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UFO CULT GATHERS IN NEW YORK FOR APOCALYPSE
I-Newswire ^ | January 2, 2006

Posted on 01/03/2006 8:14:34 AM PST by NYer

January 2, 2006: The Church of the SubGenius has announced that the end of the world will take place on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. In preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church is requesting that all of its members participate in a bizarre religious ceremony taking place in upstate New York, during the final weekend before the arrival of the apocalypse.

Since its inception in 1953, Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has predicted that a fleet of flying saucers will arrive at the beginning of July to destroy the worldwide Conspiracy against the Church of the SubGenius, while all ordained SubGenius ministers will be rescued by escape vessels piloted by the Alien Sex Goddesses, also known as the Xists.

The Church is inviting all of its members worldwide to gather together for the final hours in Sherman, New York from Thursday, June 29 to July 5, at a clothing-optional outdoor campground called Brushwood Folklore Center. The first gathering at this compound took place in 1996, and the event has increased in size and participants each following year. 1998 was designated the first true "X-Day," and each successive year has added one to the total.  This year's celebration in 2006 is X-Day 9, or X-Day IX.

The Church has been engaged in a massive recruitment campaign to increase the numbers of its membership before the arrival of the Xists. According to Church records, the organization currently has approximately 100,000 members worldwide. SubGenius recruitment has been especially dedicated among the ranks of people who refuse to conform to the norms of society, including disbelievers, blasphemers, pranksters, rebels, hackers, pornographers, geeks, and outcasts.

The Church is seeking performers and producers from the adult entertainment industry in particular, because sexual freedom has been an important part of Church doctrine from the start. X-Day will be a celebration of pornography and adult entertainment, and certain parts of the event will be restricted to adults only. Only ordained ministers of the Church of the SubGenius are allowed at the event, but the Church is accepting memberships at its standard rate of $30 up until the final hours of July 4.

The Church of the SubGenius has been no stranger to controversy since its foundation, and the upcoming X-Day celebration promises to be no different. In the late 1980s, members of the Church were accused of spreading a virus in Macintosh computers known as the "Peace Virus." Numerous articles have been written on the Church in such noteworthy publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired Online, Boston Globe, U.S. News and World Report; and broadcast reports have been produced by CNN and NPR. In April 1999, officials of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts shut down an official SubGenius Devival gathering in the belief that the Church was affiliated with the Trenchcoat Mafia ( the organization blamed for the Columbine high school shootings ), though authorities later realized the association was mistaken.  In its January 1, 2000 issue, a Time magazine poll declared J.R. "Bob" Dobbs the biggest fraud of the 20th century.

Detailed information about X-Day can be found on the World Wide Web at the X-Day Web site:

http://www.modemac.com/x-day

The official home page of the Church of the SubGenius can be found at:

http://www.subgenius.com

Photographers, entertainers, production companies, radio broadcasters, and all media producers are encouraged to contact the Church at its Cleveland, Ohio headquarters at ( 216 ) 320-9528.


Contact: The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
Phone/Fax: ( 216 ) 320-9528
stang@subgenius.com, jesus@subgenius.com


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: New York; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; cult; flyingsaucer; subgenius; ufo; wegetsignal
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To: Dead Corpse

61 posted on 01/03/2006 9:07:54 AM PST by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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To: NYer
SubGenius recruitment has been especially dedicated among the ranks of people who refuse to conform to the norms of society, including disbelievers, blasphemers, pranksters, rebels, hackers, pornographers, geeks, and outcasts.

"Oh, well, he's very popular, Ed. The sportos, sluts, bloods, geeks, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads... they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."
62 posted on 01/03/2006 9:07:59 AM PST by Thrusher ("...there is no peace without victory.")
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To: scott7278

Don't Fear the Reaper!


63 posted on 01/03/2006 9:08:02 AM PST by RightWingAtheist ("Why thank you Mr.Obama, I'm proud to be a Darwinist!")
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To: NYer
I think they got the date wrong - the aliens are already here...


64 posted on 01/03/2006 9:08:20 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Agents of NHGH if I've ever seen them...


65 posted on 01/03/2006 9:11:54 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Jan-Feb is prime ice fishing weather....

Our problem is we can get iced in, and can't move the boat. - tom

66 posted on 01/03/2006 9:13:01 AM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
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To: All

Maybe we can get the Tom Cruise bunch to show up and they can get into a fist fight.


67 posted on 01/03/2006 9:17:12 AM PST by texassizednightcrawler
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To: reagan_fanatic


Take us to your leader Bill Clinton...what you mean he no longer leader...we demand to see Bill Clinton...we hear he make great snu snu!
68 posted on 01/03/2006 9:19:31 AM PST by GunnyHartman (Allah is allah outta virgins.)
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To: NYer
Image hosted by Photobucket.com already been done...

69 posted on 01/03/2006 9:21:39 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: texassizednightcrawler

Wednesday, July 5, 2006: The wife of one of the church members is stopped by an Xsist, before she can give her husband an important message


70 posted on 01/03/2006 9:21:42 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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To: Servant of the 9

ping...


71 posted on 01/03/2006 9:23:38 AM PST by null and void (A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject - Churchill)
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To: COBOL2Java

"Don't go! Don't go! IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a...a...COOKBOOK!"


72 posted on 01/03/2006 9:27:51 AM PST by RightWingAtheist ("Why thank you Mr.Obama, I'm proud to be a Darwinist!")
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To: bkepley
The Church of the SubGenius is a joke organization; it's not really a cult.
73 posted on 01/03/2006 9:31:23 AM PST by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: Ignatz; NYer
In the late 1980s, members of the Church were accused of spreading a virus in Macintosh computers known as the "Peace Virus."

Stopped reading right there.

So, it was looking fairly plausible up to that point?

74 posted on 01/03/2006 9:32:24 AM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: NYer
the end of the world will take place on Wednesday, July 5, 2006

At least it's after the holiday. I'll probably be praying for death from the hangover I'll have anyway.

75 posted on 01/03/2006 9:36:16 AM PST by SwankyC (1st Bn 11th Marines Semper Fi)
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To: GunnyHartman

Crushed pelvis goodness...


76 posted on 01/03/2006 9:47:09 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: GAB-1955
Heresy...
77 posted on 01/03/2006 9:47:31 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: SwankyC

78 posted on 01/03/2006 9:50:10 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (Have you gotten your Viking Kittie Patch today? http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
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To: SwankyC

"At least it's after the holiday. I'll probably be praying for death from the hangover I'll have anyway."



"SubGenius recruitment has been especially dedicated among the ranks of people who refuse to conform to the norms of society, including disbelievers, blasphemers, pranksters, rebels, hackers, pornographers, geeks, and outcasts."



Actually, these guys sound like they're looking for a lot of senior enlisted types you and I have been around (or, in at least my case, actually been)......


79 posted on 01/03/2006 9:55:00 AM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (I can't really accept a welcome home until the last MIA does.)
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To: F15Eagle

(((Make sure they aren't carrying a book titled "To Serve Man".)))

Oh yeahhhhhhhh....good episode of TZ!


80 posted on 01/03/2006 9:57:22 AM PST by freepertoo
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