Stephen's Secure Blog #241
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 16 in this story, in the Fall of year 7 of his special
school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #241 "Reting Monastery, and the President"
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I ported to Rhamcha's office after permission. We sat. He said "There
was lot of interest in your latest project." I said "I am not
surprised. I suppose you will be busy exploring ideas of what you would
like of me for Sera to have." He said "That is so. I hope to surprise
you, but doubt that I will." I said "We will see. The next place I will
visit will be the last on my tour here, and you will not want to add
what I do there to your list of possible additions. You may accompany
me if you wish, but there will be no comments or discussions about it."
He said "I understand. I will come." I stood, and said "Reting. Ready?"
When he was, I ported us there.
Reting Monastery, near Lhasa, was on a series of small overgrown
hills. It had been damaged in the past, with very little effort made to
repair it. Our arrival was felt. After ten minutes, nobody came out of
any of the rundown buildings. I said to Rhamcha, "I'm going to speak
loudly. You might want to shield your ears." He did that. I made my
voice sound like rolling thunder, and said, "I am Stephen, known as The
Master Teacher. I am here to speak with all of you. Please come out to
meet with me. If you do not come of your own will, I will cause it to
happen, my way." I nodded to Rhamcha, and he uncovered his ears. Ten
more minutes, and nobody showed. I motioned to Rhamcha, and we moved
away. Then I ported all of the people, which were not many, to be in
front of me. Those who had not been standing, fell down. They got back
up. I ported all their belongings to them, and what food they had. Then
I sealed the area of the Monastery in a shield and time freeze bubble.
I said to the people, "Reting Monastery is now closed. It will be
reopened only if the Karmapa Lama, or the Dalai Lama, require it. None
of you may start another Temple or Monastery. If you do, I will close
it. You may ask at other Monasteries if they will accept you, but not
at Sera. What you tell of your past is your choice, but do not lie. May
fortune serve you better than Reting has served others." I said to
Rhamcha "Ready to return?" He nodded, and I ported us back to his
office. I said "Now I'm going to visit the Chinese President. Good
day." We bowed, and I ported away.
I visited the President by projection. I said "Greetings. If you are
busy, I can come back when you are more busy." He laughed, and said,
"No, please stay." I said "I can do this in person, after I finish what
I'm doing elsewhere, and no, I do have clothes on." He laughed again.
He said "Would you say what that is you are doing?" I said "I am
closing a Monastery. At present, I am waiting for them to come out of
it at my request. I expect them not to. When it is sure they won't
appear voluntarily, I will make that happen my way. No, I will not harm
them. Yes, I'll tell you. Reting." He said "Your not reading my mind,
reading." I said "Something like that. It's more of that when my
students and I speak to each other. Few words, but a lot of information
and meaning. Often, we transfer large blocks of information and
memories to each other, instantly. Oh, and we don't have to be on the
same planet to do that." He said "Our scientists speculate that you use
other dimensions to bypass distance." I said with a grin, "One doesn't
need scientists to think of that." He laughed. I said "It won't do them
any good to know more, because they can't perceive or do anything
regarding that, without specific talents and training. And that they
will not accept." He said "Would you be willing to demonstrate those
abilities to our scientists, and perhaps in some experiments?" I said
"No. There would be no benefit to me, and take up time I could put to
better use elsewhere, and it would be cruel to show them what they can
never understand or use. I do not EVER want to be cruel. The only way
one of you will ever learn how I do all that I do, or most, according
to their ability, is to be one of my students. Then they won't tell
you." He said "You would require them to be silent?"
I said "We have never done that to our students, not even those of
other species. They have all made their own decisions about that, based
on their own knowledge and experience, and the realities we all see. I
do not rule my people. We only rule ourselves, and for the common good.
In a way, we are the only true communists. We share everything we have,
and do not think of ourselves as owning anything individually, the way
even professed communists do. We do not have leaders and followers. We
each do what we know we should do, according to our abilities and
interests, and in accordance with our established ethics. I am ready to
visit in body if you wish." He said "Please." I ported in, and sat in
my chair, which was still there.
I said "Did you tell them that what was put in the chair wouldn't
work?" He laughed and said, "Not only did I tell them that, I told them
you knew that would happen, and that you would still sit in the chair."
I said "No matter how much I say it, they will never accept that I have
abilities they do not have themselves. However, two of your scientists
DO have some abilities which, if they had not hidden them from
themselves, they would have detected the devices in the chair
themselves." He looked surprised. I said "Using the concept of the
Third Eye, with people where it is half open, they would have the basic
abilities of the emotion sense, and the object sense. The emotion sense
allows them to feel the emotions of others, with varying degrees of
intensity, even of those who are in the next room. It also serves as a
lie detector. The object sense is like feeling objects with your mind,
inside and out. It is more like the sense of touch, than of seeing.
When you combine those abilities, you can sense things of people from
the objects they have handled. These abilities are most intense and
accurate with things which are most relevant to the person using them,
danger being the most cause for that. So, even a novice student, with
uncontrolled and unreliable abilities, would have known not to sit in
this chair, without even having to think about it." He said "Thank you
very much for this explanation. We would like more of this any time you
are willing to share."
I said "I hope you will excuse me when I give my opinion on that." He
said "I will." I said "Here it is. That is complete and utter
stupidity! You and your people are doing your best to eradicate the
very people who have all that knowledge, and much more! What I just
told you has been known for many thousands of years, in many places in
the world, but it was never studied as much as it has been in the very
place you are trying to destroy, Tibet. I can see where some people
would like to make others into their own image, but YOU people have
chosen the worst image of all to use for that goal: yourselves!" He was
shocked at my heat, and more shocked at what I actually said.
I said "Oh, and don't think you can force the information out of
people you capture and imprison. It won't work, and not even with
torture. The only way to gain that kind of knowledge is to become their
students, in a mutual willing relationship. Nothing else will work,
when you can feel each other's emotions. The tragic part of all that is
your people, in their abundance of arrogance, will never accept that.
Do you know how much was lost in the destruction of the Temples and
Monasteries of Tibet, at the hands and weapons of your vicious
bloodthirsty people? Thousands and thousands of irreplaceable
documents, and some of the best minds in history, are gone. That
includes some of the things you would most want to know about. I have
had to rediscover a lot of it myself, but I probably won't recover it
all. And it's still going on. And what really disgusts me to the core,
is that many of your people are enjoying that."
I said "So, there you have it. My opinion. I think you might be a
little er, shocked by it." He said "I am. You make us look like
monsters." I said "Pride keeps you from seeing that to most of the
world, YOU ARE, and particularly so when it is about Tibet. And in what
happened in that infamous square. You know what I mean. Those things
will never be forgotten by people who care about people who are not
their own. Germany has made amends, and asked for forgiveness for what
it had done to the world and to some peoples. So has Japan. They are
now allies with some of the people they wronged. In its overwhelming
arrogance, China will not do that, and so the wounds it has inflicted
on the world will not heal, no matter what is done to ignore or cover
them up. You can keep spending billions in Tibet, but you will never
buy their love while even one of them is left alive. You cannot
understand the reverence they have for their Lamas. Many were
imprisoned, and tortured, and killed. That will NEVER be forgotten or
forgiven, until such grace is earned."
He said "Strong words." I said "But can you refute them?" He thought
for a while, and then said, "I can't. I'm not sure now that I want to.
Also, I see something of the real danger we are in." I said "Possibly.
I have allowed China to continue to exist because most of its people
don't know what its government is doing, and would stop it if they
could. In justice, I could not harm them. And I may not act against
another solely because of disagreements. But if there is ever just
cause, well, you know something of what I can do. In just the little of
me you know, think on this. Even now, I am justified in removing ALL
the weapons in China, including those of an atomic nature. Yes I know
where they are. I know where EVERY ATOM is in this world, when I want
to. And can transport any of it to any place in the galaxy I want to.
Well, where there is space for it. I could place one of your nuclear
bombs right here in this room. I seriously considered doing just that
for a demonstration, but it might damage the floor."
I said "There is something else. If there is any attempt to harm me
in public, and I can't conceal it, do you have any idea what will
happen because of that, even if I do nothing?" His jaw dropped. When he
could, he said, "I haven't thought of that. So that's why you asked me
to tell them in Tibet to leave you alone!" I said "Yes. I thought that
would have been obvious. It didn't work. Before that, it actually did
happen, and in this country. One of the Temple guards struck me in the
face, in front of other guards, and tourists with cameras, and the
Abbot and senior Monks. I was able to keep that quiet. If it happens
again from a Chinese official, I wouldn't place any bets on your
longevity, or any officials of the national government. Even Buddhists
can take only so much." He said "This requires a lot of thought." I
said "Which won't happen with most of your people."
I said "You know my goal will be realized. Nothing can stop it. Your
job is to arrange it so that China survives, in one useful form or
another. There is more at issue here that you will ever know. Much more
than I have told you. To help you, is there anything I can give you, or
do for you, that will help convince your people of these truths?" He
said "I don't know. Those who could be convinced, will probably be so,
with what is already known. Those who would not, would not be convinced
by more." I said "I am very sorry that I, and events, have placed you
in this situation, but your own hands are not entirely clean. There are
always consequences. If not in this life, then in many others." He said
"I am beginning to realize some of that. I do thank you for your
concern, more than I can express." I said, with a smile, "That will
work." He smiled a little in return.
I said "Some of my people have suggested I place something in the
square, as a show of power." He said "I very carefully have no opinion
to express about that." I laughed, and said, "Very good!" He smiled
even more. I said "The sculpture they approved of, your own government
would want to cover up. No, it wasn't sexual, but that IS an idea." He
laughed. I said "Don't think I was entirely joking. I did that recently
in Tibet. I made a whole Temple of Love. Fortunately, it is
self-cleaning." He laughed really hard at that. I rose and said, "Until
next time, farewell." He rose, and we bowed, and I ported away, leaving
a pile of memory cards on his desk.
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