Tuesday Post

Once you finally realize, if you ever realize, that much if not all of our knowledge is based off of things that humans made up I think you could potentially start to go crazy. Coming to this realization forces you to see that absolutely nothing that we "know" is definite since everything is based off of something else that we made up ourselves. Though we would like to think of science as something definitive, the same for mathematics (2x2=4 as Dostoyevsky uses as an example) how do we know that this is actually true? We don't mathematics are based off of numbers which we then use to divide time into periods in order to facilitate our lives, all of these things we have made up ourselves.

Dostoyevsky's manner of writing is taking us through the thought process of someone who actually sees both sides. He goes and disproves religion only to disprove the sciences paragraphs later. The most frustrating part of it all might be that you can not necessarily 100% disprove either of the two subjects. To see both with complete clarity would mean that neither sir is better than the other. I see that Dostoyevsky might be going insane seeing how so many people are able to just choose one side and become something while he can do almost nothing.