a testimonial to ``Bob''

Douglas James Trainor (trainor@CS.UCLA.EDU)
Fri, 23 Sep 88 11:11:16 PDT

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} I'm trying to get my [new] girlfriend into Discordian Momehood, so that
} we can try some of the forbidden stuff....

| Heck, I'm still trying to get a new girlfriend. Anyway, try some of
| that Cup and Sword Magick, the J & H communion stuff that RAW describes.
| Maybe that Dashwood/Tarantella-as-Rhoda scene will get her going.

I run a small SubG group on a local BBS -- mostly gawkers but a few
squawkers. I'm using a lot of the reality deconstructor techniques
(which will fester in the brainpan for years...). So far I've had two
converts to ``Bob'', but they would've come sooner or later, I just made
it sooner. Prefaced with not that many people on said BBS know about
the ``Bob'' sub-group, I sent a message to everyone on the system like:

To: ALL
Subject: ``Bob''

Have you developed a personal relationship with ``Bob'' yet?

Yours in ``Bob,''
Douglas

One response was particularly memorable (spelling and grammar left intact):

To: DOUGLAS
From: SHEILA
Subject: ??

You either have far to much free time on your hands or,
you have no friends or social life at all except these bbs things or,
you are psychotic and in need of counsiling.
The only difference between your lunitic "mail" and the rantings of
spcaed out morons that shout obsentities on street corners is, that you
have access to a computer and a modem. Don;t bother to write to ME
anymore as you mail will be deleted without being read.
P.S. Do yur self a favor and go meet some humans, assuming that you
even bother to bathe!!!

Victoria, heretofore referred to as the girlfriend, responded to the
message in a knowing but unknowing fashion (Praise ``Bob''!!) and things
mushroomed from there. She was having some trouble with ``Bob'' and the
Teachings, so I gave her a copy of _Illuminatus!_; it took about 150
pages before she SNAPPED, and now everything is clear -- she's already
past me now in other RAW reading, and yes, she did murmer something
about the J & H communion stuff already. I'm getting ready to raid part
of her library -- a quite substantial collection of books on MIND
CONTROL that she inherited from her father.

Yes, the temple at 4357 Wilshire, and it is magnificent...

douglas