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Hubbard Hall HooHa

February 23, 2022 By Mike Rinder 33 Comments

Apparently when all the regges were busted as a result of the Chase Wave, Lauri Webster survived (though we have not heard from her for some time, so maybe she too was off cleaning dumpsters with a toothbrush too for a while)…

Certainly, the CSRT regges were not more ethical than any of the other scientology vultures desperate to vacuum bank accounts clean before Thursday at 2.

Whatever, she is back, pitching for money for the idiotic Hubbard Hall. This must be the most bizarre fundraising spiel in the history of scientology. Even the Frazetta prints and “signed” leatherbound books had more substance than this foolishness.

 

As I have pointed out before, scientology has absolutely NO need for their own “events venue.” They cannot even fill Ruth Eckerd hall, which is a perfectly good venue right in Clearwater. They only do one event a year there (the March 13 event), though I assume they would also do the IAS and New Years events in the Hubbard Hall if they ever built this thing. Still that is only 3 real events a year. And this is not even planned to be much bigger (if at all) than Ruth Eckerd. If they actually needed a bigger venue, which they never will, there are plenty of others in the Tampa Bay area.

But the real insanity of this is that they are trying to convince people that by having a hall named after Hubbard, ONLY accessible to scientologists with a valid IAS card, they are somehow going to “increase the presence” of Hubbard in the world. More behind closed doors, internal bubble mental masturbation is all this will accomplish. They are exposing Hubbard to the world MORE by holding their events at Ruth Eckerd Hall. At least some of the people that work there see the crazy (and they DO think it’s crazy) and they have a sign out the front that announces the event on the day it happens so those passing by on McMullen Booth Rd. see it.

The Hubbard Hall will NOT be a public venue.

At least they are not promoting this as if it will be an “economic dynamo” for the local community, “with 200,000 visitors a year,” like they did in 2019….

In another post from last year I compared how much money they had ALREADY raised and what that stash would buy in terms of an auditorium that blows away their plans. (Here are a couple of shots for comparison of an auditorium that has already been funded and built in a fraction of the time they have been “fundraising”):

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Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: fundraising, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, lauri webster

Comments

  1. Peridot says

    March 13, 2022 at 1:49 pm

    This multi-year fundraising for the L. Ron Hubbard Hall in Clearwater is so similar, as others have commented, to the multi-year fundraising for the Super Power building. It truly is remarkable that, still, so many people stay in Scientology and fail to notice the YET ANOTHER multi-year, bloody incessant and urgent fundraising campaign for another something. It’s like a “block” instead is in place of ego and “I’m Surely a Big Somebody” that continuously heeds the call to donate, rather than realizing that you are shark food.

    On Netflix, there is a documentary “The Tinder Swindler.” If a person still in Scientology watched that show, they may have a mental lightbulb turn on. It is so much the same: the “love bombing,” the securing of trust, and then begins the heartfelt yet eerily urgent pleas for immediate and sizable financial help.

    When you can truly see this pattern and mechanism, it is so obvious, but gosh it can be hard to see when you are in the pea-soup fog, soooooo skillfully generated.

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  2. Natalie Webster says

    February 24, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    The scam continues. I can’t even imagine what has to be going through the minds of public who have been through this same scam with the basic books, the buildings, the IAS etc. Scientology continues to move the goal post.

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    • Peridot says

      March 13, 2022 at 2:47 pm

      Copy that, Ms. Webster. That is the same flavor of head-scratching I am going through on this.

      Reply
  3. Fred G. Haseney says

    February 23, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    “With the hundreds of thousands of Scientologists traveling to Clearwater to attend the major events for our religion…”

    Maybe there’s to be a change made to the Grade Chart. One or two new steps which will guarantee hordes of Scientologists arriving at Hell Hall multiple times annually in honor of St. Hubbard.

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    • xTeamXenu75to03chuckbeatty says

      February 24, 2022 at 5:54 pm

      “….Hell Hall…..” my thought was this “Hubbard Hall” looks more like a paper airplane waiting to be launched by a nice Florida hurricane.

      Hubbard’s Hurricane Flying Hall In The Waiting.

      That rising edge to the Hall’s one end begs to be hurricane ripped off of it.

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      • Fred Haseney says

        March 1, 2022 at 5:18 pm

        “Hubbard’s Hurricane Flying Hall In The Waiting.”

        Thanks, Chuck. That’s a good one. If a water spout should come ashore at Clearwater in the same location as Hell Hall, I’d imagine that they’d engage in a hellish dance. If it does happen, I pray there be no loss of life.

        I lived in Clearwater in 1982 or thereabouts when a water spout came ashore at 4 AM. I watched it rip a huge oak tree from the ground and dangle it in mid air before dropping it across three lanes of Ft. Harrison.

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  4. ExScnStaff says

    February 23, 2022 at 3:01 pm

    At least event centers are expected to be empty buildings most of the time, unlike the mostly empty “Ideal Org” buildings.

    Sneaky suspicion would be that someone up the line in Scn management doesn’t like the idea of money going to a convention center.

    That’s not even mentioning suspicions they’re not the best customers when they do rent other places, especially since it is pretty much a given they’d go for the lower non-profit prices. Many years ago I worked for a company that burned its vendors and the venue for a trade show. For a future show, they had to pay in advance and pay extra as insurance they wouldn’t leave things damaged.

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  5. John P. says

    February 23, 2022 at 2:39 pm

    I bet I know how Scientology gets 200,000 visitors per year to Hubbard Hall. Have the buses carrying people from their Sea Org hovels where the spikes on the fences point inwards stop in front of LRH Hall each morning and make them troop through the building on the way to their jobs across the street. 500 or so people a day gets you to 200,000 a year, especially since Sea Org members work 365 days annually.

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    • Mike Rinder says

      February 23, 2022 at 5:19 pm

      I think you’ve nailed it….

      Reply
    • PeaceMaker says

      February 23, 2022 at 6:18 pm

      From what I find visitors to downtown Clearwater are about double that number, so perhaps they’re ‘postulating’ that half the tourists who come will want to see their hall, which of course would be a delusional estimate – but not out of line with others they’ve made before.

      It would also not be out of keeping for them to come up with a number like the total of all the guest visits they’ve had to their facilities in the last half century, they way they sometimes count everyone who has ever bought a book or taken an introductory course when making claims about their size. While they seem to be referring to an annual number in this case, I’ve noticed that sometimes it looks like their propaganda operations will come up with one misrepresented figure, and then apparently later on that is taken as the basis for yet another twist, resulting in something doubly removed from the reality of their actual declining fortunes; so it’s possible that an all-time number got transmogrified into an annual one.

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      • Kim says

        February 24, 2022 at 5:30 pm

        Like McDonalds? Hahaha

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    • Francis Khoury says

      February 24, 2022 at 8:29 am

      Or, perhaps they’ll do nothing and let this be silently forgotten as they devise something new in a few years.

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    • xTeamXenu75to03chuckbeatty says

      February 24, 2022 at 5:58 pm

      Wow, you’d make a good official Sea Org stat pushing creative staffer with that explanation of how to pad the stats.

      Right up a staff member’s stat pushing ability.

      You’ve been watching Scientology too long.

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  6. george.m.white says

    February 23, 2022 at 1:49 pm

    Laurie Webster was our last Sea Org contact from 35 years ago. The only way I managed to get rid of her was to keep laughing right in her face. She said “You are not taking this seriously”. Well, you figure it out Laurie. Laurie I would guess is now about 70.

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    • Briget says

      February 23, 2022 at 5:47 pm

      Poor Laurie. Soon enough she’s going to find out that Scamology doesn’t give a damn about her aging azz…no matter how good a job she’s done, and no matter how long.

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    • Patty Moher says

      February 24, 2022 at 9:07 am

      Yes, she would be around 70 now. I first met her in Boston in the early ’70s, She was about my age then. (I’m now 67). She was the reg for Boston Day. A sharp dresser, but no personality. Her empty head was filled with Hubbard drek and the desire to separate people from their money.

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  7. PeaceMaker says

    February 23, 2022 at 1:22 pm

    I’m sure DM would like to have a venue under his exclusive control, and I think he probably wants one that can be configured so that it appears full even as attendance and membership dwindle. It may also be convenient for moving events from venues like the Shrine Auditorium and LA, where they’re increasingly left with embarrassing expanses of empty seats.

    My bet would also be that they would try to make it available for “safepointing” events like supposed interfaith gatherings, as they do some of their hotel facilities; but they’re likely to face an increasingly icy reception if they do, and by whenever (or if) they actually get it built.

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  8. Chukicita says

    February 23, 2022 at 1:01 pm

    As a wog fundraising professional, it continues to amaze me that there is never a stated goal in Scientology fundraising. Usually a capital campaign for a new facility will say up front what the construction budget is — like a $2 million public broadcast studio, or a $75 million, 3-phase master plan for a convention center. There is also never a financial report to funders.

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    • Mary says

      February 23, 2022 at 3:02 pm

      I’m pretty sure the church has already raised enough money to build a grand Hubbard auditorium but, as was the way of the church with the Super Power Bldg, it could never let its parishioners know that.
      Defrauding is its specialty.

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      • xTeamXenu75to03chuckbeatty says

        February 24, 2022 at 6:02 pm

        Bingo.

        It’s “income sources” policy of Hubbard’s at the root of this. Hubbard said to not let up once you develop an “income source”.

        The Miscavige era new “income sources” thus can’t be “lost.” Even if they have enough money raised to meet the goal, so long as the goal is a building not yet built and finished and ready to be used.

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  9. Miss Dutch says

    February 23, 2022 at 12:02 pm

    I scrolled through the comments waiting to see if anyone else caught the phrase, “internal bubble mental masturbation”. Wow. Absolutely perfect terminology for the cult mindset. No misunderstood words here!

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    • GL says

      February 23, 2022 at 7:44 pm

      Does that mean any $camalalotofcashtobuyscotchfordementoology who rubs the top of their head will orgasm? If it is then I’m surprised that any of them have the energy or thought processes left to do any work. Talk about a brain drain.

      Reply
  10. Zee Moo says

    February 23, 2022 at 11:16 am

    I had not noticed the ship’s prow on the building before now. I bet the hurricanes will love that architectural feature.

    With all of the fundraising currently going on, how can any public answer their phones or go to any mOrg activity?

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    • xTeamXenu75to03chuckbeatty says

      February 24, 2022 at 6:04 pm

      My thoughts exactly. It’s Hubbard’s Hurricane Flyaway Hall In The Waiting is what it is.

      Reply
  11. safetyguy says

    February 23, 2022 at 11:05 am

    It seems to be a shrine to the human they worship.

    Maybe it is just me. I can’t figure that out.

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  12. Rip Van Winkle says

    February 23, 2022 at 10:45 am

    Visiting the Hall will be on every Public Arrival-Departure routing form.

    Ta-da! Stats!

    (beats having to get a sign-off from the LRH Hall Reg) ____ ____ ____

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    • xTeamXenu75to03chuckbeatty says

      February 24, 2022 at 6:08 pm

      When I was catching wind of Miscavige’s wishes to add the various “Front Groups” regges on the Flag Service Org routing forms, I immediately recoiled, as there is absolutely no Hubbard writing to justify that end of the gauntlet pilfering of the dupes even.

      Only the Hubbard “income sources” policies vaguely justify the money grubbing era of Miscavige. (There is an ASI LRH order for all ASI Staff to develop a million dollars income each staff member of ASI, yearly, through sales of “LRH products” to the public though. Miscavige i note displays to this day many of the ASI Hubbard orders.)

      As others have noted, they have enough money now, and don’t need more robbing of their poor members.

      Miscavige is decades past having run amuck and under Hubbard long ago, as bad as Hubbard is, he’d have long ago removed Miscavige.

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  13. Enrico Palazzo says

    February 23, 2022 at 10:28 am

    “… the hundreds of thousands of Scientologists traveling to Clearwater ….”

    More like tens of dozens.

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    • Mary says

      February 23, 2022 at 3:04 pm

      And even those are staff from Sea Org Orgs or Class V Orgs

      Reply
  14. Jimbo says

    February 23, 2022 at 9:57 am

    When I read the above, “with 200,000 visitors per year,” I just had to comment.

    I was once “ordered” to attend the “first and grand” Business Expansion Committee meeting at DC Org. I protested by eventually capitulated and went. There were chairs set up for about 100-150 attendees, but only 3 people showed. There was me and 2 others who, as I was told, were ex-SO.

    The speaker was the PES who was very nice and very experienced having been around for years. He stood up there and gave a beautiful talk about how DC would soon be cleared with the power of business owner participation. It really was a great talk. I sat there wondering what it was like to speak to empty chairs, having been a public speaker myself.

    Afterwards, and a bit sheepishly, I asked him what was up with the low attendance. He responded assuredly that there would soon be 100-150 visitors every week resulting in 50 weekly comm course starts. To this day I still wonder if he noticed my eyes bug out in disbelief, but I made no comment.

    I did show up the next week and the attendance was a whopping 2…myself and someone off the street who fell asleep.

    I never again went to the Business Expansion meetings and having always assumed no one ever showed. As with so may other marketing programs, it just dissolved away.

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  15. otherles says

    February 23, 2022 at 9:29 am

    (Sarcasm alert!) This hall will be THE center of technical perfection.

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  16. Dr Mac says

    February 23, 2022 at 8:49 am

    When I was last at Flag, and of course still gung ho, the one time I attended the March 13 event was like a holiday from scientology – getting out into the real world at the Ruth Eckhart. Of course, I walked out afterwards damn fast to miss the regges. That is one ability I developed which I have not had much cause to think of for a while. I could walk purposefully out of any scientology event or location without making eye contact, as if I had somewhere really important to be. Which of course I did – it was HOME!

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    • Todd Cray says

      February 23, 2022 at 11:15 am

      Sounds like they gave you a Superpower after all.

      Reply

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