WHAT THE HELL Application Form

   Reprinted from the SubGenius Foundation original, written by Rev. Ivan
   Stang under Dobbsian guidance; this online version captured by:
   coop at cs.bu.edu (J. Cooper), with corrections by Clavister.

   I've pulled this from my extensive archives. The typos and deletions
   you see were always there, and in fact have relevance to the document
   for those who choose to see it. I'm not going to point them out to
   you.

   -- J. Cooper

                  WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?

   It should be painfully obvious by now that the world as we know it
   won't last too damn much longer. And what are you doing about it?
   Going to work or school, coming home, goofing around. What will happen
   to your routine when all the shit comes down on us at once? Don't you
   feel responsible for trying to help this endangered planet?

   No? Good. The fact is, it's too late. There isn't a god-damned thing
   you as an individual can do about eco-disaster, nuclear death,
   overpopulation and so on. Things are going to Hell on a fast train and
   about the only thing you, or anyone else besides the Rockefellers, can
   do about it is to just sit back and watch the show.

   But remember - the End of the World may be much worse and take much
   longer than you thought. The mere act of sitting at home watching
   everything fall apart on your TV may be too much for even the stoutest
   brains to take. In fact, the more alert and intelligent you are, the
   quicker you'll likely be driven to suicide by the sheer hideousness of
   what you'll be seing.

                             WILL YOU BE READY?
    WILL YOU STILL BE SANE ENOUGH TO LAUGH WHEN "THAT WHICH MUST COME TO
                           PASS," COMES TO PASS?
                         WILL YOU EVER GET SLACK??

   Study our SubGenius "literature" closely. Keep it by your toilet and
   memorize it. If you aren't as dense as most people, you'll be quick to
   realize that, cheesy scam though it MIGHT WELL BE, the Church of the
   SubGenius is just about the only organization around that can help you
   face the god-awful facts without some kind of ingratiating,
   sweetness-and-light, goody-two-shoes, pollyanna,
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   the SubGenius is beyond the shadow of a doubt THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION.
   We perform miracles, answer ANY questions, invoke demons, and have a
   direct etheric hotline to the space god JEHOVAH 1 through our
   infra-psychic trance-babbling Personal Savior, J. R. "BOB" Dobbs--who
   is actually a pretty regular guy, just very rich and possessed by
   forces greater than Man.

   The SubGenius material has only recently been made public. This is
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   teenage "followers."

   For the sake of what little you still hold dear, we urge you to submit
   this application so that we may determine if you are worthy to receive
   the closest thing to salvation you'll ever get a whiff of.

   (If you are rich, your money can buy you your own personal Church and
   Congregation. Write for details.)

         "Researching the Public's Fear of the Unknown Since 1953!"

               THE C H U R C H OF THE S U B G E N I U S (TM)
                     P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
                
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   To the Sacred Scribe of the FisTemple Lodge of the Church of the
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   I have___ have not___ completed the Application Questionnaire and, if
   I am found worthy, or even if I am not, I will henceforth consider
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   Because the SubGenius inner mysteries, dark rites, abhorrent rituals,
   loathsome secrets and repugnant initiations reach into the so-called
   "evil"
   and "conspiratorial" realms as well as the ordinary, unforbidden
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   and magicks, they must never be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.
   There are some things Man was not meant to own, especially Regular
   Man;
   while the use of SubGenius concepts and tools may be informative,
   amusing,
   and effective in gaining Something for Nothing, THEY ARE NOT TOYS.
   I therefore swear that I am at least 18 years of age and, furthermore,
   that I will keep private all reading matter, taped discourses, graven
   images, and other cult secrets. If I do not uphold this ancient trust
   I am
   prepared to meet the Stark Fist of Removal.

   SIGNED: ___________________________________________

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   PRINT YOUR NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS:
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           The Church of the SubGenius APPLICATION QUESTIONNAIRE

   Don't spend too long on any one question, and don't answer any if you
   think they're in bad taste, which they may indeed be. Use a seperate
   page
   if necessary. Or else just blow off this whole questionnaire. (Watch
   the
   Newsletter for compiled results. Don't worry -- your name won't be
   used.)

   Have you been getting any lately? How are you?

   Age:______ Sex:_______Color of skin, if any:

   Occupation: Monthly Earnings:

   Childhood Religion:

   Previous Mystic Groups:

   Name a couple of your favorite types or creators of:

   MOVIES, TV: ________________________ MUSIC:

   BOOKS:_____________________________ MAGS:

   Other favorite things, hobbies:

   Somewhere on this sheet, draw a simple pic of you, God, and your ego.

   When you die, where will you go?

   By what means would you most like to die?

   How and when, if ever, do you think the world will "end" or change
   drastically?

   The future will be __fun __not so fun __pretty much like it is now.

   Name the three most fearsome things you think face the U.S.:

   Describe yourself in a few carefully chosen words:

   Current Short Duration Personal Saviors, if any:

   What makes you think you're a SubGenius, huh? What's the deal here?
   Just what do you have to say for yourself?

   YES or NO Questions

   Simply put a Y or N after each question, or SO for 'sort of'

   Do you sometimes look back at yourself 3 or 4 years ago and think,
   "God, what a jerk?"
   Do you hear voices muttering in your head, faint and indistinct?
   Do you use credit cards irresponsibly in hopes of later payment?
   Do you get messages from space beamed into your skull?
   Are you a 'packrat,' do you hoard material goods you'll probably never
   use?
   Do you enjoy filing, stacking, resorting them?
   Would you love to go looting during a riot?
   Do you worry about your brain?
   Do you dream of controlling the world?
   When you were a child, did you torture small animals and bugs?
   Do you find it utterly impossible to comprehend the opposite sex?
   Do you get psychosomatic headaches?
   Does your temper stay dormant most of the time, only to suddenly
   explode
   into quasi-insane rage?
   Do you like to drive fast as hell, with your car stereo cranked up all
   the
   way?
   Do you often 'tune out' the world while concentrating?
   Do you feel you "march to the beat of a drunken drummer?"
   Do you forget where you just put things?
   Do you catch yourself shooting off at the mouth?
   Do you sometimes want to fire a dear rifle into your TV?
   Do you often lie when the truth would suffice?
   Do you blurt out well-meant but uncouth statements and then
   immediately
   regret it?
   Do you sometimes smash the shit out of your finger when using a
   hammer?
   Do you have spells during which you are pissed off or depressed for
   what
   you later decide was no good reason?
   Would you really rather sit around and watch TV than go out?
   Do you deliberately work at an honest but menial job, even though you
   could
   be making big $$$ as an ass-kissing executive?
   Do you look down on those who would rather do idiot labor or go on the
   dole
   than try to achieve, as you have done?
   Are you fairly well assured that you're smarter than teh average
   gazooba?
   Do you get fixated on one amusing little activity and then 'go at it,'
   day
   and night? Are you scientific rather than superstitious?
   Do you avoid looking too closely at beautiful 13 year old girls? Boys?
   When you get impatient with an inanimate object, do you tear it all to
   shit?
   At night at home alone, are you sometimes convinced that Charles
   Manson is
   in your closet?
   Do you instinctively imitate dialects and mannerisms when describing a
   scene?
   Do certain textures or noises make your skin crawl?
   Do you often stay up all night?
   Does money 'burn a hole in your pocket?'
   Does everything seem a little unreal to you?
   Do you have certain secrets that no one else knows?
   Have you ever had a psychic experience? Seen a UFO?
   Do you let jobs stack up, rationalizing that you work better under
   pressure?
   Does disorder in your work area drive you nuts?
   Do you spout broad generalizations on subjects about which you know
   little
   or nothing?
   Do you find human folly amusing?
   Do you live in your own little world?
   Do you like to go out at night with friends, being rowdy and
   disturbing the peace, drinking and terrorizing citizens?
   Do you get all cranked up and make elaborate plans that will never
   come off in a million years?
   Do you always need to fart during the most solemn occasions?
   When you see someone in pain or discomfort do you laugh, or want to?
   Married? Divorced?
   Do you have enough Slack?
   Do you recognize the necessity for law and order?
   Do you like your job/school/chores?
   Paid enough?
   Do you compulsively read any inane thing (labels, ads) that happens to
   be within vision?
   Do you sometimes get the impression that EVERYBODY is out to get you?
   If we invaded little countries or fought Russian with N-bombs, would
   you coddle draft dodgers? Would you get the fuck out of the country?
   Do people consider you odd?
   Do you have different personalities according to who you're talking
   to?
   Do you sometimes make faces, sing, twitch, etc. for no sane reason?
   Would you just as soon let others make the tedious decisions?
   Do you behave differently with family than with friends?
   Does everything always take twice as long and cost twice as much as
   you thought it would?
   Are you always late?
   Do you easily 'blow things off' and procrastinate?
   Is today's youth more fucked up than previous generations?
   Do you clown around a lot?
   Do your face and voice change grotesquely when you get excited?
   Do you ignore your health for long periods?
   Do you sometimes get all 'spaced out' and 'dingy' for no apparent
   reason?
   Do you sometimes feel paranoia about people watching you and laughing
   at you?
   Do you ever dream you are in elementary school, and you suddenly
   notice you are wearing no pants?
   When you were a little kid, if you tapped the left side of your chair
   a few times, did you then feel compelled to tap the right side of your
   chair an exactly equal number of times?
   Do you sometimes go out beating up strangers?
   Do you occasionally shoplift 'in revenge?'
   Do you go on drug binges occasionally?
   Are you more or less cheerful around others?
   Do you sometimes think you should 'quit'?
   Do you or did you do lousy things to your elders, just to bug them?
   Every now and then, do you tie up blind amputee women and indulge in
   mud sports, canings, and Tasmanian Culture?
   Do you have any phobias, fears, compulsions?
   Do you sometimes dwell morbidly on things like sickness, world
   problems, death, drugs, pain, perversion?
   Are you even slightly sick in the head?
   Do you sometimes fret irrationally over friends and loved ones?
   Do you actually FEAR "Bob" at times?
   Do you figure there's a big depression on the way?
   Do you think the aliens will stop us from destroying ourselves?
   Do you often dream about a post-holocaust world in which you are top
   caveman?
   Have you lost pretty much ALL faith in the government?
   Do you bite into an apple and then worry about the weird, chemical
   taste on the skin?
   Do you use our nation's President as a scapegoat?
   Do you think justice can be 'bought?'
   Do you instinctively feel that all public figures are liars?
   Do you get a mini-heart-attack every time you see a cop?
   Do you automatically dislike members of strange religious cults?
   When you get home from work, would you just as soon watch some cheap,
   stupid entertainment as more educational fare?
   Do certain 'types' of people get under your skin?
   Does it irritate the hell out of you to see writers use cliches?
   Do you fall madly in love, ALL THE TIME?

   CIRCLE THE ANSWERS WHICH APPLY:

   Which of the following words apply to you? City person; country
   person; suburbanite; hetero; homo; bi, omni-, or a-sexual; "good;"
   "bad;" sensitive; tough; frustrated; satisfied; athletic; healthy;
   ill; wimp; sane; half-cocked; insane; absent-minded; alert; friendly;
   cagey; sullen; antisocial; goofy; a funny person in conversation;
   tired; energetic; nervous; loose; lively; a wallflower; quiet; loud;
   blue collar; white collar; no collar; talented; untalented;
   intellectual; no-bullshit; moody; weird; normal; depressed; manic;
   neurotic; psychotic; renegade; aggressive; subdued; nice; grouchy;
   optimistic; cynical; pessimistic; smart; stupid; in-between; genius;
   crafty; shitty; nowhere; rich; middle-class; poor; handicapped; macho;
   educated; uneducated; overeducated; and finally, are you an
   EMERGENTILE, a REWARDIAN, or merely a MEDIOCRETIN?

   Which of the following 'phenomena' do you more or less believe in?
   UFOs; astrology; telepathy; precognition; telekinesis; psychic
   healing; pyramid power; ancient astronauts; 'ghosts;' trance
   revelations; Atlantis/Mu/etc.; Bigfoot-type creatures; the Loch Ness
   Monster; none above; OTHERS:

   The world condition these days is: bad; good; funny; as expected.

   Right now, you would like to have more:
   Time; money; friends; sex; alcohol; tobacco; marijuana; stimulants;
   narcotics; depressants; hallucinogens; clothes; brains; OTHER:

               _____________________________________________

              YES!! I enclose $5 and two questions for DOBBS!

   PRIMANIMAL SUBGENIUS J.R. ``BOB'' DOBBS, HIGH EPOPT OF THE CHURCH, is
   the only Psychic Media Adept on this planet who has passed all of the
   Illuminati Corporation's most stringent tests for ectosplasmodic
   manifes- tations, precognition, telepathy and telekineses. As a trance
   medium he is unparalleled, being the main vocal tool on Earth of
   countless discorporate spirits, demons, dear departed on the
   Otherside, crazed gurus and conquerors of ancient history, alien space
   intelligences of several origins, saints and mystics (including
   Cerinthus the Mad Gnostic, actual author of the Book of Revelation),
   godlike entities from all eight planes of the Beforelife, and -
   certainly the most crucial of all - Dobbs is finally the somnambulant
   voice-box of JEHOVAH 1 THE GOD OF WRATH, jealous and vengeful alien
   Manipulator of the Old Testament. As a "Sleeping Healer," the Epopt
   conspires with Jehovah 1 to synchronize his Nental Ife with the vast
   Archive worknet of cosmic, deceased shamans, witch doctors and
   medicine men -- the ancient Masters of all the world's peoples.

   A descendant of many great psychics, "Bob" began using his gifts for
   financial gain at the age of 6. He has worked as a mind-breaker for
   the government and has more recently built a vast personal fortune as
   Psychic Salesman for a multinational cartel (which, like so many other
   intriguing aspects of Dobbs' life, must remain secret).

   To give you your money's worth in psychic consultation, Dobbs needs
   nothing more than 1) your questions and 2) something you have touched
   -- a five dollar bill, for instance, or a blank check (which must bear
   your signature for the Nental life vibrational 'psi-stench' to be
   readable by Dobbs) -- these have been found to bring the most fruitful
   predictions, diagnoses, instructions, descriptions of past lives, etc.
   Simply send your question and "offering" with this coupon to THE
   CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS and you will soon receive in the mail such
   past life readings and personal revelations about yourself as you
   could never have imagined in your WILDEST NIGHTMARES.
   And don't forget to sign this disclaimer! It must bear your signature
   before questions may be answered, in order to comply with the law in
   Dallas.

   Mr. Dobbs is endowed with powers of extrasexual persuasion as well as
   all ranges of ESP. Although "Bob's" accuracy has never been questioned
   by previous "clients," no SacraMentalist can claim infallibility. With
   Dobbs, especially, it is only a matter of time before he falters; he
   is farther from so-called 'perfection' than most of us could be if we
   worked at it. Therefore "Bob," his associates, promoters, employees,
   sponsors, agents, followers and writers must and do disclaim all
   liability to all persons, firms, or corporations who act or rely upon
   ESP impressions given by word of mouth, telephone, correspondence,
   film tape or hologram recording now or in the... the future.
   Signed:

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     Bobdamn, you read the whole thing? I can't believe you actually
     waded through those last couple pages. Did you get it all down? I
     have a feeling that if we could fathom the pattern that caused
     those deletions and fucked-up lines, we'd be in the waiting room to
     the OverEchelon already. Who can doubt that it was something more
     that mere chance?

                                     --
         -- Coop at bu.edu Any way you slice it, it's still bologna.

                                     --

                     CORRECTIONS BY THE GRAND CLAVISTER

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References

   1. http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog.html
   2. http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/classic/classics/classics.html