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Unfortunately, many places are similarly run down in the Eastern Europe.

Further to my previous replies, please take a look at this (by the way, I have this rare book on Trialism): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trialism_in_Austria-Hungary

I can't reply to this question, I am afraid. Croatia is a small country with a good football team. :-)

They are different languages. Even Dalmatian language (even though it is not an original Dalmatian language anymore but more of a remnant of the original language blended with the dialect) in Croatia is different from Croatian. Rucnik (Croatian) peskir (Serbian) sugaman (Dalmatian) are all words...

I am from different parts of Croatia. North and the islands.

I speak Serbian too, and fully read Cyrillic (that including Bulgarian), hence also I am reading what is happening there. It is a mess as usual. SFR Yugoslavia was not a clear-cut place. That is the legacy of it.

Yes, I am painfully aware of this. My family have moved back from the U.K. to Croatia. I don't think that it was a wise move, though. My sister daily battles corruption and bureaucracy. Literally. Besides that, the huge problem is the air pollution. As depicted above. If it is like that in...

I think it was somewhere here on one of the threads, back in time.

The way how I used the word ''secret/ive'' here was mostly in a poetic way. In a way, that both are (were) influenced by Guy Debord. Derrida towards the end of his life was apparently going to continue the work of Debord. Bifo: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14759551.2012.754223...

I was also somehow interested, rather than being an outrightly atheist, in this position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheism This as well, aside from the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism

And yet, after decades, some of the possible could or may be here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/god-is-undead-9781350516076/

And the blog of Dr. W. Tom Pepper: https://faithfulbuddhist.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/cruel-theory-sublime-practice/

Regarding Zizek: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-lacan-is-not-a-buddhist-a-belated-reply-to-my-critics/

Also, more on the initial topic here: https://apjjf.org/brian-victoria https://apjjf.org/brian-victoria/4316 https://apjjf.org/2016/12/bieber https://apjjf.org/2016/02/2-Victoria

And Shields: https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Books/Critical_Buddhism