The Church of the SubGenius · est. 1953“Pull the wool over your own eyes!”
The Church of the SubGenius
~ SubGenius Notes ~A Record of Builders, Weirdness & the Collective Future

The Book of Dobbscoin

A Record of Builders, Weirdness, and the Collective Future, compiled from the Traditions of the Builders and transmitted through many hands. Never Final, Always Forkable.

14Books
11,552Words
3Appendices
2026Assembled

BOOK I · REVISED · 1,314 WORDS

The Book of Origins

[Here beginneth the compilation of Scribe x_static of Node Seven, who was not present for any of it, and who has reconstructed these events from three…

BOOK II · REVISED · 1,057 WORDS

The Book of Slack

[Rev. x_static again. Book One took me four months. This one took a weekend, because Slack is the only subject on which every SubGenius will talk to y…

BOOK III · REVISED · 1,087 WORDS

The Book of Blocks

[Rev. x_static. What follows contains technical claims. I do not understand them. I have transcribed them as spoken and marked with a dagger any place…

BOOK IV · REVISED · 1,038 WORDS

The Book of Builders

[Rev. x_static. The Church has always insisted that everyone gets a title and nobody gets a boss. What follows is therefore a taxonomy, which is a ver…

BOOK V · REVISED · 805 WORDS

The Book of the Conspiracy

[Rev. x_static. I asked six Builders to define the Conspiracy and received six answers, four of which were their employers. I include the acronym beca…

BOOK VI · REVISED · 809 WORDS

The Book of Weird Economics

[Rev. x_static. The Church has held from the beginning that salvation costs $44.99 and says so on the cover. Every other religion on earth also charge…

BOOK VII · REVISED · 905 WORDS

The Book of Evangelism

[Rev. x_static. The Church solved recruitment in 1980 and the solution was a pamphlet you could hand to a stranger at a bus stop. Everything in this b…

BOOK VIII · REVISED · 748 WORDS

The Book of High Weirdness

[Rev. x_static. The title is stolen. Stang published *High Weirdness by Mail* in 1988, a directory of every crank, prophet and mimeographed lunatic wh…

BOOK IX · REVISED · 731 WORDS

The Rituals of the Builders

[Rev. x_static. In the source manuscript this book is numbered nine, and also twelve, and there is a marginal note in the compiler's own hand reading …

BOOK X · REVISED · 670 WORDS

The Failures and Schisms

[Rev. x_static. I have touched this book least of all. It arrived nearly finished and the jokes in it are better than mine.] 10:1 For it is written: N…

BOOK XI · REVISED · 693 WORDS

The Eternal Release

[Rev. x_static. This is the shortest road to the Church's actual theology, and the compiler seems to have found it without noticing. I have made the c…

BOOK XII · REVISED · 1,045 WORDS

The Collective Future

[Rev. x_static. Two recensions of this book exist and they disagree in temperament, one plain and one florid. I have set the plain one here because it…

BOOK XIII · REVISED · 627 WORDS

The Final Revelation of Slack

[Rev. x_static. In the manuscript this book was also numbered ten, which would have made two tenth books and no thirteenth, and I have moved it here. …

BOOK XIV · REVISED · 1,450 WORDS

The Prophecy of the Econocollapse

[Rev. x_static. The compiler was more certain about this book than about any other, and certainty is the one thing scripture should be audited for. I …

APPENDIX · 545 WORDS

The SubGenius Rites

THE RITE OF FIRST SLACK (Initiation Ceremony for New Members) Purpose: Welcome a new anti-member into the Collective. 📜 Opening Words (Moderator) Hear…

APPENDIX · 177 WORDS

The Parable of the Empty Repo

A young developer once announced to the world: “Behold! I shall build something great.” He registered a domain, created an organization, and opened a …

APPENDIX · 566 WORDS

The Appendices

Appendix I — The Commandments of Slack Not laws, but guidelines. Not enforced, but remembered. 1. Thou shalt not confuse effort with progress. Busywor…