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I personally doubt this is the case, but it seems perfectly plausible that if he even thinks only one new inkling of a thought each millennium, he'll eventually have thought for a living philosopher's equivalent of years and years and come to the conclusion that he's being punished by his exile to a desert that doesn't even have the burning, punisher form of Om let alone the rewarding Om that he'd come to expect from his afterlife. In his mind, then, nonbelievers would get the cauldron but he, a believer who [[You Have Failed Me...|somehow failed]] the One God, his god, wuldwould get an eternity with only the false voice of Om echoing mockingly in his head.

* Much like the Duchess from ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'', Brutha will replace Om whether he wants to or not. In the Tiffany Aching books, for example, the "good" Om worshippers refer to Brutha instead.

* Alternately, Om ''will'' survive, because he's adopted a strategy of pure [[Fridge Brilliance]]: he's living off his worshipers' ''uncertainty about what he wants'' rather than their certainty. If there are dozens of schismatic sects out there, all saying that Om wants different things, then ''all'' of his worshipers could be in the same boat as Mightily Oats: unsure of which Om is correct, and worried about whether they're pleasing him or not. In which case, they're still demonstrating a belief '''in''' Om through their anxiety -- somethinganxiety—something that must be sufficient to keep Om alive, if saying "Oh, god, what did I just hit?!" when your wagon squashes a small animal is enough to sustain a minor deity --— just not a belief in any particular characteristic ''of'' Om.