A friend Neville believed truly understood his teaching drifted, as people do after time away, back toward old ideas; in the month before this lecture he sent Neville books written by men Neville had personally known in life as dishonest stock salesmen, 'selling stocks that did not exist.' Neville phoned the friend, returned the books unread, and told him bluntly he would not trust a word the authors wrote, using the episode to illustrate how easily even attentive listeners forget the message once they are away for a while.
Date (happened)
c. May 1971
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
Corrects the year of the 1959-04 circa claim written by run v1.1/l4/w1/B2 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Sibling events 6023 and 6021 carried the same error from the same node and are already corrected.
Reasoning
B2 established from the passage that the friend sent the books 'in the last month', i.e. roughly one month before the lecture, and that only a month-level estimate is supportable rather than a specific day. Both of those judgements are right and are kept. What was wrong is the anchor: B2 measured back from delta 0's doubtful 1959-05-10 instead of from the node's stronger and content-compatible 1971-06-18. One month before 18 June 1971 is May 1971. Circa and month-level for exactly B2's reason - 'in the last month' does not name a day. Probable, matching the delivery claim it inherits from.
c. April 1959
estimated · probable
Reasoning
'In the last month' relative to a lecture certainly dated 1959-05-10 places the friend's sending of the books in April 1959; only a month-level estimate is supportable, not a specific day.
Told / reported
18 June 1971
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1971-06-18 (node:1055).
18 June 1971
estimated · probable
Why
Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the 1959-05-10 certain told claim written by run v1.1/l4/w1/B2 on this event.
Reasoning
The telling is dated by the lecture that contains it. B2 recorded this as a 'single, uncontested certain claim inherited unchanged', which is wrong three times over: the node has two claims, they disagree by twelve years, and neither is certain. Of the two, 1971-06-18 is the stronger and the only one compatible with the passage, which reads a letter dated 11 June as current - impossible a month before a 10 May 1959 delivery. Written at probable because the inheritance rule caps a told claim at the confidence of the delivery claim under it, and nid 1055 offers nothing above probable.
10 May 1959
estimated · refuted
Reasoning
Single, uncontested certain claim inherited unchanged. || v1.1/l7/told-lower: lowered `certain` -> `doubtful`. The telling-date 1959-05-10 is refuted on the source lecture (nid 1055) and no live claim on that node supports it, so the corpus can no longer say WHEN this was told. ⛔ The row is KEPT, not retired: it also records THAT nid 1055 tells this event, which is true and checkable from the passages, and retiring it would discard that with the date. || v1.1/l7/told-close-residue: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1055, 1959-5-10) is now refuted. The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1971-6-18. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
| Date |
Lecture or book |
Telling |
Passage |
| 1971-06-18 [exact/probable/final] |
Who Paul Really Is |
Now, here we only have two lectures left, and these will be in order, even though they seem repetitious. They cannot be repeated too often. Man so quickly forgets! You go away for a month, and those you thought really understood you . . when you return, they try to tell you, “I just found the most wonderful book on diets” . . the most wonderful book on how to get into Heaven in another way. A friend of mine . . I thought he understood it . . I thought he did, for he made extravagant claims, and in the last month he sent me books by men that I knew before they died here. We mustn’t judge from… |
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