The story of Rev Phil Gale... or "hey, free clown."
Reverend DragonSpirit
-Reverend DragonSpirit
je...@subgenius.com
implore you to read this story in its entirety. One of the reasons
Rev. Gale gave for his "suicide" was that he was tired of living in
mediocrity:
"In the end, it is that I am unwilling
(sick of living) to live in mediocrity.
Look, we're SubGeniuses, what separates Us from Them is that we
REALIZE how stupid everyone and everything really is. Rev Gale
KNEW he was the greatest living person, and I am sure you as a
Sub know that he was wrong and that in reality YOU are the
greatest living person. (You of course are wrong, because I am the
greatest living person.)
The point is that we have the greatly depressing knowledge of the
way things really are. Our only hope is to "pull the wool over our
own eyes" and push on. No, the point is: DON'T KILL
YOURSELF.
Rev. Gale was a major gear in the SubGenius machine, but didn't
even know it. The fact is you probably are too. Even if it isn't as
directly obvious as working in virtual reality at MIT, your part is
vitally important. No matter what you are upset at, or disenchanted
about, STAY ALIVE. If you need some reasons then tack these to
your bulletin board:
1. The Conspiracy wants you dead. Your very existence threatens
their Way. They would like nothing more then to see everyone of
us take the MIT plunge.
2. Suicide is a mind-control initiative. If you feel suicidal it is
definitely not your own thought. This is one of the easiest ways
They have of eliminating us. If you want to kill yourself assume it
is not *you* wanting it but *Them*.
3. The X-ists need you. Ok your soul is nothing more than a 30
second head rush for the X-ists, but damnit you're the CHOSEN
CROP! Your death would be akin to flushing the good, sticky,
Kind-Bud and leaving behind only the brown, dry, headache
causing, Ditch-Weed.
4. The SubGenius needs you. Your life is vitally important to the
SubGenius master plan.
5. "Bob" Loves You. Don't ask me why, but I'm sure I read that
somewhere.
Rev. Stephen Pollack, the illuminated one, summed it best when he
said. "The complete and utter destruction of the Conspiracy itself is
reason alone for living."
So read the story, see if you think this was suicide. Perhaps you'll
come to the obvious conclusion that someone wanted Rev. Gale
removed, count the 23's, and above all else "Stay Happy."
Rev JC "Steve" Bevilacqua
The Lord
---New Times LA
According to Ladner, Philip had abandoned his Scientology
beliefs while he was at EarthLink. He had instead become
enamored with the self-parodying Church of Sub Genius,
which specializes in debunking cults and which has its own
cult following among Gen-Xers.
Ladner gave Philip the group's tongue-in-cheek bible,
Revelation X: The Church of Sub Genius, and they watched
its "recruitment video" together. "It was hilarious," recalled
Ladner recently at a Venice café. "There were certain things
that really struck Philip. Both religions [Sub Genius and
Scientology] sort of draw upon similar ideas. One has
humor, one doesn't."
"Sub Genii" worship a pipe-smoking cartoon character
named Bob Dobbs. Philip loved a line in the video about
how Dobbs "once told L. Ron Hubbard, 'They may be pink,
but their money's green,' " recalled Ladner. Philip even hung
a Bob Dobbs poster on his office door at EarthLink.
<http://www.newtimesla.com/1999/042999/feature1-1.html>
je...@subgenius.com
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22, 1998
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Investigate the new
suicides related to
Scientology
Several new reports have recently surfaced
regarding
individuals in Scientology or in association with
Scientology
committing suicide. These reports should be taken
very
seriously and investigated and reinvestigated
using all your
connections.
Here is why:
1.Almost all of Scientology auditing processes
are forms
of covert hypnosis/brainwashing in which the
question
often becomes the suggestion or suggested
reality.
Many of the confidential processes were
deliberately
designed by Hubbard to fragment core
concepts and
integrity of personality. This would make
the individual
more controllable.
2.Ever since the Korean War brainwashing
historically
always has produced casualties of psychosis
and
suicide. Additionally occult initiations in
secretive
societies also have had a history of
casualties of
psychosis and suicide.
3.After the Lisa McPherson death and publicity
the
OSA will do everything it can to disguise or
bury any
connection of that person (the suicide) to
Scientology.
In the old days of the GO this was a
standard
practice. This is such a high priority I now
would bet
that the suppression of all information
relating to all
new Scientology suicides is now being
handled by
Rinder personally.
4.Anyone in Scientology long enough near tech,
ethics
or GO/OSA lines saw people flipping out and
sometimes heard about the suicides. Suicide
and
psychotic breaks usually happened around the
confidential auditing areas or rundowns i.e.
Introspection rundown, OT3, Ned for OT's
L-12 etc.
or in sever ethics situations. For example,
FACTNet
has reports of about 9 people who jumped off
of
building or bridges to their death while in
the
confidential levels.
But, keep in mind some people who are less
stable
will flip out on the lower levels or milder
ethics.
5.Sometimes the flip-out occurs weeks or months
after
some auditing or ethics action or because
someone
who keeps having flubbed auditing sessions
and
repairs. A build up occurs from all the
cumulative
stress of the processes and the person goes
over the
edge.
When you hear of a report of a new suicide like
the Philip
Gale suicide, try to find out what processes and
ethics or
OSA actions the person had for a full year before
they killed
themselves. Try to locate former staff members or
anyone
who would know if the person was having auditing
and
ethics problems of any kind. Talk to friends and
family about
any erratic behavior or requests for help that
were probably
ignored by Scientology or handled by more repair
auditing.
It will be difficult because of Scientology's
fanatical
cover-ups, but preventing More Lisa's and the
dozens of
other mysterious deaths and suicides in
Scientology is well
worth the effort.
Lawrence Wollersheim
je...@subgenius.com
je...@subgenius.com
after receiving email about the phil gale memorial website, for which
i am deeply grateful to its caretaker, i spent an hour or so
reading through all the posts concerning phil and his connection to
scientology. i must admit, i was amazed, and feel phil would
be somewhat amused, by all the speculation caused by his death, the
date upon which he chose to end it all, and the ensuing
fallout throughout the net community.
i worked closely with phil at earthlink from october 95 until his
departure back to MIT. in that time, we became what i consider
to be close friends. we connected professionally, academically, and
socially. he had been and would become further interested
in my chosen field of graduate study, cognitive science. we talked
about that, about programming, about women, about music,
about whatever... it was only after getting to know him well that i
found out that he ever was a scientologist, as just previous to
our meeting that phil seriously questioned and abandoned scientology,
if not publically, at least privately.
although i too was shaken by the news of his suicide, it was not
altogether surprising. he, like many other 'child prodigies,' had
problems understanding and communicating in the world in which he
found himself. moreover, he was easily bored and always
restless -- mentally, physically, and emotionally.
he was no more reclusive than most very bright people--a reclusivity
borne of necessity, not genetics. his, like those of other
brilliant people, was a strange world, where he 'had to behave; in a
way not really befitting his chronological age, but more like
those around him. being technically brilliant made it all the
harder--he seemed removed from those around him differing both in
age and in knowledge. so although we were good friends, i would not
understand something he had said or done, because, as
he often put it, i was generation X, he was generation "why?".
far and away, he was the most brilliant, most intuitive programmer i
have ever met, so even amongst his 'peers,' which i
consider myself lucky to be branded by him, he really had no peer. it
was often hard to discern and even harder to remember
that, at heart, he was just a teenager, plagued with all the normal
teenage anxieties as well as those thrust upon him by the
demands of a world in need of his talents. and when it came to
discussing his thoughts about scientology, he had few around
who knew it anywhere near the level he did, having been brought up
believing it was the only way. beyond the first questioning
of the belief system handed you by your parents upon entering college,
i could help no further, not having been scientologist
myself.
one thing is sure, however--he left scientology long before departing
earthlink. the long lasting effects, who knows. my own
survival to the ripe old age of 32 is no testament to the benefits nor
a condemnation of modern psychiatry for 'child prodigies,'
but rather a failure of my own self-destructive impulses to succeed on
their terms. and although he may have left scientology, it
is unclear as to whether or not it left him. in the end, who knows? it
was i who first introduced him to the church of the
subgenius when i bought him a copy of 'Revelation X' -- a discovery
waiting to happen. he fell in love with it immediately, and
read it in far more detail than i ever did. what that says about his
need to find a new belief system i can only hazard a guess --
he had found comfort in numbers. it was a comfort hard to share, but
share he did, even in the so-called 'scientology days' of
earthlink, which to the best of my knowledge lasted not much longer
than phil did at earthlink, if that long. yeah, its effects are
still felt in subtle ways, but the management methodology itself was
gone, at least in the information technologies group, long
before i departed in january of 97.
but i digress.
as for what phil was thinking that night, why he chose friday the
13th, "elron's" birthday, as he would say, to end his life, and
many other questions for which there may be answers to me are just the
legacy of what it was like to be phil. as misunderstood
as he seemed in life, so he remains in the afterlife--a statement of
what only phil really knows, the rest of us have to guess.
thanx again to everyone involved in keeping his memory alive. it is a
gesture he himself took on for his dad after his death. after
returning from the services, phil sent an email explaining the growing
number of 'x' files in directories on various servers around
earthlink. it was a testament to his dad, who, always in need of
someplace to temporarily store some information, used files he
named he named 'x'.
for phil, an 'x'-file of your own:
ls / x
brian ladner
William Price
I was going to go to bed but I had to respond with some comments
>
> Look, we're SubGeniuses,
Or at least other Mutants
what separates Us from Them is that we
> REALIZE how stupid everyone and everything really is. Rev Gale
> KNEW he was the greatest living person, and I am sure you as a
> Sub know that he was wrong and that in reality YOU are the
> greatest living person. (You of course are wrong, because I am the
> greatest living person.)
Jesus is wrong. John whittaker is the greatest living person because he
doesn't suspect it.
>
> The point is that we have the greatly depressing knowledge of the
> way things really are. Our only hope is to "pull the wool over our
> own eyes" and push on. No, the point is: DON'T KILL
> YOURSELF.
> Rev. Gale was a major gear in the SubGenius machine, but didn't
> even know it. The fact is you probably are too. Even if it isn't as
> directly obvious as working in virtual reality at MIT, your part is
> vitally important.
Or at least important to the rest of us mutants, if you concretely take the
church for its "Joke diguised as a religion" Factor.
We have an advantage. The existance of one spirt mutant, one free bird, one
lone nut acting on whim, randomly, and unpredictably threatens the whole
fucking system. Youy become the eye in the sky and the fly in the ointment.
Even if you don't breed every time a latent mutant sees one act of ,um,
individual nonenforced unherdlike spontaneous reason less whatever commited
by anything, just one unpredetermined act, it can trigger a response than
can alter the entire course of its existance.
No matter what you are upset at, or disenchanted
> about, STAY ALIVE. If you need some reasons then tack these to
> your bulletin board:
>
> 1. The Conspiracy wants you dead. Your very existence threatens
> their Way. They would like nothing more then to see everyone of
> us take the MIT plunge.
read: they aren't neccesarily plotting against you in particular, but they
work collectively through their massed actions both conscious, subconscious,
and bureaucratic. Not alwys deliberately, but at minimum incidentally...
They can't comprhend why we are the way we are, or even see the way we
are. If you talk to someone who *can*, even slightly *THEY HAVE THE
SIGHT*!!!they are latent. Notneccesarily a rogue, but there are followers of
every faith who see us and even accept us for what we are,inexplicably,
because they see it.
Some of them see it, and wish to destroy us. Most simply do not
understand.
I have done considerable field work in this area.
> 2. Suicide is a mind-control initiative. If you feel suicidal it is
> definitely not your own thought. This is one of the easiest ways
> They have of eliminating us. If you want to kill yourself assume it
> is not *you* wanting it but *Them*.
Or at least their incidental or unconscious influence.
They contribute to feelings of low self esteem and worthlessness,
and you want to die.
easy as pie.
"You can't do x act as well as Joey LaBeBall? Well, see if we let *YOU*
breed!"
"Hell, you're LUCKY we dont put you on an ICEBERG and FLOAT you."
> 3. The X-ists need you. Ok your soul is nothing more than a 30
> second head rush for the X-ists, but damnit you're the CHOSEN
> CROP! Your death would be akin to flushing the good, sticky,
> Kind-Bud and leaving behind only the brown, dry, headache
> causing, Ditch-Weed.
Fuck the Xists. Any Xist that comes my way will be backstabbed and
mainlined through a hollowed out blowgun Hawthorn-Thorn Needle by me and
then Fuel injected into my
Tercel before they get you assholes.
I'll shove themselves so far up their own black hole asses so fast That
their anus will burn solid and I'll then eat Xklbob s for dinner.
I have the sight and the foreknowledge and when they come their silly little
mothership flyin bungeyes
will be plugged with MY SNOT , and then we'll see who can fucking well eat
through their skin.
I'll shit laser boogers out of their homes in my sinusoids into my
digestive tract into their anus in my stomach so far through time that they
will spontaneously cease to exist when I start tying their rectal black
holes together, saving me al the work. And all this will happen while I'm
taking a shit,
and I will exert no effort doing it, and STILL i will be called a pink boy,
and hunted by the last remaining haters of the church who will be all that
is left of humanity because we all know that true stoners save the best for
last (but only after sampling the best first or hey I forget) And I will
still rescue your silly asses from the yacatisma who will asttempt to
recruit me, and STILL
I will feel useless.
I will keep going, out of spite.
>
> 4. The SubGenius needs you. Your life is vitally important to the
> SubGenius master plan.
Unless You wish to join my army of shit-kickin' egalitarian kung fu space
truckers and their Orchestra.
By then my body will not even be flesh, but space, as all of my kind become.
> 5. "Bob" Loves You. Don't ask me why, but I'm sure I read that
> somewhere.
Well, "jeezus" does, anyways. I probably do if'n ya don't always treat
others like a chump.
Good riddance, then...
To ALL those columbine mothers as well.
>
> Rev. Stephen Pollack, the illuminated one, summed it best when he
> said. "The complete and utter destruction of the Conspiracy itself is
> reason alone for living."
We can spread through words, deeds, art , music, fun,g graffiti, and
brreding.
Not to mention ranting
>
> So read the story, see if you think this was suicide. Perhaps you'll
> come to the obvious conclusion that someone wanted Rev. Gale
> removed, count the 23's, and above all else "Stay Happy."
It will happen here too.
They are within us.
Never forget.
If the church doesn't need you...YOU do, and everyone you ever have cared
about needs you.
If you don't beleive in BOB
Beleive two things, my freinds aquaintances and tumorous growths of my
lives.
SLACK,
and the CONSPIRACIES
William Price
> 2.Ever since the Korean War brainwashing
historically
> always has produced casualties of psychosis and
> suicide. Additionally occult initiations in
secretive
> societies also have had a history of casualties
of
> psychosis and suicide.
So whos to say WE aren't responsible for the Death of this guy?
Richard Tucker
>
> Following is an excerpt from a story about Rev Philip Gale. I
> implore you to read this story in its entirety. One of the reasons
> Rev. Gale gave for his "suicide" was that he was tired of living in
> mediocrity:
>
> "In the end, it is that I am unwilling
> (sick of living) to live in mediocrity.
>
> REALIZE how stupid everyone and everything really is. Rev Gale
> KNEW he was the greatest living person, and I am sure you as a
> Sub know that he was wrong and that in reality YOU are the
> greatest living person. (You of course are wrong, because I am the
> greatest living person.)
>
> way things really are. Our only hope is to "pull the wool over our
> own eyes" and push on. No, the point is: DON'T KILL
> YOURSELF.
>
> Rev. Gale was a major gear in the SubGenius machine, but didn't
> even know it. The fact is you probably are too. Even if it isn't as
> directly obvious as working in virtual reality at MIT, your part is
> about, STAY ALIVE. If you need some reasons then tack these to
> your bulletin board:
>
> 1. The Conspiracy wants you dead. Your very existence threatens
> their Way. They would like nothing more then to see everyone of
> us take the MIT plunge.
>
> definitely not your own thought. This is one of the easiest ways
> They have of eliminating us. If you want to kill yourself assume it
> is not *you* wanting it but *Them*.
>
> second head rush for the X-ists, but damnit you're the CHOSEN
> CROP! Your death would be akin to flushing the good, sticky,
> Kind-Bud and leaving behind only the brown, dry, headache
> causing, Ditch-Weed.
>
> SubGenius master plan.
>
> somewhere.
>
> said. "The complete and utter destruction of the Conspiracy itself is
> reason alone for living."
>
> come to the obvious conclusion that someone wanted Rev. Gale
> removed, count the 23's, and above all else "Stay Happy."
>
> The Lord
>
>
situation, surrender is not an option. So EVAC was delayed a bit, so
what? The command was 'Hold until relieved!' Do dig that foxholo a
little deeper, move into the three room apartment in your helmet and
hang on. There are cycles in the bombardment of The CON, periods of
reloading as it were. These are the times to make tactical and strategic
movements, to strike when The CON is busy shovelling the next steaming
Load of Crap into It's Excretory Orfice in preparation for the next
barrage. It's Quiet right now, The CON must be reloading. So get out
there and Intimidate the Pink masses, it'll throw off their aim!
bipolar bear
(Je...@subgenius.com) wrote:
> Several new reports have recently surfaced
> regarding individuals in Scientology or in association with
> Scientology committing suicide.
People with suicidal tendencies gravitate towards organisations or beliefs
that offer relief from what is essentially clinical depression. When they
don't find it, they either move on or check out, depending how far the
disease has progressed. My guess is you'll find just as many suicides in
ANY organization that lays claim to mystic enlightenment. Scientology gets
a lot of bad press these days, but I doubt that suicide stands out as an
attribute in anything but anecdotal terms.
bipolar bear
wrote:
snip
> > 2. Suicide is a mind-control initiative. If you feel suicidal it is
> > definitely not your own thought. This is one of the easiest ways
> > They have of eliminating us. If you want to kill yourself assume it
> > is not *you* wanting it but *Them*.
>
> Or at least their incidental or unconscious influence.
> They contribute to feelings of low self esteem and worthlessness,
> and you want to die.
> easy as pie.
I disagree. I had plenty of reasons to off myself but I didn't. Why?
Because I had enough seretonin and norepinephrine floating around in my
brain to ward off the impulse. Environment plays a role of course, but the
predisposition is probably genetic.
Geoffrey V. Bronner
<Ryus...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>Sorry to hear about the demise of Rev. Gale. I guess the con got to him.
>
Not the CON... the Scientologists messed up his head so early in life that
even "Bob" could not save him. He clearly had slack while at Earthlink and
he didn't even know it.
-G
--
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~geoffb/>
"I am a cipher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce."
- Jimmy James, Newsradio
Rev. Ezekiel Impurity Wadd
<nitecr...@worldnet.att.net> spake thusly:
>Amen! This is a war. A war of the Mind. This is a 'no prisoners'
>situation, surrender is not an option. So EVAC was delayed a bit, so
>what? The command was 'Hold until relieved!' Do dig that foxholo a
>little deeper, move into the three room apartment in your helmet and
>hang on. There are cycles in the bombardment of The CON, periods of
>reloading as it were. These are the times to make tactical and strategic
>movements, to strike when The CON is busy shovelling the next steaming
>Load of Crap into It's Excretory Orfice in preparation for the next
>barrage. It's Quiet right now, The CON must be reloading. So get out
>there and Intimidate the Pink masses, it'll throw off their aim!
We ought to (and probably are) doing like the Union forces under Col.
Pleasants in the War of Northern Aggression.
If anything, the Con is operating from fixed fortification. So,
secretly and stealthily, we're building a mine-tunnel beneath them and
packing that sumbitch full of gunpowder.
Let's just TRY to keep it together during the Battle of the Crater, eh
troops?
Rev. Magdalen
> People with suicidal tendencies gravitate towards organisations or beliefs
> that offer relief from what is essentially clinical depression. When they
> don't find it, they either move on or check out, depending how far the
> disease has progressed. My guess is you'll find just as many suicides in
> ANY organization that lays claim to mystic enlightenment. Scientology gets
> a lot of bad press these days, but I doubt that suicide stands out as an
> attribute in anything but anecdotal terms.
That sounds like SCIENTOLOGIST talk to me!! Let me give you a friendly
tip, buddy: you don't want LEGUME to start thinking your one of those
Scientologists. I don't want to make you puke, so I won't tell you what
he DOES with them, just that it involves a short length of hose, the
XDay Barrel (AFTER it's been used) and a nail gun.
je...@subgenius.com
>
>
>It will happen here too.
>They are within us.
>Never forget.
>If the church doesn't need you...YOU do, and everyone you ever have cared
>about needs you.
>If you don't beleive in BOB
>Beleive two things, my freinds aquaintances and tumorous growths of my
>lives.
>SLACK,
>and the CONSPIRACIES
Amen BJ!