From: modemac@tiac.net (Modemac)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997
Organization: First Online Church of "Bob"
My girlfriend, the Queen of Fucking Everything, was a kook researcher and conspiracy theorist before I even met her -- which meant that we actually had something in common to talk about on our first date. How about that, "Bob?" Her forte is digging into the hidden past of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, the controversy surrounding Rennes-le-Chateau and the supposed descendents of Jesus, and Jack the Ripper. When she found a copy of the Spring 1997 issue of PARANOIA: The Conspiracy Reader and saw its article on "The Mystery of the Knights Templar," she was amused...but when she found a photo of "Bob" Dobbs staring at her from that same magazine, she knew she had to show it to me.
I've heard of PARANOIA, but I've never seen it before now; issues of the magazine are hard to find in this area. Fortunately, years of scanning alt.conspiracy have prepared me for the sort of wild-eyed ranting to be found in the pages of this magazine. "Bob" be praised, the conspiracy theories abundant in PARANOIA run the gamut from 'mainstreem' kook rants to the most outrageous, unbelievable, incomprehensible conclusions to be found anywhere -- they have to be seen to be believed.
The subjects covered in this issue scream "kook" from the first page to the last. We've got the mainstream stuff that's been done to death -- "O.J., DNA and Conspiracy on Trail" and "Who Killed Yittzhak Rabin?" -- featuring all of the classic cases of imagined evidence like "How many shots were fired?" "Who was waiting in the car?" "What happened on the trip to the hospital?", all designed to make you distrust the news reports (which necessarily a bad thing) and wonder just what exactly happened there. The problem with this sort of "reporting" is that imaginary evidence is often pulled out of thin air to "prove" the conspiracy behind this insidious plot. It's the same sort of ranting you see on alt.conspiracy when they talk about the unreported "second explosion" on Oklahoma that was supposedly set off by the FBI or CIA in an attempt to frame Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh isn't mentioned in this issue, but he'll probably pop up this summer after the reports from his trial are sifted and analyzed by the conspiracy theorists.
The magazine really starts getting weird when it talks about the missile theory of the TWA 800 bombing; informing the public about electromagnetic frequency weapons; two articles about Larry Flynt (from "Hustler" magazine) and his relationship with Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of the American Atheists Association; and the the religious weirdness. Here's where we come to the article "Satanism, The Illuminati and the Andromedans," written by one R. Roy Blake and illustrated with Michael Aquino of the Temple of Set...and a picture of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, taken directly from the cover of REVELATION X.
Mr. Blake gives us a long, rambling essay on the relationship between Satanism, the Illuminati, alien ships from Andromeda, and the Church of the SubGenius. Here is an excerpt containing his ruminations on our mighty Church. Note his reference to "The Necronomicon," a book that doesn't actually exist:
excerpt from Paranoia Magazine, March 1997: Vol. 5 No. 1 Issue 15, pg. 42-43
Descriptions of certain types of aliens have distinct similarities with some of the evil entities that are found in occult nature, and are occasionally described as having interacted with secret societies throughout human history. The second largest satanic bestseller of all-time, The Necronomicon, describes an evil being known also as the 'eater of souls.' One whistle-blowing and very frightened governmental insider, who claimed to be aware of a governmental-alien cooperation, talked about alien ships which conducted a 'harvest of the souls.' Some occult writers have speculated that the 'eater of souls' is a more frightening entity than the devil himself. In the cryptic The Illuminatus Trilogy, the authors suggest that such beings are not supernatural at all but, rather, because they are able to manipulate dimensions in unknown ways merely appear to be supernatural. 'Trilogy' which is often referred to as an 'initiation' document by occultists is listed on the Temple of Set's 'reccomended reading' list for containing 'gems' of secret reality.
Trilogy is a wild ride and indeed so wild that its plot defies description here. Among the 'gems' of occult wisdom are various descriptions of the origins of the Illuminati, which range from the ridiculous (a rationalist called Gruad who lived on Atlantis and released ther 'eater of souls' explaining the religions throughout history, such as the Mayans and the Aztecs, that have demanded human sacrifice) to several more likely theories alluding to the 'official story' of its 1776 founding by 'defrocked' Jesuit Adam (and his wife Eve) Weishaupt.
Throughout history even entities, described at times to have seeming supernatural powers and at other times only highly advanced technology, have interacted with the Illuminati. Another interesting piece to the puzzle was provided by an anonymous source within the military who contended that some of the people involved with Trilogy were also involved with the popular 1980s Church of the SubGenius, Bob Dobbs and 'slack.'
For those not familiar with the above phenomena, the weekly video show 'NightFlight' ran a series of not so musical videos in the 80s put out by an organization which called itself the 'Church of the SubGenius.' The videos included blatant hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestion, prompting speculation that they were one of the more obvious attempts at mind control made over the airwaves. The Church of the SubGenius video also included dizzyingly rapid images of satanic symbology that was apparently aimed at the subconscious. In a deep voice, the announcer told the story of 'supersalesman' Bob Dobbs, while the cartoon image of Dobbs with the pipe was turned back and forth at such rapid speed that it at times looked like a swastika. The announcer explained how Bob had stumbled onto the secrets of who really runs the world.
A subsequent book put out by the same 'Church' suggests that its followers use the numbers 666 as frequently as possible if for no other reason than to annoy Christians. Among the strangest of its internal revelations was that aliens secretly control the world through a secret structure which also controls world government. The supposed world headquarters of the aliens and their human puppets was somewhere in New York City (Trilogy made references to tunnels under the U.N.). To punish small transgressions on the part of their human puppets, the aliens employed a device known as a migraine machine. As a frequent sufferer of migraine headaches, I can testify how effective such a device might be for torture.
Whoever this guy R. Roy Blake is, I can only hope he finds a long and distinguished career writing for more mainstream publications. More power to him!
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