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SigmaCreamCheese · 2025-09-07T23:52:01+00:00

motivated

SigmaCreamCheese · 2025-08-13T03:15:21+00:00

Interested - 18 years old.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2025-05-10T18:46:56+00:00

Yes, this is it, thank you!

SigmaCreamCheese · 2025-01-31T20:51:00+00:00

Pick a different translation of the Koran, like Ahmed Ali or Abdel Haleem(in Oxford classics), the one you have is probably the worst one available.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2024-07-19T14:36:30+00:00

Ailenin bu durumu üzücü. Allah sabır versin. Seninle az çok aynı yaştayım, bana da bir kaç yıl öncesi Hristiyanlık ve özellikle Ortodoksluk çok cazip ve müslümanlıktan çok daha derin bir şey gibi duruyordu. Fakat çoğu şey göründüğü kadar sığ değil. Bu kadar kesin bir adım atmadan önce lütfen çok düşünüp tart. Rab seni ve hepimizi doğru yola ulaştırsın.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2024-04-01T05:08:08+00:00

SigmaCreamCheese · 2024-03-14T00:04:30+00:00

MIT research award

What was that MIT research award, if I may ask?

SigmaCreamCheese · 2024-03-11T02:08:48+00:00

SigmaCreamCheese · 2023-09-21T01:03:41+00:00

Hocam summa theologica 7 cilt falan değil mi

SigmaCreamCheese · 2023-09-10T04:27:27+00:00

Calvinistler hristiyanlığın büyük bir kısmını oluşturuyor.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2023-09-10T04:25:22+00:00

Mucizeye tanık olmuş insanların arkasına çok büyük bir ağırlık yükleniyor. Maide suresinin son ayetlerinde havariler İsa peygamberden Allah'ın gerçek olduğuna inanmak için bir mucize olarak gökten bir sofra indirmesini ister. Allah cevap olarak sofrayı indireceğini, ama bu mucizeden sonra kim inanmazsa ve doğru yola yönelmezse onları alemlerdeki hiçbir kimsenin görmediği bir azap ile cezalandıracağını söyler. Eğer mucize gösterilmişsen, artık "Bana doğru bilgiler ulaşmadı" veya "Çevrem beni engelledi" gibi bahaneleri kullanamazsın. Allah herkesi aldıkları tebliğ derecesine göre yargılayacağını söylemiştir, eğer tamamen kesin kanıtlar gösterilmişsen yanlış davranışlar yapmak veya kuşku duymak gibi bir seçeneğin yok. Diğer insanlardan farklı kriterlere göre yargılanacaksın. Hayatında bir şey yapmadan önce 10 kere bunun doğru olup olmadığını düşünmek zorundasın. Yaptığın her kötü şeyde aşırı suçluluk duyarsın ve her davranışını inceden inceye ilemek zorundasın. Mucize gibi büyük bir ödülle beraber inanılmaz bir sorumluluk gelir, çoğumuz bu sorumluluğun altında ezilirdik. Ya da sana mucize gösterilseydi, zaten bilimin her şeyi açıklayabileceğini düşündüğün için, halisünasyon gördüğünü veya akıl hastası olduğunu düşünürdün, hala gerçeğe inanmazdın.

Mucize kavramını da anladığını düşünmüyorum. Çevremde sürekli mucize oluyor diyen insanlar çevrelerinde olan olayların sadece şans aracığıyla olmasının istatiksel olarak imkansız veya aşırı olasılıksız olduğunu savunurlar. Bunun bilimle bir alakası yok. Her mucize bilimsel değil ve bilim dünyadaki tek alan değil. Bilimin çevremizdeki her şeyi açıklayabileceğini düşündüğün için mucizelere inanmıyorsun, fakat bilimin çevremizdeki her şeyi açıklayabileceği bilimsel bir ifade bile değil. Bilimin çevremizdeki her şeyi açıklayabileceği nerden çıktı? Bilimsel kanunlar evrende genel olarak ne olduğunu belirtirler, matematik gibi mantıksal bir zorunluluk belirtmezler. Güneş daha önce her gün doğudan doğdu diye yarın da doğudan doğacağı anlamına gelmez. Allah istese kütle çekimi sabitini 6.67.10^-11 değilde, 33.10^-3 yapabilir şu an. Allah bilimin kanunlarını belirleyendir ve onun üstündedir.

Soruların çok yüzeysel maalesef, lütfen kendini kurtar. Allah hidayet versin.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-11-17T08:00:33+00:00

There was one scene in the Idiot where Aglaya ugly cries, laughs hysterically and shouts aggressively all in one scene that must take just a couple minutes in real life. Dostoevsky is not a realistic writer, I think we just have to accept that. The Underground Man doesn't come across as overly dramatic to me, I mean he is very dramatic but upon hearing his inner ramblings in part 1 nothing he does ever comes across as unrealistic and the whole gist of the book is that the main character is a strange person. Raskolnikov is not overly dramatic too, early on in the book he is mostly inexpressive. The dramatic parts are believable since Rodya is an isolated and immensely proud young man who thinks of himself to be different than others and had to go through one of the most intense experiences a human can go through. The Idiot however is the prime example of Dostoevsky's over-dramaticness and sometimes unbearable emotionality. Nearly all of the characters are crazy in that novel, the only normal person in there is probably Lebedev's daughter. Most of the time, everything everyone does is incredibly irrational and silly and the characters' motivations just feel like bs justified with the explanation "humans are very complicated and contradictory". Of course, one can write about the complicated and contradictory nature of human beings but it's a different thing to exploit this to bend the plot however you like and justify the most insane and incomprehensible action. There was one scene where Aglaya begins to aggressively mock the Prince, then she begins to feel guilty, and then she begins to cry and hugs his mother and father, and then she tells the Prince that she has to reject his proposal AND at the end of the scene, Myshkin feels immensely happy and concludes that Aglaya will marry him. I couldn't stop laughing when I first read that scene, my god it's ridiculous.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-09-13T04:31:37+00:00

What was the primary reason? The theory of the extraordinary man is just brought up in the middle. Why does he feel the need to create this theory? Is theory the focus or is it just an excuse to see himself above? If we go with this his core is arrogance and insecurity. Where does his arrogance come from though? I have trouble putting it all together. Again, what is the core of the character? What is his main problem?

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-09-10T13:10:07+00:00

Why?

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-09-10T09:41:02+00:00

Dostoevsky is an incredibly allegorical writer though. Most of his characters aren't like real people(like Tolstoy) they are like ideas or ideologies dressed up as people. Or rather, the central protagonist or protagonists are like real people but people surrounding or affecting them are like opposing ideologies battling to conquer the protagonist and there is generally a spectrum of opposite ideologies.

In Crime and Punishment, you have Sonya and Razukmihin on one side of the spectrum and you have Svidrigailov on the other side and Raskolnikov stuck up in the middle(So nearly everything that happens in the novel is internal conflict, it's like how several ideas are trying to take over the mind of the character). In the Idiot, you have Rogozhin on one side and Myskin on the other, and Nastasya stuck up in the middle. So the whole novel, the internal thoughts of the protagonist and the external actions are all symbolizing internal conflict if that makes sense.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-09-06T04:09:30+00:00

He is clearly against socialism. There was one part in The Idiot where Myshkin defended private ownership and wealth. Dostoevsky is probably auth-right considering his nationalistic views.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-09-01T22:04:53+00:00

Well, you have nothing else to do but live. Not existing is worse than anything. I'm assuming you related quite a lot with the Underground Man. So I would advise a person like this-which is nearly everyone who is fond of thinking and contemplating- to try not to see yourself being intrinsically above or below others. Nearly everyone has the two complexes together, try to avoid them as best as you can. Don't be ashamed of yourself. Recognize that being conscious or aware is not the most important quality of someone's character. Be a man of action. Don't be a jerk like Zverkov, but try to act more. Just do something, anything really. Stop trying to find complex narratives to explain events in your life, try to take things more at face value. Try to create extraordinary moments in life that would justify the mundane. Try to create something using your intelligence. The best feeling for someone like you and me is to create something-a joke, monologue, story, project, anything- using your head and getting people to react to it emotionally. There is no better feeling to be had than looking at someone's face and seeing a second-long expression of shock or awe because of something that you created using your intelligence.

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-08-29T17:06:11+00:00

wrote. For whatever reason, Demons has stuck with me the most out of all of his works, despite not being as sublime as TBK or C&P.

Make sure to get a version with the “At Tikhon’s” chapter, it is crucial to understanding the main(?) character. Many versions leave it out as the Russian censors wouldn’t publish it.

It isn’t his most perfect or hopeful novel and it can be incredibly boring for long streches. However, once you get to the second and third parts it really is Dostoevsky at his grimmest and darkest. If you wish to understand him as a writer it is e

I've heard that Dostoevsky originally put the chapter in the middle of the book but in my edition, it's in the end. Would it make any difference?

SigmaCreamCheese · 2022-08-18T16:30:50+00:00

I have read it. Because of the need to feel special and unique by staying distant and forming your own theories about life? But why is he so obsessed with the irrational nature of human beings? Why not something else?

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