What is all this Slack, Subgenius, Rev. Stang stuff about?

From: donnelly

I saw a poster entitled "The Sacred Art of the Subgenius" at Psychedelic
Solution in NYC. A friend of mine explained to me later as it was sitting on
my bedroom wall that is was some kind of group that followed the smiling,
pipe smoking guy in some sort of mock religion. What's it all about?
How do I get involved?

-Scott
donnelly@scf.usc.edu.

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Subject: Re: What is all this Slack, Subgenius, Rev. Stang stuff about?
From: ghsst6+@pitt.edu (Geoffrey H Spear)

"get involved"? you want to GET INVOLVED in the Church of the SubGenius!
HA! The Church that can be gotten involved in is NOT the True Church!
By God, you'll WISH you'd never HEARD of the Church is you're the kind
of person who likes to GET INVOLVED! Ayieeee!

but anyway, like, send $1 to:
the subgenius foundation
p.o. box 140306
dallas, tx 75214.

or kill me.
--
Geoff Spear |"And whenever rn sees your .signature
ghsst6+@pitt.edu | it'll rmgroup alt.slack as well! Yay!"
http://www.pitt.edu/~ghsst6/ | - Kibo

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Subject: Re: What is all this Slack, Subgenius, Rev. Stang stuff about?
From: ljduchez@en.com (Lou Duchez)

donnelly wrote:
> some kind of group that followed the smiling,
> pipe smoking guy in some sort of mock religion.

Well, your friend is a bit off. We are not a "mock religion"; we are
a religion of mockers, who recognize that all religions (including our
own) are grade Z bullshit.

So does that make us existential? Hell no! We're way too concerned with
enjoying our mere earthly existence.

What can I say? Maybe if I break it up into simple "Good" and "Bad"
dualities like the Christians do:

(relatively) Good (relatively) Bad
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J.R. "Bob" Dobbs Anti-"Bob"
JHVH-1 Cthulu
Men from Planet X Men in Black
Church of the SubGenius The Conspiracy
Slack Life under the Con
SubGenii Humans
Connie Dobbs Uptight normals
Bonobos Chimpanzees
P. O. Box 140306 The U.S. Government
NENSLO NHGH
St. Janor Hypercleats Bob Saget
G'Broagfran G'Broagfran
Yeti Bigfoot
alt.slack the rest of Usenet

Best advice: either buy the $1 pamphlet from the address listed
below, or order "The Book of the SubGenius" from your favorite
bookstore. (The Book can also be ordered from the address below,
but I forget the price. $16.50, I think.)

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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: What is all this Slack, Subgenius, Rev. Stang stuff about?
From: Biggles <biggles1@delphi.com>

<donnelly> writes:
>How do I get involved?

Well Scotty, before I go into any profundities or contradictions, I think you
first ask yourself some pretty important questions. For example, are you weird?
Does it matter?
Do I have a lot of free time on my hands?
Do you?
Does life seem to make no sense at times?
Do you feel like seeing many people crying in pain because they are just so
incredibly annoying and/or stupid?
Do you wonder how evolution hasn't weeded humans out yet?
Do you have a neat nickname to use as a churchname?
Would you like to worship by not worshiping?
Or is there such a thing?
How much money do you have, and can you send some to the mother church?
Do you like feeling smug and hip?
Do you like to tease Scientologists?
Are you willing to verbally attack anyone who defames your religion in ways you haven't thought of yet?
Or in ways you already have?
Are you egotistical enough to think that you're actually important?
Can you quote obscure lines from hip sources?
Do you like bad movies?
Do you like bad food?
Do you like bad drugs?

If you answered to any of these questions, then you might already be a member!

Just mail $30.00 US to this address:

PO Box 140306
Dallas, TX 75214

I mean hey, it's not like you're not already going to hell, so how can this
hurt?

Pope-King Biggles I

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