Yep. However, I think there’s another factor. The concrete they were using in the 1960s was often crap, even in some of the richer countries, so it’s ...
So, you can be openly pro-Stalin and anti-Russia in Tbilisi, but in Russia it’s only socially acceptable/legal to be openly anti-Stalin and pro-Russia...
The Reagan bench and these buildings are in Georgia, by the way. The status of the Russian language in the countries that used to be constituent repub...
Along the street I found another building that I’m fairly certain you’ll like even less, and it’s definitely in the Brutalist style. /uploads/resized/...
Although it was built in the 1970s and maybe in some sense part of the Brutalist movement, one of the main design inspirations was 1920s constructivis...
Today I went to see the most famous Soviet architectural wonder in Tbilisi, the former Ministry of Transport, now the Bank of Georgia HQ. /uploads/res...
I experienced the local music first-hand for the first time last night. It was about 2:30 in the morning and a group of noisy youngsters were walking ...
Thanks. Flame Towers, they’re called. There are three of them, and they’re … Actually it’s a pomegranate tree, pomegranates being a huge deal in Azerb...
Snaps of Baku as promised. I was only there for two days and missed a lot. I didn’t make it to the carpet museum but I did see the best carpets I’ve e...
The Caucasus region is great. Off the beaten track for 21st century tourists like me and you, no doubt, but much more important and active historicall...
/uploads/resized/files/za/pxdof1e51qdrmpxr.jpg This was our bread this evening. I could even see it being baked in the tandoor (tendir as they say in ...
I think I’ve read those before. Ok, fair point, I’ll have to come back to it. Or I can hand-wave in the direction of dispositional properties (also in...
I have basically less than zero sympathy for the positions of @"Michael", @"hypericin" and their ilk. I’m aware there are still some philosophers arou...
In phenomenal experience, it’s crystal clear to me that when I hear spoken language, I directly hear words, questions, commands, and so on—generally, ...
They won’t give you those six months back! It’s not yet time to enjoy my trip because I have to wait for my visa! I’ve said this already :rage: Ah. Ye...
You think you’ve got problems. I’m having to wait three hours at Baku airport passport control for a visa. Some might say it’s my own fault, since I’v...
The very idea of a perceptual distortion of reality, or even of a distortion of reality per se, is suspect. As far as perception goes, surely only the...
I just watched Color Out of Space from 2019. I loved it. My kind of film. Some people say it’s best to be stoned while watching it, but I say there’s ...
I don’t get it. Kant in English is a lot like can’t and a little like cunt. In German it means the edge of the town (Kante). How would any of these as...
I think @"Mikie" took you to be repeating your claim that the word “being” refers only to conscious referents. Perhaps he wasn’t right about that—and ...
Okay, so according to Aristotle, for living beings, living constitutes their being. I can go along with that. I don’t know my Aristotle well enough to...
There is another example that came up in my reading the other day. In the paralogisms of pure reason in the CPR, Kant argues that the “I think” cannot...
Good question! I don’t know, but the fact is that in certain contexts they mean different things. Although being and substance are related and sometim...
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