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Hi there, registered on the board over 6 months ago and I've been an occasional lurker since. I would hate coming across as a self-boasting prick by arrogantly introducing myself but I'll give it a try.

I'm a 23-year-old Dutchie and reside in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Technically speaking I'm a student since I enrolled at a college somewhere, but in 'reality' I've been slacking around for the past 2,5 years. Started out as a batshit crazy conspiracy theorist some 3 years ago, and gradually developed a more or less saner mindset which led me to the likes of Robert Anton Wilson, Terrence McKenna and Alan Watts. I've read the Illuminatus Trilogy (while realising I've been a little deluded dupe most my life) and I'm currently reading Cosmic Trigger. Unknowingly at the time, I think Eris manifested herself to me in various disguises over the years but in hindsight, I know it was her.

See you guys in another 6 months.

This isn't going to work out for you.

Good to know.

Incidentally, every single kook that goes after Stang claims "betrayal".

Stang knows he's betrayed the fringe types he built his media career on,

And "Black Pope" ---> Bob Black?

Please take your crusade elsewhere.

Damn it, they're on to me.

Never heard of that Jeff Wells before, will have a looksy tomorrow.

When David Icke isn't dealing with his bloody, shapeshiting reptilians then I must say it's not too bad. But I just can't look, or listen to the guy without having a good laugh about the lizard Queen at Buckingham Palace.

It all started by watching the Zeitgeist documentary in which they hinted on 9/11 being an inside job. And thus I started to "research", as 9/11 cooks say, the grand scheme behind the destruction of the WTC. After a while 9/11 started to bore me and I switched onto the staunch anti-Roman Catholic, "the Jesuits are running the world" side of the global conspiracy. Which in the end led me to believe the Dutch intelligence agency was watching me since I now was aware it's not the masons, CFR, jews or other usual suspects plotting for one-world government, but in fact the kiddie porn fanboys from Rome who were pulling the strings.

I gladly enough was never drawn by the likes of Alex Jones and all the other screaming patriots (except for Bill Cooper) but I did follow Jordan Maxwell's conspiracy candy for a while. Besides him, I listened to most of the other household names in conspiracy land: such as Alan Watt, Eric Jon Phelps and Webster Tarpley. And within the field of 9/11 conspiracies, a guy named Nico Haupt and Simon Shack of the September Clues movie/website used to be predominant in my daily doses of conspiracy candy.

Needless to say, I had quite a laugh in hindsight realising I've been had all along.

From Wiki:

Church of the SubGenius controversy

According to two accounts by Black, he received a bomb in the mail at his street address on November 22, 1989.[3] Black claimed it was a member of the Church of the SubGenius, John Hagen-Brenner, who sent him an "improvised explosive device consisting of an audio cassette holder wired with four cadmium-type batteries, four flashbulbs, and five firecrackers",[4] as described in the charging document filed in Federal District Court. According to Black, he thought the package looked suspicious, then on impulse "threw it against the wall. There was a flash (the flashcubes) and a puff of smoke, but the firecrackers did not go off."[4] Black turned the device in to the police. Black believes that the device was sent to him because of criticism he had made of the Church, and he has repeatedly brought up the incident in his writings concerning the Church.[3] Ivan Stang and other members of the Church have denied any involvement in this incident, and no one else was charged. One of Black's texts was reposted and dismissed on the SubGenius mailing-list.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Black#Church_of_the_SubGenius_controversy

Another article by Bob Black about his supposed feud with Ivan Stang:

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/black/sp001674.html

(I fell out with the Church of the SubGenius in 1987. A few years later, one of their bigshots, John Hagen-Brenner, mailed me a bomb and ended up copping a guilty plea in Federal court, and I spread the news far and wide. After a couple years in denial, H-B's high-school friend Doug Smith/"Ivan Stang" took to the Internet -- correctly assuming I wasn't there to respond -- to disparage the "Black Lies." But though I wasn't present, I had friends who were, through whose help I not only saw what Stang was saying but posted thefollowing response.)
THEY DON'T CALL IT SUBGENIUS FOR NOTHING

And on another note, don't mind my SPAG - it's atrocious.

Urban dictionary tells me spag is commonly used by discordians, extremely tiny case of synchronicity?

While lurking I did notice another Dutch poster, where are you? I need you!

Supposedly, some Sub-geni will not fuck, but bomb you if you can't take a joke. Although, that is what Bob Black (author of the Abolition of Work essay) claims in his article "Bomb 'em if they can't take a joke":

ON NOVEMBER 22, 1989, I received a bomb in the mail at my street address. Purportedly from "Luis Zapato" at a Tampa address later established to be imaginary, it had been mailed from Wausau, Wisconsin two days before. Packaged in a cassette, it was made of a contact switch, batteries, flashcubes and small firecrackers. It looked suspicious to me — paranoia has its upside — and on an impulse I threw the thing against a door before fully opening it. There was a sound and a puff of smoke. It turns out the flashcubes all went off without igniting the firecrackers. It was a tiny little bomb, unlikely to kill, but I might have lost some fingers or been blinded. Regardless, as a postal inspector told me, "We don't take these things lightly." I lack the expertise to disarm an unexploded bomb, so I had no choice but to involve the authorities.

WHODUNIT? It was difficult not to laugh when a detective asked me, "Do you have any enemies?" Try spending 90 minutes explaining to a postal inspector what a "SubGenius" is. There are many possibilities, but the probability is that a SubGenius zombie is to blame. Since gratuitously insulting me two years ago, "Ivan Stang" has gone all-out to make a commercial success out of the Church, and there have been adverse reactions from the marginals milieu, invariably attributed to my malign influence because Stang, like his precursors at Processed World, simply can't comprehend that the difference between my kind of people and his is precisely that my friends aren't followers. Tad Kepley bootlegged the SubGenius video on his own initiative, a punishment to fit the capitalist crime which would never have occurred to somebody who hasn't owned a TV set for 13 years. Pascal Uni never even told me that he'd handed Stang the anti-Sub Dadata poster at a Lousiana devival last summer, to Stang's visible consternations. Etc. Nobody needs me to point out how crass it is for SubGenius, a collage of plagiarisms, to threaten anybody with copyright laws. But I did point it out. Stang knows he's betrayed the fringe types he built his media career on, as I observed when I reviewed High Weirdness By Mail. Recall his overreaction, in Popular Reality, to some rather offhand complaints by John Zerzan — Stang so far succumbed to guilty anxiety that his letter wasn't funny. He knows he's a shit, and it hurts.

To read further:
http://www.inspiracy.com/black/bomb.html

Hi there, registered on the board over 6 months ago and I've been an occasional lurker since. I would hate coming across as a self-boasting prick by arrogantly introducing myself but I'll give it a try.

I'm a 23-year-old Dutchie and reside in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Technically speaking I'm a student since I enrolled at a college somewhere, but in 'reality' I've been slacking around for the past 2,5 years. Started out as a batshit crazy conspiracy theorist some 3 years ago, and gradually developed a more or less saner mindset which led me to the likes of Robert Anton Wilson, Terrence McKenna and Alan Watts. I've read the Illuminatus Trilogy (while realising I've been a little deluded dupe most my life) and I'm currently reading Cosmic Trigger. Unknowingly at the time, I think Eris manifested herself to me in various disguises over the years but in hindsight, I know it was her.

See you guys in another 6 months.