Your minion said:
"Philosophically, the church owes it’s origin to the Discordian movement of the late
60’s and 70’s. The first pamphlet of the Church (“The World ends tomorrow and
You may Die!”) reads a lot like the “bible” of Discordianism, “The Principia
Discordia.” In fact, as Stang wrote in an e-mail to this author, “The only difference
I’ve been able to see between Discordians and SubGeniuses, is that SubGeniuses get
laid.”
“Sadly, though, there are some who believe that Stang has gone around the bend
and has started really believing his own joke.”
Joke? I don’t understand. What joke? They were talking about the Church of the SubGenius and then they refer to some “joke.” …?
Just to get the record straight, I did not see the Principia Discordia or even know of it until a few months after the SubGenius Pamphlet #1 was printed in Jan. 1980.
Actually, I had seen references to it in Wilson and Shea’s ILLUMINATUS trilogy, but I assumed it was as made-up as everything else in that book. The Church of the SubGenius DOES owe a great debt to Robert Anton Wilson and the late Robert Shea for their incomprehensible, yet incredibly comprehensive, book.
If somebody is “sad” about me believing my own jokes, eh… maybe you should consider the source. The same persons might have been quietly embarrassed when they saw that movie about Andy Kaufman. Some have to be hit over the head with the concept of “conceptual.” If you replace the word “sadly” with the word “hilariously”… well, I guess it would still be sad.
Besides, “BOB” will SLAY all the UNBELIEVERS, and also those who think WRESTLING is fake, too!
P.S. “Bob” never dropped the J.R. from his name, as your writer says. C’mon, even TIME magazine kept the J.R. when they grudgingly admitted he’d been voted Fraud of the Century on their online poll. You guys don’t want to look LESS reliable than TIME – and TIME claimed that “Bob” was just an invented, fictitious character!
SHEESH!!
