Is There Something Wrong With Me?

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"It does seem to me that this was all just his shifting of the frame d that's what faith is. Faith is what converted the inevitable, which is we all and becoming nothing." "Sometimes i think, am i just the kind of fundamentally unserious people like that he talking about? And i do sometimes think about myself that, about myself, that i'm a kind of, fund aly a serious person".

David and Tamler continue their discussion of Leo Tolstoy’s 'Confession.' When we left him last time, the famous author had bottomed out just years after writing two of the greatest novels ever written. Our eventual death, Tolstoy thought, strips life of all meaning and purpose – all answers to the question “so what?”. How does he emerge from this state of suicidal depression? What role does faith or “irrational knowledge” play in his account? What’s the meaning of the cryptic dream at the conclusion of the memoir?

Plus, bombarded with this recommendation, we were going to talk about a certain article that came out in Qualitative Research about masturbating to Japanese shota comics – we even had a guest – but had to scrap it. Instead, we discuss a recent study on conspiracy theories that shows that liberals are just as likely to believe in them as conservatives. Mostly we just talk about the conspiracies.