At 28, Dostoevsky was dragged before a firing squad, spared at the final second, and exiled to four years of hard labor in Siberia. Surrounded by brutal cold and severe illness, he lost his entire youth, but he never lost his spirit. Instead, those dark years forged his deepest wisdom and compassion for human nature. He went on to write Crime and Punishment at 45 and completed The Brothers Karamazov at 59.
No season of suffering is wasted. Yes, you can start all over again.
@Oxglitching@dammiedammie35 He’s literally a catholic conservative. Ross Douthat. And he understands that faith is evidenced by our actions, which is why this question was posed.
'I'm a religious person. I read the scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation, as well as predestination.'
Bob Dylan
Something a middle-schooler emailed us about:
“A ‘combination lock’ should *technically* be called a ‘permutation lock,’ because the order of the numbers matters in permutations, but in combinations the order doesn’t matter.”
10/10, no notes.