Fyodor Dostoevsky - Timeless Philosophy of a Tormented Genius - Written by Eternalised

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  • @Eternalised
    @Eternalised Рік тому +1219

    *“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”* - Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Your work never ceases to amaze me. I love working together with you. Well done!

    • @JaiHylRubis
      @JaiHylRubis Рік тому +7

      💖🙏💫

    • @finesse4848
      @finesse4848 Рік тому +5

      Thank you ! ❤

    • @NajeebMaraqa
      @NajeebMaraqa Рік тому +9

      As a Russian literature fan and an Eternalised fan…I’m hyped🔥

    • @BrianHallmond
      @BrianHallmond Рік тому +8

      No wonder I'm miserable.

    • @tyrfree5733
      @tyrfree5733 Рік тому +3

      But EVERY human will experience pain and suffering. It's part of life.
      The death of a loved one alone causes pain and suffering for most.
      So...yeah..don't agree.

  • @VerveQuest72
    @VerveQuest72 9 місяців тому +154

    When I read Dosteveskys novels I was living on a sort of communal farm, in a tent, waking with the sun, working with crops and horses all day. At night I'd build a fire and relax with Feodor. I was in my mid thirties and had just before this gone through the worst trauma of my life.
    I was drawn to those days and read book after book almost addictively and didn't know why, but now decades later I'm sure it was the first step and an extremely long road to rebuilding myself to humanity.
    Dosteveskys works did what no self-help book could ever do

  • @lazarus3956
    @lazarus3956 Рік тому +481

    "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” has to be one of the most mindblowing quotes I've ever come across in my live, but this genious wrote many more of them!

    • @JLydecka
      @JLydecka Рік тому +23

      No, its worse going through life being capable of love but never receiving it back from others. I've never experienced unconditional love. I've never experienced deep intimacy. It hurts really bad. Every time I try, I end up further solidifying my belief that love actually isnt real and its just an idea. I've only witnessed love on screens, never in reality.

    • @justintime6242
      @justintime6242 Рік тому +36

      @@JLydeckaThere’s no such thing as unconditional love. Not one person on this earth will love you without conditions. You can give that to yourself though. Through daily meditations on self forgiveness and gratitude. Sounds easy but it’s not. Just start there.

    • @andrewternet8370
      @andrewternet8370 Рік тому +2

      Even suffering is love

    • @CJM6
      @CJM6 Рік тому +3

      ​@@JLydeckaJudgement is a rough act. Since we all are presented with a frailty within ourselves, we can rest assure, that everyone we deal with has that glitch. Once you realize that, it is much easier to enjoy and more importantly, be at peace within any relationship. Doesn't matter how long or how short it is. What is, is fully embracing it all as enough. It is the only thing that maintains the ability yo move forward and engage in it agsin. I know this, because I have lost many a loved one, to death. I no longer grieve incessantly, instead, I celebrate and are very grateful for the time I was able to share with them. I consider it more of a celebration of their life over their demise. Once you drop YOUR own conditions, you will not feel as you do. Be blessed.

    • @ijazulhaq6602
      @ijazulhaq6602 Рік тому +3

      Ahh, Father Zossima.

  • @AfterSkool
    @AfterSkool  Рік тому +433

    Dostoevsky's writing is some of the deepest, most profound insight I've ever discovered. Thank you Eternalised for bringing these insights to life. Adding art to this presentation has been a great learning experience. I hope you all enjoy.

    • @OccamsRazor393
      @OccamsRazor393 Рік тому +8

      Love his work! Thankyou for posting this!

    • @JaiHylRubis
      @JaiHylRubis Рік тому +4

      Very much enjoyed and enlightened by this gem, thank you.

      💖🙏💫

    • @OrgusDin
      @OrgusDin Рік тому

      didn't read, didn't watch, commented anyway though

    • @Jamis714
      @Jamis714 Рік тому +11

      Your channel is amazing. I’m a dumb pipefitter and I find it so educational and try to introduce this to people but not one person I’ve done so to was amazed as I. It’s an interesting thought process trying to decipher why that is exactly

    • @AfterSkool
      @AfterSkool  Рік тому +4

      @@Jamis714 Thank you for the kind words. I'm not sure why either.

  • @omaraboal-azm8705
    @omaraboal-azm8705 Рік тому +86

    " The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder "
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov

    • @algie-t2w
      @algie-t2w 22 дні тому +1

      Nonsense. Like many I have known poverty and material comfort and the latter is infinitely preferable. Only those with wealth can indulge in a fantasy that to be poor is somehow more spiritual.

    • @omaraboal-azm8705
      @omaraboal-azm8705 22 дні тому +1

      @algie-t2w
      I think you didn't understand the quote as it says that the problem is with the new world ideology of consumerism which makes everyone miserable, besides I'm no rich man my friend

  • @DavidS-q1g
    @DavidS-q1g 11 місяців тому +98

    Dostoevsky makes more and more sense the more you figure out for yourself in life.

    • @nba3927
      @nba3927 8 місяців тому

      So true

  • @chrispaul449
    @chrispaul449 Рік тому +100

    Crime and punishment is still the best book that I've ever read. Thanks fydor

    • @nba3927
      @nba3927 8 місяців тому +1

      Same here and I loved his other books but crime and punishment was gold from start to finish

    • @idepartasair
      @idepartasair 5 місяців тому +4

      That's how I felt until I read The Brothers Karomazov. It's an absolute must read if you enjoyed Crime and Punishment.

    • @loot3647
      @loot3647 5 місяців тому +3

      @@idepartasair agreed! i just finished the book and wow it's awesome

  • @nba3927
    @nba3927 8 місяців тому +23

    My family is from Russia and my mom told me (which I agree) , that every person should read at least crime and punishment . And I’d say read the idiot too . Great timeless books

    • @idepartasair
      @idepartasair 5 місяців тому +2

      I used to think of myself as a writer (at least an aspiring one)-even got a degree in creative writing. I haven't written since reading Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karomazov. Dostoevsky made me wonder why anyone writes anymore. He's explored every facet of the human experience so perfectly that almost everything else reads as mediocre or cliche-especially my own writing. 🤣

  • @DerekJFiedler
    @DerekJFiedler Рік тому +131

    Notes from the underground is a hard book to read that's impossible to put down. In the most reviling parts of the character you find a familiarity you wish to bury at once. It churns the muck of the soul and, if one gives himself to repentance, can bring about a deep soul cleansing.

    • @buckaroobonzai2909
      @buckaroobonzai2909 Рік тому +2

      Oh wow. You're so quirky and different and interesting.

    • @whall2962
      @whall2962 Рік тому +12

      I've always described his writing as wounding your heart to grow you soul.

    • @DerekJFiedler
      @DerekJFiedler Рік тому +6

      @@whall2962 well said and so true

    • @vikarawrxd
      @vikarawrxd 11 місяців тому +16

      @@buckaroobonzai2909 what an oddly hostile response. completely unnecessary

    • @buckaroobonzai2909
      @buckaroobonzai2909 11 місяців тому

      @@vikarawrxdLol get mad, beta.

  • @Dan-zq5wt
    @Dan-zq5wt 8 місяців тому +6

    BRILLIANT! I love Dostoyevsky. I’ve always felt that if you want to understand the great cataclysmic events of the 20th century (and also the 21st) you must read Dostoyevsky.

  • @Moldugas
    @Moldugas Рік тому +106

    I’m an underground man. I didn’t know there was a term for it with such precise and accurate qualities. Thanks for the education. Been with y’all for years and this is one of the best UA-cam channels ever to Grace us on this entire platforms history.

    • @SpiKSpaN-ei6zq
      @SpiKSpaN-ei6zq Рік тому +6

      I completely agree. Very unexpected, but very much needed ❤

    • @byronsmith1982
      @byronsmith1982 Рік тому +10

      Good evening fine gentlemen. Is this the underground men club?

    • @SpiKSpaN-ei6zq
      @SpiKSpaN-ei6zq Рік тому +2

      @@byronsmith1982 seems like it. Welcome

    • @OneSolo9
      @OneSolo9 Рік тому +6

      Jesus made a way for our sins to be forgiven. Turn to Christ & Repent!

    • @looper2586
      @looper2586 Рік тому +4

      Maybe we should open a place to chat among underground men. Maybe we'd have something valuable to share.

  • @RichardKoenigsberg
    @RichardKoenigsberg Рік тому +9

    When we were younger---in college--we read the novels of Dostoyevsky, but NEVER KNEW A THING ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE STORY. Just his writings. This is the miracle of the Internet, and shows like this. We learn something about THE HUMAN BEING that created the great works of art.

  • @c.galindo9639
    @c.galindo9639 Рік тому +42

    A genius who figured out a lot about himself and the human connection to what is beyond our physically perceived reality.
    It really says a lot about his journey and experience with what he had to face to conclude his rational thoughts in explaining the cause of human suffering and why there is a constant threat of degradation amongst humanity and its societies as a whole.
    Truly a remarkable person who deserves high recognition and admiration towards his contributions with his life’s works

    • @edhenry4719
      @edhenry4719 7 місяців тому

      If I have your perspective in proper context I firmly believe 'the reason for our ... personal and societal decay' is because we are Born, given birth into a system of ever-changing competition and decay. It's more than a threat. I won't belabor it with examples. But everything secular is what? Turns to shit.
      The value Our Creator gives us to contend with this decay that keeps us living 'under the floor boards" is escape.

    • @SlyRowena
      @SlyRowena 5 місяців тому +1

      @@edhenry4719 Escape back to Our Creator. This is how we escape.

  • @cptswann
    @cptswann Рік тому +170

    I had no idea that someone not only shared exactly but also left a record of his skillfully exploration of my inner turmoils, and he did it long before I was born. I am blown away how much I relate to everything that Dostoyevsky describes in the works quoted here. I'm excited to have a new author with such personally relatable content to consume. Goodness knows I probably wouldn't have found content like this authored in this century.

    • @Earl_E_Burd
      @Earl_E_Burd Рік тому +6

      He read my journal

    • @Dapryor
      @Dapryor Рік тому +8

      Crime and Punishment is something I think everyone should read. The culture is eerily similar to today and really does share some wisdom that many don’t understand.

    • @whall2962
      @whall2962 Рік тому +10

      It takes courage to read Dostoyevsky. He will show you things you never wanted to see, and teach you things you never wanted to know. You will never be able to look at the world the way you used to. This man introduced me to myself, and then to God.

    • @Dapryor
      @Dapryor Рік тому +4

      @@whall2962 damn, that’s a heavy comment but I think you’re right.

    • @foxmiller
      @foxmiller Рік тому +4

      … - proudly says the underground man.

  • @regulusthestar
    @regulusthestar Рік тому +8

    the quote i relate to the most by dostoyevsky is "the more i love humanity in general, the less i love man in particular" although it also goes the other way 'round for me sometimes. but, you can hate something and still love it, in my case its mankind.

  • @_spacegoat_
    @_spacegoat_ Рік тому +56

    A perfect collab....two of the most profound and helpful channels on the internet. I hope there are more like this in the future.

  • @jimc.goodfellas
    @jimc.goodfellas Рік тому +13

    Dostoevsky is maybe my favorite writer of all time ..I found his work at the perfect time in my life, and I have returned to his work at times over the years. The ultimate psychologist of the human condition

  • @gud3742
    @gud3742 Рік тому +15

    His mind and heart were flooded with extraordinary light; all torment, all doubt, all anxieties were relieved at once, resolved in a kind of lofty calm, full of serene, harmonious joy and hope, full of understanding and the knowledge of the ultimate cause of things.

  • @jamessaltlife
    @jamessaltlife Рік тому +36

    I've heard people online talk about Dostoevsky, but this has really given me an idea of how he was so great. I'm going to read his novels because of this video. Thank you.

  • @Juniordc21
    @Juniordc21 Рік тому +36

    Jesus that was intense. I certainly see parts of myself in the characters depicted in his writings. It makes me very grateful for my faith in god and a higher power. This video should serve as a recourse for anyone feeling holier than thou

    • @kylebushnell2601
      @kylebushnell2601 9 місяців тому

      lol this is exactly what I was referring to w my comment. Anyone feeling holier than thou? Coming from someone who claims wow this makes me realize how fortunate I am that I “believe” in something like God. 😂 You are confused amigo

    • @jarroddavid8352
      @jarroddavid8352 8 місяців тому

      @@kylebushnell2601The Bible says no one is good. Only God is good. Strangely by your insulting and condescending comment you’re a perfect example of this video you’re watching. Without God humanity will inevitably fall into depravity. Your human response was to be condescending and insulting to someone who was just expressing themselves. This is just preview of what rejecting God looks like and when it is fully manifested turns into the unimaginable atrocities in history mentioned in this video. The idea that every human was made in the image of God, is valuable and deserves to be treated with dignity is one of the foundational messages of the Bible. When you turn away from God you begin down a slippery slope towards full depravity.

    • @SomewhatClassyGoose
      @SomewhatClassyGoose 6 місяців тому +1

      @@kylebushnell2601 im sure your fun at parties

  • @redwave96734
    @redwave96734 Рік тому +17

    I need to listen to this lecture on a “loop”, over and over. Eye opening, Mind expanding.

  • @barking_mad6649
    @barking_mad6649 Рік тому +19

    The Grand Inquisitor section of The Brothers K is possibly my favourite piece of literature. ❤

  • @navydiver7018
    @navydiver7018 Рік тому +4

    Quite the struggle, awakening, and conviction. Of course, he went down those dark roads, whether by his choice or others. That he wrote so honestly, transparently, and through shame in later life is why I respect him.

  • @ReynaSingh
    @ReynaSingh Рік тому +561

    The greatest despair is in being unable to recognize that the infinitely great is present in every person

    • @JLydecka
      @JLydecka Рік тому +29

      What does "infinitely great" mean?
      What you think is great, I might think is evil. And infinite means endless. We are not infinite beings. We are finite and limited.
      How does an infinitely great person act?

    • @gruppler
      @gruppler Рік тому +36

      @@JLydecka I can't speak for ReynaSingh, but I would say that what you are talking about is based on physical perception. "Great" does not mean "good" but "large" or "expansive." Our minds and bodies are not infinite, but as the original comment says, the infinitely great is present *in* every person. I take this to mean that behind every 'mask' (persona, person) is an "I" that is the same "I" you experience within your own persona. This "I" is the infinitely great, the consciousness that has no beginning or end, which seeks to grow beyond all boundaries and limitations.

    • @TaylorT247
      @TaylorT247 Рік тому +1

      Talk about it,sis! 🙌🏾

    • @buckaroobonzai2909
      @buckaroobonzai2909 Рік тому

      Okay. So go marry an incel or a crackhead. K thnx

    • @buckaroobonzai2909
      @buckaroobonzai2909 Рік тому

      Okay. So go marry an incel or a crackhead. K thnx

  • @vaneast411
    @vaneast411 2 місяці тому +1

    one of my favorite channels - Eternalized - in this universe - within a grain of sand

  • @thatapollo739
    @thatapollo739 Місяць тому +2

    The most worrying things about Doesotevsky's books is that, when you're not even realizing it, you see yourself in his characters
    thats insane

  • @grahamdugan
    @grahamdugan Рік тому +8

    Reading The Brothers Karamazov was life-changing.

  • @OccamsRazor393
    @OccamsRazor393 Рік тому +38

    Dostoevsky, Love all his work!! Notes From Underground is my favorite book. Thankyou for posting this afterskool.

  • @Kai_Theos_en_ho_Logos
    @Kai_Theos_en_ho_Logos 2 місяці тому +1

    Thus was tremendous. The amount of effort that must have gone into the production of this video.
    Very appreciative. Thank you.

  • @Story_Fuel
    @Story_Fuel 11 місяців тому +5

    i'm reading Crime and Punishment. It's just the best thing ever

  • @MrPatel-Metro
    @MrPatel-Metro 11 місяців тому +11

    Please accept my heartfelt gratitude for the loving efforts you have put into making this video. While Dostoyevsky's words are truly deeply though-provoking, your artistic presentation and your voice made the message go deeper.
    Love your way.

  • @kyopunk3637
    @kyopunk3637 10 місяців тому +5

    "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings". This quote scares me as much as it inspires me. Great video.

  • @nataliemostow8230
    @nataliemostow8230 Рік тому +35

    You know it's going to be a good day when your two favorite philosophy channels put out a collab. Well done!🙌

  • @benjaminseng4271
    @benjaminseng4271 7 місяців тому +3

    Trying to be something you are not will destroy you, unless you realize you are playing at a game and that being a thing means you can be all things and that authenticity is only those things from which you've been bound to by fate. All things like you will rejoice in your return.

  • @roygahnstedt827
    @roygahnstedt827 Рік тому +4

    This video was suggested to me after watching Albert Pikes letter, describing how to initiate three world wars to destroy all faith and leave the world in eternal aethism. Watching this Today, as the world is going through so much, it really gets to me. I will definetley pick up some of his litterature, including the idiot. Thank you as always !

  • @wadedavis1702
    @wadedavis1702 Рік тому +8

    Everytime you think "everyone else is doing so it's ok", you let your morals go. No one is perfect all you can do is strive to be a better man or woman

  • @emilythemartian
    @emilythemartian Рік тому +8

    This one made me cry!

  • @bgray625
    @bgray625 10 місяців тому +7

    Stunning. Astonishing. Excrucifying.
    Yes, I had to make up a word just for this video.
    Now please excuse me while I go tidy up, my head seems to have exploded.

    • @animalsarebeautifulpeople3094
      @animalsarebeautifulpeople3094 10 місяців тому +2

      If u r brave enough to face your own cognitive dissonance then watch DOMINION the documentary right here on youtube

  • @AudioGardenSlave123
    @AudioGardenSlave123 8 місяців тому +2

    This is a very well thought out video. Clear and concise while breaking down deep issues to their fundamentals.

  • @gameon71
    @gameon71 Рік тому +28

    This gave me a lot to think about, especially the underground man listening to his description was like looking into a mirror.

    • @agusnegra
      @agusnegra Рік тому +1

      Same... I Will probably rewatch this

    • @SanganY
      @SanganY Рік тому +5

      Same, it was scary how accurate it was.

  • @daneainsworth2198
    @daneainsworth2198 8 місяців тому +4

    The illustration/art/drawings and images dance with the words like magic. Beautiful stuff!

  • @fang4223
    @fang4223 7 місяців тому +4

    Listening to the passages from Notes from the Underground, I was regularly thinking about my time as a pariah in my school years. by the time I was 16, friendless, spiteful and fearful of my peers and family, loosing myself in my fantasy novels, I, really could relate to that sense of reasoning yourself into something better then you were, as you chose to wallow in your misery and hate.
    It's, interesting in seeing your past brought back to you like that. I'm glad I found my peace a few years ago now, as long as it may have taken, but i wouldn't change a thing about my past.

  • @Cheximus
    @Cheximus Рік тому +7

    I've always enjoyed Eternalised's videos, but the art brought it all to life. I loved it.

  • @matthewgaulke8094
    @matthewgaulke8094 11 місяців тому +6

    This is dead on at what I've pretty much been experiencing in life and the realizations I arrived at about them. When I learned about these works and the ideas contained in them I was honestly a little angry that I wasn't exposed to them sooner. I listened to a coworker the other day reveal to me the pettiest of details about some Grateful Dead trivia and thought that's a great reflection of what I was raised to value as well. My philosophers and existential idols were rockstars and Star Wars characters. I thought how sad it was my education had failed me so much that I'm just discovering this material at age 43. Great minds have already worked out this stuff that I had to figure out on my own. It did give me great comfort and validation to learn about these works and the conclusions arrived at.

    • @BallBatteryReligion
      @BallBatteryReligion 11 місяців тому +3

      Well, I believe we have to experience it on our own. I'm grateful to be finding these works and great minds while I'm in my early 20s. But a year ago when I was in my deepest depression, and my life was at its worst in the material sense and personally: I tried learning about some of these philosophers and their teaching and it just...didn't click. I realize now I wasn't prepared for or in the place to accept the information. All our journeys are different, but it's the understanding that we all must experience our journey nonetheless that unites us. Moreover the understanding that our suffering and learning may be unique, but the suffering itself is not. This is what bring us together and shows us a path to graceful acceptance and love for one another, I believe. Fellow sufferers enduring an uncertain and painful world where we must transform individually first, then connect to others with our own knowledge and understanding. With love, with grace, with empathy.

    • @deadspoonxxx
      @deadspoonxxx 10 місяців тому

      Definitely and it also brings into a view many may have at some point: the greatest of advice falls short upon a man engulfed in war. Internal or external. ​@BallBatteryReligion

    • @BallBatteryReligion
      @BallBatteryReligion 10 місяців тому +1

      @@deadspoonxxx damn I forgot I even left this comment lol. I think you're right though, and that's a good way of contextualizing my struggles and a new lens for viewing others, I appreciate that. Funny enough your comment reminded me of a man I work with whom I've been talking to and learning more about. He's a retired marine, multiple tours in Iraq, extensive combat experience. Permanent injuries he got in Iraq like a rod in his leg. He's 38-40, still in great shape, charismatic and funny as hell but he's sharp and still a formidable and dangerous man. He's got some... interesting beliefs. One of which I've never heard anywhere else. I simply asked him one night, after a long conversation about multiple topics if he believed in a god. He said "yes, but my beliefs are...a little different."
      He went on to say something like: "when I was in Iraq, at war: I was doing things that god wouldn't like. So why would I pray to him? That'd be stupid. It's war, I was breaking his rules. Satan on the other hand...he might be more open to helping me. He has power too." I appreciate that he didn't explicitly say anything like "what I had to do" or try to justify or paint himself as heroic. He strikes me as more humble/objective than that. That's not word for word exactly what he said, but he also expressed something like "war is no place for god." He went on to say something like: "now that the war is over and I'm in a time of peace: I can talk to God again." Credit where it's due...I've never heard anything like that before. And I find it very intriguing.

    • @deadspoonxxx
      @deadspoonxxx 10 місяців тому

      @@BallBatteryReligion full on. He's not - not making sense. Different for sure. Thanks for sharing that is intriguing.

  • @OnihRz
    @OnihRz Рік тому +15

    This is absolutely superb. The quality of these videos are fantastic, to such an extent of inspiration and restoration that can only come about through what some may call Divine miracle.
    Thank you for sharing these works. Thank you for your painstaking efforts to put details into details in which many of us will gloss over, but some truely come to appreciation with awe.
    May the search for the Unity between God & our sinner Self continue to be brought to light, so that we turn from our Sin unto the pure and divine Love allowed through Jesus Christ.
    I love you. I love you, because I wish also to love my Self. I wish to Love my Self, so that I also may be loved by You. I love God for these same reasonings. May all things come to pass as the depths of our inner mind come to heal, knowing the truth of our creation- through our Creator.

  • @Samuel_J_Russell
    @Samuel_J_Russell 7 місяців тому +1

    The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are probably the best two books you'll ever read about the human condition. Crime and Punishment is often cited as his magnum opus but in my opinion it is The Brothers Karamazov, an utterly sublime novel that will change the way you look at life and should be essential reading for everyone.

  • @jamesdelcol3701
    @jamesdelcol3701 9 місяців тому +1

    I am a good soul in a cruel world, but my world was not as harsh as it was for Dostoyevsky.

  • @MrSzeth
    @MrSzeth Рік тому +25

    “There is no satiation point for a spiritual longing by physical means” -Eternalised

  • @ChristopherRaymond-zs6wv
    @ChristopherRaymond-zs6wv Рік тому +2

    When tears forth come, this is my validation...kudos...❤

  • @Life_with_Lissett
    @Life_with_Lissett Рік тому +2

    Ode to Dostoevsky. I've experienced those few moments before certain death by evil men who were so creative in their psychological warfare against me- long ago. The torment of my genius is relieved when I create or share my experiences, so I do consciously dedicate the resonance of my heart to the experience of that moment before death as an Ode to Dostoevsky in this moment and time. Thank you.

    • @daveconrad6562
      @daveconrad6562 Рік тому +2

      What happened

    • @Life_with_Lissett
      @Life_with_Lissett Рік тому

      Imprisonment and torture to be to the point, in that same fashion my abuser brought both my mind and body to the brink of death throughout the time I was about 15 to 19/20 yrs old. Statutory rape that family didn’t step in on so I was in the hands of the father of my child who was quite abused himself his whole life, so went the cycle. It is now broken.

    • @harribertschmalzkopf2799
      @harribertschmalzkopf2799 Рік тому +1

      ​@@Life_with_LissettGlad to hear you made it through. Sending lots of love & healing from Germany. 🙏🏼

    • @Life_with_Lissett
      @Life_with_Lissett Рік тому

      @@harribertschmalzkopf2799 thank you, so much. I accept and reciprocate it. Be well

  • @ryebread4149
    @ryebread4149 2 місяці тому +1

    You all do great work, please don’t stop.

  • @stephenevans1993
    @stephenevans1993 Рік тому +4

    Bravo. Been a fan of afterskool for a while. At first, I thought it was him narrating! Ideas worth sharing for SURE. Thx guys

  • @carefulcarpenter
    @carefulcarpenter Рік тому +53

    The Self-Actualized creative man will be ignored by mediocre minds trapped in popular technological culture.

  • @Endymion766
    @Endymion766 Рік тому +14

    Dostoevsky is that guy that's already explored the whole Minecraft map in game and came to tell you there's not much there, certainly no utopia. Dude really sorta kills the mood. I guess it saves me the trouble though.

  • @self-bookstore
    @self-bookstore Рік тому +2

    What a life lesson, so grateful.

  • @willieluncheonette5843
    @willieluncheonette5843 Рік тому +4

    "Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close.
    In another masterpiece of Dostoevsky, THE IDIOT, the main character is called ‘idiot’ by the people because they can’t understand his simplicity, his humbleness, his purity, his trust, his love. You can cheat him, you can deceive him, and he will still trust you. He is really one of the most beautiful characters ever created by any novelist. The idiot is a sage. The novel could just as well have been called THE SAGE. Dostoevsky’s idiot is not an idiot; he is one of the sanest men amongst an insane humanity. If you can become the idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky, it is perfectly beautiful. It is better than being cunning priest or politician. Humbleness has such a blessing. Simplicity has such benediction."

    • @whall2962
      @whall2962 Рік тому +2

      I agree completely, Dostoyevsky single handedly cured me of my atheism.

  • @wizardbeard69
    @wizardbeard69 Рік тому +378

    "If there is anything you should know about communism, it is this: No matter how noble your intentions are, no matter what you do, you will end up with tyranny." - Dostoyevsky

    • @OrgusDin
      @OrgusDin Рік тому +1

      duh

    • @deleted01
      @deleted01 Рік тому +25

      If there's no God, the powerful imposes their arbitrary morality on the weak. If there is God, the powerful imposes their arbitrary god on the weak. The same result.

    • @bigplant7901
      @bigplant7901 Рік тому

      The core belief of communism is that group disparities are the result of oppression or exploitation. So naturally, communists use the existence of group disparities as evidence of oppression or exploitation. And any group disparities observed after exploiters and oppressors are subjugated just means that the communists need to do even more subjugating. This is the most impressive positive feedback loop of destruction ever dreamt up by man.

    • @gruppler
      @gruppler Рік тому +29

      ​@@deleted01If there is God, we are all pieces of the divine, with no need to follow the ideas of others or subjugate ourselves with false identities. Arbitrary gods are only ideas, but God is found only within, through direct experience.

    • @Jake-fd1oj
      @Jake-fd1oj Рік тому +12

      Capitalism too

  • @TCF369
    @TCF369 8 місяців тому +2

    Wow. Going to have to watch this more than once to understand it

  • @amyedie8902
    @amyedie8902 Рік тому +5

    Damn Sam! Thank God for Dostoevsky! For setting pen to paper. To do that for humanity, hopefully including me.

  • @50CeNTTTTT
    @50CeNTTTTT Рік тому +23

    I just love it when I get a notification saying "Someone liked your comment!" or "Someone has just subscribed!" That really makes my day!!💡💭😊

    • @carefulcarpenter
      @carefulcarpenter Рік тому +3

      Yes, we are often injected with dopamine when complimented. Advertisers love this.

    • @Krishna13847
      @Krishna13847 Рік тому +2

      is this a spam comment?

    • @naywenne6761
      @naywenne6761 Рік тому

      ​@@Krishna13847Looks like self-promotion spam

  • @davidwalker5054
    @davidwalker5054 8 місяців тому

    I've got a feeling that if Dostoevsky could look into your eyes for 10 seconds. He would know you better than you know yourself his deep insight into human nature is astounding

  • @Leflaneur-412
    @Leflaneur-412 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant video, it really intrigues me to look over Dostoevsky's work deeply, for its profound and deep thinking for the psychological hell for especially, a highly intelligent person might fall into.

  • @amandamanning4147
    @amandamanning4147 Рік тому +4

    WOW! SO GOOD! Thank you so much! I learned a lot about Dosteoevsky and other philosophers you mentioned from Jordan Peterson. This helps me understand him a little better! I constantly struggle with the reason why God allows so much suffering in this world to continue on for so long. Though I won't ever fully understand (because I'm not God) this at least brings me a bit closer to a better understanding. It makes sense that Israel means to struggle or wrestle with God.

    • @gruppler
      @gruppler Рік тому +1

      Does God allow some things and not others? Is suffering inherently bad? How should God intervene to prevent prolonged suffering? How do you know this isn't already happening?

  • @thescientist8599
    @thescientist8599 Рік тому +2

    In my opinion, Raskolnikov never really regretted killing the usurer (at least not until his final conversion). However, he was ashamed of what he did to her innocent sister.
    Even when he decided to hand himself over, in his speech he clarifies he will never regret killing the old woman and he did it for his guilt feelings that he can't control. However, he barely mentioned her sister, probably trying to remove her from his memories.

  • @doctortraumacock
    @doctortraumacock Рік тому +3

    Another amazing lesson. You've reminded me of so many classic books i need to try picking up again.

  • @chantalbueno
    @chantalbueno Рік тому +2

    my two favorite channels ! Thank you for this

  • @gud3742
    @gud3742 Рік тому +7

    You are able to imagine entirely new
    worlds and realities. You know how when you're daydreaming you can just sit there maybe in class, you're bored when you used to be in you know literature class or something in high school you were so bored you would just sit there and stare out the window and just daydream as a teacher was yakking on about Shakespeare or something and you were sitting there. You're just daydreaming about some videogame world that you wanted to inhabit and you just got lost in this sort of reverie of this sort of fantasy world you went into this world. You were running around as an elf doing something. Fighting somebody whatever. That is a little taste. A little microcosm of what can really happen. What God is doing on the macro level. So when you crank up the consciousness and you crank up all these other dials. Your imagination goes through the roof. your creativity goes through the roof. You literally tap into the source of creativity. Pure infinite creativity which is responsible for the creation and the imagination of all of material reality. This pure creativity is responsible for creating atoms, molecules, planets, galaxies, science, mankind, languages, animals, you name it and you're tapping into that and it feels so surreal and unbelievable because it's too good to be true.
    Here you were living this ordinary life. Thinking that reality is just material and physical and now one day you find yourself in the nexus of creation where God's mind is creating the entire fucking universe.

    • @quesarrito5857
      @quesarrito5857 Рік тому +3

      So good I had to read it twice. This is the way

  • @Labor_Jones
    @Labor_Jones Рік тому +3

    the GRAPHICS are so important to the writer's message it's impossible for me know what is meant without them....
    ..... You are doing a GREAT JOB, though this comment hasn't anything to do with any one show you have or the message of or content seen today mean. - m.

  • @shafaatmosvi
    @shafaatmosvi Рік тому +21

    W.O.W! This is brilliant. This goes against the ideas of Darwin, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, etc. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, the great Eastern philosopher and poet from Pakistan, had his ideology centered around the same idea as that of Dostoevsky - belief in ego and faith in God. Hope you could cover him as well in one of your future videos. Brilliant stuff. Subbed.

    • @whall2962
      @whall2962 Рік тому +9

      Interestingly Nietzsche once stated that Dostoyevsky was the only person in the world who had anything to teach him about human psychology.

    • @piece_bhi_lao
      @piece_bhi_lao Рік тому

      Iqbal's work is extraordinary, but unfortunately he didn't get the recognition he deserved, even in his own subcontinent.. People in subcontinent know him as a religious poet, but if he were in the west, westerners would've made him his ideal.. The way he merged and outlined simultaneously the science, mysticism, religion and philosophy - is unshakable.

  • @viktorlafontaine6222
    @viktorlafontaine6222 Рік тому +1

    I have to admit that your way to teach using illustrations image and, of course, including details about the psychology from the central idea of the dostojewski's book is better than anyone.

  • @kevinrombouts3027
    @kevinrombouts3027 5 місяців тому +1

    A brilliant presentation of an extraordinary man.

  • @jonathandeguzman862
    @jonathandeguzman862 10 місяців тому

    there is no difference between thinking about yourself constantly and being miserable..... thanks for the video it is the best so far we need more content on social media like this

  • @seriouslyjustlookaround3593
    @seriouslyjustlookaround3593 9 місяців тому

    The narratives are always great here… always inviting a diverse set of ideas… brilliant minds… and the drawings are just perfect… hand in hand with the stories… the drawings are such an amazing story in themselves…😊

  • @aidkik580
    @aidkik580 8 місяців тому

    I totally get him, all his characters ARE him, i feel and have felt EXACTLY the same way as his characters and so did he I believe. BUT rather than submitting to the hopeless depression of a life searching for but never finding more than a few moments of happiness he threw himself into his work to cope, the characters start as personifications of things he felt but the extremes they took took their darkness to was the creative part, he didn't succumb to his feelings of hopelessness the way they did, he found an outlet, a way to live with it without allowing it to rule him.

  • @PlataPura
    @PlataPura Рік тому +3

    This was a spectacular presentation. Well done my friend!

  • @tipsychicken9511
    @tipsychicken9511 Рік тому +3

    I come here cartoons. Excellent craftsmanship, really.

  • @AL_THOMAS_777
    @AL_THOMAS_777 Рік тому +6

    The following is attributed to a kind of new Dostoevsky:
    "I wanted milk from my mother's breast and only got the bottle.
    I wanted loving, tender parents and was only ever given toys.
    I wanted to talk and was only given a book.
    I wanted to think for myself and was only given foreign "knowledge".
    I wanted genuine happiness and got crude money instead.
    I wanted wonderful, fulfilling love and all I got was morality.
    I wanted freedom and all I got was a car - as an incentive to work.
    I wanted deep meaning and got a career.
    I wanted more time and got just one more job.
    I wanted real friends and got social media.
    I wanted real communication and got a cell phone
    I wanted a dear girlfriend and got a calculating bitch
    I wanted hope and got fear.
    I just want to live so right!"
    Please feel free to share !

  • @kausamsalam8543
    @kausamsalam8543 Рік тому +2

    Love the excellent artwork and voice that nicely complements the great novelist’s works. Crime and Punishment is my favorite of his.❤️
    Self-realization-the toughest journey to knowledge. 💜
    We have so many “Raskolnikovs” (with raskolnikovs) crawling around in today’s world, blindly following “societal norms.” We also have many Mersault’s of extreme apathy as in Camus’ work, “The Stranger” -not in touch with their hearts nor anyone with heart and soul functioning beyond functional.
    “Without God, everything is permitted.” (Astaghfirullah).
    “To discipline our will” and to “use our intellect” fully -such challenges for many today. Excellent presentation. 😊
    “We must undergo a complete transformation” by “surrendering to a Higher Self.” 🌻

  • @craigculwell9177
    @craigculwell9177 Рік тому +8

    Dostoevsky's insight ✍🏼cuts close to the bone. ☦️
    More than once 🪓 I've had to set his books down because he was talking 🫣 right inside my skull.....
    ......a furnace! 🌐✨🃏🔪 🌾🍇🕊️ Honesty, humility and hope from the epileptic convict gambler.♠️⛓️🔥
    O'Lord, have mercy on your servant Fyodor.
    ♥️ Most Holy Theotokos save us.....
    ....forgive me, the sinner. 🚬 🛣️

  • @arontesfay2520
    @arontesfay2520 4 місяці тому +2

    I just started reading Notes from Underground. It's heavy stuff right from the beginning.

  • @dr6278
    @dr6278 Рік тому +1

    Best video this channel has made yet.

  • @orenatostefani
    @orenatostefani Рік тому +7

    your art is reaching new highs! congratulations man 👊🏼🙏🏼💜 keep rocking! loved the video

  • @waltersstreet
    @waltersstreet 10 місяців тому +2

    Absolutely fascinating

  • @gud3742
    @gud3742 Рік тому +3

    So the value of the Dostoevsky is that it shows you the fluidity of consciousness. That's one of the key values, just the fact that you get to change states and change into very radically different states. That's a huge eye-opening experience. Do not underestimate the value of that. That alone right there will change your whole life. To be able to pop out of your life and look back upon it as though it was all an imagined hallucination.
    That's what it happens to be imagining right now. The next second who knows what it could imagine. It can imagine anything it wants but it just so happens that it keeps imagining something consistent so that we can get a sense of reality.

  • @gud3742
    @gud3742 Рік тому +3

    I am a Zsychedelic integration guide & an entheogenic herbalist with over 9000 years of experience. This medicine is a birthright & learning about how to use it is an even bigger birthright.
    You are deeply loved and cherished forever. You have nothing to fear. You are richly cared for. You can do no wrong.

  • @Gaavcio
    @Gaavcio Рік тому +4

    Thank you. Now I understand that I am the "Underground-man".

  • @fretfrontier
    @fretfrontier Рік тому +5

    That was great. A very moving and insightful video. Thank you

  • @puffing_bear
    @puffing_bear Рік тому +1

    brilliant work, the bits and bobs of wisdom from the narrator is also on point!

  • @Renierius
    @Renierius Рік тому +2

    Truly amazing, thank you.

  • @tylerhuffman3866
    @tylerhuffman3866 Рік тому +8

    I think I relate to the underground man way too much..

    • @deleted01
      @deleted01 Рік тому +6

      I honestly think the underground man is meant for the reader to relate to, not to judge or condescend on.

  • @anirudhachakri4295
    @anirudhachakri4295 8 місяців тому +2

    Brilliant video 👏

  • @pavelthefabulous5675
    @pavelthefabulous5675 Рік тому +10

    I read Crime and Punishment and was blown away by how much the characters - not just Raskolnikov - talk and think like zoomers.

  • @dylanvdb4970
    @dylanvdb4970 2 місяці тому

    Dostoevsky & Kafka are my roman empire.. feeling like Kafka on my own and when out with people I feel like Dostoevsky

  • @jaw0449
    @jaw0449 9 місяців тому

    I remember reading Dostoevsky but I never really got him until we had to study “Notes …” in a philosophy course…man, that story

  • @bhn7731
    @bhn7731 Рік тому

    Wonderful speaking. It's impressive how dramatic consciousness can make of itself through these actionable beings.

  • @gud3742
    @gud3742 Рік тому +3

    Finally Fjodor Dostojevskij

  • @sidehustlefinance
    @sidehustlefinance Рік тому +13

    I just read my first Dostoevsky a couple of months ago, the Brothers' Karamazov. I could not believe the parallels to our current times that he was writing about 140 years ago. People have not changed much since then, the lesson are still valid. Does anyone have a suggestion of which Dostoevsky book I should read next, or any similar authors from a century ago?

    • @l2everse
      @l2everse Рік тому +2

      Notes from underground is also a terrifyingly good book from Dostoevsky. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's gulag archipelago is a book i highly recommend as well, it's somewhat similar to Dostoevsky's writing but more about the actual terrors of communism less focused on the psychological aspects.

    • @invisible_d_r
      @invisible_d_r Рік тому +3

      I'd say all of Dostoyevsky's novels are worthy of reading!
      Have you read "Crime and Punishment" yet? If not it's what I suggest it

    • @OccamsRazor393
      @OccamsRazor393 Рік тому +2

      All his work is exceptional! The Idiot, Notes From Underground and Crime and Punishment are a must. Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka, Pushkin, Turgenev and Solzhenitsyn are all great.

    • @anabolicchicken4115
      @anabolicchicken4115 Рік тому +1

      Read Crime and Punishment next.

    • @wurmholewizrdree3475
      @wurmholewizrdree3475 Рік тому +1

      Crime and punishment .

  • @gud3742
    @gud3742 Рік тому +3

    The unconditional divine forms of love. Love of all being. Love of gaia. Love of the ecosystem. Love of the entire Universe. Love of God, because you understand that you are God. Infinite Love.
    Your love is so powerful that your actually able to love evil. Your able to love suffering. Your able to love ego. Your able to love ignorance and delusion and maya.
    A love for Truth. A love for global community.

  • @Pharmacist224
    @Pharmacist224 Рік тому +4

    You've out done yourself with this one

  • @artofwrick
    @artofwrick 8 днів тому

    People who say tormented genius knows nothing about genius. If you meet anybody who has suffered, you'd find him in a quiet disposition or even content. Because he was not tormented, he could write with the experiences of the immense pain he had gone through. The capacity is there. Pain never overflows