Notices by Cody Boone Ferguson (xexyl@fosstodon.org)

@evacide on the subject of dealing with issues, for instance internal demons: as a child I learnt in therapy that one should pick the easiest thing to take care of first. Doing this will make the next easiest thing slightly easier even if it’s hard.

Another thing I learnt is to always be kind to yourself. Always take care of yourself. If you can’t take care of yourself you can’t take care of others.

These are things that I have had to do since I was a child and I am almost 43.

@alexthecat @atoponce like this for example ? I don’t know if it’s true but I have zero problem believing it sadly. I have even seen two sets of calculators get different results in a very simple calculation and one of them was wrong. Well obviously one was wrong but you know what I mean.

@HistoPol @andreeafont @archaeohistories did I miss anything? Thanks for the reminder.

@andreeafont @HistoPol @archaeohistories yeah. That’s humans for you.

@andreeafont @HistoPol @archaeohistories victims in sight of the gas chambers (German Gaskammern) didn't believe it. Or some didn't. They had flowers there and along with the unbelievability of it and mass deception - can you blame them? Some even saw in themselves in their captors and that disturbed them very much. 0/n

@andreeafont @HistoPol @archaeohistories From the Nazi Doctors:

@andreeafont @HistoPol @archaeohistories So the question is how do you reconcile with all this? We could all be the worst sadists in different situations. We can only hope that we would be better. That is an unfortunate fact of the human species. But because I can accept these things I can more easily fully appreciate the horrors. Unfortunately some things in this world require discomfort in order to understand and often those are most in need of understanding! Animal abuse is one such thing.

@andreeafont @HistoPol @archaeohistories you might be surprised what people can be capable of when it’s a matter of life and death.

One Jewish doctor inmate actually collaborated with the SS doctors. Others went out of their way to try and save lives.

Will follow with more …

@andreeafont @HistoPol @archaeohistories I am sorry I had to.

I am a Second World War and NSDAP buff so I know a great deal about that time but I happen to know about some others too.

A German friend is frequently amazed how much I know but it takes sifting through things due to so many lies on all sides. But it’s not just in war!

I think it was a monkey that was sent to space in a rocket. But some animal or maybe animals have been.

@HistoPol @archaeohistories @andreeafont it is definitely horrible.

That is sadly a very human trait.

You know. People think they are superior to everything else. A species that is truly superior would treat everything as equal. I don’t see humanity doing that.

Certainly many people do but on a whole it’s just not going to happen. It’s a terrible tragedy.

I do not know how it is nowadays but I seriously doubt that it is any better.

@HistoPol @archaeohistories @andreeafont I am afraid that yes there is.

Look up Project Pigeon. People have used animals in war for years. There’s the famous baboon Jackie. The bear Wojtek (First, Second World War respectively). Americans trained dogs to try and sniff out Japanese blood. That was on Cat Island.

UK dropped pamphlets telling citizens it would be inhumane to have pets. Many were killed because of it.

@HistoPol @archaeohistories @andreeafont there’s an entire book about animals in the Second World War. I have over 40 books on it last I counted and I have added since then. It’s the only one I couldn’t read. I put it down.

Humans don’t care. Anything to help them win. Doesn’t matter how. Animals are disposable to them.

And think about dogs used to sniff out bombs.

Of course there’s evidence as awful as it is.

@HistoPol @archaeohistories @andreeafont … many Americans offered up their pets for the war effort. At first American officials were sceptical. Sadly it changed.

When I got to the point where they were offering up pets I couldn’t take it any longer. I was already disgusted by it all.

I feared it when I got the book but I decided to give it a go.

It wasn’t something I could do.