God's Debris

A truly great book. Magnificent to the very end.

Written by the same genius who writes the Dilbert comics, this book really makes you think about life and why we are here. Scott Adams states in the Introduction:

This is not a Dilbert book. It contains no humor. I call it a 132-page thought experiment wrapped in a fictional story.

And it truly is! Throughout the entire book, I was thinking about things. My life, why am I here?, who is God?, Why did he create the Universe?, etc.

This is not a religious book and you can take whatever you want from it.

The story contains no violence, no sexual content, and
no offensive language. But the ideas expressed by the characters
are inappropriate for young minds. People under the
age of fourteen should not read it.

As you can tell, he thinks that young minds would become to enthralled in it and start to believe everything it says.

It is about a man who knows literally everything and a package delivery guy. When the delivery guy brings a package to the old man, he becomes entranced in the old man's cryptic questions. They spend what seems like days together. Talking about why this and why that.

He stared at me and rocked, sizing me up, perhaps, or maybe he was lost in a replay. I had already said what I needed to say, so I stood silently for what seemed too long.
I thought I saw the wake of a smile, or maybe it was a muscle
tremor. He spoke in the deliberate manner of a man who
had not used his voice in days and asked a strange question.

“If you toss a coin a thousand times, how often will it
come up heads?”

This book encorporates some small humor with a lot of thinking questions. Scott's advice for maximum enjoyment is:

For maximum enjoyment, share God’s Debris
with a smart friend and then discuss it while enjoying a tasty
beverage.

Agreed!

Click here for a link to God's Debris. There is also information on where you can buy the book. You will have access to a few pages.

The sequal to this book is The Religion War.

Click here for a link to The Religion War and for information on where it is sold. You may also have access to a few pages of the story.


The image above is from Amazon.com's God's Debris page.