Yesterday, at the dentist's office, my dentist told me a
strange story. It concerned his six year old son. This
well behavied child, one day, pulled the fire alarm. The
firemen came. When the child saw the commotion, he told his
teacher that maybe he was responsible. The teacher asked him
why he pulled the fire alarm. He said: I don't know. I wasn't
thinking about it before I did it. It turned out that the fireman
discovered a fire was in process in a locked closet containing
paints and stuff like that. They said that an explosion would have
occurred shortly. The school is a Catholic one and they are putting
it off on a miracle The discussion of the moth which has been
going on lately seems related to this unusual event. Any body
care to speculate on the controlled variable involved?
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To: CSGnet members in general
Subject: an unusual event
Date: 03/19/91
From: David Goldstein
Experience suggests to me that there are forms and sources of
information and ways of perceiving it that are not represented
in our conventional models of what is going on (consensual reality).
This is not to say that alternative models have greater claim to
Truth, but only that it is very likely that a great deal of
our perceptions get ignored just because higher-level input
functions are indifferent to them.
well behavied child, one day, pulled the fire alarm. The
firemen came. When the child saw the commotion, he told his
teacher that maybe he was responsible. The teacher asked him
why he pulled the fire alarm. He said: I don't know. I wasn't
thinking about it before I did it. It turned out that the fireman
discovered a fire was in process in a locked closet containing
paints and stuff like that.
How did the firemen stumble on the fire? Perhaps the same clues?
I should think that a subliminal smell of fire could suffice.
Bill
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Bill Silvert at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography
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InterNet Address: bill@biome.bio.ns.ca