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I Left My Heart At Potsdam

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Every subversion of freedom, no matter where it occurs, brings the goal of Communist world hegemony closer to realization. Call me Mel. 29, Maine, USA.
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the way people lump historians together as all thinking alike is frankly bizarre, not just because historians infamously disagree about everything, but because historians are just people who go to school and learn to study history and all carry their own opinions on things and so obviously can look at events in history and come out with very different interpretations of it, the idea there’s some Big History influencing them to fall in line and repeat the same thing is not true and no one should be spreading it because that is some deep alt right bullshit

Also there is like… SO MUCH HISTORY and historians have specific fields of study. There is no historian who knows everything about every time period. You ask someone who studies Ancient Rome to tell you about revolutionary France and they’re probably not gonna have much to say! Hell, even within the same time period there are different areas of study! One historian might focus on military campaigns while the other is focusing on agricultural changes. Yes the fields overlap, but they’re still different areas of study.

writing a paper like

*marshals a herculean amount of evidence in order to prove a fairly banal and uninteresting point*

Long-Lasting Effects of LSD on Certain Attitudes in Normals: An Experimental Proposal 1962

‘‘Research into the long-lasting effects of administering d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to normals is discussed. In addition to its use in psychotherapy, there were some reports of experimental subjects who claim lasting beneficial effects attributable to the LSD experience. In particular, two follow-up questionnaire studies indicated that normal subjects frequently claim changes in personality resulting from only one or two administrations of LSD, and these claims were maintained after periods of a year or more. These results are subject to the weaknesses of the questionnaire method; but, when considered along with some of the literature on the use of LSD in psychotherapy, they appear to be sufficiently suggestive to warrant more controlled experiments in this area. An experiment is suggested which would attempt to measure any long-lasting changes in attitudes, values, and communicative ability resulting from the administration of LSD. In particular, the measures would concentrate on changes in closed-mindness as reflected by scales of dogmatism, opinionation, and ethnocentricity.‘‘

Happy birthday to Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), the first human in space, who would’ve turned 85 today!

“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
“My biggest plan, my greatest dream is to do it one more time… to go to space a few more times. I want to fly there, see more, go to other planets.”