First big fib or mistake that I've caught him in so far:
The Lubyanka was not constructed by Stalin, nor was it designed as a spy interrogation centre. It was a Tsarist-era hotel taken over by Dzezersky (sp?) to house the new secret police OGPU who would become the NKVD and then the KGB.
"God, so far as I can gather is reached through faith, a low-grade form of imagination -- imagination where someone else has done the imagining for you , but imagination nonetheless."
@belisariusorb the lubyanka building was redesigned by the soviets though
fdsdh1 1 week ago
Anyone know what the music is at the start of this clip?
ettlz 2 months ago in playlist 2005 - Joe Building
@belisariusorb He doesn't specifically say that it was. He just shows the building in which the Communist cultural values were enforced.
krevno 9 months ago
First big fib or mistake that I've caught him in so far:
The Lubyanka was not constructed by Stalin, nor was it designed as a spy interrogation centre. It was a Tsarist-era hotel taken over by Dzezersky (sp?) to house the new secret police OGPU who would become the NKVD and then the KGB.
belisariusorb 1 year ago
faith = imagination where someone else has done the imagining
As trenchant a Meadesism as any other so far
belisariusorb 1 year ago
"God, so far as I can gather is reached through faith, a low-grade form of imagination -- imagination where someone else has done the imagining for you , but imagination nonetheless."
nevinrobinson 4 years ago