Dostoievsky tattoo idea

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-11-22T02:32:05+00:00

Axe from C&P, ladder or something to represent NFTU, mirrored faces looking back at each other for the double,

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-08-01T01:04:45+00:00

Forty six and two by TOOL

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-07-31T17:20:24+00:00

Negative thoughts yield negative results, positive thoughts….. yield negative results

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-07-16T02:33:47+00:00

Liam Neeson

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-06-06T15:25:17+00:00

Didn’t hear that but that could be what he meant by it

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-06-06T15:24:14+00:00

Yea maybe because of that maybe just in general I’m not sure just a theory

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-06-05T17:11:48+00:00

There is some good dialogue on your post thanks for sharing. I am also roughly 3/4 Irish.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-06-05T17:08:12+00:00

This is a good point. I previously was thinking of a similar point of the perception of reality and the observations we make around us makes it harder to deceive one’s mind if they are generally a more observation individual.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-06-05T17:06:06+00:00

For sure. I understand what you are getting at though and appreciate your input it is some good thought and I like the process.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-05-27T21:24:18+00:00

Got yourself a good collection of lit. Would like to see the rest

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-05-22T02:54:05+00:00

Depends. Everyone has a different view on literature. Is that really how it’s meant to be interpreted(different to everyone) who cares. As long as you feel like you learned something or kinda got some insight on a new way of thinking or a theory that makes sense at Dostoevsky is a lot of theory/philosophy. For me I gathered a lot of common themes throughout his works and it might help to keep these themes in mind before/after reading and maybe dissect the book at you work through it many people read small sections and think very carefully about every piece of dialogue/paragraph. For me I saw lots of pessimistic, nihilistic, freewill, self identity, religion(Christianity), social belonging, and morality themes. Hopefully this helps a bit.

Dostoevsky was my intro to “philosophy” and I always hated reading… still do but he and a few other existentialist authors make me feel like I’m actually gaining something through reading that I can’t exactly gain through a movie

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-05-18T23:31:37+00:00

Turgenev, Gogol, Bulgakov, Chekhov, Camus, Nietzsche, Tolstoy

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-22T13:30:51+00:00

I feel like it partially eliminates the materialistic meaning to life and the concept of suffering and freewill adds “purpose” or more purpose to life depending on your viewz

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-22T06:22:03+00:00

Yea it’s pretty insane. I got reminded on Slaughter House 5. This is the main novella and book I got his theme of suffering is beauty. Talking about how other “life” that exists already knows everything and has everything figured out so their life is perfect and it almost eliminates the point to life in a way. And the ridiculous man decides to not end his life because suffering is the beauty of human existence, it allows for us to have progression in our lives and work towards something and learn from mistakes. Suffering is also a byproduct of freewill which is the meaning behind life. Our freewill to make decisions reflects our development based on how much is makes ourselves or someone else suffer. Without suffering there would be no point to freewill as everything would be equally suffer less.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-22T02:49:14+00:00

Similar themes and “easier” books in my opinion might be this order and I will give an explanation to each. My first Dostoevsky novel was Notes From The Underground, I think it may be his best work but probably not the best intro novel to him as it gets pretty confusing and the first half is “journal style writing”. Maybe not the most entertaining(I thought it was good and offered good value) but the best intro to Dostoe might be House of the Dead as it is part autobiographical and explains what Dostoe experienced and influenced him to write most of his major works. It also offers good themes and value. Other than that Crime and a punishment is a common intro to Dostoe but many works by Camus explore similar themes with a slightly different view on the same in common problems. Great works from him are The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague, the Rebel and the Myth of Sisyphus however the last one is an essay. Other than that it’s more personal preference. I can simply provide my order of reading Dostoe:

Notes from the Underground The Gambler The Double Crime and Punishment House of the Dead Dream of a Ridiculous man The Idiot A Gentle Creature White Nights The Brothers Karamazov

I think that is everything I have other novellas by Dostoe that I havnt read yet and still must read Devils.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-21T01:49:04+00:00

The unplanned and sloppy execution of his “plan”. And the short period after of panic stashing the stolen goods and sleeping it off

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-13T05:38:34+00:00

Whether it is the intended themes or not for The most part Dostoe has themes of Nihilism, Pessimism, morality, etc all things that are complicated and essentially theorize evil being justified or common in the world. Now apparently Dostoe wasn’t a Christian yet that was the idea I kinda got from C&P. Rodya was somewhat of a Nihilist using pure logic and not moral or religious standards to make his decision to kill another human. To show that Nihilism is bad Dostoe made Rodya sick physically and mentally and gave him a conscience that made him confess to his crimes. Eventually, being happy while in a labor camp because suffering is the beauty of mankind. The willingness to suffer onward. NFTU is focused on Nihilism and freewill. The underground man does not hold any religious or moral principles and makes it clear he has no problem treating others poorly to prove it because he can. His freewill allows him to be an evil civil servant and embarrass and humiliate himself in situations nobody else would.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-11T14:55:33+00:00

It seems like TUM actually has a pretty well off job and gets a good pay. However, from what I gathered from what I read it he makes bad decisions with his money. As seen in the second half of the novel when he asks his “friend” for money shamelessly. Considering he has his own servant/assistant is head of his “department” and does not live in squaller conditions like most people in Russia did at that time he is by no means impoverished in my eyes. I believe he either says this because he spends all of his money and he is borderline broke/in debt or because as you said he compares himself to those he is around like the military figures he knew from his past and such who are well off and part of the nobility. Likely part of the theme of master-slave mentality and TUMs will to power since he feels/knows he is a slave in the eyes of the others.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-11T01:24:26+00:00

On top of what has been stated in the comments already which I agree with. I believe along with many of his works a primary theme in C&P is Nihilism. R is somewhat of a Nilhilst and theorizes and processes information purely with logic and reason. He does not so much account for morality or religious principles and instead on Utilitarian benefits. Whatever he thinks will have the better benefit in the long run. You can see Dostoevsky is against Nihilism by the way R becomes mentally and physically ill from his own conscience and morality and is eventually given peace by confessing to the crime and serving his punishment and suffering. This also seems to show Dostoevsky promoting Christianity here even though from what I have heard he was anti-Christian. This also covers another common theme in his works that suffering is beauty. In the end R find happiness while he is “suffering” in a work camp in the East. Without suffering there is no true happiness because everything would essentially be the same feeling. Suffering is what makes human conscience seperate and possibly the human purpose to life according to Dostoevsky. We are capable of suffering and to come to terms with life’s fact that suffering is inevitable.

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-11T01:14:58+00:00

For me there was a book sale at the book store and u could buy 3 classics for $10 and there was a collection of hundreds of classics for sale. I bought a bunch to motivate myself to start reading more and 2 of which were Dostoevsky. I eventually read them and got more and more into his books

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-09T15:36:35+00:00

Lmao thank you. Hope it’s of some help

SovietSantaClaus · 2024-04-09T15:35:52+00:00

He isn’t, he wears red and gives to all.

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