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The world is about to face the apocalypse where nearly everything on earth will be annihilated.

You have a one way ticket to a new and habitable planet.

But you are only allowed to bring a single book along with you.

Which book do you bring to restart humanity with?

>> No.6980736

An introduction to western philosophy. If non-fiction isn't an option, I'd take The Illiad.

>> No.6980741

>>6980733
The al-Qurān.

>> No.6980743

ntrdctn t basc engneerng.

>> No.6980745

The Bible is really the only option. Not religious, but the book contains so many moral foundations that would be beneficial to restarting a society. I would, however, probably jot a disclaimer in the beginning about how we shouldn't take the book *too* seriously

>> No.6980751

Fvndamentals 0f cr0p cvltvatl0n and Brlck-la/lng f0r beglnners.

>> No.6980756

The Holy Bible, both old and new testaments. It's pretty much the most important book ever written.

I'm an atheist btw

>> No.6980762

>>6980741
>The
>followed by Arabic definite article
It is bait permitted by the Lord.
>>6980745
It is bait permitted by the Savior.

>> No.6980764

>>6980741
>The al
>The the Qur'an
Kufar, pls go.

>> No.6980766

>>6980756
It is bait permitted by a sinner.

>> No.6980787

>>6980733
Demon-haunted world by Carl Sagan.

>> No.6980789

>>6980733
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound. Think about it.

>> No.6980793

Spinoza's Ethics

Wouldn't it be interesting if everyone strove to learn the causes of their unhappiness and constantly attempted to mitigate them? Wouldn't it be nice if people believed in a soul without the horrors of organized religion?

Either this or a society that strictly adheres to the categorical imperative would be pretty golden

>> No.6980795

>>6980745
>the book contains so many moral foundations that would be beneficial to restarting a society
Oh, so you need a bunch of tall tales about people getting lost in the Sinai Peninsula for 40 years, incest, almost filicide and general massacres in order to not kill other people?

>> No.6980811

A chemistry textbook

>> No.6980814

The World as Will and Representation

>> No.6980829
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>>6980733

Why the fuck would anybody bring a religious book? We're getting a new start as humanity, why the fuck should it begin with millennia old voodoo. It should be either an introduction to mathematics or philosophy.

>> No.6980834

>>6980795
You missed the point tbh

>> No.6980840

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS

>> No.6980845

>>6980733
The Gay Science

>> No.6980847

A copy of Codex Regius

>> No.6980855

>>6980733

Assuming there are very intelligent and learned scientists on board who could re-write science books in order to maintain that knowledge, I would probably bring Republic.

>> No.6980910

Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

>> No.6980914

>>6980733
Principia Mathematica

>> No.6980956

The Principia Discordia!

>> No.6980991

Being and time tbh

>> No.6980993
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6980993

preview copy of Sam Hyde's unreleased book

>> No.6981013

>>6980733
No one said a dictionary(or my diary)?

>>6980914
this is good

>> No.6981183

Survival handbook tbh
Also a harmonica

>> No.6981195

>>6980745
>>6980756
this is pretty much the only answer I can justify.

The bible is the story of humanity and human nature, it's foundational.

>> No.6981221

>>6980840
fuckyes

>> No.6981378

>>6980733
Taipei by Tao Lin

>> No.6981384

>>6980756
>>6980745
>>6981195
Agreed, Bible

>> No.6981392
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6981392

Obviously

>> No.6981397

>>6980733
How to win friends and influence people.

>> No.6981409
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6981409

First volume of Trigun.

Might as well make it a thematically relevant book at least.

>> No.6981410

The Faults In Our Stars

>> No.6981412

>>6981392
pls not the penguin verision

>> No.6981419

The book on how to kill for good the idiot with his moronic apocalypse and nonsensical books limitations.

>the world is about to be submerged by a wave of giant burning chocolate unicorns
>you use your dick to make a space elevator and escape from Earth
>you are only allowed to carry as many books as the number of 3s in the base 7 writing of your dick's length

>> No.6981422

>>6980745
OP said a single book.

>> No.6981429

The Encyclopy of Trasnplanetary Survival.

>> No.6981437

I mean, besides The Bible?
Tie between the Odyssey and Divine Comedy

>> No.6982048

The Norton Anthology (the huge one that covers everything from Beowulf to Heaney).

>> No.6982056

Ovid's Metamorphosis.

>> No.6982658

>>6980736
Sounds like a shitty life to me

>> No.6982684

>>6980733
Probably an history book.

>> No.6982705

Codex Juris Civilis.

>> No.6982752
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6982752

>>6980733
The Ego and its Own

>> No.6982758

>>6981409
But if you save the butterflies, the spiders will die!

>> No.6982777

>>6982684
This, or a Physics book.

>> No.6982795

Aesop's Fables
i want to start a furry colony :3

>> No.6983069

Battlefield Earth. The bible is for silly man-animals.

>> No.6983463

Mein Kampf