Subject: Re: To The Elite of ALT.SLACK

From: Kevan Smith <cuthulu@shreve.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2001 2:44 AM
Message-ID: <f54grtgefs8d4v2ev2d1pufjlnu6b7sc25@4ax.com>

On 17 Aug 2001 15:15:18 -0700, slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom)
wrote:

>A large component of the "dogma" (or "catma" for you poor deluded
>Erisians out there) of the Church of the SubGenius centers around the
>horrible Conspiracy and how rotten it is, how it's fucked up all of
>our lives, how it prevents us from getting laid, etc., etc. Boo-hoo.

The worst. most insidious conspiracy is the one between your ears.

--
Kevan Smith (featuring Larry Fine)
"This seems like a case where we need to shoot the messenger."
(Charlie Kaufman on Cypherpunks list)
1 October 2001
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Subject: Re: To The Elite of ALT.SLACK
From: slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom)

Sister Decadence <decadence@subgenius.com> wrote in message news:<cpcapto5bdge2ukl37gcnanqpedq9b81l3@4ax.com>...
> On 17 Aug 2001 15:15:18 -0700, slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom)
> wrote:
>
>> SNIP!
>
> How cute! I remember protesting and the absolute NOTHING that came
> of it. You think "They" give a shit about you standing around with
> signs?
>
> > SNIP-SNIP!!
> Keep on dreaming dear, it's adorable.

Glad you think so, Sis. Y'know I sure didn't expect much of a
response when I orginially posted this message in a fit of pique and
vodka, but I was surprised by the content of the responses, and
disappointed as well. Sure, I didn't expect a whole lotta agreement
with this idea, but I also didn't expect the level of vituperation
regarding the creation of an activist wing of the CotSG. To sum up my
feelings on this topic at the present juncture of the space-time
continuum:

Y'ALL GOT A BETTER FUCKING IDEA?

If so, I've yet to hear it. Yeah, it's real easy to berate a would-be
idealist, but another thing entirely to act constructively on the
ideals that you profess to share. Not one shred of constructive
crticism outta you lot. NOT ONE. Oh, there was the one fella who
suggested something incredibly vague like "create something new, and
make it public domain." Sorry, dude, we can't all be Linus Torvalds.
Or Jean-Luc Picard, either.

Awright, so my idea for exercising free speech and protest, no matter
how pointless or futile, was stooopid. I see that now. I bow before
the wisdom of alt.slack. So the question remains - what to do? How
do I expend this youthful exhuberence and burning hatred for the
Conspiracy in a constructive manner? What do you suggest?

Spend all day posting messages to newsgroups? Piss and moan to my
congressman? Make art out of empty egg cartons? Webcast my sexual
escapades? Join the Young Repuiblicans?

Hah?

RLA
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Subject: Re: To The Elite of ALT.SLACK
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2001 11:08 AM
Message-ID: <021020011108587067%stang@subgenius.com>

In article <49b3655d.0110010953.47507bda@posting.google.com>, Rev.
Lemuel Atom <slaac@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Awright, so my idea for exercising free speech and protest, no matter
> how pointless or futile, was stooopid. I see that now. I bow before
> the wisdom of alt.slack. So the question remains - what to do? How
> do I expend this youthful exhuberence and burning hatred for the
> Conspiracy in a constructive manner? What do you suggest?
>
> Spend all day posting messages to newsgroups? Piss and moan to my
> congressman? Make art out of empty egg cartons? Webcast my sexual
> escapades? Join the Young Repuiblicans?

"BUILD YOUR OWN SHIP."

Earth WILL get worse before it gets better. We can HOPE FOR but not
DEPEND ON alien space monsters with big tits, and/or Pipe Face
Salesmen. We MUST GET OFF, that much alone is obvious.

NONE of us agree on how exactly to do that.

Thus the all-ambiguous "Build Your Own Ship." Some may prefer
metaphotical ships to real ships. Some may prefer ROWBOATS, equipped
with fishing poles, to space ships that cost billions. And while that
thing is still on the drawing board or launching pad, building one's
own "Amsterdam" might be a stop-gap measure.

But, there is NO PLACE SAFE... and even if there was one, there's still
the COP lurking on the INSIDE OF YOUR HEAD waiting to bust you for
SOMETHING.

I think the simple answer to the question is, there is no simple
answer, and every damn poor SubGenius has to find what works for
itself. That's about the only consistent thing that our RULEBOOK says,
anyway, once you peel back the foreskin.

God DAMN it but this religion is USELESS for quick E-Z answers. Unless
you're "Bob." Or unless you're one of those REAL LUCKY RETARDS who has
TOTAL FAITH in "Bob." THEY'RE the ones who REALLY DO get rich by
accident.

In my personal case, I am trying to save up as much money and stuff as
I can just in case things get worse faster than I expected. That's my
"ship." I am "building" it by physically doing as much as I can myself
rather than having others do it for me. In other words I am a real
skinflint. My "Amsterdam" mainly consists of hanging out with my
sweetie, reading sf paperbacks and working on SubGenius crafts.

Getting anybody to BUY the damn SubGenius crafts, THAT'S where I am
forced to interface with the Conspiracy, and try as I might, I'm just
not very good at that. That's where there's still a hole in the
equation that I've yet to quite figure out. I thought Jesus might be
the missing variable, but even He had to go to work for the Devil when
the hammer came down and the bills came due. So the grand Unified Field
Theory for World Slack or even Individual Slack is still incomplete.
(THANKS IN ADVANCE, but we already have "STRANGE ATTRACTORS" aplenty.
Just look at the Tampa pics on alt.binaries.slack)

DAMN.

--
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Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB

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