A great disaster is about to hit humanity. In a few days...

A great disaster is about to hit humanity. In a few days, almost all of our technological and cultural progress will be lost and we will be thrown back to the stone age. You can only save three texts (any kind: books, poems, legal documents etc.) that will thus become the basis of the new civilization. Which three would you chose?

The Ego and His Own
Stirner's Critics
The caricatures of Stirner than Engels drew.

Biology textbook.
Physics textbook.
Chemistry textbook.

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Shadow over Innsmouth
The Adventures of Captain Underpants

Some complete calculus book, any mechanic of material book and probably some physics.
>boring answer I know.

Batman: Year One
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Watchmen

The Bible
An Encyclopedia
Medicine book

One big book that has all of the books. Make two copies just in case.

The Koran
Euclid's The Elements
Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

These are objectively the best three. We have the foundation of all three Abrahamic religions, the foundation of Geometrical AND arithmetical reasoning, and where we left off with regards to economics, the seminal work being something used very recently to handle a recession and whose equations can be retroactively applied to fit any economic situation, even the basest form of agrarian life.

ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE: the "Accumulated Book," the religious text produced by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators. It contains elements of most ancient religions, including the Maometh Saari, Mahayana Christianity, Zensunni Catholicism and Buddhislamic traditions. Its supreme commandment is considered to be: "Thou shalt not disfigure the soul."

"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by the RAND Corporation.
"A Small Book of Random Numbers" by James McNalley.
"The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China" by the Icon Group.

>Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
But what really happens is the outer shell gets a crack in it and you have to like shatter it or something. Unless the outer shell is all you have, then you're in trouble.

I think you just created a civilization of scatological diviners, dear user...

Thus Spake Zarathustra
On the Genealogy of Morality
The Birth of Tragedy

I'd like to see a post-apocalyptic civilization based entirely on Nietzschean ideas where Thus Spake Zarathustra is interpreted like the bible.

Tao Te Ching
The Four Books and Five Classics
Quran

Koran
Hadith

That's all i need cos i wana keep humanity in the stone age forever

>implying Islam isn't based as fuck

>Being & Time
>UN Declaration of Human Rights
>The Illiad

>UN
How about NO

>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Zhuangzi

>islam
>"based as fuck"

Sorry Abdullah bin Aziz bin Abdullaziz

>Being & Time
Yeah I'm sure your civilization will love reading about how "in the being of this being it is related to its being. As the being of this being, it is entrusted to its own being"

>some nonsecular morality
>maybe a porno mag
>whatever on the third one
I mean, the question kinda blows because you don't really help us out with what happens to it all. Everything just stops working? Everything we've made disappears? Everybody magically forgets that any of these things existed? The whole question is pretty flawed.

Yeah? Well, the being of your post's being is being pretty fucking rude.

Alan Watts' The Way of Zen

The United States Constitution

Some kind of advanced science book explaining chemicals and shit

good lad.

this is the only sane and realistic answer

Good to know you'll have a nice equal economy while everyone's dying of dysentery

>human rights
*human spooks

t. Cletus "South will Rise Again" Smith

im from california and im not even white

The New Testament
Discourse on the Method
The Decline of the West

Well I'm from Connecticut and I am white.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics volume I
The Feynman Lectures on Physics volume II
The Feynman Lectures on Physics volume III

>The Bible
Well we do need something yo light the camp fire with

*cringe*

What has this place done to us

not the place, but the times.

>Well we do need something yo light the camp fire with
we'll use your fedora

seriously though, nice quads

>when broadband internet is widely available in flyover states and rednecks take over Veeky Forums

does the book that contains all the books contain itself?

Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf

Is this some sort of trick question about set theory?

Now you've gone and done it nigger

The Bible
Crime & Punishment
Dante's Inferno

not the first one, but if the second version contains all books then it must include the copy before it.

Poor bait. But still, have you actually read it?

Yes, and that way the tribe can be supplied with infinite paper so they never have to forage for firewood.

Epic win for the post-apocalyptic tribe, already off to a jumpstart to rebuild civilization.

LOTR trilogy (one book)
Silmarilion
The hobbit

Then I want to time travel forwards and see into what kind of retarded beliefs mankind has corrupted the original books.

Das Kapital Volume 1
Das Kapital Volume 2
Das Kapital Volume 3

In a matter of 20 years the civilization has crumbled, the remains of what once was potential for a new beginning wasted by mass rioting and chaos.

Try again.

This

Then with the knowledge from the books I'll style myself as a prophet, create a new gospel that steals the good ideas from all the major religions

Humanity will be back on its feet in a few centuries

>People actually wanting to save religious texts
Oh my fuck why are religious people so fucking retarded?
Your religion isn't special other than it's history.
If shit went down hard enough you could only save 3 books why save ANY religious text?
Humans make up their own religions perfectly fine, they did it before and they can do it again. Modern societies are practically independent of religious belief.
Stop trying to enforce your shitty bullshit on everyone else and let them come up with their own bullshit to believe. There's more stuff worth saving than peoples particular belief system.

>the covenant of the foreskin ring
>the return of the king of kings
>the twin towers

the stranger
existentialism is a humanism
the poverty of philosophy

ffs didn't anyone think to bring some fuckin porn!

Das Kapital
Atlas Shrugged
The Holy Bible

then sit back and enjoy the shitshow as our fledgling new society fissures along ideological lines.

>the art of war
>on war
>the prince
Going for warlord status.

Starting Strength

Fuck that.

>US Law Code
>some medical textbook
>physics text book

>Living in a world with no ethics
Have fun

I don't think that basic ethics will dissapear because shtf
But if scientific knowlodge get lost it could be never be founded again
Took thousand of years to humanity to learn that if you put seed in dirt it grow a plant

>it takes humans three years to learn how to make a specific set of sounds with your mouth when you want to communicate something
baka so fukin dumb

A printed version of all of Wikipedia's articles in a huge binder

The industrial society and its future.
Some guide on first aid or something like that.
Porn magazine.

The only text we need.

>US Law Code
Imagine someone trying to sneek in a bony fish from Honduras. The horror!

Das Kapital is referencing a bunch of 19th century phenomena, people won't understand it. Atlas Shrugged is the same but for the 20th century. They will only find the Bible relevant, because it tries to explain basic stuff like the creation of the world, the origin of languages etc.

The same is true for almost every modern book, they wouldn't say anything for people just out of the stone age.

any encyclopedia from the 90's would be more accurate and have more information

Centuries later historians will be puzzled about the meaning of thousands of pages of Full House episode summaries.

The Prince
Survivalists' handbook of your choice
My diary desu