Most research done in psychological laboratories using puzzles has tried to stymie subjects. Many subjects get stuck and give up. Others struggle feeling lost and then, out of creative desperation have unexpected insights into solving the puzzle. However, creative desperation does happen outside of laboratories and away from chessboards. One of the most amazing examples occurred while fighting a severe forest fire. Wagner Dodge was a thirty-three-old team leader of 15 men. The wind changed and they were caught in a fire moving rapidly towards them. It appeared that there would be no way they could avoid being overtaken and consumed by the fire. Dodge ran ahead and shouted back to his team to do what he was going to do. What he did was to start a fire in front of him. This action made no sense to the rest of the team and was ignored. However, what Dodge did was to clear the ground in front of him. He lay down on ground that had recently been on fire. However, when the advancing fire got to his position it passed him by as there was nothing left to burn. Unfortunately, the remainder of the team was caught by the rapidly advancing fire and perished in the flames.
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A prophetic message that was meant for just a few in a particular situation. Or in fact a Message to many _like then thousand times ten thousand, myriads. Don't go on it lightly tho' Better to be dead And with Him, i.e. alive forever, than everybody's fool. GOD's fool on the other hand is OK. A preceding Word and keeping an eye on the Schema Directeur (French for 'God's Plan') for our lives
July August 2000 East Ridings of Yorks.
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