Books You Want Horribly Destroyed.

[sgt. soap mctavish]

the twilight series and anything with justin beiber on it (basically teen magazines

 

[2fish]

I have two answers, first is my gut response.

"but he who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself"
-John Milton

But the part of me that knows this is a joke type thread says to burn all the legal books. Burn all the rule books!

 

[LaBambaMan]

"The Stranger" by Albert Camus.

Why? It's just terrible. The writing is terrible, the main protagonist is a boring static blob who shows no emotion and you simply can't connect with. I get that the whole book is existentialist bullshit, but that isn't an excuse for it to be as terrible as it is.

 

[Talshere]

None there is no point in burning books just because you dont like them.

The only real serious reason NOT to burn twilight would be to serve as a lesson on how NOT to write. Which tbh, isn't needed. Its not often you get trash on that level, we dont NEED it to exist. All it does is taint us.

If we wipe ourselves out, and in one million years time some new race digs up a library, and the only text left is twilight, I for one am disowning humanity.

 

[Blatherscythe]

The First Testament, scary stuff in that bible. With all the books they burned back then, how did that one avoid the pile? Seriously, that book orders you to kill people differant from you or people who try to convert you to their faith, it promotes sexism, hatred and violence. And man is god an asshole in that one.

 

[ANImaniac89]

the "official" sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula the Un-dead

 

[RedDeadFred]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

Humans have been cooking up excuses to kill each other since time began, religion is just another one of those interchangable excuses. Going to war to prove which book on morality and justice should be upheld...great move.

In fact that goes to all people going "THE BIBLE HERP DERP HERP" and any other books central to a religion, do you really think you're going to get some kind of prize for taking cheap shots at groups, creeds and gods that are grounded in the human story? But no sense trying to argue with you people, you refuse to believe anything but because I'm a Catholic I instantly hate the LGBT community, other religions and would start a war at the drop of a hat if I'm not busy lecturing someone about the way they should live the life that's in their hand. That I'm instantly okay, and indeed, proud of what horrible, blind acts people have commited in the name of religion (This is especially stupid, I mean if you come from the states are you going to praise the fact that you once had slaves and slaughtered the natives?).

OT: Two books that I read at a young age, "The web" and 'Ex-spelled". Don't get me wrong I absolutely love reading (I'm currently stuck into both Jurassic Park and the first in the Flashman series) and the burning of books is a truly despicable act in my eyes (No matter what the source material may be, the destruction of information and creativity is something I do not uphold) but these books are just so...awful. Awful characters, awful plots, they're like the literature equivalent of eating deep fried chicken shit.

Sorry to get all ragey in the first two paragraphs, I just knew coming into this thread people were going to post unjustifiable nonsense like that. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off yell at Protestants and picket the funeral of a soldier.

The war on terror is the big war being fought now (as I'm sure you know). These terrorists believe that by killing themselves and has many "infidels" while they die, they will be rewarded in the after life. If religion didn't exist I guarantee modern day war would be almost non-existent (minus the few freaks who just want to see the world burn). Don't say people would just find something else to fight over. That is not true. Mutually assured destruction means that people would not attack each other because everyone would end up dead. This is why the Cold War did not become WWIII. The main people going to war are the people who want to die and believe they will be rewarded for doing so. SO maybe it's not christians who are killing other races in blood baths but war will always exist if religion exists.

So I'd say my statement is perfectly justifiable.

 

[captainwillies]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

Buddhist a peaceful

 

[RedDeadFred]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

No. The world would be a lot more peaceful without people using religion as an excuse to hate.

Modern day terrorist aren't using it as an excuse to hate. They truly believe they need to kill as many people as possible so that they can be rewarded in the after life. Although, there are a lot of people who just use it as an excuse.

 

[SantoUno]

Did you watch Extra Credit's "Free Speech" video? That quote about destroying a book equals destroying an idea is so compelling and true. No book should be destroyed no matter what the subject.

But of course, the only exception to this quote for me is the Bible obviously.

Actually, both the Bible and the Koran should be destroyed.

 

[fenderstrat]

destroying books is a horrible horrible crime, regardless of their content. you just dont do it. unless you're a nazi

 

[Jfswift]

Great Expectations by Charlies Dickens. Please.. make it go away.

 

[Nalesnik]

I would burn EVERY SINGLE BOOK IN THE WHOLE WORLD! But secretly I would stash away as many as I could in a hidden, underground library, and become the most powerful man in the entire world! (Cause knowledge is power)

 

[Burningsok]

I want to say the Bible... but the bible saved me once when a free mini-bibe I got at school came in handy as fuel for a fire on a cold camp night.

Ummmm... Eclipse. It's easily the worst out of the Twilight saga...

Even though I believe in God, I found that absolutely hilarious!! XD
I'm not very religious; just saying.

 

[SantoUno]

Anyway, now that that mandatory thingy-majigger is over, I'm going to go for the exact opposite of what I just warned about. I think that Richard Dawkins' The God Dilemma needs to get burned. Why? Because I'm allowed to believe what I want, and having a book calling me a dumbass isn't going to change my mind.
Is it really so wrong that I believe in something rather primitive? No sir, no it is not. It may be primitive, silly, all around unlikely, but you know what? It makes me happy. So I reserve the right to believe that there is an invisible man in the sky.

Edit: It's actually called The God Delusion. I apologize to any fans, readers, or devout worshipers of this piece of literature that I may have offended.

It may be obvious, but I still feel like pointing it out.

Clearly you haven't read the book or else you would know that it NEVER insults people who believe in religion, and neither does The End of Faith.

Seriously, do you really think any of these books related to atheism would be bestsellers if either of them openly insulted religious believers?

 

[Hristo Petrov]

Ah burning books we don't like truly the mature and reasonable thing to do. And why is it always burning books why isn't it burn a movie you don't like or a video game ?


But seriously Twilight needs to BURN

 

[Pegghead]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

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The war on terror is the big war being fought now (as I'm sure you know). These terrorists believe that by killing themselves and has many "infidels" while they die, they will be rewarded in the after life. If religion didn't exist I guarantee modern day war would be almost non-existent (minus the few freaks who just want to see the world burn). Don't say people would just find something else to fight over. That is not true. Mutually assured destruction means that people would not attack each other because everyone would end up dead. This is why the Cold War did not become WWIII. The main people going to war are the people who want to die and believe they will be rewarded for doing so. SO maybe it's not christians who are killing other races in blood baths but war will always exist if religion exists.

So I'd say my statement is perfectly justifiable.

In the early formations of mathematics philosophers executed a scholar who suggest that decimal numbers could be a possibility.

The driving force behind ww2 was eugenics, resource and territory struggle, not to mention the conflict of ideologies.

Martin Luther King was assasinated for speaking out against racial injustices.

Abraham Lincoln was assasinated for speaking out against slavery.

People will kill for any reason you could possibly name, and seeing how enormous religion is it's understandable that religion has been one of the many hot-topics on every idiots "Reasons to kill" list, because mindless destruuction is idiocy. Hate is idiocy too.

The Crusades were devastating but it's not as simple as a theological struggle, there were opportunists fuelling the effort, the fact that many trade routes belonging to the British were being ambushed in the area...

The modern war on terror is also not as simple, really nothing's as simple as it seems. There's the fact that, through past experiences and long-held misconceptions many Middle-Eastern countries view America as some kind of all evil force. The way to move forward in this, acceptance on both sides. More religious folk should learn that people are entitled to their own beliefs, those opposed to religion should learn exactly the same. It's not a question of continuing while another continues now, it's a question of who's going to be the bigger man.

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

I'm going to go back in time and do the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

And maybe the last 10 or so pages of Watchmen so Moore has to come up with something less asinine.