Antoinne Sterk
Andrea Junker 
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
TonyTrink1969 🏳️🌈
Xana Rae@Strandjunker very well put. 😀
Rocio Saracho 🇲🇽 🇺🇲 🇦🇺@Strandjunker couldn't agree more.
JonKramer, CIS-HET@Strandjunker , I'm not sure I want middle school students reading 'Camp of the Saints' or 'The Turner Diaries.' I don't know how to make this a rule to follow in general, but I can accept there are lines that I feel should not be crossed.
Jimmy
Robin from Colorado 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Mo Edray
Imperfectly Perfect By Wendy@Strandjunker even though this is a fabulous quote it should’ve been quoted to avoid plagiarism. Just sayin!
bbqcornnuts@Strandjunker Books are everything. I’ll never give up because there are more books to read.
GATEKEEPER@Strandjunker
KEN Burns new photo book OUR AMERICA is surely on the Nazi Do Not Buy list. I feel like sending Tucker Carlson a copy.
KEN Burns new photo book OUR AMERICA is surely on the Nazi Do Not Buy list. I feel like sending Tucker Carlson a copy.
Gracie Gato@GatekeepKen @Strandjunker don’t make tucker carlson sound out words lol
gungken@Strandjunker i love thinking!
John Vechey@Strandjunker except for 20 year olds reading Ayn Rand
Mont-Solliu@PlasticJohnny @Strandjunker I read Ayn Rand at 20 years old. I appreciated her suggestions that people should strive to be productive. However my main take away was that she wasn’t a very good writer. The love scenes in particular were cringe worthy.
🌻💙𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖈𝖆𝖑💙🌻@montsolliu @PlasticJohnny @Strandjunker too many college boys like it bc it’s rapey. Rand eschewed having an editor.
Jeremy Vaughn@Strandjunker how does this apply to books of religion?
@elvono @Strandjunker Reading books of religion, you do get a few gems of living, and you also get a direct education that may tell why to not follow religions.
MelindaJade@Strandjunker "Well said!"
secondary-smiles@Strandjunker Reminds me of when my dad wouldn't let me buy any DnD books because he thought I would be unable to distinguish reality and fantasy after reading them.
Ty Ross
ClipperChip 
@Strandjunker Heh, that is one of the primary reason I read books!
deeb@Strandjunker Love this!
steamsister
Hunter Phillip@Strandjunker you’re afraid of being wrong, realizing your world view doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, and that’s more horrifying to people than anything else. Ego rejecting the catalyst for growth.
Mittens McSmithers
MaKai@Strandjunker true. That’s why I read.
Vicmeldrew
Iasen Kostov 🇧🇬🇪🇺🇺🇦@Strandjunker well, yea they can change someone's thinking. Just look what Mein Kampf did ...
@Strandjunker
One thing I noticed when working overseas (outside my normal culture) was that people tended to form their opinions not from what they read, but from what they refused to read.
One thing I noticed when working overseas (outside my normal culture) was that people tended to form their opinions not from what they read, but from what they refused to read.
𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐢@Strandjunker
I did borrow a library book aimed at late teens. It was ultra violent and delighted in cannibalism.
It was almost written as a guide book.
Truly horrible, I'm an ex soldier most books wouldn't worry me.
That one was from hell.
I asked the staff to remove it.
They thought I was insane.
So no, it does happen and it happened to me
Knowledge OohKay@Strandjunker Thats a good one. But I've also heard a book is easiest way to also manipulate minds, To follow the masses and stay obedient to certain ways and also hold back somes potential out of fear. Yin and yang. But ultimately read,learn, think, follow your own heart and interpretIon. Opinions vs fact some cant distinguish the 2. Look how politics have changed, how easy it is to find truth in lies, but people will run with a lie anyway, when its easy to find the truth.
@KnowledgeOoh @Strandjunker it could be cool to have a service that “anti-couples” books, so whenever you read a book that you find interesting that service shows you other books like it and other books that argue against it
@montsolliu @Strandjunker That would be cool. Everybody go to learn for themselves. Different experience, different views. Can read the same thing and it can be interpreted 100 different ways by 100 different people., especially after internet and a govt that literally lied knew it, and had people trying to overthrow it. When they write about that for the next generation, who's versions will be believed? That when I look to the beginning. No different.
Catherine Russell@Strandjunker Well said. Followed.
Nanny Ogg
Timmix@Strandjunker As an Author myself i have to ask, isn't it everyone's Goal of a writer that your Work makes your readers think.
I personally criticize a lot of things in my work and for me this is a good thing. Am I alone with this?
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I personally criticize a lot of things in my work and for me this is a good thing. Am I alone with this?
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sitnuok@Strandjunker to put a finer point on it, thinking differently.
Thinking in agreement is perfectly fine.
SuzieWelsh@Strandjunker LOVE this ❤️
Hostage Jemma McLaughlan@Strandjunker I have 7 bookcases, books in double rows now, running out of space 😳
Mel Gallant@Strandjunker so true. 👏🏼
Gabriel Pettier@Strandjunker while i agree in principle, i also recognize the power of propaganda, reading through a large propaganda piece, even if we make a critical thinking effort during it, will likely leave some ideas or facts that were unsufficiently critically examined. The "protocols" is a well known example of book that created a lot of bad thinking, because read it uncritically. The problem is not that not everyone is able to be critical, is that none of us is critical *enough*, as it’s exhausting.
@Strandjunker Isn’t that what they’re supposed to do?
mark henick 
byteorder@Strandjunker Well said!
There might be a wider phenomenon behind this, IMHO: we all seem to be getting into a mood where *any* change is preferably seen as a threat.
Not to say there weren't any dangers at all. But change has always been happening, and still is, and all lifeforms are constantly adapting to it. Whether any given change is "good" or "bad" is a human concept.
Timothy@Strandjunker “I’ll never forget the day I read a book.”—Jimmy Durante
Sarah Fowler
liroso
LeftCoastScenes
CarlTones@Strandjunker Truth sister! That preaches well.
ArgentMoon
Ocean Child 
@Strandjunker this times infinity.
Gayle Robbins@Strandjunker “books are for people who can’t think from themselves.” - Angelica Huston in Ever After. She also played the
Villian!
Villian!
Dan Berky "דן" ℞ MS 🇺🇲 🇩🇪 🇮🇱@Strandjunker also you may be a Nazi…
Suebee2
yasha 
@Strandjunker Yeah, ok, that's a very valid point.
Except, what if it's a really big book, weighing hundreds of pounds or more, hanging by a frayed rope, down to its last little threads, and it's about to fall on your unprotected head, and it will most likely hit you will its full weight and force, and you probably won't be able to get out of the way? 😂
TrismegistusMx@Strandjunker People who burn books are practicing for burning people.
Blinxeto