Abdullah challenges his class about embracing Neville's mother in another form

He recalls a night in Abdullah's small class, mostly Negroes with only four Caucasians, when Abdullah looked at him and asked whether he could embrace a very black person if he knew the occupant was his fair, blue-eyed mother — a question that shocked the whole class.
Date (happened)
between 1930 and 1938
unresolved
  1. before 2 December 1966 bound · probable
    Source bound from the telling lecture nid 1258 (1966-12-02)
    Reasoning The event is told in the past tense in nid 1258, delivered 1966-12-02 (that claim's confidence: probable, preferred), so it had happened by that date. This is the same premise phase4 L6a and L4.5 rest on, stated at the precision the evidence actually supports rather than as a fabricated year. It replaces nothing: the 1900 placeholder row remains, lowered, as the record of what phase3b did. `bound` is never `preferred`, so this does not change what the event displays.
  2. between 1930 and 1938 estimated · possible
    Source God Plays All the Parts ¶14
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 014)
    Reasoning 'Years ago, one night' in Abdullah's class of fifteen or twenty. Neville met Abdullah 1929-31 (events 963, 765), was still his student in 1933 (7843, 19859: studied Hebrew with him for years) and lived near him 1933-36 (766); Abdullah's own copyrights run to 1935. A class of 15-20, mostly Black students, is his New York class of that period.
  3. c. 1900 stated · refuted
    Source God Plays All the Parts ¶14"years ago, one night", told in God Plays All the Parts (nid 1258)
    Reasoning || v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900: year 1900 here is not a date. `corpus v1 / phase3b` emitted it as a placeholder for "unknown, sometime before the telling" whenever the speaker used a vague temporal phrase — this row's own source note is the phrase. The same sentinel was identified and converged on in run v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv. It carried confidence `probable`, which no evidence supported. Lowered to `doubtful`; an honest `before 1966-12-02` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1258). Nothing deleted, no year invented. || v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900-refute: REFUTED. This event involves Neville himself and he was born 1905-02-19 (event 950 delta 9, `certain` + `preferred`), so 1900 is not merely unsupported — it is impossible. The event now displays no date, which is the honest state: the `before` bound appended by v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900 remains and is what is actually known. Row kept, not deleted.
Place
New York City possible
Persons
Neville Goddard
Abdullah
Told / reported
  1. 2 December 1966 estimated · probable
    Source God Plays All the Partsnid 1258 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1967-1-27 refuted; 1966-12-2 probable (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1258 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1258 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1966-12-2 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1967-1-27 refuted; 1966-12-2 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1967-01-27 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`) | delta 1: 1967-01-27 at `probable` (run `v1.1/l4/ceiling/c2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  2. 27 January 1967 stated · refuted
    Source God Plays All the PartsGod Plays All the Parts (nid 1258), telling 1258-4, told 1967-01-27
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1258, 1967-1-27) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1966-12-2. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  3. 27 January 1967 stated · refuted
    Source God Plays All the PartsGod Plays All the Parts (nid 1258), telling 1258-4, told 1967-01-27
    Why Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
    Reasoning Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1258 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1258 delivery claims: 1967-1-27 possible; 1966-12-2 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node. || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1258, 1967-1-27) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1966-12-2. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources

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  • God Plays All the Parts ¶14 (My old friend, Abdullah, years ago, one night—we never had more than fifteen, sixteen at any one time; if we got twenty we were most fortunate—he said, “Suppose now your mother, the one you love dearly, (who doesn’t love their mother), and if your mother…)