The Brothers Karamazov: Devils, Saints, and Scoundrels: Part 1: Hey, That's My Onion

[inwardfraction]

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[cantavoidtrite]

This has been extremely helpful to me. Thanks.

[cukkimonkie]

Thank you for your videos, very knowledgeable and helpful. It is clear the others who commented here did not even grasp the very first concept that Dostoevsky was pointing out. So I hope it sinks in before they move on to the next chapters. I see what you are saying though, and we need to be more or atleast equally concerned with the needs of others as we are of our own needs. Not always an easy task. After watching all your lessons, it really opened my eyes as to where I can improve myself.

[mickmickmurphy]

Remeber George W Bush saying he had spoke to God, and he was told ivading Iraq was the right thing to do?

How alligned is his God relationship?

[VariedInterest]

Broken god relationships are not to be construed as an error of path. It's like McLuhan says, that violence is a form of finding one's own identity after it has been stripped away. That doesn't validate the depersonalization, and certainly not the violence.

But there should be no mistake, the breaking of a god relationship is essential to a full existence. It's just how to go about the reconfiguration in a time of disillusionment and dead gods. Relationships are only that much stronger for it.

[treid100182]

unneccessary

[littlebylittle2]

Thank you so much for this series. I am trying to find good books to read, and your video helped encourage me to read works by Dostoesky. Thank you again :)

[peacefulman123]

americans will never understand russian writers

[psycropticunt]

@peacefulman123

Agreed. There isn't much of the outside world that they do.

[Dollphwong]

@psycropticunt Mark Twain "All generalizations are false, including this one"

What does being an American have to do with anything? But if you want to play that game making sweeping generalizations about foreigners due to lack of any real understanding about them sounds like something an American would do.

[psycropticunt]

@Dollphwong

There are so many contradictions in what you just typed and if I thought you could understand even just one of them then maybe I'd point it out. I think i'll leave you to figure out where you went wrong.

[Dollphwong]

@psycropticunt If you weren't such a smug elitest judgemental retard you'd realize that I was contradicting myslef on purpose as a way of demonstrating the suppossed American stereotype of intolerant stupidity that you just seem to demonstrate yourself over and over again. The Mark Twain quote should have summed up the point that generalizations are for the ignorant. But hey go nuts if you want to make yourself feel better by condeming an entire country as being stupid.

[cukkimonkie]

@Dollphwong Wow! My question is how did any of you commenting even make to the point of picking up this novel to begin with. It seems to me based on your comments and word choice, you would be better suited to discuss curious george or an article from teen beat. Thank you for showing, if nothing else, schools today will pass just about anyone. Great effort in understanding, I think you will do great in your essay or whatever brought you to this video.

[falstaffswims]

@peacefulman123 Neither, then, will Russians ever understand Russian writers. If you mean "no American can think like a Russian," you're wrong. Translating sensibilities is very difficult, but rest assured that there exist great acrobatic minds, like Constance Garnett, who have managed it. If you mean, as I doubt you mean, that "no human being can ever understand any other human being," I hope you're wrong, but the possibility that you're right is exactly what, I think, tortured Dostoevsky.

[falstaffswims]

But he saw some way out: I do not follow his optimism, but I know he came to believe that a life was well spent in pursuit of understanding across the abyss-between-us-all--he seems to have disagreed with you, even in the most sophisticated translation of what you're trying to say. I bet you're saying something stupider than that, anyway. ...if you're saying what I suspect you're saying--don't forget there are centuries, not just oceans, intervening between us and Dostoevsky.

[falstaffswims]

@falstaffswims ...sorry: the second half failed to note that this was directed at peacefulman123.

[tyrelj5]

i found this video really intersting

keep up the good work

this taught me alot

my life is changed forever and all eternity

[jasmad22]

If we are to be critical of anyone in this story, it ought to be god.

[csungerrie]

In thinking about your question, I would have to say that what was wrong is that she did not fill what was empty. The poor are full of grace for they are put in a position where they can depend on God and allow his power to be made perfect in them. For this poor woman, whom i assumed relied on the kindness of others to not do many good deeds herself seems to have made it difficult for God's grace to rest upon her poor life. Just my thoughts.

[csungerrie]

This is great! Thank you