They are apparently just “inches away” from actually opening this building — that has been sitting idle, fully renovated for a year or more now.
It seems the delay continues to be needing staff to man it and for Captain Miscavige to feel it is safe to show his face in public. So typical of everything in the bubble. There is always something that is a new arbitrary requirement, now it’s people trained on Dave’s OEC/FEBC because THAT is the latest “breakthrough” that will make all the promises come true.
Oddly they are now claiming this ideal org is different than “all the others”? How is that possible? Aren’t “ideal orgs” supposed to all be “ideal” (as in totally standard…)
Sound like there’s some squirreling going on in Chicago already.
It is really quite pathetic that all orgs and all Sea Org members in the US are working on accomplishing opening this building, a SINGLE building, and it drags on for months and months and months.
Scientology still hasn’t opened a NEW scientology org anywhere in the United States since Inglewood 12 years ago. Not a single new org in 12 years. This despite all the ideal orgs that were supposed to generate unprecedented expansion. And ScientologyTV. And “massive dissemination campaigns.” And the Golden Age of Tech. And Super Power, and, and…
In 10 years they will be ½” away from competion. 10 years after that they will be ¼” and 10 years after that ⅛” away…and on and on it goes. That is if, and that’s huge IF, $camology survives that long.
I used to get so upset when I would read articles like these about Ideal Morgue openings. How can they be so dedicated to this obviously long-term failure, the Ideal Org Program? How can they NOT see, after all this time, how can they not see that it doesn’t work and has never worked, not once?
I don’t get upset any more because I have had – if you’ll excuse the Scientologese – a cognition OF MAGNITUDE 🙂
No, seriously, I realized something, and once I realized it, all my anger and upset at Miscavige’s duplicity and cunning, and at the Still In’s stupidity and blindness just fell away – poof, it was gone.
Now I only pity them.
And in case you’re wondering, what I realized was that these Still Ins get lied to continually about Scientology and the success of the Ideal Org Program because they want and need to be lied to about
Scientology and the Ideal Org Program.
Miscavige’s lies are all they have. His lies are very likely at this point keeping them alive.
They have agreed so thoroughly and for so long to being lied to that his lies are now a drug that they need in order to survive.
They have turned off their powers of observation so thoroughly that they now need to be told what it is that they observe and/or don’t observe, and if they aren’t told by Miscavige then it simply doesn’t exist or it is a lie of some sort that can be safely ignored.
His lies are their drug, and he supplies it.
I do pity them. How totally addicted they are. How totally they have have trapped themselves into this toxic dependency on staying deluded.
And yet there’s hope for them. The more truth that gets out there the more likely it is that something will PING in their brains and cause them to wake up.
WE did – right? Why not them? We’re not so different from them. And they’re not so different from us. We just woke up, that’s all. Something, somewhere, somehow, woke us up and we were able to confront what was actually staring us right in the face.
Its possible that some of them will at some point wake up.
And those who don’t, unfortunately, will do down with the ship.
According to a scn, they were recruited while visiting another org. All orgs are recruiting on an all hands basis to man Chicago.
Supposedly there are about 50% or more S.O. staff. Recruiters do not care if prospects are ex- S.O. (A huge policy violation). They are to train at flag, for every post and may do so on a 2.5 year contract.
Either this person misunderstood the recruiter or they are saying anything to get someone to sign a contract.
Trainees used to have to sign a 5 year contract, complete, then upon return to their org, sign a brand new 5 year contract.
This person is under the impression that they can receive flag training on a 2.5 year contract and do not have to resign a new contract upon firing to Chicago.
I can’t help wondering about a bait and switch. Or the use of recruits as a pool for flag’s needs.
Trainees have said that while at flag, you are treated like an S.O. member on work study. They use you for labor which prolongs your training and working for flag. Some are recruited into the S.O. and ripped off without a replacement.
I can only imagine what the night training schedule is doing to the health and welfare of these trainees.
How many dollars in an inch?
Same as how long is a piece of string?
Ahhh, the anatomy of command intention dramatizing an accelerating dwindling spiral. Phew… took me a minute to digest this blog entry about the goings on in the bizarre bubble of Scientology before my mind could coordinate with the fingers on the keyboard.
Still processing the NOI Scientology marriage and TC doing his ‘pin ball’ impersonation of pinging between opposite ends of the loyalty/moral/money magnet. Burning the candle from both ends will get ya burnt Tom.
All I can really reflect on with all this is the betrayed staff member sucking this all up in their misguided belief they’re doing good. It’s sad, but the brainwashed and the weak of mind really do need orders, any orders are better than no orders. Life is just too scary to comprehend without them. Ha, ‘speed of particle flow’ has another definition, like the chicken with its head cut off… It’s brief, but Scientology is doing all it can to maintain running around in circles before the lights go out on that endeavor.
(Wonder how many legal servers will be in Chicago soon?)
In Hubbard’s day, if a program were so patently unsuccessful as this Ideal Org nonsense, it would have been shut down long ago.
Like Vladimir Putin, all Miscavige seems to know how to do is to double down.
For all his many faults, Hubbard was able to occasionally admit to mistakes and change course.
Miscavige, not so much.
“In Hubbard’s day, if a program were so patently unsuccessful as this Ideal Org nonsense, it would have been shut down long ago. ”
You couldn’t MORE wrong. In Hubtard’s day horribly unsuccessful programs were run all the time. If Hubtard wrote the program it could NOT be unsuccessful. It was ALWAYS not implemented correctly. Just like his HORRIBLY unsuccessful “tech”
Also, no no new missions*. And in 2015 they said Chicago would be finished the next year, so who knows what ‘inches’ or any other reference implying close, really means – if they even have any idea themselves.
* In the last decade there was Deep Ellum in Texas, that appeared to be in someone’s live-work space, and so looked somewhat like a standalone mission, even if it wasn’t actually anything more than a franchise starter kit stuck in someone’s residence – I suspect there are at least a few of those that members get ‘regged’ to buy, that never really get anywhere at all. If there have been any other missions that even opened in some form in the last 10 to 15 years, they have been easy to miss. Sunland-Tujunga did collapse from a standalone location in to some members’ home, and then last year opened a sort of satellite “public contact expansion space” in a tiny rented storefront with no listed open hours – but neither of their locations even make in on to the CofS’ official locator site.
Opening an ideal org would be so simple if they used some common sense. You only need one employee (or several in shifts). And the duties would be so simple that no previous experience would be necessary.
Step One: Arrive at org, unlock the door, go inside and turn on the lights.
Step Two: At closing time, turn off the lights and lock the door as you leave.
I can’t make it any more simple than that.
By the way, might not be too easy to get people to move to freaking CHICAGO of all places. Once a great city, now a hot bed of street crime and riots. What happened a week or so ago in downtown Chicago? I can tell you that you’d never see that here in Asia, where I live, in any major city, Bangkok, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Singapore, etc. We also have graffiti free subways, polite young people on public transportation, and clean streets. And for the most part very friendly people. I’ve lived and worked throughout Asia for over 23 years (my home is Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand, but I’ve spent time in all of the named cities above.)
So good luck on getting outsiders to move to a place like Chicago. And oh yeah, forgot to mention the climate there … At least San Francisco is cool and comfortable the whole year long.
Ah, yes, the tired old “hellhole” description from afar. Meanwhile, those of us actually in Chicago right now experience a blooming Chicago spring and all the real-life positives that far-away critics can’t be aware of. One of the many positives right now is a widespread non-interest in there being a Scientology Ideal Org on Clark Street.
Hey, if I’m wrong about Chicago and if all those stories about young men killing each other throughout the Lightfoot years and the trashing of parts of downtown last week are lies, than I apologize.
It’s probably just in isolated neighborhoods anyway that most Chicagoans wouldn’t set foot in. I wouldn’t live in a big American city again, but to each his own. I’ve only been to Chicago once, and I realize that like New York , there are certainly parts of Chicago that are wonderful to live in.
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Sounds like some pretty weak postulates from all those Sea Org OTs in getting this cycle completed. Can’t they get from A to B. What I mean is … CAN’T THEY FREAKING MAKE IT GO RIGHT??????!
Scientology should have died with Hubbard. One can only beat a dead horse so much.
??? Was the scientology “horse” EVER alive? It certainly didn’t deliver anything but unkept promises 40 years ago. There’s never been a Book 1 “clear”, nor an OT worthy of the title in my experience