +0000

In reply to Aquamarine. FSMs also depend on fundraising, right? The orgs could stop but what are effectively commissioned sales reps, would continue on.

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 06:33:44 +0000

Yes, shout it to the world in caps; “NO FUNDRAISING…NO RECRUITMENT…we’re done with that.”
But I can almost hear the Still Ins’ thoughts as they read this…”Riiiigggghhhht…uh huh…”

By: Peridot

Peridot — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:51:07 +0000

One of the great ironies of this group: Ostensibly, org activities focus on a) the discovery and cultivation of the personal greatness of each individual and b) helping individuals to precisely identify and remove any roadblocks to such. Yet their means of procuring and handling personnel would make a first semester student in any business school cringe or, worse, laugh and wonder if Scientology’s HR practices are a joke.

There is no shortage of research to show that an organization’s performance correlates to the conditions and treatment of its talent. People—staff and Sea Org in particular—are, per Policy, treated so poorly, it makes one gasp. How public are treated is not far behind. Scientology has evolved into an environment of abuse and bullying. How these attitudes and practices are coming back to “bite them” should be crystal clear to anyone who has completed The Consequences Rundown (part of Super Power) or a host of other (ironically) C of S services.

Why don’t they genuinely ask themselves: What did we do to ‘pull this in’? #shrinking

By: Jere Lull

Jere Lull — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:24:09 +0000

In reply to otherles. There is no org without the regges. The place can't operate (for long) on pure postulates!