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You have three books to put onto a shelf for the apocalypse survivors. What are your picks? How do they help them to rebuild society?

>> No.16672481
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16672481

My diary

>> No.16672524

Metamorphoses
Ab Urbe Condita
Republic

>> No.16672533

>>16672474
Lead the Field
The Bible
Some book that teaches english to people that dont know english

>> No.16672535

>>16672474
Plato's works, the Bible, open logic

>> No.16672549

>>16672474
The General Theory of Employment, etc ...
Applied Physics for Engineers and Scientists
A History of Political Theory - Sabine

>> No.16672552

>>16672474
Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future

>> No.16672562

>>16672474
Plato’s Collected Works
The Encyclopedia Britannica
The Conquest of Bread

>> No.16672571

>>16672549
Oh God you're trying to kill them

>> No.16672644

>>16672474
Wow, seriously this board is still doing these dumb games in 2020? Anyway:
>The Bible
>The Divine Comedy
>Complete Works of Plato

>> No.16672676

Industrial Society and it’s future
The Bible
The Republic

>> No.16672695

my struggle

>> No.16672706

>>16672474
Phaedo
Enneads
Industrial Society and Its Future

>> No.16672800

The culture of critique
A history of central banking
Hitler's war

>> No.16672815

>>16672474
Complete Works of Plato
Complete Works of Aristotle
Euclid's Elements
>>16672549
OP was asking for books to rebuild society not destroy it again

>> No.16672842

The Dunciad
The Life of Johnson
Emma

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>Mein Kampf
>Lord of the Flies
>Wikipedia (I’ll make sure they read MK first though ;)

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>>16672474
discord.gg/6ZhWgNu

>> No.16673066

>>16672474
>Your mom's diary
>My mom's diary
>The works of Sappho

>> No.16673098

Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed

>> No.16673255

>>16672474
Bible
Dont need the other 2

>> No.16673283

1984
Animal Farm
The Wealth of Nations

>> No.16674206

Crime and Punishment
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

>> No.16674891

Capital volume 1&2 (it's one book from penguin)
Something to teach people english
Collected works of Plato

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>Complete works of Plato
>Complete works of Aristotle
>Enneads of Plotinus

>> No.16675012

>>16672474
Industrial Society and it's Future
Behead all Satans
Harrassment Architecture

>> No.16675013

Bible (KV edition)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
My diary desu

>> No.16675033

>>16675013
>How do they help them to rebuild society?
2 are a warning about how things could be. 1 shows them the way out. Plus they will have impeccable oratory skills from studying these books.

>> No.16675672

bump

>> No.16675694

>>16672474
1984
War and Peace
The Age of Empathy

>> No.16675704

>>16672474
Finally... the last 3 books on earth, left for us to restart civilization once again...

Philosophy textbooks? *starves to death*

>> No.16675705

The Bible
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Plato Complete Works

>> No.16675741

Think they won't just use them to light a fire so they don't freeze to death at night?

>> No.16675758

Player Piano
Industrial Works and Its Future
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

>> No.16675859
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>Bible
>Divine Comedy
>etc. etc.

You guys are really fucking stupid. Why do you want your shitty religion to survive past a societal collapse? Are you too afraid that God will send a prophet that will be treated better and as a result a better religion will be born out of it?

I would put a feminist theory book, an enlightenment philosophy book and Das Kapital. They are large in volume and make for great firestarters.

>> No.16675875

>>16672474
The World as Will and Representation
Walden
The Power of Now
If they don't like Walden they can have my copy of Awaken the Giant Within

>> No.16675889

Anna Karenina
Candide
Germinal

>> No.16675922

>>16672474
The Bell Curve
On Dictatorship
Introductory Nuclear Physics

>> No.16677465

>>16675875
Why walden? They can figure that stuff out on their own. It is only important in an industrial society

>> No.16677496

Calculus
Physics
Grey's Anatomy

>> No.16677512

>>16675704
No book on gathering will be universally applicable

>> No.16678861

>>16672481
a shit?

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>>16672474
>Holy bible
>Quran
>Lotus sutra
I want more destruction. May the best team win.

>> No.16679619

>>16678884
Plot twist: There are only two survivors. This would be a great story

>> No.16679701

>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
>Watership Down
>Literally any cookbook from your dad's bookshelf
Rebuild society? So we can sit here and do this again a few decades down the line? Just entertain the children to distract them from starvation and radiation poisoning while you look at pictures of food you can't eat anymore.

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>>16672552
>>16672706
>>16675012
>>16675758
How the fuck would a critique on Industrial Society be useful to people living after the collapse of the Indistrial Society?

>inb4 so they don't repeat it
They won't get anywhere near an Modern Industrial Society for thousands of years, and at that point the book will be lost due to its perceived uselessness.

>> No.16680438

Moby Dick
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Road

>> No.16680493

>>16672474
What a bunch of fucking retards. The answer is:

>The Orthodox Study Bible
>Whichever encyclop(ae)dia is most comprehensive
>Anything that isn't political theory or fiction (seriously, you have 3 books to leave to all of humanity and you chose the Divine Comedy? LOL!)

>> No.16680556

>>16672533
>>16672535
>>16672644
>>16672676
>>16673255
>>16675013
>>16675705
>>16680493

Why the bible?

>> No.16680574

Don Quijote
The Bible
The Divine Comedy

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>>16680556

>> No.16680611

>>16672474
Ulysses
Paradise Lost
Ada

>> No.16680627

>>16680493
Enjoyment > saving humanity

>> No.16680682

>>16680405
That goddamned book has been a disaster for the quality of discussion and critical thinking on this board.

>> No.16681649

>>16680556
>a fully worked out ethics system, creation narrative
>jumpstart past animism, star worship, pagan sacrificial orgies
It's extremely useful and having a spiritual culture is one of the first stages for humanity. It tackles burial cultures, why are we here. It's absolutely necessary or you'll take 10's of thousands of years if you don't die first from nihilism or hedonism.

>> No.16681751

Communist manifesto
Das kapital
Bible

>> No.16681841

>Split society into 3
>Give one the Bible
>Give one the Quran
>Give one the Torah

>> No.16682364

* For The New Intellectual
* The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse
* The Complete Works Of Aristotle

>> No.16682555

>>16680556
Better question. Why the Old Testament?

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>>16672474
>The Quran
>The Life of the Prophet by Ibn Kathir
>Muwatta al-Imam Malik

>> No.16683692

KJV Bible
The Gulag Archipelago
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
bonus: The Complete Works of Shakespeare

>> No.16683779

Obviously the three most important fields of study for them would be medicine, industry and agriculture but I have no clue which books should be selected for each. Thoughts?

>> No.16684473

>>16672474
Lolita is a must. I want that teenage puss.

>> No.16684480

>>16672474
The Bible
Concise medical textbook
Concise mathematics textbook