Diana Emden Reaction 13

Today’s class discussion was thought provoking it was the idea that people only have a choice to believe one of two things science or religion. Dostoyevsky is trying to communicate in this section of his writing is that humans need something to believe in a “wall” so to say, something that they can lean on and find most of the answers to their questions. But what if we chose not to believe in none of these things what if we believe in nothing, and that is where Dostoyevsky finds himself in nothingness with no walls around him unable to move neither forwards nor backwards. That is what humans fear most the idea that nothing is concrete, nothing is definite, and that is why we as a race spend our existence studying and trying to find answers in the past and ideas on the future instead of living in the now. I found it interesting how Dostoyevsky mentions that we are the only species that do this because we have what we call “logic”. Logic is man made, logic is something we created to explain the world around us and we are apparently logic when go by facts but in reality nothing is fact. That in my opinion is what the author is trying to communicate the idea that we know nothing and we will always know nothing and that will never change no matter how many hours are spent slaving over specimens in a laboratory or studying religion in a bible, all of our questions will never be fully answered.