Can you escape your conscience? Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

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[hadrianusmarte]

interesting i`ve been following your channel for years and i`ve finished reading C&P just before you posted these videos about it. in juxtaposition we have Svidrigailov which seemingly seems to escape his consciousness but not quite in the end, with many parallels between them.

[caiodavi]

i find this book really hard to read. actually, i cant really read any of these hard, old books. do you have any tips to help me?

[OgWoot]

That's why "They" just wipe me
after every job.

[FairnessIsTheAnswer]

Do you have 99% of your conscience, and your conscience has 1% of you?
Do you have 98% of your conscience, and your conscience has 2% of you?
Do you have 97% of your conscience, and your conscience has 3% of you?
Do you have 96% of your conscience, and your conscience has 4% of you?
Do you have 95% of your conscience, and your conscience has 5% of you?
Etc.

[gonetoheck]

The answer may be dependent on whether someone has a personality disorder and doesn't let their conscience be their guide. I'm of the opinion that there is a system of poetic justice in play in which we will reap what we sow (karma). There are other philosophies that say that random bad things happen to everyone. But when a "correction" to someone occurs to where it can be connected to a similar event or mistake we made previously, then there should be reason for pause and reflection as to needing to admit that guilt. Some say that Job from the Bible story was the most righteous in all the land and innocent of what befell him. But when you consider a different source of information as to an act he committed earlier in life when (story from the Jewish Talmud) Pharaoh asked counsel from Job, Balaam, and Jethro as to what to do with the overpopulation of Hebrews in Egypt...Job agreed with the idea of killing off the young Hebrew boys and that the land was Pharaoh's and that Pharaoh should be able to do with them as he wishes...even after hearing from Jethro that these Hebrews were God's special chosen people. So, one might say that these three prophets / spiritual leaders who Pharaoh asked advice from had a responsibility to side with God's wishes rather than try to appease Pharaoh or worry that these Hebrews would possibly also overrun their own lands if they escaped Egypt. Was it poetic justice that Job lost his 10 kids, livestock, and suffered boils on his skin ? One might connect those dots...and perhaps Job's wife already had done so...as she suggested to Job that he should curse God and die. But we don't get all this information simply from reading what was most likely Job's own story as he was trying to preserve his own legacy and wouldn't admit fault. Balaam told Pharaoh to go ahead and kill off the Hebrew boys as well...and Balaam was killed by the sword as the Hebrews left the wilderness and reclaimed their promised land. Jethro told Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go free...and Jethro did not suffer any recourse. In fact, he later became Moses' father in law. Some might say these ancient stories are nothing more than folklore. But if you pay attention to your own life, you might see patterns of where you erred and it came back to haunt you in a particular way. Some might say we are spirit beings living a physical existence...and that conscience is a facet of our spiritual existence...something that gives us gut instincts, etc. It could be that someone with a narcissistic personality disorder either tunes out this facet or is constantly at war with it. I don't know which. I just try to stay away from them and their confusion.