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You can save two books Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:16:32 2021 No.17527228 [Reply] [Original]

Let's imagine that due to an impending cataclysm your society or culture is going to be erased. You are part of a group of people which has been chosen to be saved by an advanced society to start a new life in a safe place. You can only carry with you two books of your choice, and only two. The culture that saved you don't have any of the books that have been written in all our history, so those books you don't carry with you will get lost unless another person carries them, and you have no way of predicting which books the other chosen ones are going to carry with them.

Tell me which two books you would save.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:18:25 2021 No.17527239 >>17527228 A non-pozzed English dictionary and The Bible. You can start a civilization with just that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:18:58 2021 No.17527245 File: 34 KB, 350x516, 9780231096713.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] two copies of this

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:19:32 2021 No.17527249 >>17527228 If i pick up a book then does that include all the possible translations of that book? All the copies as long as it's just "one" book?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:20:11 2021 No.17527255 >>17527249 Translations are a different book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:23:17 2021 No.17527274 >>17527228 Fuck getting saved, I'm going down reading all 32 books of Fantômas one last time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:23:35 2021 No.17527279 File: 158 KB, 723x666, 1605456606180.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17527228 The complete works of Plato The discourses of Epictetus

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:25:25 2021 No.17527293 >>17527228 Call of the Arcade Call of the Kappa

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:28:07 2021 No.17527314 Lord of the Rings My wikipedia diary

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:28:14 2021 No.17527316 >>17527228 The Quran and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:29:10 2021 No.17527323 File: 335 KB, 910x1709, Snapchat-1687325305.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17527228 El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:29:13 2021 No.17527324 >>17527228 7 rules for life and the art of stop giving a fuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:31:40 2021 No.17527346 File: 46 KB, 516x750, no sesn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17527228 persuasion and rhetoric journey to the end of the night

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:34:31 2021 No.17527378 File: 61 KB, 737x951, 63s8kgkplm961.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Art of War and The Prince

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:36:04 2021 No.17527389 File: 66 KB, 680x442, 1589243366517.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17527228 The Portable Chris Langan Philosophies of Difference i can rederive all of philosophy from all these two alone anyways

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:37:02 2021 No.17527398 File: 112 KB, 834x606, C6A59DD7-15E8-429C-BCF1-A4B0FB490C30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All you need

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:37:45 2021 No.17527404 >>17527228 >the bible >diary of a wimpy kid 2: roderick rules

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:38:03 2021 No.17527408 >>17527249 do you know what a book is?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:39:04 2021 No.17527417 >>17527398 kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:39:19 2021 No.17527418 This same spammy thread is on other boards too. It's just spam.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:39:45 2021 No.17527420 >>17527418 i saw it on /x/ and thought it'd be good here

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:42:49 2021 No.17527450 File: 335 KB, 680x798, 1612529803910.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17527398 based. Restarting jewish society from scratch

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 14:45:47 2021 No.17527471 The Hobbit is for children. But, I mean, so is the Lord of the Rings.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 15:18:43 2021 No.17527755 >>17527228 The Bible and The Complete Works of Plato

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 15:30:28 2021 No.17527866 >>17527420 Oh. Well, okay, that makes sense. My votes are the unexciting but excellent choices of the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 15:31:01 2021 No.17527871 >>17527398 kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 15:42:02 2021 No.17527962 File: 266 KB, 695x1000, BillboardCoverSlim2-1000p.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17527228 -People Mover -The Book of Mormon In that order.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 15:56:44 2021 No.17528118 The Oxford companion to philosophy The Princeton companion to mathematics.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 16:29:17 2021 No.17528406 >>17527228 >complete works of alexander pope (includes his translations of the iliad and odyssey) >the bible

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 19:48:44 2021 No.17530204 >>17528118 >companions Confirmed midwit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 22:57:57 2021 No.17531540 Easy The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 12 22:59:21 2021 No.17531551 >>17527228 Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead

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