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[MrRoboto75]

Maybe copying the necronomicon requires essentially reading the whole thing, and that probably results in you being too insane to actually do it correctly.  So there would still be only one true and correct copy of the necronomicon.

Or maybe there is one copy, but it isn't whole.  Your rag tag bunch of cultists might only have a handful of pages, but its more than enough to break some minds and summon something awful nonetheless.

[Neonivek]

Most fictional settings also miss the point entirely.

It isn't special. You could go ask a friendly librarian at your local university for a copy, better or worse, pick it up and read it. It's just that most people don't want to know, and for a good reason, since it's accepting the truths of the book at face value is where going bonkers with nihilism happens.

Judging by the description of the Necronomicon and how it is written... It sounds incredibly difficult to understand at times.

I certainly wouldn't want to read it.

[NullForceOmega]

It certainly gave me headaches.

[TheBiggerFish]

Orangutans can read it just fine though.

[TheBiggerFish]

I cannot believe nobody has said "Look out, he's got a Johnson!" ever.

[i2amroy]

Most fictional settings also miss the point entirely.

It isn't special. You could go ask a friendly librarian at your local university for a copy, better or worse, pick it up and read it. It's just that most people don't want to know, and for a good reason, since it's accepting the truths of the book at face value is where going bonkers with nihilism happens.

Course a lot of people also miss the fact that based society at the time simple ideas like "homosexuality is actually okay" would get lumped straight into the "things that destroy man's sanity" block. It's totally possible that, did a real copy of the necronomicon actually exist today, at least some chapters would be totally palatable, possibly even blasé at this point.

[hops]

inb4 the necronomicon is actually about lgbt rights

[Flying Dice]

In-universe, just reading the Necronomicon drives you mad, and it contains knowledge that allows one to convene with extra-dimensional beings. Despite what some Christians might say about the latter point, and what some of their detractors might say about the former point, I have reasons to believe that the Bible does neither of these things, or does them extremely infrequently.

A better question would be "Does it contain secrets that make people straight up mad".

Have you seen a fundamentalist Christian before? Those people are bonkers.

Aaaaand called it.

People who say they understand the whims of otherworldly presences usually are bonkers, to be fair.

I mean the only real difference between "I kill all the heretics and make clothes from their skin because my god tells me to" and "I seriously believe that if I address my daydreamed wishes to my god that they'll come true" is the level of harm caused to society and other individuals by the outcome of those beliefs. You can believe whatever sort of crazy shit you want, paint it in the shades of religion or not, and as long as you're not infringing on others' rights you can go right on doing it. Naturally, most organized religion is extra-pushy and likes to annoy, convert, restrict, expel, or murder people who don't buy into what they're selling, depending on how strongly they dominate society.

But, like, in practice? I've known Christians of different stripes, a few Jews, a few Muslims, one Buddhist, and a range of pagans: all of them were equally bonkers when it came to the question of belief as far as I'm concerned, but for the most part they were fine people in all other respects, no more or less harmful than a guy I knew who genuinely believed that he could talk to ghosts. *Gallic shrug*

[Sirus]

"th-the gays... and the transes... the-they are... they are... THEY ARE NOT THE SAMETHINGAAAAAAAH"

They AREN'T?!

* Sirus wails

* Sirus gnashes teeth

* Sirus claws out eyes

[hector13]

They do face similarities in discrimination. Some folk seem to think they're perverted bastards, which is why the likes of Ted Cruz is all "WE CAN'T LET THE TRANNIES USE THE BATHROOM FOR THE GENDER THEY IDENTIFY WITH BECAUSE THEY'LL RAPE OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN"

[KingofstarrySkies]

CATS LIVING WITH DOGS
HYSTERIA I TELL YE
HYSTERIIAAAAAA

[Sirus]

They do face similarities in discrimination. Some folk seem to think they're perverted bastards, which is why the likes of Ted Cruz is all "WE CAN'T LET THE TRANNIES USE THE BATHROOM FOR THE GENDER THEY IDENTIFY WITH BECAUSE THEY'LL RAPE OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN"

True, but that doesn't make them the same thing. Might as well say that Chinese people and Irish people are the same thing because they were both discriminated against.

[Orange Wizard]

*rocking violently back and forth, clutching hair and crying*
"th-the gays... and the transes... the-they are... they are... THEY ARE NOT THE SAMETHINGAAAAAAAH"

Oh for the love of

Just send them all to the sanatorium and let the lobotomy doctors sort it out

They do face similarities in discrimination. Some folk seem to think they're perverted bastards, which is why the likes of Ted Cruz is all "WE CAN'T LET THE TRANNIES USE THE BATHROOM FOR THE GENDER THEY IDENTIFY WITH BECAUSE THEY'LL RAPE OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN"

To be fair, his actual issue is that pervy men (i.e. not trans women (even though a lot of those types don't see the difference)) would be able to justify going into the women's bathroom by saying they're trans when they're not. Which is a stupid argument, so my only real motivation for defending it is because I'm sick of anti-right wankery.

[Sirus]

It is a stupid argument, because if a trans woman did pervy things a public bathroom then she'd face charges just like a pervy man would. Plain and simple.

[Shadowlord]

Actually, Ted Cruz and North Carolina, apparently, just want to keep "men" (meaning women) out of women's bathrooms (and force them into men's...).