>live in small, mostly white trash town>at local library for unrelated reasons>decide to look up some atheist literature, since I haven't read all of it and I've seen some on the shelves before>haven't read much of Sam Harris, do a search on him>~4

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Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 05:09:28 f4d20d No.8197

>live in small, mostly white trash town

>at local library for unrelated reasons

>decide to look up some atheist literature, since I haven't read all of it and I've seen some on the shelves before

>haven't read much of Sam Harris, do a search on him

>~4 of his books are in the system but 0 are available

>huh, that's weird. What about Hitchens?

>same thing, books are listed but none are available

>…Dennett?

>not even in the system

>well OK fair enough he's not that known, let's try Dawkins

>all his anti-theist books are in the system, none available

>but all his science books are available

Guys I think my local library might have purged the atheist books. Wat do.

Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 05:12:18 715a43 No.8198

>>8197

People still use libraries? Books and ebooks are so cheap.

Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 05:46:36 f4201f No.8199

>wat do

I don't know, maybe there's some place you can go that's on your PC to find them. I think they call it a series of tubes.

Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 06:54:38 141f2b No.8200

>>8198

If they're not available anywhere else you can always hit the Bay.

It's odd that they'd have Dawkin's science books, especially when a few of them overlap with his anti-theist books. Have you tried looking for books by other atheists? You said you've seen some on the shelves, have you tried actually looking for them? Most book stores put atheism related stuff in the philosophy section.

Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 07:13:23 7eacc9 No.8201

My Library was exactly the same. I had to order the God Delusion and Cosmos. Very satisfying and worth the wait.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 04:58:34 7057c4 No.8242

>>8197

Or maybe your home town has some well read atheists who are always checking out all the atheists books… or it could be someone going full religitard.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 05:57:54 7eacc9 No.8243

>>8242

No. The system logs the books that are registered at the library in total. So let's say that your library has 3 copies of "The Case of Wagner", but 2 people have copies currently.

This is how it would display.

The Case of Wagner - 1/3

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 18:40:08 6cf55b No.8252

>>8197

>be a librarian in a small, mostly white trash town

>one day, an obese unhygienic man wearing a fedora borrows all the books written by Harris, Hitchens, and Dawkins (not his science books though)

>two months later, he hasn't given them back

>send him a letter stating he has to give them back or else he must pay them, plus a fine

>he comes back two day after with all the books

>they are all tainted with what looks like sperm and pizza sauce mixed with facial hair (he has a dirty neckbeard)

>tell him: "what the fuck did you do with these books? They belong to the trash now!"

>he mumble something about his intelligence

>he runs away

I have never seen him again. Hopefully I managed to make his mother pay for the books (the poor guy was jobless and lived at his parents' house, even though he was something like 30).

I haven't bought a new copy of these books yet, because I am too afraid another greasy man borrow them.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 20:22:33 c88630 No.8255

>>8252

lol, the fedora meme. So epic and original.

Go away, /christian/.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 00:08:27 f4d20d No.8260

>>8243

I don't think my local library works that way, actually.

>>8242

This is possible but seems pretty unlikely to me. What, all the kids are back from college and a bunch decided to explore non-religion over the summer? All at once? I'm going to check the library again in a week or so to see if there's a change.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 05:33:17 6cf55b No.8271

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>>8255

>distrusting rational thinking

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 08:14:18 e57e36 No.8276

>>8271

Like you do?

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 08:25:00 6cf55b No.8277

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>>8276

I mean the most rational explaination of why these books are registered but unavailable is that these books are damaged.

And if these books are damaged, it's because someone damaged them.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 08:28:11 e57e36 No.8278

>>8277

But your explanation is based on assertions. A bit like your religion is

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 08:44:26 6cf55b No.8279

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>>8278

>reasoning is based on assertions

>therefore it is religion

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 13:43:41 0d4389 No.8281

>>8279

omg u r so le epic troll XDXD!!!!!11<3<3

Are you 12? Go back to /christian/ and shit it up.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 13:45:43 0d4389 No.8282

>>8281

Forgot to sage this shitty thread.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 13:58:31 6cf55b No.8284

>>8281

I am not the troll here.

>>8278 said that logic is a religion, not me.

Greentext is for misquoting people or for telling stories.

Welcome to 8chan, btw.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 18:51:36 7eacc9 No.8288

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>>8284

>Greentext is for misquoting people or for telling stories.

Oh look at that, I just misquoted you correctly.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 20:57:56 76aa89 No.8292

>>8197

report the problem to librarians OP.

If they don't give you a satisfactory explanation that eventually makes those books appear then you have probably caught them doing some sneaky censorship

Anonymous 06/06/15 (Sat) 21:18:13 f13d4c No.8531

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Come to Southern California OP. I have copies of your book waiting at my local library.