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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 368958" data-attributes="member: 4303">Can't resist...[Begin Hijack]RE: Hinduism. I'd be very cautious of generalizing. Hinduism is best described as lots of different things going on in India - and, more recently, the Indian diaspora. That is one viewpoint - in India this path is called Advaita Vedanta. The premise is that the human soul (atman) is identical with divine reality(Brahman). Brahman is nirguna - that is "without qualities." It cannot be categorized in any way, because to say that it "is A" denies the possibility that "it is not A." This is a philosophical device to cause paradox and stimulate insight/mystical apprehension of the truth. Nirvana is actually a Buddhist term: the Hindu equivalent is moksha. The understanding of what moksha actually is varies enormously from sect to sect in Hinduism - the definition that you just gave is broadly in accord with the ideas of Advaita.It is worth noting that Advaita Vedanta is the most widely known Indian philosophy in the West, and many Westerners view it as "Hinduism" in the broader sense. In fact, Bhakti - devotion to a personal Deity (usually Shiva, Kali or Vishnu) - is much more widespread. Bhakti can be Monotheistic - although often it is Henotheistic.Henotheism is "One-God-at-a-time-ism" - i.e. today Kali is God, tomorrow Shiva is God, next week Kali is God again, RIGHT NOW Vishnu is God. Etc. etc.For most practitioners of bhakti, the state of moksha is about 'cleaving to' God - i.e. the individual personality is not submerged or annihilated, but rather magnified. The soul retains its integrity, so to speak.[End Hijack]With regards to the original question in this thread, I'd say this.1) Don't make the truth absolute.2) Give the Players conflicting hints about the nature of the truth.3) Make them think that you, the DM, know what the truth is, even though you don't.4) Allow them to develop a theory, and then, at an inopportune moment, completely upset it.Paladins, Clerics and Druids make ideal targets for this kind of head<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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