Day: May 21, 2021

WOTD: Altruism (unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others)

Transcript of Interview with Subject 13, 11/27/28

INTERVIEWER: Tell me about the first time you saw the visions.

SUB13: Visions… I don’t know that I would call them that. I didn’t actually see visions. I had feelings. You know that comic book with the black kid who was bit by a spider? I read that one and not the one from the movies with the white dude, even though I like him as an actor. I like the black kid though. Anyway, he has these senses that buzz like when he feels that something is up. I have those sort of like he does except its around people. I felt it the first time around this man standing in line in the coffee shop–Mick’s on 7th, you know it? I started feeling that sense of something really wrong and it got stronger and stronger the closer I got to him. He was taking so long to order that people started moving to another line and I just kept moving up, thinking why do I feel so weird and also thinking, man has to get done soon and I’ll be next. Then I got up to him and I felt like my head was going to explode. I knew it wasn’t me. It was him. He was having a stroke and he didn’t know it.

INTERVIEWER: How do you know it was a stroke?

SUB13: I don’t know how I knew. I felt it. I don’t have any sort of medical training. I don’t even watch the med shows on TV. That is what is so odd about this sense. I told whoever was listening to call 911 because he was having a Cerebrovascular accident. I didn’t even know what it meant when I said it. When people asked me what I meant I kept saying, he’s having a CVA. I looked it up afterwards.

INTERVIEWER: Why did you decide to intervene?

SUB13: Well, what would you do if you knew someone was in trouble?

NOTE**Interviewers are not supposed to respond to questions from subjects. The conversation lapses into silence for a full minute as the Interviewer reviews notes and prepares a separate line of questions.

INTERVIEWER: Do you believe you are a good person?

SUB13: Not really, no.

INTERVIEWER: Have you intervened in medical emergencies since this point?

SUB13: Yes, about 28 times since then. I even performed an emergency Tracheotomy once.

INTERVIEWER: Are you trained in or have you seen footage on the procedure prior to performing it?

SUB13: No. I didn’t even know what I was doing while it was happening. I wasn’t thinking about it. I just did it because it was what needed to be done.

INTERVIEWER: What about the man you were not able to save? He was having a heart attack?

SUB13: He was gone the moment I got in range. I felt it. I felt him go. I don’t ever want to feel anything like that again.

Some thoughts:

1. I started trying to use my busted finger again today and it is weird how quickly the body adjusts to shifting to a different finger… It feels odd trying to go back now.

So, I have a number of odd theories kicking around in my brainpan. One of them is that we do in fact live in a multiverse. I believe there are many versions of ourselves operating along the probability matrix. I’ve been thinking on this for decades and the more I consider it the more I feel this is how things are. It ties into the larger questions of quantum entanglement and the multiple iterations of existence itself. Is this the 8th time our universe has been created only to eventually be destroyed? Why are we here at all? While I am fine with the possibility that we are a side effect of a randomized planetary collision, I am not fine with us using that as a blank check to do whatever we want to existence. We need to learn. We need to make things better. We need to figure out what ‘better’ actually means.

It dos not mean doing the nonsense we are doing now as a fragmented global society. We need to be better than we are now. This much is certain.

Some Thoughts:

1. AZ skyline makes the heat entirely worthwhile.