Weird stuff at the local Barnes and noble

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So I was in the Barnes and Noble in lower Manhattan and they had a table With a sign reading “history the world is reading” with the flip side saying "Explorer new ideas all of the books were occult books or about UFO phenomena. I’ve attached some pics because I wouldn’t believe it myself if I didn’t see it. I was in there two separate weeks and they moving from the 3rd floor to the first floor.

What do you make of this?
 
I think sensationalism sells. It relates to people’s interest in Science Fiction, too. For SF to be believable , it’s a common plot device to use “Star Trek logic,” and also to encourage readers to open their minds and ask, “what if?” This is so common and all-pervasive that it’s led people to explore all manner of weird stuff, and a glut of books have flooded the market. Science fiction novels have always been for bright and creative people, and these books are trying to tap into that. My favorite book in this genre is called The Morning of the Magicians, by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. It’s quite an intelligent work, and also quite a lively and pleasureable read. In my estimation it’s the high water mark for these sorts of books.
 
You can’t take the mass-market book sellers as as prescriptive, a lesson I recall from my college days half a lifetime ago (when the sellers were Walden and B.Dalton), and a philosophy professor bemoaned the fact that both bookstores consigned his books to a section labeled (I’m not kidding)

[SIGN1]PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND THE OCCULT :ehh:[/SIGN1]

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Years ago I worked for B. Dalton, at the time they were owned by B&N, and while it’s true they are a secular bookstore and they do sell everything I just couldn’t believe the signage. “Explore new ideas” these aren’t new cookbooks or self -help fads, there really were books about satanism on the table and even though I doubt (hope) that any are any serious reading it’s just seems stupid and inconsiderate to put those books together under that sign. My guess is that because they are such a secular bookstore they don’t take any of it very seriously, as a Catholic I do.

I won’t even comment on the books under the “history…” sign.
 
sticknstring73 said:
I won’t even comment on the books under the “history…” sign.
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Apparently B&N is going with the new History TV definition of “history” (e.g. Ancient Aliens and the like).

For so many years we said “Remember when MTV actually played music?” Now I say “Remember when History TV actually ran historical programs?”
 
I believe this is done to get more and more people acclimated to the subject, there are more books, movies, shows about satanism, aliens, demons, magic, etc out now than ever before, they are making this stuff popular…ever notice all the animated type movies for kids involving aliens, usually depicted as funny, quirky, but helpful and caring towards the human race?! LOL

I truly believe this is going to be the great deception, eventually when the powers that be, determine the time is right, they will fake some major archaeological discovery, it will point towards an extraterrestrial race creating mankind (seeding the planet), they will use this as the main reason to make all other religions illegal, will claim its wrong and blasphemous to continue worshiping a God when we have this great new discovery that appears to prove otherwise, many many people will fall for this trick. I dont know if it will happen in my lifetime, but I think it will happen at some point.

What better way to condition people to this type of thing than to bombard them with constant movies, shows and books about the subject?
 
I think we are living in perhaps the era of the most gullible populace in history. Much more gullible than the Middle Ages, (but they didn’t have the detriment of TV and Internet.)
 
sticknstring73 said:
Years ago I worked for B. Dalton, at the time they were owned by B&N, and while it’s true they are a secular bookstore and they do sell everything I just couldn’t believe the signage. “Explore new ideas” these aren’t new cookbooks or self -help fads, there really were books about satanism on the table and even though I doubt (hope) that any are any serious reading it’s just seems stupid and inconsiderate to put those books together under that sign. My guess is that because they are such a secular bookstore they don’t take any of it very seriously, as a Catholic I do.

I won’t even comment on the books under the “history…” sign.
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Back when we were losing all our mall bookstores (B. Dalton and Waldenbooks), we got one of our first big box, chain bookstores (I forget if it was our first B&N or something else). I was still a bit fallen away at the time but I still had some of those Catholic grade school sensibilities about me. I noticed that every time I went in, the Bibles were in the Mythology section, while someone had moved a bunch of books from the Gay & Lesbian section into the Religion section, the two, of course, being right next to one another. I took it upon myself to move the Bibles back to the Religion section and the Gay & Lesbian books out every time we went in there. After a while I finally mentioned this to one of the managers. He laughed about it and let me in on his little “joke,” that it was actually the decision of the store & shift managers to do that. He assumed I would find it as funny as they did. I was a bit of a reactionary back then with a lot of free time on my hands so I spent the next few weeks making phone calls and sending letters straight up the line, from the regional manager all the way to corporate headquarters. I also encouraged several others to do the same. I can’t say that I was responsible for it, but a month or so later the shenanigans stopped, and shortly after that they brought in an entirely new management staff.
 
The big booksellers can find strange ways to display material. The local BooksAMillion, for instance, has a “Science and New Age” section for its magazines. It used to make me hopping mad when I was a skeptic. Every time I looked for my Skeptic, or The Humanist, I’d have to look at all that “woo”!
 
DaddyGirl said:
If it was a “secular” bookstore, it would not sell God-related books.
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Antics with semantics.

A perfectly valid use of secular:
not **overtly **or **specifically **religious
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Since we could not consider Barnes and Noble to be an “overtly and specifically” religious bookstore, it is just fine to refer to it as being secular.
 
I have been to Christian book store where books on Catholicism were all grouped under the category Cults and False Religions.
 
Sarcelle said:
I have been to Christian book store where books on Catholicism were all grouped under the category Cults and False Religions.
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I’ve asked for Catholic books at Christian bookstores, only to be told they only carry Christian authors.
 
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