An Experience reading God's Debris

Reading a book is of course an experience, and this post is mainly to share my experience of having read one of the books in the very recent past.

The book is Scott Adam’s “God’s debris”.
Scott Adam is the famous creator of the Dilbert cartoons. Personally I am not so much a fan of any cartoon strip ... (You see I don’t really have a funny bone). But I actually liked this particular strip to a large extent. Maybe I identified with the context more than anything else.

Ok Now, for the reason behind my interest in reading the book. Firstly the Title of the book  seems very interesting… (No, I am a very religious person but if someone has given such a title I ought to know the reason behind it).

Next was the Author, I liked his cartoons and wanted to see his serious side of writings too. Again I don’t consider writing those cartoon strips as non-serious business, simply because I guess it takes a lot of effort to come up with the comedy that is mostly projected in his cartoon strips. Third being that a friend of mine suggested me to read that book.

The time when I actually started with this book was also important and perhaps that’s the reason I enjoyed it. I was in a very contemplative mood and was basically pondering over many issues in my life in general. So on one such day when my mind refused to think for any of my problems, I picked up the book to read and what a feeling it actually gave me. I haven’t completed the book so far finished only 3/4th of it (though it is merely 144 pages). Then you must be thinking why I am writing about the book, that’s fairly simple because I just wanted the experience of this book to be treasured. No, this is not a review for the book, no critical analysis will follow. I will only try and explain how this book made me feel in one of those losing moments in my life.

As I began to read this book, it gave me a feeling of something that we term as “out of the box” thinking, especially the old man’s ideas. I don’t exactly remember but I think I heard a particular term that was used for such thinking as projected in this book by the old man. It is such a free flowing conversation between two gentlemen and so engaging for the reader too. In fact with each of those chapters you would want to be placed in that old man’s chair and ask those questions yourself. But you will also realize how difficult it is to have such a radical view on certain subjects. You will realize how our mind has been trained to think in a particular pattern regarding few subjects. The most profound truths that we would have accepted are questioned or we can say are reasoned out in this book. It has a language in which he will be able to convince you, but also raise a few questions on your own self too.

Some of the things that I concluded after reading it are:
We as humans are exposed to the environment around us and t a great extent our thinking is molded by the things we read, are taught, we observe and slowly by experience just take them to be the truth. And sometimes we also reach a stage where we would refuse to question our beliefs to a very large extent. The idea is always to have a very openness to receive thoughts from everywhere, validate and reason it out and then accept or reject or formulate your own theories.


On the lighter side, people who are interested in abstract discussions and have a philosophical bent of mind, do read this book, it will surely make you amused.