spiritual confusion... please help

From: Chris RB Fay <crbfay@mail.utexas.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 1995

A serious question...

Lately, I've been noticing that friends and acquaintances have been
questioning their spirituality. Recent events in my life (I'd be typing
forever if I went into them) have caused me to join their ranks. All I
know is that my current spiritual compass seems to be malfunctioning,
spinning like I'm about to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle.

I've asked my friends, but for the most part they seem to be in the
same predicament. I'd ask my family, but who talks to their parents about
such things? So, I've decided to pose my question to a wider audience.

Has anyone out there found what in what direction their compass
needle should be pointing? I'm don't think I'm interested in specific
catechisms; all I have to do is sit down in front of the TV and flip thru
the channels to get those. I'm more concerned with the journey you took to
find it, and how you knew when you got there. And even if you haven't
found anything yet, you're probably farther along than me. Anything you
can tell me would be of help.

Thank You,
Chris RB Fay

PS... E-mail me or just post it here.

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Subject: Re: spiritual confusion... please help
From: ljduchez@en.com (Lou Duchez)

Chris RB Fay <crbfay@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> All I know is that my current spiritual compass seems to be
> malfunctioning, spinning like I'm about to disappear in the Bermuda
> Triangle.

Well, I would recommend that you run down to the bookstore and order
"The Book of the SubGenius". For roughly $15, you'll pick up a book
that is guaranteed to give a jolt to that figurative compass.
Essentially, the religious paradigm described in "The Book of the
SubGenius" is so drastically different from other paradigms, it will
give you a completely different perspective to view religion from.
To continue the compass analogy, imagine if you were to rotate the
compass 90 degrees out of the plane it's resting in, and discover
that it was spinning around trying to point you *up* or *down* ...

The best part about it is, SubGeniusdom doesn't insist that you continue
with it. In fact, one of the Church's few commandments is that you
have to schism off at some point -- sure, you can keep up friendly
relations with other SubGenii, but the point is that you don't take
the mother Church's tenets too seriously. In other words, not only
will you star in the movie of your spiritual journey, but you will
also direct and produce it.

And how else should it be? You really think Buddha, Jesus, Immanuel
Kant, Emmanuel Bronner, or any of the others know a thing about
surviving in today's society? So why go to them for advice? It's
like going to the dentist's for automotive tips. Far better that
you should sort it out yourself.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SCATHING EXPOSE OF THE CULT BUSINESS!

How to start your own. $1 for introductory book. Peels the lies
off the 1,000 bogus cults and self-help programs in America.

The SubGenius Foundation
P. O. Box 140306
Dallas, TX 75214

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Subject: Re: spiritual confusion... please help
From: ricky@usenet.nerdc.ufl.edu (Captain Midnight)

Chris RB Fay (crbfay@mail.utexas.edu) wrote:
: Lately, I've been noticing that friends and acquaintances have been
: questioning their spirituality. Recent events in my life (I'd be typing
: forever if I went into them) have caused me to join their ranks.

I used to think that maybe life made some sort of sense. And then I
read Kurt Vonnegut's _Slaughter_ _House_ _Five_. Slowly it began to
sink in. Things just ARE. If you EVER think life has some underlying
coherent "meaning" then you have succumbed to the WORST POSSIBLE
delusion. Life is just a collection of random events strung together
in an arbitrary temporal order. But if you DESTROY TIME, then you
will escape the false cause-and-effect reasoning that feeds your
delusion of "life has meaning."

I remember a few years ago there was a tornado in Mississippi that
destroyed a church full of Baptists. They thought God had done it
to them and they couldn't understand why. Duh.

Be easy on yourself and try to keep your sense of humor. If the
Conspiracy takes your sense of humor from you, learn to use your
sense of hate. Hate can be a friend. That's one of the hallmarks
of the SubGenius world-view. We can hate ANYTHING and ANYBODY and
that's GOOD. We don't deal in GUILT or JUDGEMENTS. You can even
do things that are "harmful" to non-SubG's which is REALLY COOL
becuase 99.96% of the population is non-SubG.

We're right. They're wrong.

The Church of the SubGenius is sort of a VIRTUAL SUICIDE CULT
that gives you all the thrills and emotional gratification
of a People's Temple or a David Koresh production. But you
can take the Mask of Insanity off whenever you want. You
can quit and join back up. You can relax in the comfort of
YOUR OWN delusions for as long as you want.

You can explore STRANGE NEW belief systems and "snap back"
to where you were. You don't have to have ANYTHING in common
with ANY of the REST OF US. We want you to be different.
Well, everyone expect NENSLO wants you to be different. NENSLO
expects you to be like him. And think how cool that is because
it means WE HAVE no COHESIVE principles. We celebrate our
INCONSISTANCIES.

Well, just send a buck or two for the Church Pamplets or better
yet, buy the _Book_ _of_ _the_ _SubGenius_ (filed in humor under
Dobbs) or _Revelation-X_, _the_ _"Bob"acryphon_ (filed under humor
or maybe science fiction under Stang.)

And don't forget to send ONE DOLLAR to NENSLO.

.......................TEAR.ALONG.THE.DOTTED.LINE.......................
Epopt of the Exploding Head of JFK Licensed to blaspheme the Gods!
My skull is bigger on the inside than the outside!
Send $1 to SubGenius Foundation, P.O. Box 140306, Dallas TX 75214

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