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Ch@pel 12-28-04, 01:12 PM

Has anyone read the short book God's Debris (http://www.newtimes.org/issue/0202/debris.htm), by Scott Adams? (the guy who wrote Dilbert) It's kind of a thought experiment/ fictional story about this old man who knows everything. Some of the views presented are a little faulty, (though part of the fun of the book is figuring out how its wrong) but as I was reading I was struck by how much the old man's view of the world illustrates Eberron (well all of D&D, really) perfectly. He says that the whole universe consists of probabilty and bits of God's debris. D&D is obviously all probability, but in Eberron the gods don't directly influence the lives of people, and the book offers an explanation for this. God apparently created the universe by exploding himself (Big Bang?) as an experiment, because he believed that eventually, through probability, he would be reassembled by the perfection of communication techniques and analytical technologies among the sentient life forms of the universe, which would create a harmonious global collective mind that would (after a LONG time) become omnipotent. God exerts control over the universe not by controlling individuals, but by influencing probability itself. In order to be a virtuous person, you must seek the safety and betterment of all being around you by living in harmony with probability. Anytime you go against probability, you are going against the will of god, which on average, over time, will be punished. I just thought his whole idea about the governing of the entire universe through probability hit close to home. I'm thinking of making this book a sort of bible/ required reading for the Path of Light, the religion of the Kalastar of Adar. There's not too much info about this religion, (so far) but even once RoE comes out, I can't see it contradicting too much. It would certainly give someone playing a Kalashtar something to talk about, and I've been dying for material for them. The book is pretty small and laid out in a neat little package. It's set in modern times, but most of the points and lessons can easily be related to Eberron. What do ya'll think?