Is It Fine to Just Sit Here and Drink the Honey?

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Tolstoy is in the dilemma that we're all kind o is it fine to just sit here and drink the honey, when these beasts are ready to devour me no matter what i do. Well, he gives these four possible alternates, right? He's theaso. Number one, you cald just not really understand the problem. So that's one. Hes like, well, that's too late for that, cause i now know that i'm going to die of facing these questions. I'm aware. My eyes are wide fucking open. The second is is one, which is, interestingly, he attributes to everybody in his class, the rightly educated russian

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.