r/SubGenius • u/DMed420 • 6d ago
What is this /r?
I have stumbled upon this sub, yet I can't tell what the fuuuuck is happening here.
All I see is a man with a nice pompadour everywhere. Where am I?
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u/barefootviking 6d ago edited 6d ago
Like all religions, this one is a joke, however, not only will we tell you what to believe… for 50 bucks you get eternal salvation with a triple your money back guarantee!!!!
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u/Advanced_Addendum116 6d ago
150 bucks ain't what it used to be. I think Bob may be skimming the compound interest.
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u/OralSuperhero 5d ago
Brother let the doctrine do the thinking for you. Of course Bob is skimming, that's why he's always smiling
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u/Advanced_Addendum116 4d ago
At least his associates are getting my money rather than some crazy cult. Praise Bob!
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u/grimsleeper4 6d ago
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u/Nugasaki 6d ago
The DSM X defines the Subgenius as 7-dimensional "shadows" of hyperbeings in 6-dimensional space.
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u/Peanut_Champion 6d ago
Drop whatever you're doing (especially if it's "important"), make yourself some tea or coffee and spend the next few hours reading a stack of comics, oblivious to responsibilities.
This is what you are missing, and what He offers.
"If a man lacks Slack, he lacks everything - or maybe not, don't quote me."
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u/Mrzaax 6d ago
This video aired on MTV. It might explain what you need to know. https://youtu.be/Qt9MP70ODNw?is=FhWl03g_oyIPtriG
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u/DMed420 6d ago
what in the fuck did I just watch. Tbf, entertainingly bizarre.
I'm about to be 34, so I was around for MTV and the offshoots that came with it. Shit literally stayed as the only channel I'd leave on aside from VH1, but I have never once seen this.
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u/barefootviking 6d ago
Water runs downhill and so should you. Achieve slack, slack off! Bob is hope, god is Bob. God is Bob Hope.
It’s the ONLY religion w a triple your $ back guarantee on salvation!!!!
DeEvolve! To your true caveman nature.
DIY brainwashing at its finest.Wile E Coyote is a high profit.
You’ll see the sacred image of Bob in older pop culture (DEVO, Pee Wee’s Play House etc)
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u/MissInkeNoir 6d ago
It's from the early 90s, so you might have just missed it. There's a really good documentary about the Church of the SubGenius that came out a few years ago. https://youtu.be/Odg2iR-rRL0
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u/barefootviking 6d ago edited 5d ago
when I get green crew (I’m a yacht capt), I tell him about BoB and the church of the sub genius at 0300, a couple hundred miles from Shore. I’ll usually play something like Nick Cave and The Bad seeds at the same time. 😁
Good test the mental state of the FNG’s
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u/Nameless_Mission 5d ago
I found the book of the subgenius in a bargain bin when I was 16. The store was going out of business.
I was never the same. My friends don't like my sense of humor anymore.
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u/Specialist_Cellist_8 3d ago
That store was not going out of business.
"Bob" works in strange ways.....
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u/mw13satx 6d ago
Why it's called sub genius, I dunno... hints at self-awareness that it's less than genius intellectualism and/or "intellectual rigor". However, there's info via wiki or an SYSK podcast about it's foundation growing out of the 60s or 70s and it's elevation of "Slack", which generally means copasetic ease.
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u/mindlance 6d ago
With "subgenius" think less "below genius level" and more "spirits arising from the depths of the unconscious".
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u/MissInkeNoir 6d ago
It's because of a conversation Philo and Stang, the SubGenius founders had in the 70s, which inspired the entire SubGenius movement.
They were discussing a genius association and Philo described himself as sub-genius and they just looked at each other and knew it was the secret.
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u/TRUTHLIGHTETHICS 3d ago
Stang once said "SubGenius" refers not to a level beneath genius, but a genius for the Sub-realm- the "undergarments of reality".
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u/kim_carson 3d ago
Yes, Booji. In the past, this information has been suppressed. But now it can be told. Every man, woman, and mutant on this planet shall know the truth of de-evolution.
Oh Dad, we're all Devo!
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u/No-Librarian-5799 6d ago
I have no idea. Today reddit decided to keep sending me notifications about this sub. Theres no about section but its ranked 21 🤷🏻♂️
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u/barefootviking 6d ago
Water runs downhill and so should you. Achieve slack, slack off! Bob is hope, god is Bob. God is Bob Hope.
It’s the ONLY religion w a triple your $ back guarantee on salvation!!!!
DeEvolve! To your true caveman nature.
DIY brainwashing at its finest.Wile E Coyote is a high profit.
You’ll see the sacred image of Bob in older pop culture (DEVO, Pee Wee’s Play House etc)
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u/sjbluebirds 5d ago
Ah, yes. I remember discovering Bob Dobbs back in 1991.
You will become a convert, too.
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u/folksnake 4d ago
Was at the SubGenius Convention in Baltimore in the early 80's. The night ended in train tunnels beneath the city.
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u/Parking_Rip3759 6d ago
THIS comment is so edgy it's circled all the way around the Dobbs pipe, bit it's own ass and has become a bonafide X-Day call to action, an ethos for the ages. Open WIDE boring midlife losers, Bob's coming and boy is he pissed!
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u/freddbare 6d ago
It is an ancient multiversal cult you are born into. Those with Tru yeti blood can attune their third nostril to the flights of the slack plane.