the other day jay and he took notes for me and he said like almsgiving was one of the things you

said oh yeah it's not fine you know do alms give did he take notes from the underground for you

tristan he took no uh you know so when i was at uh this uh one of the orthodox conferences a couple

years ago there was a dustyewski scholar there and a big Orthodox guy, and he was going into depth about, like, how you need to do it in order. And his whole thing was you've got to start with notes from the underground. So, Mark, I assume you've read that one, right? Yeah, it's been a while, though i'm not as strong that's cool well it's

probably fresh in tristan's mind so uh we should be live and if you would in the chat everybody

if you can give me a little bit of a indicator mods i can only trust the mods anybody else who

asked us question to will troll me for the next three hours

we won't go for three hours don't worry but um is the sound good can you guys hear those guys

pretty good everybody good uh let me know in the chat i'll be paying attention and tonight

we're going to talk about dostoevsky we're going to go through some of the works i think

everybody here tonight has had a decent amount of familiarity with elements of his works.

Everybody here is pretty much a fan.

We're all on the same page in terms of orthodoxy.

And it's great that he's one of the greatest writers of all time,

and he ended up being explicitly orthodox and I had forgotten

that, I mean, I mean serious about his faith, not just orthodox in name, but I had forgotten

that elements of crime and punishment also relate to the events in his life when he, you know,

tried to kind of go against the czar and ended up in front of the

firing squad. And that was part of the story. I mean, he's kind of Raskolnikov, you know, to a

degree in terms of crime and punishment due to his experience, um, in that life changing event when he was,

you know, put in front of the fireman squad. So, um,

Tristan has just been finished or just been working through demons. He's done a two really good installments over on his channel, uh, as well as an analysis with Bayes Lit analyzer of

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