religion Archives - The Watchful Scribe

01/12/202320/10/2024

What Does it Mean to be a Karamazov? Dostoevsky and the Human Soul

Dostoevsky’s final work is also the culmination of his artistic endeavour, laying bare the entire scope of the human condition over the course of almost one thousand pages. I have recently finished this masterwork, and now attempt to organise some of my thoughts about its message.

26/09/202327/09/2023

The Need to See the World as a Story

Often, I write here about various stories that I have read, and the great minds that penned them onto the page. However, here I would like to take a wider look at the very requirement that we as humans have for narrative, and our innate and unconscious abilities to both shape them and be shaped by them.