Stephen's Secure Blog #248
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 Winter of year 7 of his special
school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #248 "Chinese President and The Bomb"
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I said to the five Abbots of Sera, "The Dalai Lama has said
homosexuality is not approved of in Buddhism. Considering ALL of what
happened here, what are your thoughts on that?" They thought a while,
and one said, "I think he was bowing to Western sensibilities, because
we receive a lot of money from charities which might stop giving us
some if he didn't say that. In our part of the world, different sexual
attitudes and practices were not considered part of religious
regulation for anybody but monks." I said "Even he is not immune to
lying for political reasons. But is that all?" Another one said, "Sex
IS part of Buddhism, as shown in Yab-Yum, even if we are not required
to actually do it. Yab-Yum illustrates the dualism with man and woman
sex, but also states we have those differences within ourselves. That
means male and female qualities are in all of us, which should apply to
sexual activities, too."
Rhamcha said "But was what we did actual sex? It is true we used our
sexual organs, and there was an enormous amount in pleasure in the
activity, but did we think of it as something really sexual, or did we
think of it as something which was to serve to strengthen our bonds of
love and care, with group enjoyment of our bodies, our feelings, and
ultimately, our spirits?" One said, "I would add to that, something of
my understanding of us. I think that none of us were thinking actual
sexual thoughts, because none of us are primarily sexually attracted to
men, such as a true homosexual would be." One said, "And add the, for
us, unexpected results of personal improvement. I think sexual things,
managed as this event was, are not just exercise for our bodies, but
also for our spirits, and not in a bad way." I said "If you examine
each others' minds, you see there was only positive change. Well, and a
little tiredness." They agreed, while they were smiling.
Eli said "I know all this, but it wasn't easy. In my religion, as I
was raised to believe, this would have harmed my spirit and damned me
to Hell forever. But now that I've come to understand the spirit as
only an Adept can, I see that is not just untrue, the reverse is true.
I am a better man because I can do this, and would be even if I had not
actually done it. My mind is cleared of obstructions which had
prevented my advancement, and thinking badly of this was one of those
obstructions, which absolutely horrified me when I discovered that, in
a number of ways." I said "My students on other planets have discovered
that too. Generation upon generation of Guardian Adepts were stuck at a
level they could not progress from. When they learned love, and the
freedom of their bodies to express it, they were able to progress.
Hundreds who discovered that can't be wrong. I am a living example of
how far one can progress because it it. So is Srinoy, and he is only
13. I have to say it isn't always easy for adults to cast off their
wrong beliefs. Some never do. Eli is an extreme example of how
difficult it can be. I think all Adepts will, with proper preparation.
The spirit and its aura does not lie. Love does not lie. Srinoy, would
you like to give our new guests the tour of this planet?" The four
Adepts were surprised, and Srinoy laughed. I cleaned them, and they
dressed, and went on that tour, leaving Rhamcha, Eli, and I, behind. We
didn't talk, but just hugged in companionable love. We got up and
dressed in time for those on tour to join us. I stayed behind, when
they all went back to Tibet.
I sent an image to the President of China. I had already given him
information about what had happened in Dharamsala and in Tibet, before
the sexplay. I said "Greetings. Do you have anything to discuss with
me?" He said "I don't know how to answer that, but I would not say no
if you would visit." I said, after I sat in the chair, "I have some
desire to put some individuals in this chair, while everything in it is
working. There is a saying, 'Turnabout is fair play.' I'm not saying I
totally agree with that, but I can appreciate the feeling. However, I
might be justified in doing it. I hope those who wanted this, and made
it happen, are told about that, after being warned about their possible
need for incontinence protection." He laughed loudly. I said "So that's
why you agreed to my visit. Don't you have any comedians of your own?"
He said "In Hong Kong and Macao, but not much in the rest of the
country. Prison is not a popular place." I said "Your big loss." He
grinned and said, "I have no available comment on that."
I said "So, what DO you have a comment for?" He said "Your visit to
Dharamsala. Why?" I said "You should know me well enough now to know
why. Want to show me your intelligence again?" He grinned and said,
"You tested them, and used that to improve them. You knew they couldn't
keep a secret. I know you are more than intelligent enough not to tell
them any secret you wanted them not to tell the world." I said "You
have succeeded. Well done. What else?" He laughed. Then he said, "You
were testing the places you had visited in Tibet, and the government's
response, and their response to what you would do about it. I have to
say what you did was very amusing!" I said "Now I might surprise you. I
did not find it amusing. I knew it would be to some others, and it
would probably have been to me, if I had been only a witness. It was
work to me, and I was feeling what all who were involved with that I
did, were feeling. It was fair that I do that, and I had to judge how
effective my actions were. I did NOT enjoy any of it, but that is not a
consideration in what I choose to do in my work." He said "Given your
sense of humor, I did not expect that." I grinned and said, "I did." He
laughed.
I said "Do your scientists still think they can learn anything useful
by their methods of investigation?" He said "Would you have let them if
they could have?" I said "That's the wrong question. I don't let them
investigate my body, because I dislike what they would do without
providing me with the opportunity to have informed consent. They do not
DESERVE my cooperation. Not that they would have learned anything
useful. My body, while superbly trained, is just an ordinary human
body. It's my knowledge, experience, talents, and training, that makes
me something they want to examine, and that can't be done by
instruments, even by the people who have the most advanced science I
know of, besides my own. Even they who travel between the stars, have
not found physical evidence of what really makes genius, but they can
measure it by timing some neural transmissions. Your scientists have
not discovered how people are able to control things of the body
thought to be only involuntary. How can they hope to discover how more
of that is done, then? I think they keep trying, because useless
politicians can't understand and accept that, and will abuse those
scientists until they get results, which I think they know they can't.
I told you how they can learn, but we know they won't do that.
Stupidity seems to be the most defended of er, conditions." He tried
not to grin or laugh. I said "Recently, a friend of mine tried not to
be seen laughing, by covering his mouth tightly, while I was setting up
for a music concert. He was not completely successful. I caused him to
fail completely at that, by telling him that I didn't think much of his
new instrument." He laughed loudly. I said "I see it works in a second
hand way, too." He laughed some more.
I said "Any more questions?" He said "Have you taken any not of your
group, to other planets?" I said "If you thought I have, you would be
capturing all you think I have ever met, and torturing them to extract
as much useless information as you could from them. By 'you', I mean
some in your government, which might not include yourself." He said,
"Thank you for that consideration. But you still haven't answered my
question." I grinned really wide, and said, "Do you really want me to
answer that, in the BEST way?" He said "Oh!" Then he thought really
hard, and then said, "I had not considered that." I grinned again, and
said, "I knew that." He had to laugh. I said "Do you think I had not
planed to do that, at some time? I have to say, I do find your
reactions, at times, amusing." He laughed.
He said, "Because you are so, er, engaging, I frequently forget to
consider your intelligence and experience. I must assume that you have
thought of all possibilities involved with your er, work, and have
planned for them." I said "And you will keep forgetting that. It's
human nature to actually try not to conceive of and accept that
somebody is significantly more advanced than ourselves." He said "Yes.
Well, would I be allowed to take a camera?" I said "Absolutely. And I
will not interfere with it, unless you point it at me, or at any other
person. I and others have no desire to have our images to be looked at
with anything but friendship. While I accept that may not happen as I
want in my work, I will not make that choice for others." He said "I
accept the condition." I said "Now, where shall we go? There are
millions of planets we could visit. You should bear in mind that if we
meet people, there will probably be a communication problem." He said
"You could give me their language." I said "If I tried to give you a
new one as fast as I helped you with improving one, you would die a
horrible death. If I gave you one in a safe way, it would take at least
a month before you could use any of it. I do regret that, as a teacher,
but there are limits on these things, based on intelligence, mental
abilities, and talents."
I said "Now as to the planet. If I take you to an inhabited one, we
will REALLY be noticed, being so different. On planets where I am
known, well, I am so well known and liked, things might get out of
control. And most do not know I can teleport. I could take you to one
of my schools, but you would not be allowed to take pictures. Some of
them know English. So, I could take you to a place were we won't meet
people, so you can take pictures, or a place where we can meet with a
lot of different very friendly people, where you can't take pictures."
He thought it over, and then said, "Can you ask one or more of those at
the school to join us on the world where we would not normally meet
people?" I said "Very good! I wasn't sure if you would discover that
option. Yes, we can do that. Better, too. My presence at the school
would be very disruptive." He said "How so?" I said "They would see my
life sign, and my gigantic aura, explode in their psionic sight, with
my porting in, even while they are asleep. They would know it is me,
and would rush to greet me, even the teachers."
He said "They love you?" I said "The ability to love, is a
requirement for advancing to levels higher than much more than that of
what we call a Basic Adept. It is not a school requirement, but I have
not seen any advance without it, among the many hundreds of Adepts we
have encountered in the galaxy. All who can love like as needed, love
all who are like that. I, being the er, most of us, am the most loved.
That's just the way it is, not by choice." He said "Wow!" I said "I
agree. So, ready to go?" He said "Right now?" I said "I doubt that in
your job, you would have any time when you are not busy. And I'm
available now, where I might not always be so for unnecessary trips. I
could provide you with any camera you want. Your country sure makes a
lot of them! But I suppose you and your scientists wouldn't trust it,
or my word about that." He said "I would, but they would not. They
would want to prepare me for the trip." I said, "They will learn no
secrets. Not because I would prevent it, but because they can't. What
good is knowing the gravity and atmosphere of another planet they will
never go to, and don't know where it is?"
He said "They won't accept that. We will have to do it at a scheduled
time, or not at all." I said "Too bad. Well, at least I offered. In
disappointment for you, I hope this frustrates them terribly." He
laughed, and said, "I'm sure it will." I said "So, anything else on
your mind?" He said "How many students do you have?" I said "That
doesn't have a good answer. In the largest sense, all I meet are my
students, which think you might agree with." He nodded. I said "If you
mean in my schools on Earth and on other planets, that is difficult to
define, because I don't do classroom teaching anymore. Too disruptive.
I do help with some teacher training, and help resolve problems, and
build school facilities. But all who are involved with that consider
themselves to be my students, even those who I have not met. Better I
restate that we invite students who qualify, and that is about one in a
billion a generation, and some don't accept. And no, I will not tell
you how many are humans of Earth. I will not assist your people in
hunting them down and causing problems. If you actually tried that, and
our friends of other planets who love us found out, well, I would feel
very sorry for you." He said "That requires some thinking." I said "I
hope not that of others of you. The strain might cause them damage." He
laughed. I said "I think you forgot to conceal that." He said "I did,
and I might be sorry for that, but later."
He said "Would you assist us in examining the alien spacecraft we
have?" I said "No. There would be no point to it. Even if you managed
to discover and use the codes they would recognize, you wouldn't be
able to do anything with them from beyond the grave. Yes, they would
blow themselves up. They are very cramped inside. A normal adult
couldn't pilot one. Even if you could take one apart, you would not
understand anything of how it works. Totally different science and
manufacturing. Even they didn't know how most of it worked, being that
they had a more advanced slave species make the ships for them. Oh, and
they are only short range shuttles. Their interstellar ships were the
size of small moons. I have a whole collection of those, I took away
from them, before I blockaded their planet. I should remove what you
have, but some of your people wouldn't have jobs then. No, I won't let
anybody examine their starships. One wrong move, and there will be a
new minor star, and some few atoms of what used to be scientists
floating around out in space."
I said "Speaking of one wrong move, I would like an official and real
policy change. No interference in any way with any religious
institution of Tibetan culture. If I don't see that implemented very
soon, I will start disarming your country, starting with nuclear
devices. Those I remove, will be dropped into an orphan star, and so
couldn't be returned. To show I can do that, I have already removed all
the ammunition from every weapon in the possession of the Chinese
military in Tibet. In just fairness, I am able to do much more. I hope
my leniency is appreciated by your fellows." He said "I fear it will
not." I said "I still hope people will do the right thing. I could not
do otherwise. Do you think if I removed one atom bomb now, it might
help them in their decision?" He said "I doubt it." I said "Hmm, who
would be the most difficult to convince? No, I won't touch him directly
for this idea I have in mind." I pointed at his head, and then at mine.
He got the message, and pushed the name at me. I nodded, and he said,
"I could not say that."
I said "I understand. I will just have to guess. Ah, I have it! The
one with the meanest looking face." He laughed. I grinned and said, "I
thought that would get to you. Well, I did choose. There is now an atom
bomb in the living room of his home. They might have to destroy his
house to get it out. I made it safe, but they probably won't trust me
on that." He said "Right. I wouldn't advise it, where such danger could
possibly exist." I said "Prudent." And then I said where it came from.
I said, "You know there are going to be some interesting videos of that
er, happening, showing up on the internet." He successfully hid his
grin, and said, "Yes. Your er, actions would have little effect without
publicity." I said "An anathema to repressive and abusive regimes. A
free press is all that keeps governments from overwhelming corruption
and abuse of power. That's why your government won't allow it. That's
the ONLY real reason for not allowing a free press. And it's because of
your government's denial and suppression of truth, that you have the
reputation of being the biggest and most unskilled liars in the world.
No intelligent person or government believes anything you say. You have
made it so. Cause and effect cannot be avoided."
I said "If the bomb doesn't convince him, I could try something else.
Ah, I have it! Impotence, except when he is naked in public, where the
opposite would happen. Often." He laughed really hard. I said "Yes,
it's funny, but I did just that, very recently to some people in Tibet,
but only temporarily. It would be no trouble to do it again here. I
don't know if he should be warned about that." Some choking noises,
which I ignored. I said, standing, "I think I've bothered you enough
for today. I'll give you a memory card of the meeting." I gave him a
thumb's up, which he understood to mean there would be nothing about
his mentally telling me who was the worst of his people. I bowed, and
said, "Farewell." I ported away, and then dropped a memory card on his
desk. He immediately put it in a reader to review the file it
contained. I put in front of his computer screen, in faintly glowing
letters, 'Good idea'. He put his hand over his mouth to contain his
laughter, suspecting I could see that. Nice of him.
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