Stephen's Secure Blog #249
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 holidays of year 7 of his
special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #249 "Gun and Blowgun Meeting"
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The Christmas album was on the shelves before Thanksgiving. At first
the sales were very light. But Chad's efforts in getting some of the
songs on the radio, and noticed on the internet, really helped. By the
first week in December, a lot of stores were sold out, and had to
reorder. The album went to the top of the charts in its category. Some
of that was helped by my other albums being released. The opera one,
and the love songs, went to the top of their respective lists, and some
of the singles did very well, too. The instrumental albums did very
well, much better than usual for classical music. During the holidays,
where the TV networks didn't offer much original programming, they were
quite eager to broadcast my second show in Thailand. I did most of the
promotion of that myself, on late night talk shows, and on the internet
social media. We scored very high in the ratings when it aired. Even
more when it was repeated. Made my albums sell out again.
I had informed the Monasteries and Temples of my requirement of the
Chinese to leave them alone, and updated their crystals. A week after
that, with my assistance, they expelled all the Chinese from their
religious places. Some tried to go back, and wanted the police with
them, but the police refused to get involved. I thanked them for that,
which pleased them. Then the officials demanded that the military help
them, but the weather was too cold for suddenly naked soldiers.
The bomb in the living room was a big hit on the internet. It was
helped by new updates whenever something new happened in the situation.
Subtitles helped, too. After enough time had lapsed, I had another
meeting with the President, but this time it was scheduled. I sent a
projection ahead, and said, "Greetings. I am available for the
appointed meeting, but I see there are more people here than I was
informed there would be. Why?" The President said, "They wanted to be
here. I couldn't stop them." I said "You rule a gigantic country, yet
you do not rule your very own office?" He said "It would seem that is
correct." I said "What a strange government you have!" One of them
said, "I will not stay here and be insulted." I said "Then why are you
still here?" He didn't say anything, while the President was trying not
to laugh. I said "If you are glued to your chair, I can remove that for
you." One of the others laughed. The President said, "You have seen the
recordings. You should know you can't get anywhere with him by direct
opposition. Argue with intelligence, and he will respect you for it.
Play the fool, and he will play with that to the limit." I said "Well,
I try." He laughed.
I said "Please, somebody provide me with justification why I should
come to this meeting, which is now different than what was arranged. If
you don't, I will leave, and the loss will be yours, not mine." One
said "Why are you here, if not for your own reasons, which you will
lose if you leave?" I said "Good question. I come to these meetings to
allow you to do the right thing, instead of just acting. That is fair
of me, don't you think?" He nodded and said, "Your ethics." I said
"Yes. Last chance to give me a good reason to stay." One who had not
spoken said, "Because I want you to stay. I find your conversations
very interesting." I said "Accepted. Did you intend for me to sit on
the lap of one of you?" They looked around, and noticed that my chair
was gone, and all the chairs present were occupied.
I said "How can you run a country effectively, when you can't even
manage an office? If you had intended to impress me, I have to tell
you, this sure isn't the way to do it!" Two of them laughed. I said "Be
careful, or your nose filters might come out." That surprised most of
them. I said "Didn't your President warn you I see everything, and that
I would know what you intended? You are REALLY not impressing me. It
wouldn't have worked even if I hadn't known your intentions. You assume
what when I'm here in body, I am breathing your air. Now, where do I
sit?" One of them stood, and pointed to his chair. I said
"Unacceptable. We are not riding a crowed bus. I will bring my own
chair." I ported one in, made of jade, but padded so that looked like
jade, too.
I sat, and said, "So, who's going to try to kill me first?" Nobody
moved, and the President laughed. I said "Well?" Somebody took out a
pistol and shot me. I caught the bullet in my hand, and tossed it back
to him, undamaged. I said to him, "I let you do that. One chance for
you, though. I have removed your other bullets. Next?" One used a small
blowgun. I stopped the dart 10cm from my face with an invisible 4th
hand, where it stayed, and said, "If you put your mouth to that again,
you will taste something really bad." He did it anyway, and had to run
outside to vomit. I said "Weren't you told I never lie? Well, who's
next?" Nothing happened. I said "You probably won't accept this, but if
I had just let my shield handle the action, one or more of you might
have been er, damaged when the bullet would have bounced off of it.
VERY foolish of you to have allowed a gun to be used in this overcrowd
room. I am SO not impressed. What's next on the agenda?" Silence. I
said "I don't have much time to waste. If there is nothing more, I'll
be going."
The President held up his hand and said, "I have been asked to ask
you, do you know where all our atomic weapons are?" I said "Now I do. I
didn't look for all of them before, so I did that now, just for the
answer." I ported some documents to my hand, and said, "Here is a list
of them, and their locations. To be fair, I just gave the list to
WikiLeaks, too." He said "That was unexpected!" I said "Why so? Did you
expect total support and friendship from somebody you just tried to
kill? There are always consequences." He said to the group, "Now you
see why I have been so careful with him. If you keep interfering with
how I handle this, we will lose a lot more." Silence. I said "Shall we
see how much stupid pride and arrogance remains in a condition of
nakedness?"
said in surprise, "I don't actually have a good answer for that." I
said "Honesty at last! So, what do we do next?" Silence. I said "For
such a big country you run, you sure waste a lot of time doing
nothing." One said "Can you make anything?" I said "That is not an
intelligent question. How can I know that, until I have tried to make
everything? Anything else?" One said "Would you really disarm us?" I
said "I would reverse that a little. I'm trying NOT to do that, but you
are making that very difficult. I sense a question; why would I do that
only to this country, and not to others? My policy was not to interfere
with nations and cultures, to allow them to mature naturally. Tibet is
a special case, for more than one reason. ALL that I'm doing in going
public with who I am, which I really dislike personally, is in support
of a free Tibet. I was ethically justified in making it happen by
force, but that would not be in the best interests of all of humanity.
So, I'm trying to do it gradually and peacefully. But it WILL happen.
How you and your country survives that, is in your hands."
I said "I have decided to do one of the things on my list now. All
the people who are not of Tibet, who were working at nuclear
manufacturing and waste sites in all the territories of Tibet, have
been transported to Tiananmen Square, and those facilities, and any
things around them which had higher than normal radioactivity, have
been removed and dropped into an orphan star, never to be recovered.
From this moment forward, no such materials will be allowed to enter
any territory claimed by the Tibetan Government in Exile. Vehicles
which would have those items, which try to enter Tibet, may be
transported to the Square, if I decide not to transport the items to
YOUR homes. Any comments?" The President said, with a sigh, "I was
wondering when you would do that." I said "I feel privileged in helping
to resolve that need to wonder. Are there any more wonders I can help
resolve?" He said "None that I would dare express!" I grinned and said,
"Very good! You might as well make the policy change about the
religious, official, even if it's just to reduce the frustration your
military is having, when they try to do something about that, only to
find that naked soldiers lose some motivation in the cold." He had to
laugh, and so did some others.
I said "I will be talking more and more in public about a free Tibet.
Soon ALL Buddhists will be against you, because they will know who I
really am, I who gave my love to the world. In fact, if they knew you
tried to murder me, that would happen to YOU at their hands. And feet.
And teeth. I won't make that public at this time. They might harm
themselves in their eagerness to attack you. I see you don't believe
me. We can go to any Temple and Monastery now, and prove that. You
won't be coming back. Religion may be the opiate of the masses, but
your people need that, to keep from ripping you to pieces for what you
have done and are doing to them. That religion dulls the pain, offering
them a better life after death, is all that allows you to live, who
cause them that pain. I suggest you never forget that."
I said "Anything else?" One said "I am wary of saying anything, and
giving you an opportunity to do more things against us." I said "Great!
Some actual intelligence. I will still do what I plan to do, but
perhaps not at the same time, or in the same order, so that doesn't
really have to stop you. Maybe a word of caution might be helpful. I
never lie. If you doubt my word, you are likely to motivate me to prove
it." He said "Thank you. I see that now. What do you really desire for
Tibet?" I said "What they desire, to start. They want to be free of
Chinese domination, rule, and interference. They don't care about being
administered by China, or any other country, in theory. It's the
interference with their religion and culture they hate and will fight
against. If your government had treated them with respect and fair
justice, they would have welcomed you as friends. They are really not
all that interested in politics and managing a country. But, friends
you cannot be. Your political system doesn't allow differences. Your
political system doesn't prevent abuse of power. Instead, it actually
encourages it. Because of that, you have made yourselves the enemy of
all Tibet. The tragedy is, you didn't have to do that, but in your
overwhelming arrogance and pride, you could not see that, and still you
can't. Now you face the consequences. Do it gracefully and fairly, with
generous humanity, and you and your country may survive, but probably
not exactly as you know it now. Life is change. Resist this, and you
will have no country, because you will have no weapons with which to
defend yourselves, and there are many people and nations you have
abused, who would take their revenge on you. And the world would not
doubt that you deserve every bit of it."
He said "To start. There is more?" I said "They have lost much of
their knowledge. I will give it back to them, and much more. Tibet will
become the peaceful center for ALL learning, for the entire world." He
said "Will that include what you can do?" I said "What people can learn
of it, yes. I see you fear people with my abilities might not have my
ethics to keep them from being uncontrolled monsters. That can't
happen. It never has. I have students who can do almost everything I
can do, except not as well, and not with the complete scientific
understanding of them which an intelligence sixteen times average can
provide. It is the same with all alien species who are my students on
other worlds. In order for the student to learn and safely control the
advanced techniques I have invented, over that of the Basic Adept,
their minds must be clear of wrongness. No hate, no deceit, with
complete awareness of self, and love. Without that, they are not able
to learn those things. It's a very good thing, because, without
complete control, they would kill themselves, and those around them. I
work with forces which can destroy entire solar systems. Just imagine
if I did not have complete control of teleporting. Half of me arriving
in airless space, is NOT something I wish to experience! I mean, what
would the other half be doing?" Some chuckles.
I said "At even the Basic Adept level, if one were to use his
abilities against another unjustly, they would turn on him, and
possibly cause injury, and stop working. It is true that some Basic
Adepts can gradually turn to the Dark Path, and abuse others. When any
of the Light find them, we remove their special abilities, even if we
have to sacrifice ourselves in a fight to the death. Only we can stop
them, so we must. That is very rare now, because my Advanced Adepts can
take care of them very easily. Is ethics a part of my techniques? Not
directly. Love is, and ethics comes from that. I see you don't
understand. That is usually so, with people who are uneducated in these
things. Ignorance can be replaced with knowledge, but not instantly. We
will do that in Tibet, with all who can learn, and want to."
I stood, and said, "This gift of my last life will not be wasted. I
will accomplish my task as those who I will soon join, demand of me. I
will not fail. I am who I am, and that is love." I glowed, and wrapped
them in the room with me, with all my love. Then I ported away.
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