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.

Okay.

Yeah, 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

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