110. 2 May 2019
You are at Bob Evans in Westerville waiting for Fritz M. You are going to ask him about the Attorney General and what's to be done. Hoping for an interesting conversation. - Amorella
1134 hours. That I am. Fritz is an old-time lawyer, second in his class at Ohio State. He knows his stuff and has been following state and national politics as long as I've known him.
You are home. Carol is drying her hair in a prep for the AAUW (American Association of University Women) dinner meeting tonight. Fritz said his mother was in the organization from the 1950's on. Cathy is in and your cousin Wendy used to be its local president among holding other offices.
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American Association of University Women
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The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. The organization has a nationwide network of 170,000 members and supporters, 1,000 local branches, and 800 college and university partners. Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C. AAUW's CEO is Kim Churches.
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Wendy W. had asked you to send her the family genetics from 1550 on (she gave you the names). You just finished this and sent it to her but you had not updated her parents since they died, Aunt Patsy and Uncle Ernie, and feel badly about this as they were to of your favorites along with Aunt Ruthie S. - Amorella
Hello, Mr. Orndorff. Sadness and remorse in not updating the genealogy are understood from the heartanmind viewpoint. You particularly loved Uncle Ernie (Warren Ernsberger) as a second father along with your grandfather, Clell Orndorff, ever known by you affectionately as "Popo". You felt they were kinder to you growing up than your own father, Richard Bookman Orndorff, was. In later years you came to understand your father better and parted as 'friendly' when he died. Uncle Ernie, in his last year told you that your father was a good man whether you understood so or not, but you still told Uncle Ernie he was like a second father to you. This is how I preview the situation presently. - Miss Havisham
1628 hours. The words speak true and better put (clearer) than I could have possibly placed them. I am content that they are. Strange, is this how would have thought on the situation were I dead? That is, would this have run through my heartanmind and into my soul in passage?
Orndorff, you cannot seem to help yourself to any fleeting question that comes to mind. - Amorella
Yes, this is the usual passageway -- heart to mind and mind to heart and heart to soul. In this sense, you would personify the soul as your dearest and closest friend. Why? Because with you're being physically dead, it is. mh
1642 hours. Now, this content was/is truly out of the blue.
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21 grams experiment
Experiment
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Carol is at her dinner meeting with Cathy. You are wondering where approximately the soul exists within the physical body. - Amorella
1959 hours. The heartansoulanmind, I assume stay close to the human body but I've never thought of it actually being within the body. Shoot, for all I know it could be in two or more places at once anywhere within or without our known universe. I haven't really thought about it. I remember some time back in the early nineteenth century someone tried to scientifically measure the weight of the soul . . ..
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21 grams experiment
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The 21 grams experiment refers to a scientific study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. One of the six subjects lost three-fourths of an ounce (21.3 grams).
MacDougall stated his experiment would have to be repeated many times before any conclusion could be obtained. The experiment is widely regarded as flawed and unscientific due to the small sample size, the methods used, as well as the fact only one of the six subjects met the hypothesis.[1] The case has been cited as an example of selective reporting. Despite its rejection within the scientific community, MacDougall's experiment popularized the concept that the soul has weight, and specifically that it weighs 21 grams.
Experiment
In 1901, Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts, who wished to scientifically determine if a soul had weight, identified six patients in nursing homes whose death was imminent. Four were suffering from tuberculosis, one from diabetes, and one from unspecified causes. MacDougall specifically chose people who were suffering from conditions that caused physical exhaustion, as he needed the patients to remain still when they died to measure them accurately. When the patients looked like they were close to death, their entire bed was placed on an industrial sized scale that was sensitive within two tenths of an ounce (5.6 grams).[1][2][3] On the belief that humans have souls and that animals do not, MacDougall later measured the changes in weight from fifteen dogs after death. MacDougall said he wished to use dogs that were sick or dying for his experiment, though was unable to find any. It is therefore presumed he poisoned healthy dogs.[3][4][5]
One of the patients lost weight but then put the weight back on, and two of the other patients registered a loss of weight at death but a few minutes later lost even more weight. One of the patients lost "three-fourths of an ounce" (21.3 grams) in weight, coinciding with the time of death. MacDougall disregarded the results of another patient on the grounds the scales were "not finely adjusted", and discounted the results of another as the patient died while the equipment was still being calibrated. MacDougall reported that none of the dogs lost any weight after death.[1][4]
While MacDougall believed that the results from his experiment showed the human soul might have weight, his report, which was not published until 1907, stated the experiment would have to be repeated many times before any conclusion could be obtained.[4][5]
Before MacDougall was able to publish the results of his experiments, The New York Times broke the story in an article titled "Soul has Weight, Physician Thinks".[6] MacDougall's results were published in April of the same year in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research,[7]and the medical journal American Medicine.[8]
Following the publication of the experiment in American Medicine, physician Augustus P. Clarke criticized the experiment's validity. Clarke noted that at the time of death there is a sudden rise in body temperature as the lungs are no longer cooling blood, causing a subsequent rise in sweating which could easily account for MacDougall’s missing 21 grams. Clarke also pointed out that, as dogs do not have sweat glands, they would not lose weight in this manner after death.[2][3] Clarke's criticism was published in the May issue of American Medicine. Arguments between MacDougall and Clarke debating the validity of the experiment continued to be published in the journal until at least December that year.[3]
MacDougall's experiment has been the subject of considerable skepticism, and he has been accused of both flawed methods and outright fraud in obtaining his results.[9] Noting that only one of the six patients measured supported the hypothesis, Karl Kruszelnicki has stated the experiment is a case of selective reporting, as MacDougall ignored the majority of the results. Kruszelnicki also criticized the small sample size, and questioned how MacDougall was able to determine the exact moment when a person had died considering the technology available at the time.[1] Physicist Robert L. Park has written that MacDougall's experiments "are not regarded today as having any scientific merit",[5] and psychologist Bruce Hood wrote that "because the weight loss was not reliable or replicable, his findings were unscientific".[9] Professor Richard Wiseman said that within the scientific community, the experiment is confined to a "large pile of scientific curiosities labelled 'almost certainly not true'".[2]
An article by Snopes in 2013 said the experiment was flawed because the methods used were suspect, the sample size was much too small, and the capability to measure weight changes too imprecise, concluding: "credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul as 21 grams."[4] The fact that MacDougall likely poisoned and killed fifteen healthy dogs in an attempt to support his research has also been a source of criticism.[3][4]
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2010 hours. I never gave the concept of the article much credence, probably no more than anyone would give my blog much credence for that matter. I do not claim any of this is non-fiction other than it is written as I see it, literally. Conjecture is what others might say of my blog, but I do not claim anything like a scientific experiment with my soul. In fact, I don't really want to waste Amorella or Miss Havisham's time on the subject. It was at most, "another fleeting question" as Amorella might say.
Carol and Cathy were back about nine, earlier than you expected. Their next AAUW meeting is in September. They enjoyed the session and the dinner, you are happy they did. - Amorella
2222 hours. Carol is watching "The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell" and it is difficult concentrating on writing the blog.
The soul doesn't concentrate, the soul absorbs the heartanmind as the nose absorbs a fragrance. mh
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