Poll: Would you ever burn a book?
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If there was probale reason for it, No heating, no burning material out would come the books. But that would only be after everything elce is done.
I am sure there are other reasons.
I am sure there are other reasons.
No, no way, no how, under no circumstances. If I had the only existing copy of the Necronomicon, and to read it would summon Cthulhu and cause the end of the world, I wouldn't burn it. If I was freezing to death, I'd burn my clothes before I'd burn a book.
I'm a little weird.
I'm a little weird.
Probably if there was sex involved and my life turned into a hillarious sit-com and I was dating a woman who turned out to be a neo-Nazi. But I'd feel really bad about it.
I'd most likely only burn a book which I myself have written to prevent it's secrets from harming the world (or just because I didn't like it very much and wouldn't want it released posthumously, putting an L in the W/L columns).
Now that I think about it, if I could write a Necronomicon or other tome of eldritch lore, wouldn't I owe it to the world to share that dread knowledge even if it causes everyone to go mad from the realization of it? It might even make Harold Camping's day, someday. Can such books even burn? Wouldn't they be strengthened by the warm caress of the flames upon their pulsating covers?
Now that I think about it, if I could write a Necronomicon or other tome of eldritch lore, wouldn't I owe it to the world to share that dread knowledge even if it causes everyone to go mad from the realization of it? It might even make Harold Camping's day, someday. Can such books even burn? Wouldn't they be strengthened by the warm caress of the flames upon their pulsating covers?
Yes, too start a fire after the world ends. Of course, I would use the blank pages first, then copyright pages. Hopefully, I will have found better kindling before I get to the good part.
I did burn a notebook of mine that had sensitive information about people I talked too, but that was just to protect their privacy. You can always reconstruct shredded documents, but you can not unburn paper.
Other then that I would do all I could to save books. (except twilight, BURN THEM ALL. Only because those 'books' spawned a race of rabid Vampire lovers who are plotting to takeover the world.)
I did burn a notebook of mine that had sensitive information about people I talked too, but that was just to protect their privacy. You can always reconstruct shredded documents, but you can not unburn paper.
Other then that I would do all I could to save books. (except twilight, BURN THEM ALL. Only because those 'books' spawned a race of rabid Vampire lovers who are plotting to takeover the world.)
Sure. if I got bored or something and it was a book I didn't intend to ever read.
Or if I really wanted to mess with someone by burning a copy of their holy book, but that would take a lot more effort that I'm prepared to put into trolling.
Or if I really wanted to mess with someone by burning a copy of their holy book, but that would take a lot more effort that I'm prepared to put into trolling.
That is very noble of you. My response was part (mostly) joke. But yours is very noble.Regiment said:
I am worried that if (or when) the world ends, that our knowledge would go with it, which might very well be worse then if humanity was destroyed, because if our knowledge is found by the next sentient life-forms then we are not truly gone.
PS: No, I do not think the world will end on May 21, 2011. Or December, whatever, 2012. But I do like being prepared for all occurrences. Saving our sacred and non-sacred knowledge is key to that goal. Finding a good hiding place, that is hard.
No. I have come close to burning the oh so very flammable looking books but I just couldn't bring myself to burn even the worst of books. There's just something wrong with burning them.
Never for the pleasure of destroying literature/ideas, I find that ignortant.
Now if the book was covered in spiders, I would consider the book lost and in need of being purged...
Now if the book was covered in spiders, I would consider the book lost and in need of being purged...