Neville's brother Victor once met a Barbadian man known as 'the prophet Jordan', reputed to have real prophetic vision. Jordan asked Victor, then a boy of eight, what he wanted to be, foretelling he would be a successful businessman as he wished; he made similar pronouncements about the other Goddard brothers, including that their brother Lawrence would become a successful doctor -- which he did. Of Neville, then six years old, Jordan reportedly said, 'Don't touch him! He belongs to God. He was sent this time into the world to do the work of God.' Neville says Victor never told him this story until years later, though he gives conflicting accounts across lectures of just when that disclosure happened.
Date (happened)
between 1925 and 1935
unresolved
between 1925 and 1935
estimated · possible · preferred
Why
See the second field_date entry, sourced from passage 548622, for the conflicting later self-report.
Reasoning
Neville's own age bound ('in my 20's') combined with his established birth year (person 6, 1905) gives roughly 1925-1935 for when Victor told him. This conflicts with a second, later telling (passage 548622, nid 1910) placing the telling only a few years before a c.1969 lecture; both tellings are kept as separate candidates rather than reconciled.
between 1965 and 1968
estimated · possible
Reasoning
'Only a few years ago' relative to lecture nid 1910's own probable delivery date (1969-01-24, chrome dateline superseding a weaker internal 1963-1964 inference) gives roughly 1965-1968. This conflicts with the earlier telling (passage 531121, nid 1134) placing the disclosure in Neville's twenties (c.1925-1935); both tellings are kept as separate candidates rather than reconciled.
Told / reported
between 31 January 1964 and 25 June 1971
estimated · doubtful
Why
Flag for another lane: lecture 1134's catalog-vs-chrome conflict (1964-01-31 vs 1971-06-25) still needs adjudication.
Reasoning
The lecture's own dating trail leaves this conflict explicitly unresolved rather than preferring either side, so the told claim is written as a between range spanning both at possible confidence rather than silently picking one. || v1.1/l7/told-lower: lowered `possible` -> `doubtful`. The telling-date 1964-01-31 is refuted on the source lecture (nid 1134) 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 1134 tells this event, which is true and checkable from the passages, and retiring it would discard that with the date.
24 January 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The lecture's own dating trail names the dateline reading as superseding the weaker inference and its own state is 'confirmed'; inherited at the probable confidence the dateline claim itself carries.
25 June 1971
estimated · probable
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 1134 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 1134 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1971-6-25 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1964-1-31 refuted; 1971-6-25 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1964-01-31 at `possible` (run `v1.1/l4/w1/B2`). 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.