Your thought for the day
2004-06-01 : 6:20 p.m.

For today, a little quote from The Book of The SubGenius:

While this pith-ridden religion may be perfect for quote-heavy persons like college students, it's risky for them too. It can turn whole tribes of them into dogma-replaying assholes. Ask yourself: did you buy this book because of fear of group pressure? if so, STOP READING NOW. You will injure yourself with this material; you'll use it as a high-faluting excuse to become infantile to the point of senility. We KNOW the power of the Dobbs. We've seen it happen, All Too Often.

A major secret that "Bob" learned from the Conspiracy is that deep down inside, everyone, even the SubGenius, craves authority. It's from having Parents. But a SubGenius shortcircuits this urge. He appoints himself Pope or Raja or something, and he believes it. But it's easy to fake that belief, even to yourself.

Therefore, in his Church our "Bob" has included many built-in Alienation Devices to prevent false Pink interpretation while encouraging the real, down home SubGenii to start their own damn religions. "Bob" is not a fan club. The Teachings constantly contradict each other and yet remain equally true and false. Dobbs makes outright worship impossible by suddenly, unex- pectedly changing the basic dogma just to forcibly "disconnect" the mind- less zombie-in-a-rut. The confusing Church deliberately pulls the rug from under the preconceptions of "Follower" types, thus separating the wheat from the chaff. It uses Shock Value; we're often, praise Dobbs, too sardonic for those smug hip ones who thought they were already as sardonic as you can get.

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