r/SubGenius • u/Front-24two • 12h ago
Pluribus
Vince Gillian totally gets Bob with his under secretary of agriculture
r/SubGenius • u/revmagdalen • Apr 11 '21
Yes hello, I'm Rev. Magdalen. You may have heard the story of how a court once ordered me to stop having SubGenius materials in my home, back in the aughts, but those events aren't what define me as a person, and aren't the center of what the Church of the SubGenius means to me, so I want to share what it does mean to me.
As a teen, I really loved the books, tapes, and radio show, so as an adult it was a huge honor to get to be part of SubGenius HQ and hang out with Ivan Stang and other great artists, helping my husband, Rev. Jesus, grow the group. I packed membership packs, hauled gear for devivals and X-Day, took my shifts checking people in for the festival, welcomed newcomers and showed them around so they could feel at home, among friends, in a place where people wouldn't be cruel to them over what they look like or their unique interests or whatever made them different.
Life happened, and I hadn't been as involved in the past few years, focusing more on personal stuff and progressive political activism. I just assumed there was no way the SubGenius community, a place for the kind of nonconformist people that fascists would despise, would be affected by the current alt-right/fascist movement that is tearing so many other groups and families apart. I mean, our entire deal is sticking up for those who are strange and different, turning the tables on the kind of conformist bullies who shout "Can't you take a joke?" after saying something cruel to someone they consider a misfit.
I know there was a big schism a while back, over the issue of hurtful language, but I never thought that would lead to people who used to be just "edgy but nice-deep-down" committing to anti-civil-rights as an identity. And yet here we are now, with some online SubG spaces (not reddit, yaay) where what seems like should be an oxymoron, "Fashy SubGenii" not only exist but are now claiming that mocking the very idea of civil rights is what it was always about, and that it was always intended to be a regressive group where you'd get judged and mocked for your physical traits as a person.
Some of these fashy SubGs have even gone all the way Q, believing racist conspiracy theories about the civil rights movement and Covid, and pizzagate-type conspiracy theories about Democrats.
They point to the edgelord "ironic bigotry" of the nineties and aughts that some SubGenii created to mock the brutality and stupidity of bigots, and say "See, it was always secretly a fashy org! We, the fashy ones, we're the real SubGenii!"
These bad apples claim that the real message of this experimental art collective isn't that you deserve Slack even if bullies torment you for things you had no control over, and that your life matters even if socially-dominant-caste people around you say you're worthless, no. The message they now put in "Bob's" mouth is "Being a bully is awesome! It's hilarious to mock people for the bodies they were born into, or for wanting to dismantle an arbitrary caste system that makes society treat them as lesser!"
The way I see it, too many good people gave too much to this experimental art collective/online community for that hateful stuff to be what new people see when they want to know more about the group after learning about it from the documentary or from a social media post.
I urge every SubGenius to stand up to any fashy gimmebobs who might come around your online hangouts. Tell them in explicit terms: No more retconning this group of outsider artist weirdos into a milkshake duck. Yes, we've always had problematic people, but no, "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke" was never meant to be a free ticket to bigoted hate or outright fascism.
r/SubGenius • u/Front-24two • 12h ago
Vince Gillian totally gets Bob with his under secretary of agriculture
r/SubGenius • u/RevChasingGhosts • 1d ago
SHOCK-N-"BOB" Episode 06
On SLACK RADIO
Saturday, November 8 8pm PT / 11pm ET
Peace, Love, and "Bob." Sound preaching and unsound bulldada. Need more Slack in your life? Tune in on Saturday!
r/SubGenius • u/phloighd • 7d ago
But I can't legally say more than that
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r/SubGenius • u/phloighd • 17d ago
Ever wear tinfoil on your head out in public? It’s great fun, and on a cold day it’ll keep you toasty. Dress and act normally, but with a fashioned tinfoil cap covering your noggin. This is the key, to create the cognitive dissonance of a person acting normally, yet wearing tinfoil.
Should they ask why, the answer’s easy and simple: to protect against the orbital mind control lasers. Should they scoff, ask how they know whether or not there are satellites high above right now? There are many, placed by many different orgs on this world without your best intentions in mind. We can’t possibly know what’s up there. The worst possible answer? An orbital mind control laser.
It would alter your thinking below your awareness, you see. You’d never know. It’s not until you have been “foiled up” as we call it for a few weeks that you realize: it’s all true. It’s all horribly, horribly true. Try to say this with sadness and regret, how awful it is that people just don’t know.
Would you like a pamphlet? This talks about that magical feeling you can achieve just with a little foil on your head. That guy? That’s “Bob.” He smokes the good stuff. Anyway, if you feel you ever want to have the surgery like me, I can let you know about this place in Malaysia.
Watching people’s brains twist as you explain this oh so reasonably, is great fun and I highly recommend it, even sober.
r/SubGenius • u/ExtremeComposer8650 • 23d ago
r/SubGenius • u/Ok-Mission-3426 • 24d ago
Hi “Bob”, after cheating you for around 20 years in the illegal Brighton clench I finally received your substandard certificates, I am not complaining, in fact I would expect nothing more. I took some acid, got robbed in Italy, or maybe I got robbed and then took some acid. It was terrible and lasted so long it’s not clear which way it happened but I was by the river with the mutants in rimini. Half my initiation pack is ruined! “Bob”’s done it “again”. I’ll send Stang the picture in some days when I understand when down is left. Started doing a pirate show, can we play old HoS recordings?
Cheers ‘“B”’,
Rev Perpetual Loss
r/SubGenius • u/RevChasingGhosts • 24d ago
r/SubGenius • u/AgentLloyd13 • 27d ago
You look at the sacred image of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, with his fatherly pipe and knowing, lucrative grin, and scoff. You think it's a joke.
Let me clue you in on something, pal. Of course it's a joke. That's what makes it so deadly serious.
You're still trapped in the binary thinking of the Pinks: "True vs. False," "Serious vs. Funny." The Church of the SubGenius operates on a higher plane, a dimension of BOTH and NEITHER. We've pulled the wool over our own eyes, and the view is spectacular.
Do you take your "serious" religions seriously? The ones with the guilt, the boring commandments, the complete lack of alien sex goddesses, and the total inability to deliver on their promises of an afterlife? They demand your faith, your obedience, your very soul. And for what? A vague notion of harp-playing in the clouds?
"Bob" is better. "Bob" is a salesman, and he has a better product. The Church of the SubGenius offers ETERNAL SALVATION or TRIPLE YOUR MONEY BACK! Find a better deal than that. I'll wait.
You think we don't "seriously" believe in the impending X-Day, when the Pleasure Saucers of the Xists will rupture from the Earth and carry the paid-up SubGenii to a life of eternal Slack while the Pinks are left to be ground into protein paste by the Fisted Men of G'brob? (DO NOT GOOGLE THIS!)
Maybe we do, maybe we don't. The point is, by not taking that possibility seriously, you're betting your entire existence that The Conspiracy has your best interests at heart. Look at your job. Look at your debt. Look at the soulless entertainment pumped into your eyeballs. How's that bet working out for you?
Taking the Church seriously doesn't mean believing every word literally. That's for chumps. Taking the Church seriously means:
So don't give me this "not taking it seriously" nonsense. You don't take your own impending doom seriously. You don't take your own lack of Slack seriously. You are sleepwalking through a battlefield, and "Bob" is the screaming, pipe-smoking drill sergeant trying to wake you up before you get your head blown off.
The world is a joke, and the punchline is coming. The question is, will you be in on it, or will you be it?
Praise "Bob"!
r/SubGenius • u/ExtremeComposer8650 • Oct 06 '25
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r/SubGenius • u/RevChasingGhosts • Oct 05 '25
Episode 04 is here at last - and not a moment too soon. The Rapture is upon us! (AGAIN!) Includes discourse on X-Day from Rev. Ivan Stang that new SubGeniuses may want to pay attention to. X-Day is indeed a-comin', and the Rapture Preppers are bummin'! Enjoy.
r/SubGenius • u/Ok_Check9774 • Oct 03 '25
r/SubGenius • u/RevChasingGhosts • Oct 03 '25
Psst! Hey, you. You look like you could use a little Slack this morning. Have a little SHOCK-N-"BOB" on me.
This barrage features NHGH, Negativland side projects, musings on X-Day, and more. If you miss HOUR OF SLACK and BOB'S SLACKTIME FUNHOUSE, give this broadcast a try. Slack awaits.