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Scientology Shriveling

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With great fanfare, scientology screams “expansion” every time they cut the ribbon on an old org relocated to an expensive new building.

Recently we saw one of their upcoming projects, Perth “ideal” org, talking about how they are going to be clearing “Malasia”, Singapore and Indonesia.

There is no thought of opening ORGS in these countries. Instead, they desperately fundraise to buy a new building for a small, failing org that has ALWAYS been small and failing and proudly proclaim this will herald a new era in countries thousands of miles away. Pure insanity.

Remember when Miscavige first announced his wondrous “ideal org strategy” accompanied by a graphic showing how these ideal orgs would generate groups, missions and then other orgs around them? (For the REAL reasons he embarked on this ideal org campaign, see Why Ideal Orgs?)

Here is the graphic  — he described it as “the answer to planetary clearing”:

And the follow up pitch for money for “ideal orgs”:

 

Since he launched this campaign, nearly 15 YEARS ago now, he has yanked the ribbon on dozens of new buildings for “ideal” orgs.

But the total number of orgs has NOT increased . See earlier posts on this subject:

New Churches of Scientology — Where Are They?

Scientology IS Shrinking — More Proof

Scientology Contraction

And we cannot forget that amazing graphic by Jefferson Hawkins, that appeared in a post entitled Scientology “expansion” debunked

 

Despite all these new “ideal orgs”, the number of “groups” — Applied Scholastics, Way to Happiness, Criminon continues to shrivel and Narconon teeters on the verge of extinction. Of course, the “handling” for Narconon is to buy expensive buildings to open “model Narconons.” Hey, it’s been so successful with the orgs, why not employ the same strategy with Narconon?

And as for Missions, this has also been a total bust.  See earlier post The Missions of Scientology — Where Are They?

Miscavige first tried the “Celebrity Missions” — Jenna Elfman in SFO, Anne Archer in Santa Monica, Isaac Hayes and Lisa Marie Presley in Memphis. But as soon as the hype died down, the camera crews went back to Gold and the back-slapping was done, those missions sank into the doldrums and eventually disappeared. Kirstie Alley’s Wichita Mission is the lone exception, it’s doors remain (barely) open.

Miscavige then pulled out the “ideal Mission” strategy.

John Travolta opened an “ideal mission” in Ocala in 2011. It remains an empty shell, propped up with out of town imports to try and keep the doors open. Surely this “ideal” mission should have become an org within a few years of massive 47X expansion?

The Mission of Bellaire next to Flag (it services their “unqualified” public and people who want to be able to tell the Flag regges “I am on course” to keep them at bay) was declared “ideal” — though the Mission of Clearwater is a morgue. And the “ideal” mission of the South Bay is apparently afraid to mention their connection to scientology.

But, the obvious failure of this strategy is irrelevant when it comes to “Command Intention.” If Miscavige says something is going to make planetary clearing a reality, then it damn well is going to do that. The only reason for failure is not that it was a stupid idea in the first place, but incompetence of the SPs around him has sabotaged his brilliance.

So, now the “ideal mission” strategy is being exported. To the most unlikely of places (and what prompted this post):

 

That’s a pretty nice looking building.

Who knows how this mission acquired it.

The real oddity is not that there is an “ideal” mission opening in Slovakia, but the fact that there is no mission, ideal or otherwise, in dozens of countries around the world (including “Malasia”, Indonesia and Singapore). There are hundreds of major cities in the world that have no scientology presence at all.  It is further proof that this has nothing to do with “planetary clearing” and is simply about photo ops to convince the sheeple that all is well.  After all, if there is an ideal mission in Slovakia there must be hundreds of them in “normal” places.

Time and effort is being devoted to opening an “ideal” mission in Slovakia. Meanwhile, there isn’t a single mission or org in China, there are 4 failing missions listed in India, but no org, a mission in Brazil and no org and no mission in Indonesia and no org. This is close to half the population of earth being denied the miracles of the tech. Half the States in the US have no org at all, some no missions…

If Miscavige and his followers were serious about clearing the planet they would be spending their money on opening ADDITIONAL missions and orgs. At least get a solitary org in every major city on earth and in all states in the US. The problem is there is no demand and there are not enough existing scientologists to go around to be shipped off to open up these places.

So the charade continues, and they all play along with the pretense of “clearing the planet.”

Using Hubbard terminology, scientology is the best example of “group think” and “bank think” you could dream up. Lockstep insanity.

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  1. Mike have you seen a video called “Hypernomalization”? it’s quite a long video that describes how everyone knows it’s bullshit & each & every one is convinced they can’t do anything about it, so they allow the post-truth narrative to become new normal

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  2. I guess no one thought to tell lil’ Davey, that the Indonesian archipelago is home to one of the planet’s largest aggregations of Muslims, who tend not to be the most welcoming to non-Islamic proselytization… More in-depth demographic analysis by Scn… Not.

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  3. Well, in their topsy-turvy world, it stands to reason that their “explosive growth” is down, not up. (Say, how far is it from Clearwater to “Malasia” via the Earth’s core?)

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    • Yes, and more fraudulent misrepresentation in the visa processes because it is all for the greater good. USCIS should grow a pair and deport the perpetrators and the IRS should hammer the cult’s tax free status out of existence.

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      • The perpetrators can’t be deported because the perpetrators are Co$. The victims can be deported but they shouldn’t be. The victims should be set free from the cherch by our government and allowed to stay in America. This would be a huge blow to the cult, making their go-to staff recruitment scheme seriously flawed and a waste of time.

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  5. The german war, to clear the world, was lost in about 1942. But Goebbels came to new heights in PR and “wins” of the german SS.

    The greed for power is a basic factor for those who cannot think for themself.

    To say, this scientology war to clear the world by the Miscavige company is a late try by the Goebbels company would describe the scene?

    I hope an April 1945 comes soon for this gang. The PC folder datas they sold can now be achieved more easily by the US Government via the internet, so the protection for this cult will get lost.

    And we are cleared hopefully from our greed on stupid superpowers in the future.

    But others will find other ways to enslave themselves in the future. I hope they find then this blog and start thinking again.

    For this, i wish you all a good and free 2018!

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    • IN huge size point on their banner advertising how big and successful they are, the church misspelled the word, “Civilization.” I guess they aren’t as super literate as they proclaim to be.

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      • Brits and Australians (and many other countries) spell it that way (officially), although you’ll see both spellings in daily use. Ditto “favourite” instead of “favorite”. <– And the period goes outside the quote marks. 🙂

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      • Cindy. Good catch! Misspellings are quite frequent lately and I’ve wondered why this could happen when spell checking is so common in all document creation software today. Hell, even while writing comments for this site miss spelled words are corrected. I also wonder if the person writing the ads may not have English as their first language and that’s why misspellings occur so frequently. We know many staff are imported imported these days.

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      • Never mind the bollocks!
        Yes, the Hubbard-Minds are full of idotic things. He is the master of low level fun.
        Mr. Goebbels would send this illiterates to KZ-Ethics. Just for fun.

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  6. I got a chuckle from the Ideal Org graphic. The people icons look like people running away as fast as they can.

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  7. Miscavige’s math skills are on full display in the decision to open a mission in Košice. That’s the second largest city in Slovakia, a country of 5 million people. Košice has about 260,000 people, but it’s fairly isolated geographically from the rest of the country. The western half is far more urbanized. And urban population represents the core demographic that Scientology recruits from; some data I compiled on the respondents to the “Stop Leah” petition circulated in September showed that virtually all the Scientologists in the US lived within the top 25 urban areas. That holds true in other countries as well.

    So basically, the addressable population of Košice is the entirety of the field that the mission can draw from. The million plus rural folks in reasonable driving distance are not going to be candidates for Scientology. Compare that with the capital of Bratislava, which has a lot of suburbs and smaller cities within reasonable driving distance, giving them a field of well over a million prospects.

    So let’s do some math to try to estimate the number of Scientologists that the cult could reasonably expect to see in Košice. One way to do this is to take another country of similar population and extrapolate back proportionally to the population of Košice. Ireland has 6.5 million people total, in the Republic of Ireland and in the UK territory of Northern Island. The population of the Dublin metro area is 1.9 million. According to several reports I’ve seen over the years, the total number of Scientologists in all of Ireland (all clustered around Dublin) is about 50. Scaling that back proportionally, this means that the likely number of Scientologists in Košice is somewhere around 5 or 6, and could actually be less because Scientology is less well established in European countries without a lot of native English speakers (though this is changing as Italy and Spain seem to have growing Scientology membership).

    Wonder how much money some poor mission holder got suckered into spending to open a mission to cater to literally a handful of Scientologists. Given income per household of about $20,000 in Slovakia, well below the norm for countries further west, I’d estimate that the cult is up to reap perhaps $10,000 US per year from that mission, which is pathetic. For comparison, Scientology in Ireland reaped revenue of about 80,000 Euros in the most recently published year (2016, I recall) off of 50 people, about 1,600 Euros or US$2,000 per person. So my $10,000 number is pretty generous if the estimate of 5-6 Scientologists holds true; the actual number could be less because household income in Ireland that yields the $2,000 per person revenue figure is about $30,000, much higher than in Slovakia.

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    • This is math which I should have done in the mid 1980’s when I opened a mission in Miami. It was a failure because the general population had already developed a bias to the cult. The only revenue I earned was from personally auditing sons and daughters of the wealthy. This revenue was mostly profit because all I needed was an e-meter and a quiet room. This pattern followed the Clearwater mission
      where an auditor and his wife kept solvent. To this day, I believe I could have survived except for the stupid phone calls, visits and “reg” cycles from Mission Int management and the IAS.

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  8. It’s all fantasy vs. reality with them. Hopefully more and more will come to that ultimate realization that they’re simply part of a lost cause here and that it’s time to just move on. Great post today.

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  10. These people never fail to crack me up. When did it become illegal to take a picture/video on a public street? I mean, why should those scientologists make such a big deal out of it? If you’re not hiding anything, you shouldn’t get so upset, right?!?!?!?!

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    • They have nothing to do. No one is coming in. Their income now is the SRD, Student Hat & the Purif. All the OT levels are on the internet. Non-Scientologists make fun of them. If you’re on staff, you work12 hours a day.

      And that’s why they get upset.

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      • That does make sense. Shame though! Working 12 hour days (whether or not they’re actually doing anything) with nothing to show for it. I fear what will happen to these people when they are of retirement age. I assume David Miscavige will not be paying them a pension after so many years of service (not being sarcastic here). It’s really a frightening thought!!!

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  11. The distance from Perth to Singapore is 2431 miles, which is roughly the same distance from Los Angeles to New York.

    Saying that Perth is going to clear Singapore is like LA Org saying they’re going to clear the Bronx. Good luck with that.

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    • Yeah, and there are 260 MILLION people in Indonesia and very few speak english. That is 10 times the number of people in Australia!

      Reminds me of the flea crawling up the elephants leg yelling “give up or else…”

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  12. There is a mission where I live – I pass it frequently because it’s on big street. I notice the same 5 cars there pretty much every day. Huge building for those 5 cars. I wonder if it’s ideal

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  14. I never was one to look much into the admin of the orgs, but it occurs to me that Davie has Hubbard’s Policies backwards. As I recall BE has to do with Cause, and HAVING has to do with Effect. Thus, be-do-have has been turned around by Davie into have-do-be.

    It appears that the the Ideal Outhouses Davie has built are putting HAVE in front of DO and BE. All I can figure is that Davie ‘thinks’ something along these lines: Once he HAS (Ideal Outhouses) in place, then students will come into the Ideal Outhouses to DO the books, tapes, drills, flag poles, saunas, and all kinds of sec-checks, then–and only then— will the public BE trained, Clear, OT, Cause, and happy happy happy.

    Then again, maybe all Davie is doing this to create an effect by following in the steps of the Pharaohs and Popes in erecting hugely huge pyramids and cathedrals, all in his name.

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    • ” ……………. it occurs to me that Davie has Hubbard’s Policies backwards.”

      And since Ole El Con had his own suit on backwards, where does that leave the ‘still- innies’?

      Yo Dave,
      Perhaps that was what you were referring to with Your blind leading the blind comment that You so proudly announced to the world oh so many years ago? It certainly describes the ‘State of Yer Cherch’ today good buddy.

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    • Well, if “build it and they will come” were true, any tourist in Paris viewing the Cathedral of Notre Dame would just HAVE to become a Catholic! And somehow become a French citizen. Ditto that for any of Europe’s spectacular cathedrals, or the Near East’s Mosques, Far East’s temples, etc. etc. etc. Its just SO ridiculous that I still have a hard time grasping how the hell all the so-called intelligent people I knew when I was in Scientology accepted this! Seriously, I’m not being sarcastic – I will go to my grave not understanding how these people accepted such an obviously flawed program, a program with failure built right into it…blew my mind then and it blows my mind now! Were they REALLY that desperate and gullible because of their repeated failures to make their orgs Saint Hill Size? Just at the end of their rope and ready to acceipt anything that would make them feel better about those failed purposes…this is what you’ve said, Mike, and its the only reason that comes close to making a modicum of sense. Oh, well.

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      • I “have doobie” once and it made me paranoid.

        Orgs Up In Smoke because “Davie have-do-be.” Espees, everywhere everywhere ya know.

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    • The difference between pharaoh’s and pope’s shrines/monuments to the Cult’s morgues is like comparing a Big Mac to Bob’s Burgers & Dogs. BB&D lasted 2 years closing after multiples cases of food poisoning.

      Let’s sing it together…

      “Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame bun” (Oh come-on…you know you know the words to this…)

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      • Ha ha! Good one, Teen. I’d bet if Miscavige could get away with it he’d have himself mummified like the ancient pharaohs, buried in a tomb with all his precious possessions including Tom’s picture framed in solid gold, etc…lol! Oh! and His tomb would of course be within a pyramid – how fitting!

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    • Next up……Wynski will have a nice brand new “smear site”……we can hardly wait to see what it says about him. Very unfriendly “staff” (if that’s what they are)……

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    • Thanks for the video. I’d suggest having a list of questions to ask these folks when they approach you and quiz you. Stuff like:

      Staff: What are you doing?
      You: Just filming the building. When you get old and sick, does S’ology take care of you?

      Staff: Do you work for the newspaper?
      You: No, I’m independent. I know LRH said people get sick because they don’t smoke enough, are you getting enough smoking in?

      Nothing aggressive, just have fun with the experience.

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    • This is fantastic, Wynski!

      What a friendly, welcoming island of succor this Inglewood Ideal Morgue is!

      On second thought let’s correct the spelling in that phrase. Let’s make it “island of suckers” instead.

      At Inglewood Ideal Morgue, all suckers are welcome!

      The rest of you – stay away!

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    • Great Video Wynski!

      Shows perfectly how the great skills of two way comm are employed by scientologists, LOL

      I think they all need to redo the comm course, even DM, LOL, you loser! I’d put Kristi and John T and Tom C up there as well, retread dudes!

      I was once a Scientologist, but now I am a true scientologist, that is knowing how to know w/o Hubbard’s rhetoric or influence or persuassion, LOL

      When you are in, you actually don’t know, LOL

      This you tube you posted actually reminds me of the My Scientology movie scene where Louis just wanted to get in two way comm with, I believe Jefferson Hawkins ex wife, correct me if wrong, I don’t have a ser fac to defend, LOL, who is still believing she has skills of two way comm,

      LOL

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    • Thanks guys. This video was done by a guy that goes by the moniker, Nasty Nathaniel. Check out his youtube channel as he has a few more recent Morgue videos.

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  16. The only reason Kosice Solvakia has an ‘ideal mission’ is because a local whale is funding it.

    ‘Psst, hey fellow Solvakian, want to go the United States? Just sign up for $cientology staff and we’ll get you a religious study visa to warm and wonderful Florida. Just sign on the dotted line’.

    There will be a line out the door….

    Meanwhile, back in the $cieno world there are perhaps 20 thousand actual members and 5k of those are staff and Sea bOrg. Worldwide.

    Expansion my ass….

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    • I’m glad to see the ‘mission’ has the requisite amount of steel fencing with the pointy thingys on top to control the masses trying to get in.

      Yo Dave,
      Or is that fence to keep the staff from blowing once they find out Your daily pay schedule?

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    • Warm and wonderful Florida is cold and icy today. I live just a couple of miles from the line and we are having snow and rain

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