Hi! Love your videos!

Thanks for the second warning at 7:12 - but it's actually referring to the incorrect timestamp to skip to: it reads 7:37 but probably should be 8:37.

I'm certain that the anarchists cookbook is left on amazon so they have a digital record of who bought it when. Just a guess though.

I thought it was going to include Liz Truss' latest book...😊

You said, "leather bound" like it isn't human skin. 😂

There actually is a cookbook with (almost) that name.

​@@Zandaarl The necronomnomnom

​@Zandaarl Link plz?

@@dubuyajay9964 look up the necronomnomnom

​@@dubuyajay9964 google?

Me: goes to old library Book that hasn't been opened in 30 years: Curse of black mold!

True

You’re*

Bonk. D:

@@GIBBO4182 fixed it

Some commenters also mantioned that if said book is particularly old, it can contain dangerous amount of Arsenic or black mold. I would also mantion that it can be so dusty that it can trigger asthma attack in some people

Or, rather, by moving fast enough then suddenly stopping on you

Well said 😂

@@pedroff_1 Not just speed but also weight. I have no fear of a dime store paperback. But a medieval tome as big as a person? I probably won't be taking it off the shelf without wearing a helmet.

​@@nabra97yeah, see option 1.) the mold and arsenic is the real eldritch secrets of the book!

YESSSS

It basically is actually. Thats a perfect description of the book, an Eldrich wikipedia.

People just go straight to summoning without bothering to read about beating

the title means “dead name book” or maybe “book of dead names”

@@JStainto If you look at the end of the book you will see a list of citations and chain links with the name of the respective source.

Terry Pratchett?

@@hiya-de5hd Hell yeah

Hahaha.... Love that reference!

Ook!

Some errant magic transformed him, and he has passionately resisted any attempt to change him back. Can't say I blame him.

That statement is very true

The Anarchist Cookbook starts off with the authors political beliefs critical of the US government.

​@@mEmory______ ...Were you even listening to the part about the Turner Diaries?

@WobblesandBean what about them? I just thought that since the above comment implied that the Cookbook had no political ideas or reasons I would point out that it wasn't the case.

@@mEmory______ i wasn’t trying to imply that. My main point was that a book centered around “here’s why we should do this” can be more dangerous than a book that is centered around “here is how to do this” at least at extremes like bombings and stuff. My belief from this video that the Turner Diaries is generally more politically motivating to the group it is trying to appeal to. Or the groups that agree with it

knowledge is power

@@marcusrauch4223 “knowledge is power” So is John Wick.

@@salvit6024 I would guess John Wick is this generation's Chuck Norris! 🤣

Boban is a really nice guy!

yeah there is a surprising amount of straight up false information in there that can end up looking like a suicide if you do them

First lesson of how to handle a weapon: How do I not kill myself

That sounds like "Darwin passages," aka, a method for keeping [those who do not look to secondary sources to confirm information] from fully using the contents of the book. If you trust primary sources without question, you are NOT a leader in the revolution, you are but a pawn in somebody else's game, and pawns are expendable.

@@andrewdreasler428 And if you don't have access to any other sources?

@@MySerpentine then enjoy your banandine, comrade

I will never fail to be gobsmacked at the sheer stupidity of people, especially kids. "Hey, don't touch this, it will literally kill you." kids:

@@WobblesandBean*puts into mouth*

At first, I thought that's what this video was about.

@@brianroberts783same, imagine my disappointment when it wasn’t mentioned at all.

In case anyone in the replies to this comment is wondering the book in question was called "Shadows of the Walls of Death" and I know this because a different comment on this video mentioned it

The only reason I've not found a copy of Anarchists Cookbook is because the author genuinely regrets publishing it and asks people not to buy/sell/read the book. Since my impulse to own or read a banned book is a freedom of speech matter, I'll respect the wishes of the one who's speech this book represents.

I try to own a copy of every book actually banned.

@@FairbrookWingates Look around garage sales, you could probably find one already in circulation. Not perfect, but it's a partial solution.

I thought I, being the nosy little sucker that I am, would be the same. But noooope :P When a local bookstore had a banned book sale (that they very loudly advertised as having been obtained through off-the-grid means, like donations and rummage sales and not Amazon or smth), I wasn't interested in the least. Not even when the owner who, for the record, I know and (somewhat) trust, asked me if I wanted to take a peek. The fanfare around the books being banned made me feel like they all suck and their only selling point is morbid curiosity.

All these books are online. Sail the high seas, and you'll find the treasure you seek.

I've seen it at the MSU art museum.

in a similar vein, marie curies diary is sealed away with her corpse, as both are still heavily irradiated.

Way better than PBS too.

I haven't seen anything this good on PBS since I was 16.

yeah I like Nami too esp. when she control the weather.

According to Pratchett "... but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp"

Or if you are John Wick.

John Wick? Is that you?

"Honey, Fred's ideas are... dangerous." "But Mom, all he wants to do is be left alone, and not have to give half of what he grows to the Council." "What your mother means is, if you don't stop trying to defend Fred, the Council will come after *you* next. And unlike Fred, they can come and take you away, any time they want."

I was thinking the same.

In Deep R'lyeh book read you!

My uncle opened me.

Just like the box of ravishment.

Just in case anyone reading OP's comment doesn't know yet, "Unordinary" (aside from an in-universe banned book) is a Korean web comic available to (legally) read on Webtoon [yes, even in English].

@@amegenshiken ooh I love Webtoon and Tower of God.

Right? Its almost like the content of the books itself isnt the problem💀

This argument has been ongoing for decades (I remember such arguments growing up in the '80's). We just need to amplify it and not let it be ignored.

On a gentler scale, this is one reason why bad movies continue to survive in the face of better ones: sometimes one doesn't want to have your heart broken in a movie theater, one just wants to relax for a few hours and look at something pretty... and crudely cathartic.

Having read it, there's really nothing to it as the short stories in the first part are just stories of how the book "The King in Yellow" affected them or someone close to them. Nothing truly mind-altering or horrific. Eerie, yes, but more obscure and Lovecraftian, which I understand is where Lovecraft got his inspiration.

I would want to lay some groundwork before doing something like that. I guess, though, Manson's message was custom-optimized for that audience, so maybe just no. Also, they always have a good point, that's how they convince people to follow them, and how they hide all their bad points.

Reminds me of my senior high school year, where we read 1984 and a large portion of the guys in that class walked away doing the edgelord "Lol that society is kinda based though" bit

​@pancakes8670 wow. I could understand Brave New World (since it's more simiar to dystopian consumer capitalism ie control via manipulation, drugs, entertainment, etc ) but 1984 is so over the top authoritarian fascist what would be the appeal in being watched 24/7 and they have to escape just to get laid.

@@Vinemaple Yes critical thinking is absolutely necessary when dealing with the writings / ravings of a jackass like Manson (or really for anything/anyone). Villains don't just get people to follow them by saying all bad things all the time; they usually have a lot of charisma and say just enough good things to get people on their train before they go off and leave for crazytown. Unfortunately very rarely to the passengers get to go up and shoot the engineer or derail the crazytrain (NOTICE I am making a METAPHOR here. If you don't know what that is, go look up 'metaphor' and then reread this... I was suggesting it is unfortunate that Manson's followers all didn't collectively bring him down before he harmed anyone, instead of what actually happened, which is them going outwardly and harming innocents. I am not advocating for anyone doing anything bad involving an actual train). [and PS the "you" is directed at more naive readers; not necessarily you @vinemaple, since you are probably already well aware of metaphors]

@@rickwrites2612 Well, some people are into that kind of thing. They may have missed the subtext, at that age.

I need to watch that episode!

Well, one of the fake ones anyway. When dealing with the Necronomicon, always make sure you don’t pick up the wrong book.

"KLAATU... BARATA... [cough] necktie! [cough]" --Ash

putting the Nom in necronomicon

I have never considered Lovecraft's Necronomicon and the Evil Dead's Necronomicons (3 books) to be the same books. But that just me.

Imagine that, an artifact kept in a case not to prevent it from being stolen, but to prevent it from harming whoever might touch it.

Yes, that smells folkloric, but even if it is, it'd be a sort of social commentary on how poorly our society fosters our children's _emotional_ maturity.

Although not a girl, as a person with some pretty intense / heavy emotions as a teen, who fell in love a few times, and had my heart broken etc. I can imagine that it doesn't take much to push a person who can get that high-strung (hormonal) over the edge. A book might 'do it'. It's not the book's FAULT, of course, but sometimes people who are already prone to doing something, may latch onto an excuse for doing it. I will say, however, that as a polyamorous person, I got messed up by Western society (well specifically 20th century USA)'s mentality of 'one true love' and 'finding your soulmate', and the complaints floated by some about 'why don't you settle down with one perfect person?' etc etc. While well-intentioned, all that kind of propagandistic crap can mess someone up who isn't oriented like that, since (besides the monogamy vs polyamory difference, which which I have less problem since I know monogamous people will always outnumber polyamorous people by a large degree; that is the more usual orientation) it presupposes that: 1. there IS someone out there who is a 'perfect fit' for another person. While with billions of people on the planet, that might be true, but does the unknown original author / creator of that 'soulmate' 'perfect fit' concept expect everyone to be combing through all people on the planet to find the 'one true perfect person' ?!?!?! (In other words, there is not enough onus put upon the protagonist to _THEMSELVES_ get it together and be someone others would find worthy of dating, instead of just voyeuristically 'window shopping' for a partner, like on a dating app for example) 2. Also, some of this crap tends to be from a male perspective and a bit objectifying. As a person who already unfortunately tends to objectify people, I greatly dislike any philosophy which would encourage me to do so of a potential love interest / girlfriend, (i. e. 'do they look the way you want them to look?' 'do they act the way you want them to act?') instead of meeting them on an equal level as a friend, and each person making allowances and adjustments for the other person's quite human non-perfection, and foibles. The latter is way more grown-up, mature, and also egalitarian and humanistic towards the other person, but unfortunately that's not a lot of what I was brought up on in fairy tales, romance novels and the like. I WAS brought up to treat people decently, and be chivalrous etc. which is good; but that can conflict with the Stepford-Wives-and/or-Ruby-Sparks-designer-partner-objectification of finding 'one's perfect partner' or 'true soulmate' espoused in classic romance narratives and couched in so much OTHER ethics (also taught along with it in those same books), that it's made to look like a 'good thing' (and this isn't just about visual 'perfection' either, but also about having a personality one likes, being into things... basically grocery-store-shopping or genetic-engineering or genie-bottle-wishing these things about one's imagined partner).

Any book held by John Wick > The Necronomicon

A good cautionary tale for those who create strawmen... and for anyone who wants to start writing parody or satire.

What does it have?

​@@FelicityUwU it's more of an environmentalist ideological manifesto iirc

@@FelicityUwUI'm about 2/3rds of the way through the book. So far, it's mostly building a case for why the insistence to stay non-violent within the environmentalist movement may actually be detrimental to its cause. It argues that the climate crisis is potentially one of the greatest crises humanity has ever faced, and that more violence has been instigated by protestors, activists and rebels for much less severe threats. It also argues that having a more extremist and militant side of a movement aids in accomplishing the more moderate goals, and it cites examples in the american civil rights movement, the ending of apartheid in south africa, and more. It never outright explains how to actually blow up a pipeline.

@@thegamesforreal1673 a tree was killed for that book on violent climate protests and it won’t even tell me what it promised me to? SMH dude, clickbate really did exist back then

​@@thegamesforreal1673 It's funny though because if they try to use violence people will use violence against them and they'll lose.

More than a few book "bans" are, in all sincerity and honesty, actually about curriculum. There's a world of difference between banning a book, and promoting it as a worthwhile source of information. Trust me, I have _no_ doubt that I would very much hate some of the book "bans", thinking that the book really, really should be part of the curriculum. Still, I wish people would be honest about what is actually happening.

The biggest trick people pull is to claim that a book being removed from the compulsory reading list for some 5th grade class in a single rural Kentucky school is the same as “OH MY GOD THEY’RE BURNING BOOKS AND DISAPPEARING PEOPLE WHO TRY TO READ THEM AAAAHHHH!”

Age restricting is still a form of banning.

@@localvega688 Restricted means limited in extent, number, scope, or action. Prohibited means that has been forbidden; banned.

@@ObsidianFallen That is what banned means. Even the "Approved" people are allowed to read the banned books. It's "Rules for thee, but not for me". 👑

those news sites were trying to wishcast a Joker movie mass shooting into manifesting for some reason. One of the big humor websites (Cracked? ) called them out on it.

​@talesofgore9424 They wanted a mass shooting so they could milk it for ratings and most likely push a narrative that movies like the Joker were bad for America and it's people, "This movie caused a shooting! We should ban it and ignore any ideas it might put in people's heads!"

That is very apt.

@@talesofgore9424 Did they call out the actual authors of the actual articles? And did said authors turn around and squeal on editors and other people trying to get them to deliver that kind of story?

You naver heard of the book hitler wrote?

That was the first book I thought of, in the line of properly dangerous real-world books!

@@jonberg5331 I thought for sure that was the book our robot friend was going to mention rather than that Turner one.

Thx man, it's honestly gonna be useful theese days. The pipebpmb part that is. Idk abt the flamme thrower much

@@ardugaleen2231 whatever you're planning, do not

Exactly this!

I concede, just subbed.

they recommend him so often, Hell, i thought i was subscribed O_o

Already have. I love his work

I disagree with it ever being right to ban a book. That said, I am glad schools are at least using the commentated versions to warn of the dangers of evil people in power.

I have never seen the Neverending Story described like that, I don't remember there being any serious warnings given to Bastien in the novel, doesn't the bookseller just hand it to him? This is a seriously underrated comment, I'd love to see some property like The Librarians or the SCP Wiki do a shout out by giving a line or two to the "real" Neverending Story, locked away so it can't suck anyone in. (No, don't go and make an SCP about it, that's not how the SCP Wiki works, they no longer accept tribute SCPs)

@@Vinemaple the multiverse is so huge, its inevitable that you would be fiction in some universes.

@@tomkatt8274 I am fiction in _all_ universes.

@@Vinemaple why

@@tomkatt8274 Because that's not how the SCP Wiki works, they no longer accept tribute SCPs.

Been watching a playthrough of it. Haven't finished it yet but OH BOY. It's got some rough stuff in there and is only pretending to be slightly subtle.

I didn’t expect to see another Hello Charlotte fan in the comments here, but I thought of my experiences with that game while watching this too. While I love that game, and I think I can say that I and most people I know can approach the game with enough critical discernment to recognize the difference between depiction and endorsement, I can definitely see how some of the more sensitive topics could be acted on harmfully if not handled carefully.

That can't be a real book. Books are made to be read.

My god will not be denied. 🤪

Was it Gloomy Sunday?

I was thinking about a song too, a totally different reason though. Polly, by Nirvana was written to show how inhuman some people doing a specific nasty thing could be, but ended up being used as a mantra by some of those same people who missed the point entirely. I imagine it might have been part of what lead to Kurt's end...

@@AbstractStew Pretty sure that it was Gloomy Sunday. I`m not sure if this is true, but the version of the story I've heard is that the original, Hungarian, version was banned after an outbreak of people self-deleting while listening to that song. Then it was translated to English, and the most cheerful Jazz singer in history, Billie Holiday, recorded her own classic version. According to legend, the same thing happened in both America and England, and at least the BBC, and possibly some US radio stations as well, banned Billie's version for decades. Bjork did a great cover of it, too!

Lavender Town Syndrome?

Cool

SCP-033 is kind of like that. It proves the existence of a previously unknown integer, named θ', that completely breaks all computing devices if it's integrated with them.

You mean the Anti-Life Equation?

@@localvega688 Or Alien Geometries from other dimensions, described by Eldritch Equations that have new number systems too complex for the human mind. Lovecraft had a fear of Maths, but I'd be looking for such anomalies

@@user-qn2bg7zb9s This is very interesting. I must learn more about this Lovecraft lore.

Let’s just hope that person can’t control nukes

​@@Antasma1 with the way the world has gone in the past decade, I am legitimately concerned that could actually happen.

What was the Rumbling?

​@@localvega688 An apocalyptic event that destroyed most of the world and killed %80 of humanity.

Forreal. The Bible: I cannot stress enough that doing everything in love is of utmost importance People: oh okay, so crusade

The same goes for other religions' hold on their followers.

You're not sorry. Not in the slightest! Lol. It's great for the algorithm, so it's no big deal 😅

i hereby dethrone you, i am now first

You are not forgiven. Doing wrong and acknowleding it with self awareness is arguably worse because you knew it was wrong and did it anyway.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY BELOVED THROOOOONE​@@k.jacquottez-y.561

when i read this and i went insane

Are you trying to claim one of the most capitalist companies in the world is left leaning...